The "Code Red" computer worm, which caused $2.4 billion in estimated cleanup costs on Internet-linked computers last month, seems to have been born at a university in China's southern Guangdong province, according to the nonpartisan investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. "The worm is believed to have started at a university in Guangdong, China," Keith Rhodes, chief technologist at the General Accounting Office, said in written testimony on Wednesday before a House Government Reform subcommi...
Yes, it's Dell-goes-AMD rumour time again, this time courtesy of a story over at Tom's Hardware. Said story notes that Nvidia has completed its nForce integrated chipset. That sounds reasonable to us, as does the suggestion that mobo makers Asus, Gigabyte and Abit will start selling boards based on the part next month. But what's this at the end of the story? Dell and Fujitsu-Siemens will be shipping PCs based on nForce, it says. Now since nForce is designed to work with AMD's Athlon processor, ...
Another manufacturer is expected to start producing Pentium 4 chipsets that will use Rambus memory, a development that could help revive support within the industry for the memory standard. A chipset maker is in the final stages of negotiating a deal that will allow the company to manufacture a chipset that links a Pentium 4 processor with Rambus-based RDRAM memory, according to several industry sources. The announcement is expected to take place within the next two weeks. If another man...
Version 4.01 of the DivXTM codec is now available for Windows-based systems. DivX is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for download-and-play high-quality digital video over IP-based networks. This version offers among other things: Improved decoder performance Higher encoding performance, almost 4 times faster than previous version Multipass encoding and 2 different variable bit rate modes Improved visual quality Highly scalable codec from 16x16 pixels to 1920x1280 pix...
The air of inevitability INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM LA INTELLA has refused to rule out introducing a cut-down version of the Pentium 4 at any time in the future. Indeed, should the "price differentiation" provided by 100MHz increments in the P4 not be enough to woo the cost-conscious buyer then an incarnation of the P4 under the Celeron label would be a distinct possibility. Intel Architecture Group Guru Anand Chandrasekher said he wouldn’t rule out a P4 figuring in the "Celeron-branded...
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Intel has demonstrated a working 3.5GHz processor as part of a joint offensive by Microsoft to shake off the spectre of tech recession that hangs over this year`s Intel Developer Forum. The demo, at Intel general manager Paul Otellini`s keynote this morning, followed hot on the heels of a yesterday`s 2GHz Pentium 4 launch. It came dovetailed with a pitch by Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin on the joy of Windows XP. Otellini said the focus of the industry should turn away from f...
A rather debatable topic I found at Yahoo. Intel Corp. is "devaluing the meaning of megahertz" with its Pentium 4 design, charges rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which claims the chip's design makes Intel's frequency claims misleading. Just over a year ago, AMD proudly proclaimed its success in beating Intel to the 1GHz level with its Athlon chip. But now, following Intel's release of a 2GHz Pentium 4, the smaller chip maker is crying foul. AMD representatives this week sou...
TechTV Labs will pit Apple's Quicksilver G4 867MHz desktop against a comparable Windows machine this Friday. Details can be found at the Techlive.com Web site. A complete story will appear on the Web site following the face-off. Meanwhile, a TechTV article by James Hamilton notes that while Wintel machines may dominate the computing world, that doesn't mean they're better than Apple's systems. "There are many reasons for Wintel's iron grip on the computing world, including past licensing ag...
This month we saw our traffic sky rocket as Stardock merged their skin library with ours as a way to cut costs and make things easier for users. This has had quite an impact on the application sections here. For instance, Th etop 3 Litestep themes got over 100 downloads yesterday. This ironically makes the place where the most Litestep themes are currently being downloaded. Other apps listed here have received a similar boost. Overall, the site was visited by over 580,000 *uniqu...
AltDesk is a virtual desktops' manager for Windows with skins' support. AltDesk lets you to add more functionality to your computer's desktop. It can create many virtual desktops which can be placed as you want. It has neat skinnable interface. So you can build your skins. Features included: - Neat skinnable user interface. - Fully customizable hotkeys (Win key included). - "Boss" key. - Program can be easily moved from one desktop to another. - All its elements are fully customizable.
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A malicious program that masquerades as a Web page or HTML e-mail has dire consequences for those who fall for its ruse, antivirus experts said this week. Known as Trojan.Offensive (Virus info provided by McAfee/AVERT), the program takes advantage of a 10-month-old flaw in Microsoft's version of the Java Virtual Machine to overwrite critical system settings--called the registry--leaving Windows computers unusable. The operating system on the victimized PC must be reinstalled or repaired thro...
Spotted this over on WinOSCentral's site, that CostCo have posted pricing for Windows XP as follows. Microsoft® Windows XP Home Edition $189.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade $94.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Professional $279.99 Microsoft® Windows XP Professional Upgrade $184.99 Not that these prices look any more appealing...
Code Red will be around 'forever', warns the security expert who has detected a new variation of the Code Red II worm A new permutation of the Code Red II worm was discovered on Friday, and experts say that Code Red is now unlikely ever to disappear. The new variant has been dubbed CodeRed.d, and exploits the same Index Server flaw in Microsoft's IIS software as the initial Code Red. According to Roger Thompson, technical director of malicious code research at anti-virus firm TruSecure, ...