Topic: COMPUTER - on April 13, 2008 at 3:20:00 PM CEST
Rettungs-CDs für defekte Rechner
Startverweigerung, Fehlermeldungen, Abstürze: Wenn der PC streikt, ist Hilfe mit Bordmitteln oft nicht möglich. Mit Notfall-Systemen auf CD oder USB-Stick lässt sich dagegen manche Windows-Malaise beheben. Spezialkenntnisse sind dafür nicht nötig.
Streikt der Rechner, geraten Prozessor und Alltag gehörig außer Takt. Abhilfe leisten sogenannte Live-Systeme, mit denen startunwillige Computer wiederbelebt werden können. Liegt kein Hardware-Fehler vor, ist die Sicherung der eigenen Daten möglich. Versagen die Reparaturwerkzeuge, muss im schlimmsten Fall das Betriebssystem neu installiert werden.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn
Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as "collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts yesterday said Microsoft Corp. must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
In a presentation at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Las Vegas, analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald said Microsoft has not responded to the market, is overburdened by nearly two decades of legacy code and decisions, and faces serious competition on a whole host of fronts that will make Windows moot unless the software developer acts.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
VIRENJÄGER KASPERSKY - "Apple-Nutzer tragen Hawaii-Hemden"
Jewgenij "Eugene" Kaspersky gehört zu den besten Kennern der kriminellen Virenszene. Im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt er, warum kriminelle Programmierer die Cyber-Chaoten verdrängt haben - und warum es gut ist, dass Windows-Nutzer Kummer gewöhnt sind.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 11, 2008 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
RSA - Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers
Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam.
Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, presented his survey at the RSA Conference, which opened Monday in San Francisco. The survey ranked the top 11 botnets that send spam; by extrapolating their size, Stewart estimated the bots on his list control just over a million machines and are capable of flooding the Internet with more than 100 billion spam messages every day.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 10, 2008 at 2:57:00 PM CEST
Computer viruses hit one million
The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark.
The new high for malicious programs was revealed by security firm Symantec in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.
The vast majority of these programs have been created in the last twelve months, said Symantec.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 9, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
The history of computer data storage, in pictures
Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. Even tiny MP3 players and other handheld devices usually have several gigabytes of storage. This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago. For example, the first hard disk drive to have gigabyte capacity was as big as a refrigerator, and that was in 1980. Not so long ago!
Pingdom stores a lot of monitoring data every single day, and considering how much we take today’s storage capacity for granted, it’s interesting to look back and get things in perspective. Here is a look back at some interesting storage devices from the early computer era.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 9, 2008 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
Microsoft discloses 14,000 pages of coding secrets
Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
This is Microsoft's latest effort to satisfy anti-trust concerns of the European Union, which is possibly a tougher adversary for the company than Google.
In February, the firm made a surprise announcement in which it agreed to publish and provide free access to application programming interfaces (APIs) for its major software products.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2008 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Hans Reiser Turns Up 'Geek Defense' to 11
Linux programmer Hans Reiser put the pedal to the metal on his geek defense at his murder trial here Monday, explaining to jurors that, as nonscientists, they may not understand his social ineptness.
"Scientists communicate by reference to data. I cannot communicate effectively. That's not how scientists talk. We cannot throw out assertions that cannot be supportive without data points," the 44-year-old defendant testified on his 10th day on the stand.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 5, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
24C3 Recordings jetzt vollständig verfügbar
Manche Dinge brauchen lange, manche brauchen länger: Ich freue mich, endlich die wirklich vollständige Sammlung aller Aufzeichnungen der Veranstaltungen des 24. Chaos Communication Congress bekanntzugeben (in Audio und Video). Als letztes kam nun auch noch die Eröffnungsveranstaltung dazu.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 5, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Researchers Cram 20-Second Clarinet Solo into Sub-Kilobyte File
A quest by researchers at the University of Rochester resulted in a 20-second clarinet solo being compressed into less than a single kilobyte of data -- nearly 1,000 times smaller than a standard MP3 representing the same audio.
We obtained permission to post the results. They're available as WAV files for easy comparison.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 4, 2008 at 2:32:00 PM CEST
Killing XP: Microsoft's Fatal Error Message
On June 30, Microsoft will do something quite ordinary -- the company will stop selling a 7-year-old old product. Microsoft has killed off many versions of Windows in the past. But there's a difference with the retirement of Windows XP: Most users HATE WINDOWS VISTA.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 2, 2008 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
NXP RFID encryption cracked
The Chaos Computer Club (Hamburg, Germany) has cracked the encryption scheme of NXPs popular Mifare Classic RFID chip. The device is used in many contactless smartcard applications including fare collection, loyalty cards or access control cards. NXP downplays the significance of the hack.
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