The Mydoom worm (a.k.a. Shimgapi and Novarg) is making a fast name for itself and has been detected in 142 countries and currently accounts for 8.5% of all Internet e-mail, according to a leading security company.The worm arrives in an e-mail file attachment. The e-mail body varies from blank to highly technical jargon...all of which are designed to fool the recipient into opening the attached (infected) file which has a common extension such as ZIP, SCR, EXE, or PIF.
Business Week gets it and the RIAA doesn't. What is amazing is that Business Week's opinion fell without directly saying it in favor of the file swappers. The RIAA and those they support know there once coveted market of selling over-priced CD's has come and went and they are desperate to try and keep the genie in the bottle a
Keep your eyes open to what e-mail you are getting and update your Virus definitions immediately. This one is being rated as High Risk read the details here. One thing to note it looks like it is more a Trojan than a Virus ugly non the less. [ZDNet] [Network Associates]
Most of us have a few 128 meg flash memory chips laying around hell I have one that I keep inserted into my Sony notebook all the time. Imagine having 100's of files stuck on 2 of these and having a OS that cannot handle the amount. Reminds me of Windows NT days when you hit a 1000 files in
A reader submits: "Codewalkers.com has released their latest PHP Coding Contest. This time around you are challenged to write a program to play the game of black jack. Several rule variations can take place in each game such as allowing splits, doubling, etc. A host of prizes are available to the top placers. For more info see [codewalkers.com/php-contest.php]
My mobile phone number is not exactly private but I have also never received a telemarketers call at 3am HST on it either. Apparently there is in works a plan to publish a white pages of mobile phone users. I will be beyond pissed if this happens. [Dan Gillmor] [New York Times]
I have been doing a lot of streaming Audio and Video recently and have never had a need to capture the Audio and Video but do now. Google has led me into some interesting sites and I have found 2-3 programs that seem to do a ok job. I would like your opinions on what you use and your experiences.
A lot of you out there have old PC's stuck away in closets not quite knowing what to do with them. DesignTechnica has some great suggestions and if you don't like what they suggest there are always schools that need computers. [DesginTechnica]
This country has some damn fine Geeks, the technical team at NASA JPL have three working theories on what happened to Spirit. a. The software which handles file management for the flash memory is not robust enough. b. That there may be a problem with one of the motor control boards. c. Or that a recent solar event caused problems
The Opportunity Rover on Mars has been sending back new data the science team excitement about the landing site is hardly being contained. [Opportunity & Spirit News Conference Recaps]
A very interesting article which is getting some serious air-play and is being taken seriously by scientist seems to have raised concerns that due to Jet Stream changes could change Britain into a Arctic Zone. [news.independent.co.uk]