“The Ophcrack LiveCD is a bootable Linux CD-ROM containing Ophcrack 2.0 and a set of tables. It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it. Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a Windows partition, extract its SAM and start cracking.”
Xbox 360 Scratches Game Disks
“A growing number of Xbox 360 customers are reporting having problems with their [discs] getting scratched by the DVD drive when switching the unit’s position from vertical to horizontal and vise versa.. Initially we thought this was the usual fanboy vs. hater propaganda that swirls around the launch of any new console like this. It didn’t take long until the seriousness of the situation reared it ugly head right here in the Llamma’s shop. I personally have experienced this issue not once but twice already.”
The Llama’s Adventures via Juha
Check out the video; the buzzsaw-like sound the Xbox makes when destroying the disc is ugly enough to make you gasp!
Although I categorized this as a bug/glitch, I wouldn’t directly point the finger at Microsoft with this one. Having said that, I’d like to think I would never tilt my PS2 with the power on, but it’s easy enough to imagine a hard core gamer teenboy in the middle of a mission, when mom comes in with her vacuum cleaner and you just think “well maybe it’ll take it just this once…”
A-Patch for MSN Messenger
“A-Patch […] is able to patch MSN Messenger […] 6.2.0205, 6.2.0208, 7.0.0816, 7.0.0306, 7.5.0311 and 7.5.0316.
Featuring a massive 68 options! A-Patch boasts a tremendous amount of customization to better your MSN Messenger experience, with even more planned!!”
Apatch.tk via Juha
Explorer Destroyer
“You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now’s the time to get serious about it. Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer.”
Explorer Destroyer via Kill Bill’s Browser via Just Sopivasti
"Windows-turvapäivityksestä vakavia ongelmia"
“Microsoftin tiistaina julkistama kriittinen tietoturvapäivitys voi aiheuttaa Windows-koneille vakavia ongelmia. Päivityksen asentaminen voi esimerkiksi sulkea käyttäjän koneen ulkopuolelle, estää joidenkin sovelluksien käytön tai sammuttaa Windowsin palomuurin.”
Tietokone via Juha
linkitys omani
Norwegian taxpayers 'f*cked in the azz' by Microsoft and The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
“The Norwegian public broadcaster has broken new ground with a project that has put 20,000 video clips and 12 radio stations online. That’s the good news. Hell, it’s better than good. It is breathtakingly amazing.
The bad news is that they’ve released this media in Microsoft’s DRM format for Windows Media Center. ”
MSN opens up to court outside developers
“Escalating its competition with Google, Microsoft next week plans to release a series of tools that will let outside software developers write programs that build on and use the underlying technologies in the company’s MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth and MSN Messenger services.”
Windows worms knocking out computers
“Network worms are shutting down computers running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system, security experts warned Tuesday. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at cable news station CNN, television network ABC and The New York Times. Tokyo-based antivirus company Trend Micro blames the havoc on various worms, including the Zotob worm that hit the Internet over the weekend and new variants of the Rbot worm.”
Windows & Linux Run On The PSP
“Earlier we reported on the Bochs x86 emulator being ported to the PSP by Matan. This is indeed true and has opened the door for a wide range of options that the PSP can now do, not limited to but including the running of: FreeDOS, Linux, DLX Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PicoBSD, Pragma Linux, Debian 3.0r0 and 2.2r5, and any other disk images with pre-installed systems on them […].”
PSP Updates via /.
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Microsoft Yhdysvaltain median lemmikkiyritys
“Amerikkalaismedia kohtelee kaikista maan yrityksistä parhaiten ohjelmistojätti Microsoftia, kertoo konsulttiyhtiö Delahaye. Delahayen rankkaus perustuu tutkimukseen, jossa lasketaan, kuinka paljon myönteisiä uutisia kustakin yrityksestä on julkaistu. […] Microsoft ja Wal-Mart olivat kärkikaksikkona myös edellisessä rankkauksessa.”