I don't know why accelerometer is a big hype today, is it because of Apple's annoucement regarding the iPhone having one?, or maybe Wii's controller... the japanese and the korean companies has been using this since 2005 to their mobile phones.... *sigh*....
Intel Corp. will begin producing its next-generation "Penryn" processors by the end of 2007, using greater power efficiency to push improved Core 2 and Xeon chips to speeds over 3 GHz, the company said Wednesday.
The Penryn chip will have better power management than previous Intel processors, with deeper sleep states than Core 2 Duo chips. Thanks to that efficiency, Intel plans to run its new chips faster than 3 GHz for desktop and notebook versions, reversing an industry trend of scaling back the processor speed in order to add more cores without creating too much heat.
In other improvements, Intel will use 50% more on-chip memory in Penryn chips than Core 2 Duo, allowing them to hold more data on the chip instead of spending time and energy retrieving it from the PC's main memory bank. Dual-core Penryn chips will have 6MB of Level 2 cache, while quad-core versions have 12MB. Intel said it also will speed Penryn front-side bus speeds to 1,600 MHz, instead of the 1,066-MHz or 1,333-MHz options now available, granting up to a 45% improvement for high-performance computing applications such as computational fluid dynamics.
Russia and Romania are the country domains most likely to host ‘drive-by’ web exploits, according to a new map compiled by McAfee using its SiteAdvisor toolbar.
McAfee SiteAdvisor, a free-of-charge plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox, rates sites on several criteria, including dangerous downloads, spam tendencies and hosted exploits. It then posts green, yellow and red icons on search results obtained from Google, Yahoo or MSN.
McAfee applied the results of its site scanning to come up with the Flash-based map, which will be updated monthly.
"When it comes to safety, it turns out that the Web is no different than the physical world. There are safe neighbourhoods and safe Web domains, and then there are places no one should ever visit," said Mark Maxwell, a McAfee senior product manager, in a statement.
The world's riskiest country domain was .tk, for Tokelau, a three-atoll group of islands in the South Pacific formerly known as the Union Islands. More than 10 percent of the .tk domains are pegged as dangerous, and it leads all others in the percentage of sites that harbour exploits.
Of the major top-level country domains, 5.6 percent of the sites in Romania (.ro) and 4.5 percent of those for Russia (.ru) were among the riskiest, said McAfee. The two nations also placed second and third, respectively, in the percentage of their country domains that host malicious code.
It's the first time in 18 months Microsoft hasn't issued a Patch Tuesday security update...
Microsoft will skip next week's usual Patch Tuesday because it has no fixes for users, the company announced today.
In its monthly advance notification bulletin posted earlier today, Microsoft simply said, "No new Microsoft Security Bulletins will be released on March 13, 2007."
It marks the first time in 18 months that Microsoft has not issued at least one security update in a scheduled patch rollout. Since January 2003, only three months have been sans security fixes.
Although no software will be patched this month, that doesn't mean Microsoft has nothing to do. According to security organizations, there are numerous problems still unfixed. eEye Digital Security's Zero-Day Tracker, for example, shows five vulnerabilities that have been reported to Microsoft but not patched. The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, meanwhile, lists nine bugs on its most recent The missing Microsoft patches chart.
However, Microsoft said it will issue several unspecified nonsecurity, high-priority updates.
Last month, Microsoft released 12 updates that fixed 20 vulnerabilities; in January, it issued four security bulletins and patched 10 bugs.
6th Division Captain on weekends, Software Engineer during weekdays.Currently doin' some crazy stuff...
