Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 2:07:53 PM CET
SmoothWall 2.0 has been released
SmoothWall is a family of Internet security products, designed to defend your users and your network from external attack. SmoothWall.org is the home of the SmoothWall Open Source Project, and the SmoothWall Express firewall. SmoothWall Express converts an Intel† or compatible PC into a dedicated firewall and gateway, allowing computers protected Internet access. It is published under the GNU GPL, allowing anybody to download and use the software free of charge.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 12:51:34 PM CET
Siebzig Prozent aller Sicherheitslücken stammen von Microsoft
Ein Übersicht des Anti-Virenspezialisten Symantec über die zehn bedeutendsten Sicherheitsprobleme des vergangenen Monats nennt sieben vordere Chartsplätze für Microsoft.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 11:37:21 AM CET
Experts Worried After Worm Hits Windows-Based ATMs
Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, the maker of the machines said on Monday. The ATM infections, first reported by SecurityFocus.com, are believed to be the first of a computer virus wiggling directly onto cash machines.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 11:23:34 AM CET
Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview
He changed the computer industry. Now he's after the music business When Steve Jobs cruises into the airy reception area on the Apple Computer campus in Cupertino, California, on a recent morning, nobody pays much attention to him, even though he's the company's CEO. He's wearing shorts, a black T-shirt and running shoes. Tall and a little gawky, Jobs has a fast, loping walk, like a wolf in a hurry. These days Jobs seems eager to distance himself from his barefoot youth -- who was that crazy kid who once called the computer "a bicycle for the mind"?-- and driven to prove himself as a clear-thinking Silicon Valley capitalist.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 1:35:47 AM CET
Wicked Sun forces final death of Win98, Office 2000, etc
Microsoft will pull the plugs on MSDN downloads of a range of products, including Windows 98, Office 2000, SQL Server 7 and NT Workstation, next Monday. These contain the polluted Java which, according to the settlement with Sun, Microsoft has to stop supporting. So it's all Sun's fault, really.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 8, 2003 at 9:59:38 PM CET
Liebling, ich habe den Supercomputer geschrumpft!
Der japanische Chiphersteller NEC hat den kleinsten Transistor der Welt entwickelt und damit den Weg für den Bau eines Supercomputers in PC-Größe geebnet. Der neue Transistor sei nur ein Achtzehntel so groß wie der derzeit Gängigste, berichtete die Zeitung "Asahi Shimbun" unter Berufung auf Unternehmenskreise.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2003 at 3:30:38 PM CET
rand()% is a generative net radio station
RAND()%RAND()%: int rand ( void ); Generate random number. Returns a pseudo-random number in the range from 0 to RAND_MAX constant. This is generated by an algorithm that returns a series of non-related numbers each time is called. This algorithm should be initialized to different starting points using function srand to generate more realistic random numbers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2003 at 3:06:05 PM CET
20C3: Not A Number
20th Chaos Communication Congress Berlin, Germany – December 27th/28th/29th, 2003
Here we go again. Less than five months after the Camp, the 20th Chaos Communication Congress is about to take place between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Because our old venue has closed down last September, we are moving to the freshly reconstructed Berliner Congress Center. The building, that some of you might know from XXCCC, is located directly at Alexanderplatz being the neighbour of the Haus des Lehrers.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2003 at 3:04:59 PM CET
- Chaos Communication Congress
Vom 27. bis 29. Dezember 2003 findet der 20. Chaos Communication Congress statt. Der dreitägige jährliche Fachkongress des Chaos Computer Club e.V. (CCC) dreht sich wie üblich um "Technologie, Gesellschaft und Utopien" und beinhaltet Vorträge und Workshops zu den verschiedenen Themen rund um Informationstechnologie, Computersicherheit, Internet, Kryptographie sowie den "kritisch-schöpferischen Umgang" mit Technologie und Diskussionen über die Auswirkungen technologischer Entwicklung auf die Gesellschaft.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2003 at 9:41:29 AM CET
Anspruch auf Ersatzteilversorgung ?
Am geliebten IT-Equipment geht etwas kaputt. Kein Problem - die Axt im Haus erspart bekanntlich den Zimmermann, und wozu gibt es schließlich Ersatzteile? Manch braver Bastler ist jedoch bass erstaunt, wenn ein Hersteller schon nach wenigen Jahren das einst so gepriesene Gerät nicht mehr kennen will. Ist der Tod des elektronischen Lieblings aus Mangel an Ersatzteilen vorprogrammiert?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 6, 2003 at 12:40:51 AM CET
Microsoft to charge for FAT file system
Microsoft has announced that it will be charging a fee from those who use the FAT file system and offered to sell licences to those who wish to buy one.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 5, 2003 at 12:53:30 PM CET
Hijacked PCs spread 30% of spam
One third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs that have been compromised by malicious programs known as Remote Access Trojans, according to Sophos, a corporate spam and antivirus company.
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