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Submission + - The Surprising Security Threat: Your Printers

Submitted by jcatcw on Thursday January 18, 2007 @09:53AM

jcatcw writes: Networked printers are more vulnerable to attack than many organizations realize. Symantec has logged vulnerabilities in five brands of network printers. Printers outside firewalls, for ease of remote printing, may also be open to easy remote code execution. They can be possible launching pads for attacks on the rest of the network. Disabling services that aren't needed and keeping up with patches are first steps to securing them.

Submission + - Linux-based console to compete with Wii, 360, PS3

Submitted by Wertigon on Thursday January 18, 2007 @07:22AM

Wertigon writes: The Open Game Console Consortium aims to create an open console that will be free of royalties of any kind. Right now the project is in it's early phases, but the people behind it are hoping to make it in time to Christmas this year.

FTA:
I'm sure some are saying things like, "How is this going to be any more successful than the 3DO or Indreama?" or "Is this just another Phantom?" The 3DO was a similar idea in that it was going to allow multiple manufactures to release the same consoles; however, it was a very closed platform. If you wanted to make a 3DO compatible system you would have to license proprietary chips and software from Matsushita, and by having an open standard, with open source software and off-the-shelf PC components the barrier to entry will be much simpler and less restrictive.

Submission + - Nokia gets fire investigator to flip-flop

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Thursday January 18, 2007 @06:54AM

netbuzz writes: "One mystery solved, and more burning questions arise. After days of having the information shielded by officials, we now know that it was Nokia that made the cell phone at the center of a residential hotel fire in California that left a man critically injured and sparked worldwide media attention. However, the investigator who originally fingered the phone as the ignition point now says that Nokia engineers have shown him the error of his ways. Meanwhile, the fire victim has an attorney and there could be a press conference as early as today. Seems unlikely that the lawyer will be as easily sold as the fire investigator.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1053 1"

Journal Journal: TivoToGo Transfers broken.

Journal by faedle on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @11:07PM

With all the chatter recently about TiVoToGo coming to Mac users, I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned the fact that a significant percentage of TiVo users have not been able to use TiVoToGo since a patch in November broke the functionality on a small (but significant) percentage of Series2 TiVos. This problem was discovered within days of the patch's release, and as of today there h

Submission + - New Gnome Control Center for Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn

Submitted by

Michael

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:01PM

Michael writes: "http://lunapark6.com/?p=2728 In Herd 2 of Feisty Fawn, there is a new Gnome Control Center that resembles Windows XP's control panel. This article compares the new Gnome Control Center in the upcoming Gnome 2.17/2.18 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with the older cascading menu style familiar in the current Gnome 2.16 release. There are also plenty of screenshots."

Submission + - Intel to launch cheaper quad core

Submitted by

Tommy Kino

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:59PM

Tommy Kino writes: ""On January 21st, Intel will launch their first mainstream quad-core processor — the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Like the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, it is made up of two Conroe dies sitting on a single package.

As such, its 8MB Level 2 cache is not completely shareable between all four cores. Rather, it's split into two separate 4MB caches, each of which is shareable between their respective core pairs.

According to Intel, we will not see a true quad-core (four cores on a die) processor until the second half of this year. Codenamed Yorkfield, it will debut in the new 45nm process and come with a fully-shared 8MB L2 cache."

Full report at http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=379& pgno=0"

Submission + - EV1Servers is no more

Submitted by

symbolset

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:59PM

symbolset writes: "Netcraft is reporting that EV1Servers is no more. EV1Servers was Founded in January 2000 as Rackshack by Robert Marsh a.k.a. "headsurfer", as a branch of his Houston ISP — Everyone's Internet. EV1Servers was a pioneer in dedicated servers. The company was among the fastest growing web hosts from 2002-2004.

Marsh left the company in May when it was acquired by private equity firm GI Partners, to be merged with The Planet, a parallel acquisition, making The Planet the sixth largest web host and third largest SSL host on the Internet."

Submission + - Outsourcing Recruiters and Headhunters?

Submitted by

fury88

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:58PM

fury88 writes: "I've recently begun the long and tedious job search for a Senior Software Engineer. It's been a few years since I've really looked at the market and what makes it more difficult is I need to relocate to another city and state. To my surprise, I've been getting dozens of calls from Indian recruiters. Of course they are going by "Justin" or "Ashley" but I can't understand a word they are saying. Here's what gets me that I thought I'd like to share. Do these companies really know who they are using to staff positions? I am all for listening to anyone that has a good offer for me no matter who they are but if I can't understand what they are saying, how does that help? I literally had to hang up on one of them because they weren't listening to me. It seems to me that if I was a company who hired a staffing agency, I would sure as hell want the recruiters to be able to communicate effectively, otherwise you risk losing qualified candidates. Am I wrong here and how long has this been going on?"

Submission + - Good Samaritan Computer Law needed

Submitted by

Hyresse

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:50PM

Hyresse writes: "Companys release software based on Financial reasons... even if the software isnt complete and or tested. Those same companys then use the law or will sue to prevent any bugs and/or exploits from being exposed. Since all software can expose people to the open and present danger from the current Cyber war between criminials and the Law, everyone risks becoming a casuality to live fire. an example is for your computer showing porn to children even when you never went to any porn site. or all your personal information being stolen. Everyone risks great finiancial problems and/or legal action against themselves as a side effect. The criminials already know of exploits and are useing them. Anyone that exposes these exploits to the public Risk being Sued and/or Jailed... The public needs to know if the software they are using is currently being used by criminials for illgotten gains. Software companys dont want these flaws exposed because it damages their reputation and opens them up to the public sueing them for gross negiliance. Where to draw the line.... I draw the Line at this... any software that has a flaw and that flaw is currently being exploited to gain control needs to be labled a WEB RISK.. any company that tries to prevent the exposure of a WEB RISK Software needs to be considered a accomplice to any criminial activity... anyone that has evidence that a exploit exists and is being used needs to be protected from legal action so that they can speak about it.. to write about it. to announce it. THIS IS NOT ABOUT FIXING THE EXPLOIT... a software company will fix it or not.... its their future.... hiding dangerious flaws and allowing others to pay for their mistakes needs to be against the law."

Submission + - Google Removes Yahoo! Maps and Mapquest Maps

Submitted by

fed0up

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:22PM

fed0up writes: "The "Do no evil" company removes Yahoo! maps and Mapquest maps from address search result. http://techcrunch.blogspot.com/2007/01/google-stop s-showing-yahoo-maps-in-one.html Test link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL%2C GGGL%3A2006-23%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=1600+Pennsylvania+ave %2C+washington+dc&btnG=Search"

Submission + - FreeSBIE 2.0 released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: FreeSBIE 2.0 has been released, based on FreeBSD 6.2. FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD operating system, i.e. you can boot and run FreeBSD directly fromthe CD, without touching your hard drive.

Full details and information on how to download are available:
http://ftp.freesbie.org/2.0-RELEASE/FreeSBIE-2.0-R ELEASE-announce.txt

Submission + - Sega to Discontinue GDroms - Death of Dreamcast

Submitted by Croakyvoice on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:57PM

Croakyvoice writes: The Dreamcast games Last Hope , Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games for the Dreamcast because from february Sega Japan are to stop production of GDRoms, the death of GDroms will mean no more Dreamcast or Naomi Arcade games. The Dreamcast Community have sent emails to Sega Japan to ask for a rethink on this issue.

Submission + - HP to vastly increase chip logic density

Submitted by

werelnon

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:45PM

werelnon writes: "HP seems to have discovered a way to eliminate the space that signal routing wires take up on conventional chips (signal routing wires currently take up to 90% of the chip die). This should result in chips that can pack up to 8 times more logic transistors than a conventional chip. This should result in cheaper, more powerful, and more efficient chips sooner than Moore's law would predict."

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