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Windows XP going off market in June: What it means
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Well it looks like XP is about to disappear from stores coming this June. Oh what shall I do If I still don't want to migrate to Vista? Well actually it will probably still be for sale in stores and such but Microsoft itself will no longer sell it. Read on.
Microsoft originally announced over a year ago that Windows XP would be going off the market in January 2008. XP was later given a brief stay of execution, to June 30, 2008. That deadline is fast approaching, which has led to much panicking from people who aren't quite sure what XP's "going off market" means, exactly.
People are still as confused as ever. So let's take a stab at clarifying, once again, what's going to happen by answering some frequently asked questions about XP's imminent disappearance.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 03:23
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PC Game Developer has Radical Message: Ignore the Pirates
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One of the popular reasons given for sometimes-sluggish game sales on the PC is piracy. If people can get the game for free, why would they pay for it? Go to any popular torrent site and it will likely have many more games than your local gaming store. The situation led the community manager for Infinity Ward to recently complain about the number of people playing Call of Duty 4 online versus the number of copies the game has sold for the PC. Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, has a much different point of view: the pirates don't matter.
"So here is the deal: When you develop for a market, you don't go by the user base. You go by the potential customer base. That's what most software companies do. They base what they want to create on the size of the market they're developing for," Wardell writes on his blog. "But not PC game developers."
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 03:36
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Yahoo's Reply To Microsoft's Ultimatum
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The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc., today sent a reply to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
The response letter states "At the same time, we have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders."
The letter also states : "We consider your threat to commence an unsolicited offer and proxy contest to displace our independent Board members to be counterproductive and inconsistent with your stated objective of a friendly transaction."
In short, either Microsoft pays more for a peaceful takeover, or prepares itself for a Corporate War !
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:17
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Comodo Firewall 3.0.22.349
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Personal Firewall - Secure your system against internal attacks such as Trojan viruses / malicious software and external attacks by hackers. With a user-friendly single click interface you can allow or block access to the Internet offering complete immunity to attacks and total protection of your personal information. Real time traffic monitoring enables you to react instantly to threats and identify bandwidth bottlenecks. Silent Security Technology means no needless alerts with out-of-the-box protection against hackers, Trojans and other unknown threats. Comodo Personal Firewall is the powerful and effective, easy to manage barrier that keeps hackers out and personal information in. Comodo Personal Firewall helps you connect in a secure way to the internet and global networks.
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:21
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Online Armor Free 2.1.0.130
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Online Armor FREE is our powerful windows firewall - the only FREE firewall to offer 100% leak protection out of the box! It's easy to use, powerful - and completely free. Online Armor is straightforward, and simple to use.
Online Armor includes powerful "HIPS" functions, which give you the ability to stop all unrecognised programs from running on your computer unless you say so, making it possible to protect yourself against these new attacks. Of course, programs Online Armor knows are safe will be allowed to run, no problem.
This is different to a pure Antivirus program - these let any program run, unless they know it is a virus. This means that it must have that that exact threat in its database before it can do anything about it. Your antivirus will completely ignore programs it does not recognise - which unfortunately includes new viruses.
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:24
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Crack Windows passwords in minutes
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Ophcrack Live CD - Crack Windows passwords in minutes
The free, open source Ophcrack Live CD is a Windows account password cracking tool designed to help you recover lost Windows passwords.
After you download the 462mb .iso and burn it to a CD, just restart your computer and boot up the Live CD. Once the CD boots, blamo… Ophcrack automatically loads and is on its way to cracking your password.
Features:
* Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (intel).
* Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
* Free tables available for alphanumeric LM hashes.
* Loads hashes from local SAM, remote SAM.
* Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:30
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Demonoid Is Back Online
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by Ernesto
Yesterday, we reported that the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid was to be resurrected, under a new administrator. Now, less that a day later the site has made its comeback after exactly 6 months of downtime.
A message posted on the Demonoid frontpage confirms that Deimos, the former administrator, left the Demonoid staff. The site seems to be working properly, as does the tracker, but there could be some downtime in the next few days. All the people who had an account at the time the site shut down can still sign in with the same username and password.
The resurrection of the popular BitTorrent traffic marks the end of a tough year for the site. The trouble for Demonoid started back in June last year, when the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN started to put pressure on Demonoid and their ISP, Leaseweb. Deimos decided that the Netherlands wasn’t the safe haven it used to be and he to moved the site to Canada, which resulted in a few days of downtime.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:34
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Yahoo in Desperation
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Yahoo So Desperate To Stay Away From Microsoft, It's Starting To Use Google Ads, from the now-that's-desperation dept:
Last summer there was speculation that a bold step for Yahoo to take to revive its sagging prospects would be to ditch its own ad system and outsource it to Google. Despite Yahoo trying to catch up for many years, Google's ad system just works much, much better. It would save Yahoo a ton of money and probably create better returns -- even if it would help fuel Google too.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:38
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Yahoo Takeover Bid Takes Dramatic Turn
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(CBS/AP) Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale featuring a rich cast of Internet and media stars.
Eager to frustrate Microsoft in any way possible, Internet search leader Google Inc. has already agreed to help out Yahoo by participating in an unusual test that will gauge how much more advertising Google can sell for its struggling rival.
The two-week experiment announced Wednesday will be limited to ads posted alongside a small percentage of Yahoo's online search results in the United States.
If Yahoo's maneuvering raises the pressure for a higher bid, Microsoft reportedly may mount its counterattack with a surprising ally - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., whose media empire already includes the Fox television networks, The Wall Street Journal and the popular online hangout MySpace.com.
If Microsoft and News Corp. were successful in a joint bid, it would unite three of the Internet's most popular Web sites - Yahoo, along with MySpace and MSN.com.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:51
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Yahoo-Google Plan Advances
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Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter said.
A broader partnership between the companies is now increasingly likely, the people said. Yahoo and Google said last week that they would undertake the test to evaluate the revenue potential of a broader search-ad outsourcing arrangement.
A deal might increase Yahoo’s cash flow by more than $1 billion a year, according to Citigroup Global Markets analyst Mark Mahaney.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:55
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Help Steal This Film Win $30K
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by Ernesto
The filesharing documentary Steal This Film has been a great success. Yet, despite millions of downloads and a lot of support from the P2P community, they admit they haven’t yet covered the costs of producing STF II. There is hope though.
Steal This Film Part 1 was mostly about the raid on The Pirate Bay and its aftermath. Part 2 however, views filesharing from a broader perspective and looks into the historical dimension of this movement. The film features admins from The Pirate Bay and Mininova, among others.
The League of Noble Peers, creators of Steal This Film, have been very upbeat about donations to the project and the possibilities of P2P for creativity. However, despite hundreds of donations, the project still isn’t out of the red yet. All is not lost, though. Fans of the Steal This Film series have another chance to help the Peers as they raise money to continue the project.
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Posted in news by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 11:58
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LimeWire Pro 4.16.6 Final/4.17.4 Beta (DIRECT)
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LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as.mp3s, .avis, jpgs, tiffs, etc. Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms. Publish your original content to the world without setting up a website!
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 12:02
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TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.1.9
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GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your installed video card(s).
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 12:35
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ATITool 0.26
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Latest test build of the popular videocard overclocking and tweaking utility.
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 12:38
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NVIDIA ForceWare 169.21 XP 32-bit
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This is the recommended driver for all users of GeForce Series graphics cards like the GeForce 8800, 8600, 8500, 7900, 7800, 7600.
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Posted in programs by DocBob on Apr. 19, 2008 // 12:40
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