Yahoo announced that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. Apache is wonderful enterprise grade open source web server software and most UNIX servers have Apache installed. It’s open source so it’s free which has attracted so many users. Yahoo is very generous is such things as they also provide hosting to Wikipedia which is yet again an open source project. Good job Yahoo!
Toshiba announced that they will mass produce solid state drives ranging in sizes of between 32 gigabytes to 128 gigabytes from next year. These drives will be in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes and will be launched in May. Solid state drivers are fast, quiet and currently extremely expensive. So far they have only been seen in portable devices like tablet and Ultra-Mobile sizes PCs. Samsung Electronics and Sandisk are already make solid-state drives.
Seagate’s latest batch of drives, the ironically titled Free Agent series are not compatible with the Open Source operating system Linux. The problem is to do with the power-saving systems of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to NTFS. The NTFS is only a small problem to Linux users who have a kernel with NTFS writing enabled or can work mkfs. But the “power saving” timer is a real problem. There are a few work-arounds but Seagate Tech Support says they do not know what they are (how about consulting Maxtor guys LOL). All in all it’s confirmed that their latest drives do not support Linux.
Microsoft has released a patch for a serious security vulnerability that allows attackers to seize control of millions of computers.
The bug was found by ethical hacker and software engineer Beau Butler last month. The trouble is in the way IE automatically configures proxy settings and leads to PCs downloading configuration information from the internet instead of their ISP. All a hacker has to do is register a special domain name and feed bogus configuration information to affected PCs. It is then possible to hijack their connections to the internet and take control.
The problem affects all versions of Windows, including the company’s most recent release Vista. Butler told AP that the glitch is also present in the open source browser Firefox.
The mgoon(www.mgoon.com), UCC service provider in Korea, announced that they will broadcast GNGWC2007 Grand Final(Game and Game World Championship 2007) lively to whole world from 1pm to 6pm on Dec. 1st.
This GNGWC2007 live broadcasting is the first broadcasting in game event from Korea to the whole world for the first time. Especially this broadcasting serviced with high-quality stream to whole world without any disruptions to deliver realism of event site, also this event expected to bring lot of attentions from gamers and game industries.
In this event, 100 players who survived from preliminary matches among 1.500.000 players all over the world will compete in 6-divisions(Game: Navy Field, Lunia, Bomb ‘N Dash, Shot Online, Silk Road Online, War Rock) for the No.1 place in the world.
Choi, D.I., marketing director of mgoon, said “For this broadcasting, we adopt P2P Live Solution from CDNetworks Co. and we desire that Korean online games could be well-know to world consumers through this opportunity.”
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GNGWC2007(Game & Game World Championship 2007) Grand Final in Korea will be held at COEX-Pacific Hall by KIPA(Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency) sponsorship on December 1st.
This event is attained wide attention from online game industry because outstanding 100 young players who survived from intense preliminary selections among 1,500,000 players from all over the world will compete for No.1 place in each divisions at GNGWC2007 Grand Final in Korea.
Specially, mgoon(http://www.mgoon.com) which is a user generated video service provider in South Korea will broadcast GNGWC2007 lively with high quality(800Kb) streaming service to all over the world for the first time.
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