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The Portable Mac OS X Geek

Contributed by xNexusx on 18 Jan 2005 - 12:09 CET | 40 Comments Post a Comment

Who says you can't run Mac OS X on a Pocket PC? Austrian Mac consultant and columnist Teddy the Bear manages it. Whether he's wandering the Macworld show floor in San Francisco or sitting on a beach in southern Spain, he can call up his Mac in Vienna. Thanks to a remote, wireless connection, OS X runs as though it were installed on his Fujitsu Siemens handheld.

"No one believes me when I tell them I can do this. They think it is a screenshot," said the tall Austrian, who asked to be identified only by his nom de plume. "I can do whatever I can do with my Mac at home."

Teddy's Pocket Loox 720, which costs about $700 but is not available in the United States, has built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Thanks to near-ubiquitous Wi-Fi access, especially in Europe, Teddy is able to call up his PowerBook at home.

News source: The Portable Mac OS X Geek

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Microsoft Chat Sessions Today

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 18 Jan 2005 - 12:01 CET | 0 Comments Post a Comment

System Builder: Office Hours with the US System Builder Team

Join the US System Builder Team for an open chat about whatever you want. We will have experts from marketing, sales, licensing, and technology available to hear your complaints, listen to your wants, and answer your questions.

Date: 1/18/05

Time: 11am PST / 7pm UK

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Executive chat - Windows Small Business Server 2003

Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of the Windows Server Division, along with Eugene Ho, Director of Small Business Server, discuss Windows Small Business Server 2003 in this January 18, 2005 TechNet chat. Small Business Server is the comprehensive networking solution for small businesses--See how it can help simplify your daily activities and save you time and money.

Date: 1/18/05

Time: 1pm PST / 11pm UK

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Thermaltake Hardcano 13 Fan Controller Review

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 18 Jan 2005 - 11:56 CET | 11 Comments Post a Comment

Tweaknews.net has reviewed a Thermaltake Hardcano 13 A2259 Multifunction Fan Controller. Here's a snip:

"While the Hardcano 13 is not for everyone, the PC enthusiast wanting a device to monitor multiple system temperatures and control up to four fans would have to look long and hard to find anything better. Throughout several days of testing, the device performed flawlessly and exceeded my expectations in a number of respects."

View: The full review

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Picasa Goes 2.0

Posted by David Bennett on 18 Jan 2005 - 11:25 CET | 33 Comments Post a Comment

Picasa, the Google-owned photo-sharing service, has gone live with version 2.0 of its software. The service's new edition includes some basic photo-editing tools, including the ability to brighten dark images; CD burning; integration with Blogger; a collage-generating tool; and the ability to send pictures easily through Gmail.

Google bought Picasa last summer and has many rivals in the online photography market. Yahoo! and Microsoft offer rival software, while there are also many online photo services. Users of the new version will be able to export their pictures from the software to many of these online services for printing.

Picture collections can also be password-protected and easily grouped together within the software so users can keep track of their images more easily. You can also make your pictures into a movie file or a screensaver.

View: Picasa | Reuters coverage

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Virus Uses Tsunami to Spread

Posted by David Bennett on 18 Jan 2005 - 11:19 CET | 20 Comments Post a Comment

A new virus has appeared on the internet, trying to trick kind-hearted users into executing it by pretending to be looking for donations to the tsunami appeal for south-east Asia. The mass mailer worm, known as Zar.A or VBSun, sends a message with the subject "Tsunami Donation! Please help!" and a message which says: "Please help us with your donation and view the attachment below!We need you!"

It comes with an attachment - tsunami.exe - which, when run, will send itself on to other e-mail addresses found on your machine. It's thought the virus might also launch a DoS attack against a German hacking website.

Sophos' Graham Cluley said: "Duping innocent users into believing that they may be helping the tsunami disaster aid efforts shows hackers stooping to a new low." The company said it had so far only received a small number of reports of the worm in the wild.

Meanwhile, scammers trying to make money out of the tragedy have had their efforts foiled. A fake American Red Cross website was put up by scammers, and asked visitors for their credit card details - including PIN codes - to donate to the disaster fund.

View: Reuters worm coverage

View: F-Secure on the US Red Cross spoof

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Linux fights off hackers

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 20:53 CET | 62 Comments Post a Comment

Linux systems are getting tougher for hackers to crack, security experts have reported today. A study by not-for-profit IT security testing organisation Honeynet Project has shown that, on average, Linux systems today take three months to fall prey to hackers, up from 72 hours in equivalent tests conducted between 2001 and 2002.

The 2004 results came after a team of researchers set up 19 Linux and four Solaris 'honeypots' in eight countries including the UK. Honeypots are unpatched internet-connected computers designed to be targets for hackers. "Default installations of Linux distributions are getting harder to compromise," said the report.

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News source: Vnunet.com

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HP rolls out Itanium 2 servers

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 20:49 CET | 11 Comments Post a Comment

Hewlett-Packard hammered home its commitment to the Itanium 2 chips this week, announcing new mid- and high-end members of its Integrity family of servers with the Madison chip, along with new support for OpenVMS 8.2, Novell's (Profile, Products, Articles) version of Linux, bundled virtualization software and, for the first time, a pay-per-use policy for server-based Windows. The refreshed servers, which include those all the way up to HP's Superdome, run on average 25 percent faster than their predecessors. The added performance of the system is due not only to improved chip and other hardware technologies but software as well, according to company officials.

"A lot of the performance increase comes from the compilers and not just from the chips. It is not just about packing more transistors in or the clock speed, it is the maturity of the compilers and the performance it can deliver," said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing for HP's Business Critical Server unit.

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News source: InfoWorld

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IBM Looks to 'Nocona' to Cool Off Blade Servers

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 12:23 CET | 6 Comments Post a Comment

IBM next month will start powering its blade servers with Intel Corp.'s low-voltage version of its "Nocona" processor, a move designed to reduce the energy consumption and heat generated by the dense-form-factor systems. Using the processor in IBM's BladeCenter HS20 systems will reduce the power consumption per processor by about 50 watts and by up to 1.5 kilowatts per chassis, said Scott Tease, worldwide director of product management for BladeCenter.

That reduction will mean less heat being generated, which will lessen the burden on air conditioning systems in the data centers, Tease said. "Whenever we don't use power, we don't generate heat," he said. The low-voltage Xeon processor?which, like all chips with the Nocona core, can run both 32- and 64-bit applications?consumes about 55 watts, a little more than half of the 103 watts consumed by the regular Xeon.

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News source: eWeek

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Intel Preps 3.50GHz Server Chips with 8MB Cache

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 12:20 CET | 13 Comments Post a Comment

Leading chipmaker Intel Corp. has unwrapped some of its plans concerning the server and workstation processors and chipsets. The main headliners of Intel?s pedestal and rack server roadmap ? Intel Xeon MP processor code-named Potomac and Intel?s dual-core chip code-named Smithfield ? finally got their target clock-speeds and cache sizes from Intel?s official documents.

Intel Xeon MP Platform Gets 3.50+GHz Speeds, 8MB Caches. Intel?s Xeon processor family for multiprocessor (MP) applications will finally be updated in Q1 2005 with chips code-named Cranford that contain 1MB of L2 cache, but operate at 3.66GHz, much higher than today?s 3.0GHz. In server environments clock-speed does not necessarily mean performance crown, as server software is seriously dependant on cache size and from that perspective Intel?s Xeon MP 3.0GHz with 4MB L3 cache may be a better choice for certain types of server deployments. Still, the processors code-named Cranford are to be made using 90nm process technology, which may allow Intel Corp. to set a bit lower prices on such products compared to previously released Intel Xeon MP processors at launch.

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AMD holds off on DDR-2 support

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 12:18 CET | 17 Comments Post a Comment

AMD HAS BEEN RUMOURED to be coming out with DDR2 in Q2, and documents floating around the i915/925 launch said as much. AMD basically said 'we could do it now, but why', and followed it up with numbers proving that it made little sense until DDR2-667 hit. Well, as they say about the best laid plans, it isn't going to happen this year. AMD backpedalled on DDR2 support, and will hold off until Socket 1207 hits in 2006. One person at CES was quoted as saying 'no way, no how', and that is about all there is to say.

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News source: The Inq

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Sony PSP 'update' adds office apps, browser, email

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 12:16 CET | 37 Comments Post a Comment

Sony may be preparing to release its first PlayStation Portable (PSP) update, if a file that briefly appeared on the web this weekend is what it purports to be: a leaked copy of an early version of the update code. Whatever its provenance, the software certainly includes some interesting features. In addition to the usual bug fixes, the update is said to add not only a web browser and an email program, but a word processor and a spreadsheet.

At this stage, the translations from the original Japanese exploration of the alleged PSP update file doesn't make it clear whether these are fully functioning office apps - or simply readers put in place to handled emailed attachments. Given the device's nature, we suspect that latter, but early talk of a PSP keyboard accessory has led some observers to suggest they're the real thing. The update also adds an on-screen calculator utility, three games and an automatic software update feature along the lines of the utilities found in desktop operating systems.

View: The full story

News source: The Reg

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WiMax Vendors Look to Mobility

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 17 Jan 2005 - 12:15 CET | 0 Comments Post a Comment

WiMax equipment and component makers announced steady progress on fixed wireless broadband products but looked eagerly to a future mobile WiMax, as industry participants gathered at the Wireless Communications Alliance's WCA International Symposium and Business Expo in San Jose, California.

With a standard for fixed WiMax complete and a product certification program in the works, vendors are preparing to ship interoperable base stations and customer premises equipment later this year. They see the technology as an alternative to stationary broadband services such as DSL and cable. The WiMax Forum industry group is expected to start certifying interoperability of products around the middle of this year. However, some vendors are now focusing greater attention on a mobile form of WiMax that is still being standardized and is expected to hit the market next year.

View: The full story

News source: PCWorld

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BayTSP Launches Automated Piracy Monitoring Tool

Posted by Tom Graham on 16 Jan 2005 - 15:37 CET | 55 Comments Post a Comment

BayTSP, a Californian company specialising in on-line information monitoring and compliance services for a variety of industries has announced a new tool to monitor piracy on-line.

The software, called FirstSource, allows ISP's to track users offering pirated content on their networks. The system actively monitors traffic and identifies the user that performed the initial upload. Matching file names against a pre-assessed list, the software verifies the content is in fact copyrighted work, and then notifies ISP administrators. They system builds an infringement database, logging information on exactly what users have shared / uploaded; user specific information like IP addresses are also stored as evidence.

FirstSource monitors two of the most popular p2p networks, eDonkey and Bit Torrent. Worryingly, the system can also be instructed to issue DMCA take-down notices to users automatically. Previous attempts at automating this process have proved un-successful and in-accurate.

"Pirated copies of movies and software typically appear on-line within hours of release," said Mark Ishikawa, CEO of BayTSP. "Identifying and taking action against the first uploaders can greatly slow the distribution of illegally-obtained intellectual property and might make users think twice before doing it." The software highlights a continued battle between on-line users downloading pirated content and media associations; developments of software like FirstSource and the recent success in taking off-line popular file sharing hubs has tipped the scales towards the media associations. However, one site does seem determined to fight back. As we reported previously, bit-torrent hub LokiTorrent had launched a legal defence fund to fight back against an MPAA lawsuit; so far, the site has received $40,000+ in donations.

In other Bit Torrent news, a tool has emerged that can send corrupt ratio information to tracker websites. Often, sites limit a users ability to download new content until they have a "good" (i.e. uploads > downloads) ratio. Although effectivly in preventing "leeching" (downloads > uploads), this type of limit is often un-popular with users. The tool, made by oollee and called "Ratio ****er" , is said to affect many popular tracker websites that use ratios; it exploits a bug in the way trackers take data from bit torrent clients. So far, no tracker appears to have fixed the issue.

View: BayTSP Announcement

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Neowin Community Gamer Awards 2004

Posted by Tom Graham on 16 Jan 2005 - 01:51 CET | 67 Comments Post a Comment

The last few years has seen tremendous growth in the gaming idustry; it's become a high budget and increasingly realistic escape from the dramas of modern day life. 2004 saw some truely ground breaking titles and we at Neowin wanted to show game makers just what our members thought of their releases.

Over a two week period, we asked Neowin members to take part and vote for their favourite games of 2004. In total, more than 1,100 Neowin members voted for their favourite nominees in a variety of categories. It was truly a vote for the fans and by the fans, and the fans have spoken loud and clear. It is now time to let their voices be heard. Here, by category, are the best of the best, chosen by the best : Neowin Members!

For the victors of 2004, see the first ever Neowin Community Gamer Awards below.

View: The Awards | Discussion

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eXeem Release "Within Next Week"

Posted by David Bennett on 15 Jan 2005 - 16:13 CET | 109 Comments Post a Comment

eXeem, the P2P-based BitTorrent distribution program, is likely to be released for the first time within the next week, Neowin understands. In a notice on the homepage of the former Suprnova torrents site, the program's creators say the first public beta is due for release next week.

Suprnova's Sloncek has previously spoken about the project, which has been suggested as the way forward for BitTorrent. Suprnova disappeared last month, at the same time as the Motion Pictures Association of America began suing other torrent distribution sites.

A private beta has been in use for the past few weeks. The software itself has been leaked; however, users need to enter a unique key to sign into the software. If a public beta does follow, it will be the first chance for many to get a look at the way the new software works. Sloncek has already indicated it is going to be ad-supported - something which has angered many users.

View: Suprnova homepage

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STEP 27: Tweak Your Creation

Now you have a PC which you built and it is now running with a newly installed operating system. Great job! Now you are ready to get the PC set up as you want it. This will include installing any additional hardware and software, adjusting any default Windows settings you don?t like, upgrading drivers. If you installed an older Windows version, you might want to use Windows Update to upgrade some of the core components as well as basics like Internet Explorer. You?ll definitely want to get a modem installed (if you have not done so already) and hook the PC up to the internet. This is your prime way of updating software and is highly important.

I leave the rest up to you. I hope you found this tutorial useful, as I?m sure you can tell from the length of it that it is very long and very in-depth. Enjoy your new PC!

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