It has been reported that music CDs released by Sony BMG contain a so-called rootkit, a tool that is normally meant to hide a backdoor, a tool used by hackers so that they can break in at a later time. Some viruses contain a rootkit so that they can hide themselves.
This particular rootkit is used to hide the Digital Rights Management software used by Sony BMG to prevent illegal copying of their CDs. However, several security experts have found that viruses and backdoors can easily be hidden using this rootkit. This rootkit also has been known to cause systems to crash. In addition, attempting to remove the rootkit by deleting the files will cause your CD drive to be disabled.
Due to this finding, we must ask that you not play any copy protected music CDs in any ***** ******* computer at this time. If you are not sure whether a CD is copy protected, do not play it. In addition, we recommend not playing copy protected music CDs, especially those released by Sony BMG, in your personal computers.
If you would like to find out whether your system has been infected by this particular rootkit, please follow these directions:
1. Create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive, naming it test (without the quotes). 2. Make sure that the folder is there, and then rename it to $sys$test (again, without the quotes). 3. If the folder disappears, you have the rootkit. A removal tool is available at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixR yknos.exe
Again, thank you for assisting our efforts in preventing the spread of this rootkit.
Well, WoW charges $15/mo. No, it's not 1/10 of the income of a person who can afford a computer to play WoW, an internet connection to use to play it, etc., etc.
There is a C64 that has been subjected to a slashdotting. Running a web server serving dynamic pages (heck, many modern servers have trouble with that one), a RealAudio server serving audio off of a cassette, and two VNC servers.
And it SURVIVED. If there were more bandwidth available, it would have been faster.
I think it was in some article about IP-enabled light switches a couple years back...
Here's what VWoA's decided is good for us right now:
New Beetle NB Convertible
Golf GTI
Jetta
Passat PWagon
Touraeg
Phaeton
That's IT. No Caddy, no Polo, no Fox, no vans of any kind (the EuroVan/Transporter was discontinued long ago), no trucks of any kind, unless you count the T'reg.
Also, the NB Convertible, GTI, Passat, Touraeg, and Phaeton are not available with a TDI. The NB, Golf, Jetta, and PWagon are the TDI options right now.
But the guy in a Suburban could likely (note that some people DO need the gas guzzlers. Most don't) drive a Civic, and commute 8 miles each way using less fuel than he did with the Suburban.
Heck, there are people getting 65 MPG in their Mk4 Golf/Jetta TDIs.
(Granted, it's more like 50-55 MPG day-to-day... but STILL... that's rather impressive.)
You can also buy such a car TODAY (well, a Mk5, so slightly lower economy). (I'll be driving either a beat-up Rabbit or a beat-up Mk2 Golf, FWIW. Cheaper that way.)
Or, pay $50 for one of those shady "700 in 1" TV games, and note that the cartridge port on the back is a Famicom cartridge port. IIRC, Lik-Sang sells adaptors to run NES games on a Famicom (or a Famiclone in this case).
The NES didn't have any onboard ROM - the entire program was on the cart.
Basically, NES On A Chips are now 100% legal. They're a full 98% (actually, they may not have violated the patents if they're not 100% compatible) NES-compatible chipset on a single chip. Wire in the display on the display pins, the controllers on the controller pins, power on the power pins, and the game on the ROM pins, and you have an instant NES.
And if the engineers always did what was right, and not what management told them to, they'd be fired, and replaced with crappy engineers.
If the engineers everywhere did what was right, then the Pentium 4 would have sucked more than it did. The engineers did what they could under the constraints of what management could give them.
Well, it could be construed that these bots are damaging the in-game environment, meaning that n00bs watch for a little while, and give up, stopping paying the fee, letting their account expire.
ZoneAlarm MIGHT catch it, seeing as the TrueVector Security Engine runs at kernel level, IIRC, layering itself into the network stack much as this rootkit layers itself into the CD-ROM drivers. It depends on whether aries.sys loads before or after ZA, though, AFAICT.
(Of course, given a VM and a copy of this rootkit, we can see what this will do without compromising a real system...)
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Fire up Ubuntu.
Whatever supixel AA engine Ubuntu's using > MS ClearType > KDE's sub-pixel AA engine > non-subpixel AA > no AA whatsoever.
The fonts really are THAT smooth.
Note that I've not seen Mac OS X's AA, so I can't say anything about the quality of that.
Well, WoW charges $15/mo. No, it's not 1/10 of the income of a person who can afford a computer to play WoW, an internet connection to use to play it, etc., etc.
BUT... you can't argue that it's not similar...
Actually...
There is a C64 that has been subjected to a slashdotting. Running a web server serving dynamic pages (heck, many modern servers have trouble with that one), a RealAudio server serving audio off of a cassette, and two VNC servers.
And it SURVIVED. If there were more bandwidth available, it would have been faster.
I think it was in some article about IP-enabled light switches a couple years back...
*points to the * (turn Flash on)
There. EPA rated for about 40MPG hwy, and real-world is more like 50 or 55MPG.
The only problem? People will be yelling at you that you can't put diesel in a car. Those people can STFU.
And apply it to the yuppietruks.
After all, that only applies to passenger cars.
The yuppietruks don't count in that.
Here's what VWoA's decided is good for us right now:
New Beetle
NB Convertible
Golf
GTI
Jetta
Passat
PWagon
Touraeg
Phaeton
That's IT. No Caddy, no Polo, no Fox, no vans of any kind (the EuroVan/Transporter was discontinued long ago), no trucks of any kind, unless you count the T'reg.
Also, the NB Convertible, GTI, Passat, Touraeg, and Phaeton are not available with a TDI. The NB, Golf, Jetta, and PWagon are the TDI options right now.
But the guy in a Suburban could likely (note that some people DO need the gas guzzlers. Most don't) drive a Civic, and commute 8 miles each way using less fuel than he did with the Suburban.
Heck, there are people getting 65 MPG in their Mk4 Golf/Jetta TDIs.
(Granted, it's more like 50-55 MPG day-to-day... but STILL... that's rather impressive.)
You can also buy such a car TODAY (well, a Mk5, so slightly lower economy). (I'll be driving either a beat-up Rabbit or a beat-up Mk2 Golf, FWIW. Cheaper that way.)
This is so that you could, oh, sell your XBox if you wanted more cash.
Or, so you could get a 360, and play (some) XBox games, even if you didn't have an old XBox.
Hmm... it would belong to ITU-T, assuming that it's a v.90 modem :D
I give you reverse engineered Nintendo.
That uses an NT6578. Made by Novatek. Single chip NES. Don't know if it's legally reverse engineered.
I also give you a legally reverse engineered NES clone.
The cartridges were likely Famicom carts, because they were often made in areas where Famicoms were the norm.
There are adaptors to plug NES carts into a Famicom.
Or, pay $50 for one of those shady "700 in 1" TV games, and note that the cartridge port on the back is a Famicom cartridge port. IIRC, Lik-Sang sells adaptors to run NES games on a Famicom (or a Famiclone in this case).
The NES didn't have any onboard ROM - the entire program was on the cart.
Basically, NES On A Chips are now 100% legal. They're a full 98% (actually, they may not have violated the patents if they're not 100% compatible) NES-compatible chipset on a single chip. Wire in the display on the display pins, the controllers on the controller pins, power on the power pins, and the game on the ROM pins, and you have an instant NES.
...of old people in Soviet Korea, who are the only ones used by $sys$Sony?
It's actually been implemented in GeoWorks/New Deal Office/Breadbox Ensemble.
... ...
Mode 1: Minimal features, no multitasking
Mode 3 or 4, depending on app: Full features, multitasking
And if the engineers always did what was right, and not what management told them to, they'd be fired, and replaced with crappy engineers.
If the engineers everywhere did what was right, then the Pentium 4 would have sucked more than it did. The engineers did what they could under the constraints of what management could give them.
Well, it could be construed that these bots are damaging the in-game environment, meaning that n00bs watch for a little while, and give up, stopping paying the fee, letting their account expire.
It's the former.
Besides, it's not like MS hasn't had an antivirus program built into their OS before...
Actually, open the Flash stuff.
It's mentioned in the race condition animation and the timeline.
Uh, xtracto, those aren't holes.
You're watching it finger the CPU. 1,207 fingers.
Damn, that must be one happy CPU!
Actually, the buzzword already exists. System on Chip, or SoC.
ZoneAlarm MIGHT catch it, seeing as the TrueVector Security Engine runs at kernel level, IIRC, layering itself into the network stack much as this rootkit layers itself into the CD-ROM drivers. It depends on whether aries.sys loads before or after ZA, though, AFAICT.
(Of course, given a VM and a copy of this rootkit, we can see what this will do without compromising a real system...)