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A Virginia Tech student has created a FLOOR lamp powered by gravity.

Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (CONCENTRATION in industrial DESIGN) from the COLLEGE of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp when he was an industrial design graduate student. The light-emitting diode (LED) lamp, named Gravia, has just won second place in the Greener Gadgets Design COMPETITION as part of the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City.

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Firefox just reached 500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely PHENOMENAL MILESTONE for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number MEANS. For some perspective, that’s roughly the audience size of 10,000 Rome Colosseums combined. It would be the WEIGHT, in kilograms, of 8,500 Boeing 747 airplanes. In dollars, for $500 million you and 15 of your FRIENDS can fly to the International Space Station.

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Pretty amazing...

RESEARCHERS from three groups on Thursday published research showing that disk-based encryption schemes across multiple operating systems can be CIRCUMVENTED to reveal protected data.

In the paper, "Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption KEYS," the researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind RIVER Systems revealed that computer memory, contrary to popular belief, retains data for a brief period after a computer is turned off and that cooling memory chips can prolong the persistence of data in memory.

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Amazing looking new prototype of the Alienware curve display on SHOW at CES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNE9ZK1S5A&feature=relatedThat is extremely sharp ! !

Wonder what the price range will be...Quote from: patio on January 09, 2008, 10:58:57 AM

Wonder what the price range will be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTEt5o_jt30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTEt5o_jt30

Microsoft has announced the details of its new DirectX version; to ensure full support ONE need not only to install Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista but may also need to replace a graphics card. Contemporary graphics accelerators from Nvidia GeForce 8800 and AMD/ATI Radeon 2900 may not support all the new features added to Direct3D 10.1. The features of DirectX 10.1 include incremental improvements to 3D rendering quality. As for the innovations, among them are 32-bit floating-point operations (instead of 16-bit ones, used today by default) and obligatory support of 4x FSAA.

Microsoft's Sam Glassenberg did however note that "DirectX 10.1 fully supports DirectX 10 hardware. No hardware support is being removed. It's strictly a superset. It's basically an UPDATE to DirectX 10 that extends the hardware functionality SLIGHTLY." Glassenberg says DirectX 10.1 will be fully COMPATIBLE with all graphics cards supporting DirectX 10. All the company wants to do now is to increase the API life cycle. Sam confirmed that existing graphics cards may still not be able to use all the new features of DirectX 10.1 but also stressed that APPLICATIONS designed specifically for DirectX 10.1 are very unlikely to appear, because overall, the updates aren’t that critical.

http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=42004

Glad I didn't download this !!!

If you've posted your data or resume to Monster.com, watch out for a well-crafted e-mail that purports to come from the site and offers a link to a downloadable "Monster Job Seeker Tool." The download is actually one or more pieces of malware that attempts to steal your financial data or even encrypt your important documents and hold them for ransom.

According to Symantec's analysis of the attack, the e-mails look entirely real, and may use the intended victim's real name and other personal information.

The attackers get that personal info with a multi-pronged attack that starts with a Trojan called Infostealer.Monstres. Monstres steals personal information about Monster.com users from the section of the site used by recruiters to find job seekers. That can INCLUDE a searcher's name, e-mail address, home address and other data.

The crooks use that stolen info to then send the personalized attack e-mail. If you click the contained link, you could be infected by one of two pieces of malware (so far). One, which Symantec labels Infostealer.banker.c, attempts to steal online financial account logins. The other, Trojan.gpcoder.e, will encrypt a range of documents on a victim PC and then DEMAND a ransom payment for the decryption password.

If you've received one of these e-mails and THINK you might be infected, here's a test that could turn up malware your antivirus program may have missed. Gpcoder creates a backdoor that allows attackers to connect to infected machines, and you can detect the backdoor like this (on Windows XP):

1. Click Start | Run
2. Enter 'cmd' to bring up a command prompt.
3. TYPE "telnet localhost 6081" and hit Enter.

According to Don Jackson at Secureworks, who says the possibly related Prg Trojan uses the same port 6081 as a backdoor, a non-infected computer will respond with a message like "Could not open connection to the host, on port 6081: Connect failed." That means nothing is listening on that port - or backdoor.

But if you don't see that error message, and it just sits there after you type the telnet command, it means something is listening and waiting for input. To figure out if that something is malware (and assuming your current antivirus program doesn’t catch it), check Lincoln Spector's tips. I'd also suggest calling your antivirus program vendor.

Computerworld has a story on this attack that suggests a possible additional attack vector with infected ads, but I haven't yet found any confirmation of those ads. Mimi Hoang at Symantec says her company's analysis didn't turn up any poisoned ads on Monster.com, and Roger Thompson [[http://explabs.blogspot.com/]] of Exploit Prevention Labs says his company's scanners haven't found any over the past few weeks.

It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break.

But SCIENTISTS claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel FASTER than the speed of light.

LinkWasn't there another topic on this?

Lol, EINSTEIN LOOKS funny Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on AUGUST 20, 2007, 04:08:00 AM

Wasn't there another topic on this?

Lol, Einstein looks funny

Wasn't there another topic on this?

Apple was today MONITORING the latest mini-crisis to hit its much-hyped iPhone after some users began reporting that the touchscreen did not work.

Threads on several Apple forums – including the company's own – have been DEVOTED to the problem, which causes parts of the device's screen to go 'dead' and stop responding to the touch of a finger.

LinkI was thinking of buying a iPhone when it comes to Europe but I'll wait and see if the device is worth his money and I hope the issues will be fixed when it comes to Europe.

Thanks for the info Nathan!

Jonas Personally if you were thinking about GETTING one I'd wait until the next RELEASE. But that's just me. Well I think I will.
Made the same mistake with the PS3 and had to trade it in. (well its still the first release though.)
But I can't miss a phone for a month.
I'll wait for the next release and in the meanwhile I'll read some reviews.

Jonas i phone stinks i tryed one at itkept locking up

Just NOTICED this on the ccleaner website.
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FALSE virus warning
The latest download is being INCORRECTLY detected as a backdoor virus. This is a false detection and we're working to resolve the issue. THANK you.

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the DESKTOP, in a POSSIBLE bid to TAKE on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.

A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, BASED on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'.

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Not your typical monitor. ACCORDING to this review and the Samsung SITE this monitor is not only capable of being connected to the standard monitor connections but is also capable of CONNECTING to a traditional USB port. Pretty interesting and from computer users with a no DVI input connection that don't PLAY GAMES a good alternative.

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Nathan you keep trying to get me to spend all my money...

Heh.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.

George Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile's network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from San Antonio-based AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone's cellular technology.

While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.

"That's the big thing," said Hotz, in a phone INTERVIEW from his home in Glen Rock.

The phone, which combines an innovative touch-screen interface with the media-playing abilities of the iPod, is sold only in the U.S.

Calls to AT&T and Apple for comment were not immediately returned.

The HACK, which Hotz POSTED Thursday to his blog, is complicated and requires skill with both soldering and software. It takes about two hours to perform. Since the details are public, it seems likely that a small industry may spring up to buy U.S. iPhones, unlock them and send them overseas.

"That's exactly, like, what I don't want," Hotz said. "I don't want people making money off this."

He said he wished he could make the instructions simpler, so users could modify the phones themselves.

"But that's the simplest I could make them," Hotz said.

The modification leaves the iPhone's many functions, including a built-in camera and the ability to access Wi-Fi networks, intact. The only thing that won't work is the "visual voicemail" feature, which shows voice messages as if they were incoming e-mail.

Hotz collaborated online with four other people, two of them in Russia, to develop the unlocking process.

"Then there are two guys who I think are somewhere U.S.-side," Hotz said. He knows them only by their online handles.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/08/24/iphone.unlocked.ap/index.htmlSpent about a 1/2 hour at his site...it's not like everyone can sit down and do this but i PROBABLY would give it a try. If i got the phone for free that is.kid has to have a relative or somebody thats an electrician or something ? Kids like that should be able to receive some kinda nobel prize or something Very impressive. Was reading his blog today and amazing what he got for it. Quote from page:

Terry Daidone, the founder of Certicell contacted me this morning, and offered to make a trade for the iPhone. I traded it for a sweet Nissan 350Z and 3 8GB iPhones. I will be sending the iPhones, unlocked if they wish, to jpetrie(the first donater), gray(the reversing genius), and iProof(who is truly amazing at finding stuff online) Thanks a lot everyone. I leave for college tomorrow, and this has been a great end to a great summer. If I ever do anything more with the iPhone, it'll definitely be posted here. Also I contacted iphonesimfree and offered to verify on this blog their claims of a software unlock. No response YET...Wow.
His blog makes really interesting reading too, I think I'll bookmark that.
See the bit about the eBay auction - he was going to sell it on eBay and hand it over live on CNN.
What a guy.

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Late LAST night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate their installations using WGA, and one user EVEN said that his installation was INVALIDATED by the service.

check this out Patio *

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/08/to_wga_hell_and.html

Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan's computer giant Acer Inc, the world's fourth-largest computer supplier, ANNOUNCED Monday that it has entered into a 710 million US dollar agreement to acquire Gateway Inc, the third-largest PC company in the US and a leading retail PC provider.

"The combination will create a multi-branded PC-company with over 15 billion US dollars in revenues and shipments in excess of 20 million PC units per year," Acer said in a statement.

Under the agreement, Acer will commence a cash tender offer to buy all the outstanding shares of Gateway for 1.90 US dollars per share, which represents total equity value consideration of about 710 million US dollars.

The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of both Gateway and Acer and is subject to standard closing conditions, including approval under Hart Scott Rodino, Exon Florio and similar laws outside the US, the statement said.

The acquisition is expected to close by December 2007.

Acer said the takeover will consolidate their position as the third-largest PC company in the world after HP and Dell.

"This strategic transaction is an important milestone in Acer's history,"Acer Chairman Wang Wang Jeng-tang said in the statement.

"The acquisition of Gateway and its strong brand immediately completes Acer's global footprint, by strengthening our US presence. This will be an excellent addition to Acer's already strong positions in Europe and Asia. Upon ACQUIRING Gateway, we will further solidify our position as No 3 PC VENDOR globally," he said.

Asia's main overseas market is Europe, but in recent years Acer has been trying to expand its presence in the US, its second-largest market.

Acer's Italian president Gianfranco Lanci said that Acer's and Gateway's geographical presences and product positioning are highly complementary.

"We believe that our combined scale will lead to significant efficiencies. Gateway has built one of the industry's most powerful and unique brands and with this acquisition, we will have the opportunity to implement an effective multi-brand strategy and cover all the major market segments,"he said in the statement.

Established in 1976, Acer employs 5,300 people supporting dealers and distributors in more than 100 countries. Revenues in 2006 reached 11.32 billion US dollars.

Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC vendor after HP, Dell and China's Lenovo.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=121151Great post. I always had a feeling that Gateway was going to be purchased by another computer company. I am a little surprised that it was Acer who did it though.Exactly, I really don't follow the corporate books on tech companies and see who has the large cash reserves but an acquisition like this , you'd THINK someone like Nvidia or a HP or those types would have been the buyer..... Just out of curiosity, is E-Machines part of the deal. Gateway owns E-Machines.Yeah, it wasn't too long ago when I needed some info on my emachine t3422 from their tech support page, they now consider the emachine models as all gateway products*


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Gateway also announced Monday that it intends to buy Packard Bell, a Paris-based computer brand owned by Lap Shun John Hui, the former owner of eMachines. Hui also owns 4.9 percent of Gateway. Packard Bell sells computers in Europe.

When Hui acquired Packard Bell last year, he waived certain non-compete arrangements. He gave Gateway the right to buy the new company. Gateway said it exercised that right, called right of first refusal, to buy all of Packard Bell's parent PB Holding Company on Monday.

Hui declined to comment on whether he supports the Acer acquisition. Last August, he had offered to buy Gateway's retail unit for $450 million. Gateway turned him down.
This is an excellent calculated move on Acer's part. I believe the North America distribution factor was more important to them than just gobbling up a computer manufacturer...they would have had to spend alot more dollars to do it themselves...
Along with some of the vendor contracts that were probably involved they will come out smellin like a rose when all is said and done...

On top of that Acer still makes pretty solid computers and components.
If you only knew how many computer parts you buy that are actually manufactured by Acer you'ld be amazed.

Sounds promising, especially for gamers. STILL want to get my hands on it to see if it's really all they claim it is.

At the GDC, Microsoft has announced their SideWinder mouse, built from the ground up specifically with gamers in mind. Featuring just about everything you could ever want (and things you'll never ever need), it's the "ultimate" in gaming mice. The mouse features a new "Quick Turn" feature, adjustable weight, adjustable glide, an LCD, a Vista Quick Launch button and more. The best news? It will only cost $79!

LinkNice features, and not all that expensive, for saying . . . my G5 was £45, or US$90.
Although that's just being in the UK, everything's so expensive here.
But . . . does anyone else think that the Sidewinder looks uncomfortable?Not only that Calum, It looks like c-rp * That thing looks like SOMETHING an elephant would use. It's huge.
Try playing Halo or Counter Strike on it and you can't move the mouse because it's so big.It really doesn't look that much bigger apart from the left hand thumb section. As far as not being able to turn the below feature mentioned in the article I'd imagine would compensate if not be better than the traditional mouse.

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Turn on a dime. The new Quick Turn feature -- a performance-enhancing macro -- is built right into the software and lets users check their perimeter at any angle from wherever they are in the game with the click of a button.

Making calls from a cell phone with no battery, using just the WARMTH of your hand? Perhaps that’s no more than a pipe dream right now. But new circuits are ALREADY making it possible to HARNESS body heat for generating electricity.

LinkA wireless mouse that uses your hand for power, neat Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on August 20, 2007, 04:10:32 AM

A wireless mouse that uses your hand for power, neat

Now, before you click the link, I want you to read the address, and POST you prediction on weather or not you think its real

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/default.mspx

Now you can click it and find outWhether the link is real...
Well I know Microsoft participate in open source projects, they even have their own hosting site for projects (ala Sourceforge), so I'm guessing it's real.Real...has been for some time.I had no idea

Microsoft hosts SourceForge?
Do they run it as well (the back-end administration and maintenance?)
No they don't host SourceForge but own a similar service called Codeplex.I SUPPOSE this is being *censored*, but...

relevant

whether

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I suppose this is being *censored*, but...

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Wow that would be enough music for constant listening for maybe a decade. I don't think i like that many songs. You could use .flac or some other lossless format, that would bring it down to maybe 2 years listening...

wow ! Quote from: contrex on August 29, 2007, 08:43:48 AM

My first PC was a PC-XT with 640K of RAM and a 32 MB hard drive. Last month I bought an external 320 GB hard drive. That is ten thousand times BIGGER. Face it, storage gets bigger and cheaper.

and your point is?

I got that

I would imagine a 1TB disk or HD would be less reliable than a 200GB one...

I still don't see the reason why we need 1000GB CD's.

Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on Today at 11:08:46 PM
I got that Smiley

I would imagine a 1TB disk or HD would be less reliable than a 200GB one...

Why?

After suffering a PR nightmare a year ago for their invasive DRM tactics it seems as if Sony did not learn their lesson...

Check it Outsaw this, its somewhat ironic
I used to really like ALL Sony PRODUCTS..... seems like Samsung and others are blowing them in the wind now days.....At least their saying "rootkit-like" in the article, unlike the title of the article, which says "rootkit". I don't believe a hidden DIRECTORY would JUSTIFY as a rootkit, it's just a little more than a hidden directory that can't be seen by the GUI. Honestly, I think calling this directory created by the software a rootkit would be calling the Windows hidden directory that handles the Windows updates a rootkit.

I'm not a fan of Sony, especially after their real rootkit they installed with some of their CDs but I think the article is a little too extravagant. I understand what you're saying Nathan. There has been other times an FSecure update has made me GO hmmm but i'd rather they err on the side of caution. What i wonder is what does Sony need with a hidden directory ? ?Homeland Security "not" can't even build a fence~Quote from: patio on August 31, 2007, 05:17:42 PM

I understand what you're saying Nathan. There has been other times an FSecure update has made me go hmmm but i'd rather they err on the side of caution. What i wonder is what does Sony need with a hidden directory ? ?

When Ian Griffith of Queens, New York, purchased an HP notebook from a Circuit City store in Brooklyn earlier this year, the salesperson urged him to have the chain's in-store FIRE Dog TECHNICIANS create Windows XP recovery discs in case Griffith needed to REINSTALL the OS.

"I specifically asked if this was something I could do on my own," Griffith says, and the answer was no. The salesperson, Griffith says, insisted that there were only two ways to obtain such discs: have them made at the store for $30, or buy them from HP for nearly twice as much.

LinkIwonder how many people were duped by this. The store denials can be IMMEDIATELY trashed. If it were not policy, so many stores coast-to-coast would not be doing this. It smells like a class action law suite to me.

Just when you thought it was safe to talk on your cell phone.

Now some scientists say there is a chance that talking on a mobile phone for as little as 10 minutes could trigger changes in the brain that are associated with cancer, according to a story published on Thursday by the The Daily Mail.

LinkEvery thing gives you cancer..... There's no cure...there's no answer...NEW METHOD HELPS ATTACK CANCER CELLS
By HAROLD M. SCHMECK JR., SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Rest of Article on http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D01EEDD133BF932A0575BC0A967948260

The 67-year-old man had lymphoma, a form of cancer. The disease was tightening its grip, attacking his skin and his lymphatic system. Chemicals and radiation were failing.

Then his doctors started a new treatment with substances CALLED monoclonal antibodies designed to seek out his cancer cells exclusively and help kill them. These special antibodies, the most potent biological ''guided missiles'' known to science, were given repeatedly while the doctors watched for signs of dangerous toxicity from the new treatment. There were no such signs.

By the end of four weeks the man was looking better and feeling better. Some tumors on his skin disappeared; others became soft and flat, signs that they were being attacked. The patient's fevers and night sweats ceased. A medical REPORT described the response as encouraging.

A Pioneer Case

But this story does not have a happy ending. The patient's partial remission lasted about seven weeks; then the cancer advanced again and four weeks later the man died.

The case is significant, however, as a demonstration that effects can be achieved through such a guided-missile attack on cancer and as one of the first known USES of monoclonal antibodies in treatment of human illness.

Antibodies are defensive proteins produced by the body to help repel invasions of almost any foreign substance. Monoclonal antibodies are produced with the aid of special cell-fusion techniques that give rise to groups of extremely uniform antibodies that are much more selective than ordinary antibodies.

The case is also NOTABLE as an illustration of how implacably cancer can counterattack the most ingenious assaults of medical science. But the war is not over and the use of monoclonal antibodies to learn more of cancer's complex secrets and attack its outlaw cells is being pursued in animal research at many institutions and in humans at a few.

These efforts underscore the ever-broadening usefulness of these special antibodies that were not available to most scientists for any purpose until the last few years. Monoclonal antibodies have already had a major impact on many areas of scientific research and biochemical analysis. They have spawned an industry devoted to their production and use.

They show promise of speeding the development of vaccines against malaria, schistosomiasis and possibly other globally important parasite diseases; of permitting life-saving diagnosis of some infections in newborn babies, and of other uses, including the experimental treatment of a few carefully selected cancer patients.

Specialists note that it is still too early to say how useful monoclonal antibodies will be in treating any human malignancy. But, like other experimental weapons against cancer, they are already providing new insights into the nature of that complex group of diseases.

The 67-year-old man, who had a form of lymphoma called mycosis fungoides, was treated at the Stanford University Medical Center. His case was reported in a ''preliminary communication'' in The Lancet, the international medical journal, earlier this month by Drs. Richard A. Miller and Ronald Levy.

''Monoclonal antibody produced a striking clinical response in skin, lymph nodes, and blood, but complete remission was not achieved,'' their report said.

''We are encouraged by the results in this patient,'' they added. ''Perhaps antibodies of better specificity or more suitable class can be developed for treatment.''

Altogether, doctors at Stanford have tried monoclonal antibodies in eight cancer patients, two of them under treatment now. To date there has been no evidence of ill effects and there have been some encouraging results in at least four of the patients. Dr. Levy sees little hope that the special antibodies will ever cure cancers unaided, but he hopes they can be forged into a powerful weapon to aid other forms of treatment. Similar Methods in Boston

Similar strategies have been used on at least six patients by a group at Harvard's Sidney Farber Cancer Institute and the Children's hospital in Boston.

Lavasoft TODAY released 3 NEW privacy tools...although not free they LOOK PRETTY interesting.

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I thought the Optimus keyboard was expensive. The Xynergi Keyboard is selling for $28,000. Holy me! What is that? As it is said in the review it is not for me.
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LIES!! They need all those buttons to ASSIGN hotkeys to all of their porn sites

By Mark Boslet
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SAN Jose Mercury News
Article Launched:09/18/2007 11:29:17 AM PDT
Intel is on schedule to launch its next key computer chip - a product code named Penryn - on Nov. 12., the company announced Tuesday.

The Santa Clara company also demonstrated a working version of Penryn's successor - Nehalem - at its semi-annual DEVELOPERS forum for hardware designers in San Francisco.

During a keynote address kicking off the event, Chief Executive Paul Otellini used the twin announcements to argue that Intel remains in fighting trim.

"We're cranking up full SCALE production in two fabs with 45-nanometer" technology, the manufacturing technology that will produce Penryn and later Nehalem, Otellini said during a Q&A session following his speech. "We think this is a sustainable competitive advantage."

The company's 45-nanometer technology will produce smaller chips that can run faster and use energy more efficiently. Intel has begun using 45-nanometers well in ADVANCE of its rival, ADVANCED Micro Devices.

Intel also showed off for the first time a chip made at 32 nanometers, the successor to the company's 45-nanometer manufacturing technology. Otellini said the chip gives him confidence that Intel will be able to adopt 32-nanometer manufacturing in another two years.

Otellini added that a product the company plans to demonstrate in 2008 - called Larrabee - will compete in the high-end graphics chip market against products from Nivdia and AMD's ATI graphics unit. Larrabee will include 12 cores, or computing brains, and also target applications in scientific computing.

Nehalem, which is scheduled for launch during the second half of 2008, will come in a model sporting eight cores. Intel presently makes dual and four-core chips.

After slating it's release for late September earlier this year it seems the Mothership has slowed to a crawl once again...

Full ArticleThere's gonna be an SP3? I thought Micro$oft would just forget XP EXISTED. So what's new?Actually MS has commited support to XP until 2014...

ArticleI wonder if all the lawsuits against the mothership in Europe / ELSEWHERE has caused all heir techs to hit the law~ books instead of R & D ! lol Actually i think it's because they crunched the #'s on XP installs worldwide and DECIDED it may be a smart move...
It's not like people are flocking to Vista in droves especially in the business enviornment.With good reason: XP is, overall, rather stable. If I ever have to reinstall Windows, it's usually because of something I screwed up.

Linux = DEATH to my machine. I think they fight when I'm not looking. And I think Linux won; my old hdd (that I'm still getting files off now and again) won't ever boot properly again until I format the sucker. And I'm not doing that until I'm 100% sure I've got all my old stuff carried over. Quote from: Dilbert on September 22, 2007, 11:24:28 PM

With good reason: XP is, overall, rather stable. If I ever have to reinstall Windows, it's usually because of something I screwed up.

Linux = DEATH to my machine. I think they fight when I'm not looking. And I think Linux won; my old hdd (that I'm still getting files off now and again) won't ever boot properly again until I format the sucker. And I'm not doing that until I'm 100% sure I've got all my old stuff carried over.

Im going on a contract just to get this phone when it comes out it retails here at around £500 , so im going onto a pay monthly contract , to be honest the phone looks amazeing!!! the features on it are so advanced it will make any phone nut ... jump...... !!

LINKS and INFORMATION on the new i-phone?

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW7or1TuFk



What do the members of the fourm think about this phone i wonder?

Tony I can ship you one already running on the major UK wireless services for a price...Havent got the cash patio thats why im going on contract .... i get the phone free , and only have to pay £12 pounds for the 1st 3 months ...... so its a bargin really 1 year contract and i end up paying £270 for the phone at the end of the year then i cancel the contract.....

How much are you selling the i-phone you have for ?

Tony Do you think they will ever have a significant price drop?YH the price will half in a years time ..... but STILL pretty pricey.....Now I want one!I'm still all against them . . . someone please explain to me what's so good . . .The company who made the phone is NAMED after my fave fruit!!

Apples make my feel sorta sick, I like mangos best. No wait, my fav fruit is blueberries (are they a fruit)?

The "SuperSpeed" USB Promotions Group was announced Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum. The promotions group will get together with contributors over the next year to finalize a USB 3.0 spec that will, they hope, take care of our wired peripheral and syncing needs for another five years or more.

USB 3.0 is built upon, and is BACKWARDS-compatible with, the USB 2.0 "High Speed" spec. It would be generous to even call the specifications "early" at this stage, but the group still had lots of information about how USB 3.0 will work and what features it will provide. The spec should be finalized sometime in the middle of 2008, with initial devices available in '09, and BROAD deployment by 2010.

The main two goals of SuperSpeed USB are to provide a 10X boost in transfer rate (from 480-Mbits/s in USB 2.0 to 4.8 Gbits/s in USB 3.0), while dramatically lowering power consumption. One example of their speed goals is to transfer a 27GB HD movie to a portable device in 70 seconds. The same thing would take 15 minutes or more with HighSpeed USB (2.0). The SuperSpeed devices will use the same connectors and the same programming and device models as existing devices.

Consider that it takes maybe one or two tenths of a second to transfer a typical 4 Mbyte SONG to a portable music player with TODAY's USB 2.0. That's "fast enough" for some users, but just try to fill up that 80-Gbyte iPod and you might as well walk away and cook dinner while you wait: 3,000 songs would take perhaps 400 to 600 seconds – up to 10 minutes.

Nobody wants to sit at their computer for that long, but if you could get it to under a minute, you're on to something. That's the performance aim of USB 3.0.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2184768,00.aspsay goodbye to sataNice to know USB is being developed still further, and even better that it will be backwards compatible.Until I found this yesterday, I had no clue this was being developed as well ! interesting- thats why I posted it * Thanks for your replies guys! It wasn't even on slashdot until yesterday.... You're not totally out of the loop. when you can surf all day long at work and not be under their microscope* its fun to find the new stuff.. thats why I post in the news thread~...God knows I know little of anything important except a little hardware....

4.8Gbits..Quote from: michaewlewis on SEPTEMBER 19, 2007, 11:21:31 AM

say goodbye to sata

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say goodbye to sata

Not quite...SATA is also still being worked on for higher transfer speeds. I wouldn't expect this format to go away anytime soon.

Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including HOME addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online FORUM dedicated to fraud PREVENTION on the auction site.

The information - which also included user names and email, and possibly their credit card numbers and three-digit CVV2 numbers - was visible for more than an hour to anyone visiting the forum. The miscreants appeared to create a script that CAUSED each user to log in and post information associated with the person who owned the account. The script spit out about 15 posts per MINUTE, starting around 5:45 a.m. California time.

LinkGlad I don't yet have an eBay account

By TODD BISHOP
P-I REPORTER

Microsoft Corp. says it's reconsidering how it updates a key piece of Windows plumbing after a newsletter reported that the company delivered fixes over the Internet silently -- not telling PC users even when they had set the operating system to be notified.

The article, in the Thursday edition of the "Windows Secrets" newsletter, raises questions about the practice, and how it might be used later.

"If Microsoft can change things on your PC, after you've set it up to only take changes when you want them, that gives people a lot of fear for what might happen to their PCs" in the future, said Brian Livingston, the newsletter's editorial director.

Microsoft representatives sought to explain and defend the practice, describing it as a unique situation. But the company also acknowledged that it is now looking at ways to make the process more transparent.

The company "should have been clearer in our explanation of this process earlier in the game," wrote Nick White, a Windows product manager, in a post on the Windows Vista blog.

The dust-up involves the Update PROGRAM, which checks for and downloads Windows fixes over the Internet. Users can set the program to download and install those fixes automatically, or they can EXERCISE more control by setting it to alert them and let them choose whether to download or install Windows PATCHES when they're available.

In the case uncovered by Windows Secrets, the fixes were downloaded and installed automatically, without notification, even in cases where users sought to exercise that greater control.

The twist is that the "silent" updates in question were for the Windows Update program itself.

That made these updates different from other types, contended Microsoft's Nate Clinton, Windows Update program manager, in an online post. Because they involved the Windows Update program, he wrote that it was important to download and install the updates automatically, even if users had opted for more control over the process.

"Had we failed to update the service automatically, users would not have been able to successfully check for updates and, in turn, users would not have had updates installed automatically or received expected notifications," Clinton wrote.

But the story, by Windows Secrets associate editor Scott Dunn, said Windows had alerted users about what was happening in a similar situation in the past.

"These files are by no means viruses, and Microsoft appears to have no malicious intent in patching them," Dunn wrote in the story. "However, writing files to a user's PC without notice ... is behavior that's usually associated with hacker Web sites. The question being RAISED in discussion forums is, 'Why is Microsoft operating in this way?'

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/331579_windowsupdates14.htmlDoesn't surprise me for the slightest moment.

M$ just want total control over everyone's computer... They remind me of how the AI in I, Robot advances. Only on a lesser scale.

Although performing silent updates for some Microsoft Windows users could be beneficial as it would get it done, since many users I've noticed don't frequently do their updates. I think the idea of doing silent updates without any user consent or notice is a terrible idea and they deserve to get blasted for it.To disable follow the below instructions:

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How to put an end to silent updates

It's important to note that there is no reason to remove or roll back the updated support files that Windows Update may have installed on a PC. There's no evidence that these files are HARMFUL or cause any software conflicts.

Furthermore, if you use a corporate patch management solution, such as Microsoft's WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), you circumvent Windows Update and no files will be installed by WU.

But if you're an individual or a small business using Windows Update (or its enhanced sibling, Microsoft Update), you may be concerned about Microsoft installing patches before you've had a chance to research their reliability. In that case, you can completely turn off the Automatic Updates Agent, thereby preventing updates or even notifications from occurring.

If you take this step, you'll become solely responsible for learning about new Microsoft patches yourself. I'll explain below how to adapt to this situation. In the meantime, here's how to turn off Automatic Updates and prevent stealth installs:

In Windows XP, take these steps:

Step 1. Open Control Panel and launch Automatic Updates (in the Security Center category).

Step 2. Select Turn off Automatic Updates. Click OK.

In Windows Vista, take these steps:

Step 1. Open Control Panel and launch Windows Update (in the System and Maintenance category).

Step 2. In the left pane, click Change settings.

Step 3. Click Never check for updates (not recommended). Click OK.

Step 4. Click Continue, if prompted by User Account Control.

With Automatic Updates turned off, Windows Update will still update itself (and notify you of patches), but only when you manually launch Windows Update and give your consent.

Comp Guy ......... You didnt understand my comment .... based on your response......
I'll try it again......... You akcnowledge you have issues with Vista, but ARENT prepared to suggest how you have rectified them ? ....or are you just PUTTING up with them? For the record , I have been in touch with Adobe.


dl65 Comp Guy ............
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It should get near as stable as Windows soon.... maybe in another 10 years.

Comp Guy ............
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It should get near as stable as Windows soon.... maybe in another 10 years.

II'm sorry to appear as if I'm on your case, but I'm not.......... it's just that I wonder which version of the Windows operating system you refer to in your quote?


dl65

Comp Guy ......... You didnt understand my comment .... based on your response......
I'll try it again......... You akcnowledge you have issues with Vista, but arent prepared to suggest how you have rectified them ? ....or are you just putting up with them? For the record , I have been in touch with Adobe.

dl65

Comp Guy ............
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It should get near as stable as Windows soon.... maybe in another 10 years.

II'm sorry to appear as if I'm on your case, but I'm not.......... it's just that I wonder which version of the Windows operating system you refer to in your quote?


dl65

I think vista is extremely pretty ..... its a amazing OS with a few bugs deal with it people....

Don't get me wrong and i don't want to see a Vista bashing thread...those are usually unproductive.
All i am saying is it was rushed to market...wasn't ready ...and hopefully the Service Packs will help as they did with XP.

Quote from: Richenstony on September 27, 2007, 02:07:38 PM

I think vista is extremely pretty ..... its a amazing OS with a few bugs deal with it people....

There are more than a few bugs.
Don't get me wrong and i don't want to see a Vista bashing thread...those are usually unproductive.
All i am saying is it was rushed to market...wasn't ready ...and hopefully the Service Packs will help as they did with XP.

BTW i've been tinkering with it since the first Longhorn release so it's not a casual observation.

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Don't get me wrong and i don't want to see a Vista bashing thread...those are usually unproductive.
All i am saying is it was rushed to market...wasn't ready ...and hopefully the Service Packs will help as they did with XP.

I couldn't agree with you more.
I was hoping for some incite from other Vista users, who have been able to recify their issues.

dl65

New copyright law is controversial

Germany's upper HOUSE of parliament on Friday approved a controversial copyright law, which makes it all but illegal for individuals to make copies of films and music, even for their own use.

The Bundesrat pushed aside criticism from CONSUMER protection groups and passed the law, which makes it illegal for anyone to store DVDs and CDs without permission. The law also covers digital copies from IPTV and TV broadcasts.

Consumer groups and the GREEN Party had campaigned in vain to include an exemption, so that the measure would not criminalize youths and other private users. The law is set to take effect in 2008.

The law goes beyond previous legislation brought in by the government to help the entertainment industry. Germany's federal justice minister Brigitte Zypris claimed that the legislative reform brought Germany into line with European Union codes.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117972503.html?categoryid=19&cs=1They will never CATCH me!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Your trying to rat me out ! wow THATS inreresting, i am surprised more countries havent DONE that yet...

This would be awesome. 1,000 times faster than a disk drive.. WOW!

A new FLASH storage card from FUSION io could make huge storage area networks go the way of the dinosaur and DoDo bird. The company’s upcoming ‘ioDrive’ combines hundreds of gigabytes of flash storage ONTO a small COMPUTER card and company officials claim that the TINY card could replace banks of hard drives.

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my old computer had AGP SLOT, and my corrent computer does not. Only if decent AGP cards USE LESS power... then that would be ok, even THOUGH outated it MAY be.