2003 November

Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer: Ethan Marcotte (aka Sidesh0w) has posted a link to a tutorial on how to run Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 under Windows XP! I’ve tried it, and it works!

“The [Korean] National Police Agency (NPA) announced on Wednesday that they have exposed an Internet site of professional hackers with more than 4,400 members.
The police filed arrest warrants for two members of the group, including the leader of the group who is suspected of having organized Wowhackers, a group of professional hackers, while booking 11 [...]

Microsoft has a useful guide on Protecting Your PC. It provides three steps to ensure your computer is protected. You can do it yourself or let Microsoft do it through the Windows Security Advisor tool.

“The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and [...]

“To make a Deep Impact on Comet Tempel 1, enter your name (e.g. Wilhelm LeBerecht Tempel) below. It will be included with other names on a disc attached to the impactor spacecraft, which will collide with Tempel 1. You can make your own personalized certificate after you click the “Send My Name” button with your [...]

“Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay as much as US$18.33 million to settle class action lawsuits in North Dakota and South Dakota that alleged the vendor overcharged for its software.
Both settlements are similar to the ones Microsoft has agreed to in other states. Buyers of Microsoft’s Windows, Office or stand-alone Word or Excel products can [...]

“PROVO, Utah Nov. 18, 2003 — Novell has seen the November 18 InfoWorld article in which SCO CEO Darl McBride refers to a supposed non-compete agreement between Novell and SCO. Mr. McBride’s characterization of the agreements between Novell and SCO is inaccurate. There is no non-compete provision in those contracts, and the pending acquisition of [...]

Uncle Mark 2004 Gift Guide & Almanac is a free downloadable guide, helping people make the best decisions for technology purchases or other gifts.

If you’re a technician supporting Microsoft software, you’d better read this - your income might be in danger…

All the errors you’ve ever needed to know.

“This article will demonstrate how to effectively stealth your CD ROM drive. This mod is not only cool looking, but is very quick and easy. I’ll go through how to do it step by step.”

“General information
Please follow the instructions below to make your testing effective:
Read carefully the README (and/or INSTALL) files and note those features that are documented to still contain bugs or which are not fully implemented yet, so that you can save yourself from unnecessary surprises.
Try as much as possible to explore the various corners of the [...]

Personal firewall day is intended to be the day we advocate computer security for desktop machines. Both home and corporate users need up-to-date protection. Here are the easy steps that we need to encourage all Internet users to perform.
1. Install a Personal Firewall product, or home firewall appliance. This protects you from many, many [...]

“Users of the Opera browser should upgrade to avoid two serious security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to view files or to place and execute files on a user’s computer.
According to S.G. Masood, the researcher who discovered both vulnerabilities, a remote attacker can create HTML that uses the ‘opera:’ internal protocol to read [...]

“A new Mimail variant on the loose bares a striking resemblance to its brethren.
Mimail-J seems to be gaining some traction. Symantec Security Response has upgraded the worm to a Category 3 (out of five) threat. F-Secure Corp. has it as a Level 2 risk. U.K.-based e-mail filtering outsourcer MessageLabs intercepted more than 25,000 copies [...]

“Sun Microsystems plans to begin shipping in 2004 two new servers based on Advanced Micro Devices’s (AMD) Opteron processors, Sun’s CEO Scott McNealy said during a Comdex keynote address in Las Vegas on Monday.
The servers are part of an alliance the companies have been planning for the past year, according to Neil Knox, Sun’s executive [...]

“Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) introduced three higher-performing Opteron server processors Monday and announced the chips now support a fast memory standard.
The Opteron 148, 248, and 848 all run at 2.2GHz, a 200MHz increase over the clock speed of AMD’s x46 line of Opterons, said Gina Longoria, an Opteron product manager. The Opteron 248 is [...]

“Unix developer The SCO Group Inc. said Tuesday that it is extending an agreement with its lawyers to defend itself against new copyright issues in a move that will take a multimillion dollar bite out of its fourth-quarter 2003 financial results to go toward paying legal fees. With the boost in legal resources, SCO plans [...]

“Novell Inc.’s US$210 million planned acquisition of SuSE Linux AG will put it in violation of a non-compete agreement the networking vendor has with The SCO Group Inc., and could possibly lead to legal action, SCO CEO Darl McBride said Monday in an interview….
SCO is now waiting for the SuSE acquisition to be completed before [...]

“The SCO Group’s CEO, Darl McBride, enlisted the help of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to bolster his arguments against the open source GPL (GNU General Public License) and Linux during a keynote address at the CD Expo conference in Las Vegas. Citing WIPO data, McBride said that the value of the worldwide software [...]