The Modders Secret Weapon

Subject: General Tech | October 4, 2005 - 05:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Think Computers lets you in on one of many modder's favorite weapons, Weldbond. It is adhesive, and will let you build up layers for texture effects, and you can colour it with regular food colouring!  Read the article to get ideas on how to use it, and for an interview with the creators.

'It is my opinion that our community, the computer modding community, should know about this product and what it can do.

Battlefield 2 v1.03 Patch Released

Subject: General Tech | October 4, 2005 - 04:19 PM | Chuck Smith
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The newest patch for Battlefield 2 is out today. The newest patch is v1.03 and it can be found here at Shacknews

- There is a new tab in the MULTIPLAYER menu that holds a list of the last 20 internet servers you have connected to, plus a list  of servers you have selected as favorites.
- Nickname Prefix You can add a 6-character prefix (such as a clan tag) to your account nickname which will be displayed in-game next to your nametag in the score menu, in game messages, and above your player in the game world.

Peter Jackson to Executive Produce Halo Motion Picture

Subject: General Tech | October 4, 2005 - 02:58 PM | Jonathan Hung
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Last week Bungie was hinting at a big announcement sometime this week. While some others have predicted it as nothing more than some XBOX 360 hype, the reality is far from it! The big news is that Peter Jackson (yes that Peter Jackson) has signed on to Executive Produce the Halo motion picture.

Flaw found in Kaspersky antivirus

Subject: General Tech | October 3, 2005 - 05:52 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNET has published a story about a flaw in Kaspersky Lab's Antivirus definitions.  Possibly affected by this are such 3rd party software brands as : Aladdin eSafe, Alt-N MDaemon Antivirus, Astaro Security Linux, F-Secure, Sybari, and others.

A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Lab's antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned Monday.

The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security resear

The Future Of Computing Is Infectious

Subject: General Tech | October 3, 2005 - 01:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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How would you feel about a computer whose main processor was mostly E. Coli?  Previously, problems arose in the amount of energy it took to turn a protein from on to off, but nanotechweb reports on 2 researchers from Cambridge University have found a way to make it work.  Feels like you could infect your PC on purpose as a type of upgrade, 50 years from now.

"Theoretical physicists in the UK have shown that it should be possible to use clusters of proteins to perform complex logic operations.

High Tech Hurricane Preparedness

Subject: General Tech | September 30, 2005 - 06:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNet has an article about high tech survival solutions, like portable water purifcation or warmth.  That may help to protect yourself from physical harm; and they also have 2 articles to help protect you from electronic harm (eHarm?)

"Natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina can turn a high-tech culture into a decidedly low-tech one--where food, water and shelter are what matter most.

DARPA, DARPA, DARPA

Subject: General Tech | September 30, 2005 - 11:47 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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No one got the prize ($1 million) last year. The best effort was Carnegie Mellon University's robot Hummer, Sandstorm.  It made it 7.3 miles out of the full 144-mile.  This time, at least in the semi-finals, we actually have teams finishing the course.  The finals are scheduled for Oct.

Multiplayer FEAR demo now available

Subject: General Tech | September 29, 2005 - 03:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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HardwareHell, and GamersHell are hosting the downloadable multiplayer demo of F.E.A.R.  I believe that it is properly referred to as a "Video System and Network Traffic Stress Test", if anyone asks why there's the sound so many explosions coming from the IT department.

Update: While you're at it, check out the F.E.A.R. mechanima done by RoosterTeeth (the Red vs. Blue people) called "P.A.N.I.C.S".

Can't blame this mouse for your targeting

Subject: General Tech | September 29, 2005 - 11:48 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Razor Copperhead is a black mouse with blue LED's, and quite the stats for a lowly mouse.  It's paired with the anodized aluminium eXactMat in this review at PureOverclock.

"The Copperhead boasts some of the best specs of any mouse available. These include the 2000 DPI laser engine, 1000 Hz interpolling and a 16bit data path. This should provide absolute accuracy.

Office 2003 SP3, Mice & A Contest

Subject: General Tech | September 28, 2005 - 11:50 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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It's not Patch Tuesday, but CNET is letting everyone know that Office 2003 got a bit of a facelift and a security upgrade.  If you use it, head to Office update to get it.   Even better, it looks like you won't need to dig out the old disks to do it.  Plus, Overclockers Online has a Coolermaster contest going on.

"Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 is designed to prevent "phishing" attacks and improve the han

Even Linux gets expoited nowadays

Subject: General Tech | September 27, 2005 - 06:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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2 Media players running on *NIX have expolit flaws, story on CNET.

"A flaw has been discovered in RealNetworks' RealPlayer version 10.0.5.756 Gold and Helix Player 1.0.5.757 Gold running on Linux or Unix operating systems, according to a report released Tuesday by the French Security Incident Response Team, or FrSIRT."

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Norton 2006 coming soon to a store near you

Subject: General Tech | September 27, 2005 - 11:53 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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One of the oldest disk management and virus suites will be updating it's software within the next 2 weeks.   It's probably too soon for them to have incorporated the anti-worm and anti-fishing software they gained control of from 

WholeSecurity last week, but it's detection ablities will undoubtably be improved from 2005.

Symantec, in the next two weeks will start selling the 2006 editions of its consumer security software prod

They Say It's Your Birthday

Subject: General Tech | September 23, 2005 - 01:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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It's been 30 years today since Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed a little company in Albuquerque, called Micro-Soft!

"Software King of the World, Microsoft, is celebrating its 30th birthday today.

Always Practice Safe SMS

Subject: General Tech | September 22, 2005 - 05:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The recent reports of bluetooth enabled cars being infected with viruses may have turned out to be mostly false, but it has been discovered that your SmartPhone could infect your PC.  CNET has the full story.

"A Trojan virus that attempts to spread from smart phones to users' PCs was discovered Wednesday, marking one of the first cases of virus "cross-sharing" between the two devices, according to security firm F-Secure."

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New Version Of Firefox & More

Subject: General Tech | September 21, 2005 - 04:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNet has a writeup on the newly released 1.0.7 version of Firefox, which you can download from here.

"Firefox 1.0.7 was issued late Tuesday, a representative said.

iPod Nano Thrown From Car

Subject: General Tech | September 12, 2005 - 05:58 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Well, all in the name of science at least...  The reviewers at ArsTechnica put the iPod Nano through an abundance of tests including a stress test that included being thrown from a car at 50 mph! 

Last Tuesday, Apple's solution came in the form of the iPod nano, a mini-mini-version of their current iPod color line. That's right, it's more miniature than the iPod mini, and the display is color!

Future DVD VIdeo Wars Compromise?

Subject: General Tech | September 7, 2005 - 03:11 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Well not really, but you can expect to see lots of devices coming out like this new Samsung player that plays both the upcoming Hi-Def video standards: Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Samsung will bring out a DVD machine next year capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD if backers of the rival standards fail to agree on a unified format, a newspaper said.

Intel Pledges 1500 PCs, Wireless Access Points, Technical Support For Hurricane Katrina Disaster Rel

Subject: General Tech | September 3, 2005 - 08:59 PM | Joe White
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 2, 2005 - Intel Corporation today announced it is coordinating the donation of 1,500 laptop personal computers to the American Red Cross for distribution to shelters in support of Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. In addition, Intel will donate 150 wireless Internet access points to enable wireless local area connectivity in all permanent shelters and is providing fifty Wi-Fi transmitters for installation in the New Orleans downtown and airport area.