Topic: COMPUTER - on May 22, 2008 at 3:48:45 PM CEST
Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders
The Open Graphics Project, which we've been following since it first started looking for experts four years ago, has just announced that the OGD1 is available for preorder now. The design features 2 DVI, 256MB RAM, PCI-X, and a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA along with a nonvolatile FPGA for programming on boot.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 18, 2008 at 5:43:02 PM CEST
Bill Gates unveils interactive wallpaper
Wallpaper sales could soon begin sliding, because Bill Gates has forecast that touchscreens will feature on every vertical surface in every home in the future.
The Microsoft billionaire made the prediction as he unveiled Touch Wall – a vertical take on the infamous Surface touch-sensitive ‘table’.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 16, 2008 at 3:55:33 PM CEST
Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first
Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.
But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it's a fact. So how do you protect yourself?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 16, 2008 at 3:53:11 PM CEST
Nintendo Loses Patent Suit In East Texas, Of Course
The latest in a long line of patent lawsuits in every patent hoarders favorite district of East Texas involves the game controllers used by Nintendo. A company holds a patent on a 3D controller and sued Nintendo (and Microsoft) for supposedly violating the patent.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 15, 2008 at 1:35:13 PM CEST
New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on Microsoft’s XP Home Edition and another on Microsoft Vista Ultimate Edition, the results of which have been published in a paper now available on the group’s Website.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:12:54 PM CEST
Air Force Colonel Wants to Build a Military Botnet
While most government agencies are struggling to keep their computers out of the latest Russian botnets, Col. Charles W. Williamson III is proposing that the Air Force build its own zombie network, so it can launch distributed denial of service attacks on foreign enemies.
In the most lunatic idea to come out of the military since the gay bomb, Williamson writes in the Armed Force Journal that the Air Force should deliberately install DDoS code on its unclassified computers, as well as civilian government machines. He even wants to rescue old machines from the junk bin to enlist in the .mil botnet army.
wired.com A U.S military botnet in the works Carpet bombing in cyberspace Why America needs a military botnet
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:11:32 PM CEST
Hacker posts personal details of 6m Chileans
A hacker with a point to prove posted personal details on 6m Chileans on the internet after lifting the information from government websites.
The unidentified hacker posted data including names, telephone numbers, addresses and educational details on two websites (IT site FayerWayer and community site ElAntro) after stealing the data from sites run by the state-owned telco, an electoral agency and the Education Ministry. The sensitive data was available for around two hours over the weekend before the authorities stepped in, El Mercurio reports.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 14, 2008 at 3:10:17 PM CEST
International Hackers Indicted for Sniffing Credit Cards from Dave & Buster's
Three international hackers have been indicted for allegedly using "college-level knowledge of computer programming skills" to steal and sell credit card numbers from customers of Dave & Buster's restaurant chain, the Justice Department said Monday.
One of the men arrested, Maksym Yastremskiy, of Ukraine, was found in possession of millions of stolen credit card numbers, unrelated to the restaurant, on his laptop when the Turkish National Police arrested him in July. The indictments were unsealed Monday in the Eastern District of New York, and cover a 5-month-long intrusion last year into the Dallas-based eatery.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 12, 2008 at 11:37:50 AM CEST
Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' records
A computer hacker in Chile has published confidential records belonging to six million people on the internet, officials say.
The information was obtained by hacking into government and military servers, and was posted on a technology blog.
It included ID card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and academic records.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 3, 2008 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
9X Media Multi-Panel LCD Displays, Almost Infinite!
We have earlier told you about some monstrous multi-panel displays including Zenview series, Athens multi-panel LCD displays, Siemens and Radius 320 Seamless LCD Display. But, still if you need to expand your vision then 9XMedia offers you to spread your horizons as much as you can think of with their multi-screen display systems that are expandable and customizable.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 3, 2008 at 10:06:00 AM CEST
Open source software is murder
Radio Reg In Russia, they say the only way to untold software riches is to partner with Microsoft. Or at least that's what Microsoft's Russian operatives are telling people these days.
Open Season intrepid correspondent Matt Asay just returned from the land of Mayakovsky and Emma Goldman - a beer spills in Silicon Valley for these giants - where he found a Microsoft big-wig spreading some ill will toward open source software. No big shocker to be sure. But apparently this guy is an especially ardent Microsoft zealot after a few doses of vodka.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 1, 2008 at 2:19:00 PM CEST
Threat Level Visits Inmate No. BFPS63 — aka Hans Reiser
Inside the Cellblock 9 visiting room here at Santa Rita Jail, inmate number BFPS63 looked like a man with a big hangover.
Hans Reiser may be confronting the reality that he could spend the rest of his life behind prison walls. The 44-year-old Linux programmer and developer of the ReiserFS filesystem was found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the disappearance of his wife. He faces a mandatory 25-to-life term.
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