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Despite the official release date of 10/26, the newest OS from Apple has been leaked on torrent site.

The leaked file is in DMG format and with a size 6.56GB, so you need a D9 disk to burn it. It can be installed in original Apple hardware directly, but with some modification, you may also try your luck on the PC(a.k.a hackintosh).

The version number is 5A581, which believes to be the GM(golden master), identical with the one ships two days later. Some users have managed to install the shining new Leopard and post screen shot.

Download the torrent

Size of DMG (downloaded as separate .RAR files):7156338431
MD5 (osx-leopard105.dmg) = c38902e728dc47a4ccb34aa6143b9bbe

Also add these trackers for optimal performance:

http://inferno.demonoid.com:3416/announce 

http://www.moviex.info:2710/r12xjr0azivx42cjuyzn3c73mdqxj31q/announce 

http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce 

http://araditracker.com/announce.php?pid=241eac72250a7cd33b0ae3c7080e2e7d

Something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.

Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into “reduced functionality” mode, where you can’t do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.

You’ll then need to reapply to Microsoft to get a new activation code.

How can this crazy situation occur? Read on for the sorry tale.

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Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day hole in RealNetworks’ RealPlayer media player

The in-the-wild attacks, which began late last night (October 18), targets a previously unknown and unpatched ActiveX vulnerability in the way RealPlayer interacts with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.

Only systems on which both RealPlayer and IE have been installed are vulnerable.

The flaw is causing drive-by malware downloads when an IE user simply browsers to a maliciously rigged Web page, according to an alert issued by Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System.

The issue affects an ActiveX object installed by RealPlayer, accessible over the web using Internet Explorer. By instantiating the object and invoking a specific method and attacker is able to corrupt process memory and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the browser. The attack currently known to be in-the-wild has been confirmed to download malicious code to the compromised host.

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Mozilla has released a new patch for Firefox, which will update the browser to version 2.0.0.8

The update, distributed since earlier today via the software’s auto-update feature, patches eight vulnerabilities. Two of them are rated as “critical” and could allow an attacker to run code or install software on a client PC.

The new version brings two new localized versions of Firefox, Georgian and Romanian. Probably most significantly, the browser is now compatible with Apple’s Leopard operating system. However, Mozilla noted that there are several known “issues” in this version. Among others, “some” media plug-ins as well as add-ons containing binary components are not working properly, the organization said.

The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18.

Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18. The Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the new GNOME 2.20 desktop.

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Microsoft is warning of yet another URL-handling bug that can lead to a system hijack.

A mere two days after Patch Tuesday brought a host of remote-code execution vulnerabilities to light, Microsoft issued a security advisory warning of yet another problem: a URL-handling vulnerability that could lead to systems getting hijacked if running Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP or Windows 2003.

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Microsoft confirms it has fixed an Excel calculation results bug, but declines to fully explain the cause.

Microsoft says it has fixed an Excel bug, which caused the spreadsheet to display erroneous calculation results, even though it performed the calculation correctly and stored it in Excel’s memory.

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FastCGI will ship in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 as a built-in IIS component for the first time

Microsoft has made the third beta release of FastCGI for Internet Information Services available under its free Go Live license, which means that customers can now deploy the production-quality release on Windows Server 2003.

FastCGI essentially allows IIS to reuse CGI (Common Gateway Interface) processes for multiple requests to PHP applications, helping improve the performance of PHP on Windows while maintaining reliability.

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Adobe said on Wednesday some of its programs contain yet-to-be-fixed flaws that make computers vulnerable to attack.

On October 5, Adobe posted a notice on its Web site that said it had unknowingly incorporated vulnerabilities into versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat software that could allow malicious programs to get on to a PC without the user’s knowledge.

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Wired Ethernet is not going to be replaced by 802.11n or any other wireless technology on the horizon anytime soon, if ever.

How do I make such a bold statement? Well, the facts really speak for themselves. The figure below is taken from the Wireless Performance Charts and show downlink throughput vs. path loss curves for three draft 11n products, representing the three major draft 11n chipsets.

Figure 1: Downlink Throughput - 20 MHz bandwidth mode

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