Nov 13, 2007 11 pm
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A new Vista SP1 beta handed out to beta testers.
Mike Walker: To give you guys a sneak peek at the SP1 build. I just installed Vista SP1 with zero issues. The upgrade process seamless and took approx. an hour. There was only one concern however. My box was waiting for about 20 minutes to shut down. Other than that, all goodness.
I have noticed a huge difference in performance of my machine, it’s like someone injected an espresso into my Vista! This is my first day using so I’ll be sure to check back in to let you guys and gals know how things are going.
Some of these new features that are under the covers that screen shots will not be able to show you:
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Nov 9, 2007 3 am
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Trend Micro’s security software spans over a huge repertoire of operating systems and Internet browsers, and now it has become the first to bring similar Web safety tools to the PS3.
Trend Micro Web Security for PS3 launches today, and according to Trend Micro it is the first product of its kind for a gaming console.
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Oct 26, 2007 10 pm
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Microsoft installed a resource hungry search application on thousands of PCs Wednesday, bringing them to a standstill.
This happened even though administrators had configured their systems not to use the search tool. And the incident is the second in as many months where administrators thought they had locked down their machines and had obtained configuration control.
The problem starts when the search software starts to index the PC. It’s particularly bad when it happens on a server. “The admins at my place were in a flap this morning because Windows Desktop Search 3.01 had suddenly started installing itself on desktops throughout the company,” one administrator said.
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Oct 26, 2007 10 pm
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The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement and will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.
In an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid, the BOiNK site will be a little different from OiNK. For instance, the tracker will be public and it will start out with a lot less torrents than OiNK had when it was raided. The success of BOiNK will mainly depend on the former OiNK community, who will be asked to upload their old OiNK torrents.
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Oct 26, 2007 1 am
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Mozilla will push another version of Firefox to users as early as next week to fix five bugs it introduced in last Wednesday’s security update.
Mozilla Corp. will rush another version of Firefox to users as early as next week, the company’s user interface designer said Tuesday, to fix five bugs it introduced in last Wednesday’s security update.
According to notes from a weekly Mozilla meeting on Firefox, the regression reports began accumulating over the weekend. Firefox 2.0.0.8 was posted for download late Wednesday, Oct. 17. Three of the five problems were limited to Windows, but two page rendering issues affected all versions of the browser, including those for Mac OS X and Linux.
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Oct 25, 2007 1 am
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A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community.
It may not be the most popular thing to consider, but high-end graphics cards contain a very powerful internal computing engine, called the GPU. This massively parallel device can attack a problem in parallel, rather than serial as most CPUs are required to process data. This means it can compute many hundreds of simultaneous calculations. This is actually how 3D graphics cards get their high-speed gaming abilities. Still, a new use has been found for this robust computing engine: password cracking.
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Oct 24, 2007 12 am
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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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Oct 24, 2007 12 am
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It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail, but it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.
When we checked Gmail Help database this evening, Gmail had said that they support POP, but not IMAP. Then a few minutes later, that doc was gone, and a stack of IMAP related help docs were up. The new pages explain how to integrate the new mail feature. It’s as easy as setting up POP, but with huge benefits.
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Oct 24, 2007 12 am
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Apple has pulled the beta of Boot Camp, the application that lets Mac users run Windows XP or Vista on their Intel-powered machines, from its servers in preparation for Friday’s launch of Leopard.
Although a Boot Camp 1.4 beta page remains live, clicking on the download link brings up an error message that reads: “The page you tried was not found.” A graphic of the Mac OS X 10.5 packaging appears in the background.
Earlier this month, Apple reminded users that the license to Boot Camp would expire when Leopard shipped. The application’s beta has been available free of charge for Mac owners running Mac OS X 10.4, commonly known as Tiger.
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Oct 19, 2007 9 pm
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AbsolutePoker.com says ‘geek’ hacked system to prove it could be done.
In a case that illustrates the perils of online betting, a leading Internet poker site said Friday that a hacker exploited a security flaw to gain an insurmountable edge in high-stakes, no-limit Texas holdem tournaments — the ability to see his opponents’ hole cards.
The cheater, whose illegitimate winnings were estimated at between $400,000 and $700,000 by one victim, was an employee of AbsolutePoker.com who hacked the system to show that it could be done, said a spokesman for the company, who spoke with msnbc.com on condition of anonymity.
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