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Submission + - PDF imports spyware (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24, 2007 @05:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: PDF files named like BILL.pdf, INVOICE.pdf and STATEMENT.pdf are using the Windows URI problem to shut down the Windows firewall and download spyware onto the computer reports heise Security. The commands are executed if the files are opened in Adobe Reader. At the beginning of this week Adobe published a fixed version 8.1.1 for the problem. A more general patch from Microsoft for Windows is still not available.

Submission + - NASA to build largest Supercomputer ever (linuxworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by Onlyodin on Friday August 03, 2007 @09:04PM

Onlyodin writes: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.

Called Project Columbia and costing around $160-million, the 10,240-processor system will be used by researchers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

What makes Project Columbia unique is the size of the multiprocessor Linux systems, or nodes, that it clusters together. It is common for supercomputers to be built of thousands of two-processor nodes, but the Ames system uses SGI's NUMAlink switching technology and ProPack Linux operating system enhancements to connect 512-processor nodes, each of which will have more than 1,000G bytes of memory.

Full Story at Linuxworld

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