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IBM and Hewlett-Packard will start incorporating PCI-X into their servers in 2004, according the companies' top Intel server technologists. The move will be possible through the use of new chipsets, which join processors to memory and input-output systems such as PCI, from Broadcom subsidiary ServerWorks.

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To counter the threat of the upcoming 64 bit Opteron and the Itanium family, SUN's tactic is two fold. In the Summer of 2003 we will (finally!) see the USIIIi platform which should be priced very aggressively. SUN believes the USIIIi is a much more cost effective solution than it's USIII platform. The integrated L2-cache (instead of big off die SRAM caches) and memory controller make the CPU a lot cheaper to produce. And the platform will use high volume interfaces and busses such as IDE and SCSI harddisks instead of the more expensive fibre channel harddisks. The USIIIi platform will also use standard DDR RAM. While SUN is very late with the USIIIi (low end), the USIV, their next dual core high end CPU project seems to be doing well and should be on the market at the end of this year.

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Windows uses the SMB protocol to share files and printer resources with other computers. The two versions of the operating system referred to in the CERT bulletin transfer information via TCP/IP. These systems are vulnerable to attacks using tools such as W32/Deloder, GT-bot, sdbot, and W32/Slackor. Older operating systems which share SMB information differently are not vulnerable, according to CERT/CC.

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Yahoo Platinum, as previously reported, will feature content from News Corp.'s Fox network, Viacom's CBS and Walt Disney's ABCNews.com, according to sources close to the portal giant. The service will carry a monthly fee of $9.95 or a higher charge of $16.95 for a sports package.

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For Intel's prospective customers, PC manufacturers, the Wi-Fi debate centers on price versus performance. The Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 network connection, the wireless module inside Centrino, includes all the packaging and software needed for making a wireless connection, such as a radio that can send and receive data over spectrum dedicated to the 802.11b wireless standard. The 802.11b standard uses the 2.4GHz radio band.

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To Sprint and many other companies, instant messaging has evolved from a teenage fad to a valuable communications tool that is central to everyday business. Companies are using IM not only to send real-time messages, but also to collaborate on projects, exchange data and create networks linking all types of Internet devices.

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The panelists, who included executives from Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Veritas Software and Tibco, noted that they are in acquisition mode but aren't buying just anything even though prices are cheap. The panel was part of "State of the Art" seminar series held in Menlo Park, Calif., by venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures.

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"Overdrive," a package of hardware and software improvements in the 9200 and 9600, allows those chips to run at higher-than-rated speeds if conditions permit--essentially an automated version of overclocking, said Trupty Vora, a product marketing engineer at ATI. Thermal sensors in the chips monitor the temperature inside the laptop and throttle down the chips' speed if things get too hot.

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The Barton chips will be sold with model numbers of 2200+, 2400+ and 2500+. (The performance number is roughly equivalent to the clock speed of Intel's Pentium 4. A 2500+ would thus exhibit the same sort of performance as a 2.5GHz Pentium 4.) Hewlett-Packard will likely come out with a notebook using the Barton chip sometime in the first half, AMD said.

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The GAO used two techniques to identify pornography: evaluating file names and viewing the actual image files. "We used 12 keywords known to be associated with child pornography on the Internet to search for child pornography image files," wrote Linda Koontz, director of information management issues for the GAO. "We identified 1,286 items, each with a title and file name, determining that 543 (about 42 percent) were associated with child pornography images. Of the remaining, 34 percent were classified as adult pornography and 24 percent as non-pornographic."

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Over the last two years, violent games have dominated the marketplace, led by criminal adventure games "Grand Theft Auto 3'' and "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,'' which were the top sellers of 2001 and 2002. The IDSA's Maynard argued that the St. Louis ordinance went too far in its goal of protecting children from violence and that the voluntary ratings system already in place was a sufficient safeguard.

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In addition to the new capabilities for the RADEON-based desktop graphics products, CATALYST 3.2 with MULTIMEDIA CENTER 8.1 delivers advanced features to the many ALL-IN-WONDER® users -- from the current best-selling ALL-IN-WONDER® 9700 PRO to the long-standing ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™. These capabilities include MULTVIEW™ for dual TV tuner input that provides Picture-in-Picture support, closed caption database search, VIDEOSOAP™ filtering for personal video recording captures and frame reconstruction, as well as new file management options in Multimedia Library.

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Red Hat is becoming increasingly aggressive with its high-end Advanced Server software plans, but the company wasn't successful in persuading companies to pay $1,500 to $2,500 per year for a subscription to use the Linux version on low-end servers. The new Enterprise Linux ES product costs $349 or $800 per year, depending on support levels, De Visser said.

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The figures suggest that racing through virtual streets in a stolen car or going on pretend spy mission has become a firm favourite among thrill-seekers. In 2002 in the UK, more money was spent on games than on video rental or on going to the cinema.

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A new Internet speed record has been set by scientists. Using the Internet2 network, scientists were able to send data from Sunnyvale, California in the U.S. to Amsterdam, Holland at a speed of 923 megabits per second. The Internet2 network is a network operated by a consortium of 200 universities which are exploring the next generation of the Internet. 6.7 gigabytes of data, the equivalent of two DVDs ("four hours of DVD-quality movies") was sent in less then a minute over a distance of 6,800 miles.

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Chipmakers have not completely abandoned efforts to create such copy protection features. But developers now say that they're ready to move ahead with what some call a second best alternative in order to feed surging demand for chips bound for new multimedia devices such as MP3 players, cell phones and PDAs. This so-called soft coding--putting antipiracy rules into software that is more accessible to users--is slower and less secure, but lets companies adapt to rapid changes in the market more easily, developers say.

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The card does come with a great software bundle, definitely more than you'd get from ATI. But in all honesty, if you are shopping for a Radeon9700, make sure you are getting a Pro. Gigabyte does produce a Pro Model which is definitely worth your consideration.

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The effort is part of HP's strategy to expand its printing business beyond the types of tasks currently handled by HP printers. Imaging and Printing boss Vymoesh Joshi is fond of repeating that only 4 percent of printing work is done on the types of printers HP makes, leaving 96 percent of the market still to go.

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Fujitsu created the 80GB device by increasing the drive's areal density, or the amount of data that a hard-drive platter--a small, thin disk--can store per square inch. Hard drives hold data on one or more platters, and the data is written by a special head mounted on an arm that hovers above the spinning platter that resembles a miniature record player.

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It exploits a loophole in TCP port 445, otherwise known as the Microsoft-DS port, to log on to remote machines as an administrator using a fixed list of passwords.

This worm runs on Windows 2000, XP, and the Server 2003 family. It usually arrives as the file Dvldr32.exe. When executed on the said platforms, it extracts the valid network utility, PSEXEC.EXE by SysInternals, into the directory where it is executed.

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Update via AGP driver to v4.41a cool, Fixed overwrite issue, Fixed the K8 CPU cache Flush syntax error in Viagart.sys (miniport driver).