Topic: COMPUTER - on September 24, 2003 at 1:54:02 PM CEST
Chip launch ushers in new era
Chip maker AMD has launched its long anticipated Athlon 64 computer processor.
Gamers, scientists and engineers will probably be among the first users of the chip, keen to benefit from the boost in performance AMD promises it will give them.
The chip brings 64-bit computing to desktop machines, even though there are relatively few programs in use that can take full advantage of its capabilities.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 24, 2003 at 1:49:29 PM CEST
Fuel cells power up for notebooks
NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. last week showed prototypes of fuel cells that they said would find their way into notebook computers before the end of next year. The direct-methanol fuel cells weigh in at about 900 grams each and can power a system for five hours, with one fill-up of methanol fuel.
NEC plans to market a notebook PC with a built-in fuel cell by the end of 2004. It also intends to launch a notebook equipped with an internal fuel cell that offers 40 hours of continuous operation by the end of 2005. Toshiba, too, aims at introducing its first fuel cell product for PCs in 2004.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2003 at 4:43:25 PM CEST
MSNBOT prototype Web crawler robot
What is MSNBOT? MSNBOT is a prototype Web crawler robot developed by MSN Search ( search.msn.com ). The robot is a software program that traverses the Web pages on a site, downloads the documents for indexing, and follows the hyperlinks that are referenced.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2003 at 1:29:19 AM CEST
Wer tauft Viren und Würmer?
Wie kommen Viren und Würmer zu ihren Namen? Goner, Code Red und so weiter sind ja eigentlich eigenartige Namen. Doch auch hier gibt es gewisse Regeln, an die sich im großen und ganzen Antivirenspezialsten auf der ganzen Welt auch halten.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 20, 2003 at 2:39:32 PM CEST
Virus sender helped FBI bust hackers
Federal prosecutors credited the man responsible for transmitting the Melissa virus -- a computer bug that did more than $80 million in damage in 1999 -- with helping the FBI bring down several major international hackers.
Court documents unsealed Wednesday at the request of The Associated Press show that David Smith began working with the FBI within weeks of his 1999 arrest, primarily using a fake identity to communicate with and track hackers from around the world.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 20, 2003 at 12:21:39 PM CEST
Stupid people still think Microsoft sends out patches in email, execute email attachments
Less than 24 hours after first being detected, the Swen blended-threat worm picked up steam Friday, gained a foothold in the United States and the United Kingdom, and accounted for more than 35,000 interceptions by E-mail filtering firm MessageLabs.
Swen, also called W32/Swen@MM, Gibe, and W32/Gibe-F, masquerades as E-mail from Microsoft and purports to carry a security update as its file attachment. The worm can also propagate over Internet Relay Chat and peer-to-peer files sharing networks such as Kazaa, as well as over network shares within the firewall if a machine inside a company is infected.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 19, 2003 at 7:05:36 PM CEST
Convertibles Shown at Javits Show
With two radically new redesigns serving as prototypes, IBM has been trying to gauge the reactions of customers, partners, analysts and journalists around the globe just like how automakers use the same venue (only filled out a bit more) every Spring with dealers, trade press and car enthusiasts. The goal is the same: hoping to gain a new understanding on just how the 10-year-old ThinkPad might evolve in terms of its design. If nothing else, the new designs underscore the current trend of how the lines between the desktops and notebooks have started to blur.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 19, 2003 at 2:00:53 AM CEST
New internet explorer virus. EVERYBODY PANIC
Ken Dunham, manager of malicious code intelligence for Reston, Va.-based iDefense, said that Swen preys upon people's best intentions, appearing as an e-mail that purports to be a security update from Microsoft.
The worm is programmed to send an official-looking e-mail that says it contains a "cumulative patch" for several Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express vulnerabilities.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 19, 2003 at 1:42:29 AM CEST
A VERY cool pc casemod !!
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 19, 2003 at 1:34:09 AM CEST
OpenSSH Security Advisory: buffer.adv
This is the 2nd revision of the Advisory.
This document can be found at: www.openssh.com
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Versions affected:
All versions of OpenSSH's sshd prior to 3.7.1 contain buffer management errors. It is uncertain whether these errors are potentially exploitable, however, we prefer to see bugs fixed proactively. Other implementations sharing common origin may also have these issues.<P></P> <CENTER>
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 18, 2003 at 12:46:05 AM CEST
Using cellophane to convert a laptop computer screen into a three-dimensional display
We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the left and right eye views.1 Our technique takes advantage of two facts; the first is that the light from the liquid crystal display of a laptop computer is polarized light 2, and therefore we can easily manipulate its transmission with a polarizer sheet. The second fact is that a cellophane half-waveplate can change the direction of polarization of light. The direction of polarization of one half of the laptop screen was rotated by the cellophane half-waveplate. Two images displayed with orthogonal polarization on two halves of the screen become separable by wearing a pair of glasses of orthogonal polarization.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 18, 2003 at 12:41:15 AM CEST
Stadt Wien prüft Umstieg auf Linux
Nach München will nun auch die Stadt Wien mittelfristig an den Arbeitsplätzen der Verwaltung Linux einsetzen. Die Magistratsabteilung 14 hat jetzt einen Antrag der Wiener Grünen positiv beantwortet, der die Einführung von Open-Source-Software fordert.
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