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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The world-famous Coca-Cola and Korean online games entered into a partnership.

Korea SW Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) plans to work with Coca-Cola in Hong Kong to market Korea-made online games on the Global Service Platform (GSP) and promote Korea-made online games in the global market.

For this purpose, KIPA dispatched Vice President Taek Min Kwon of the Digital Contents Business Group and working staff to Hong Kong and signed an MOU on joint promotion with Coca-Cola Hong Kong (General Manager Mei So) on the 15th. Korea-made online games will be marketed to Coca-Cola consumers in Hong Kong on the online platform.

To start the joint marketing, KIPA will exchange banners on www.gameengame.com, which introduces Korea-made online games, and www.icoke.hk with Coca-Cola.

Korea-made online game makers on the GSP platform will be permitted to make rare items using Coca-Cola’s brand and images and use its logo and brand in the games.

As the global partner of Korea-made online games, Coca-Cola Hong Kong will link its Homepage (www.icoke.hk) to a Webpage of GSP-based games with various images and motion pictures from the games. Also, members of the Coca-Cola Homepage will receive regular e-mail ads.

KIPA’s strategy is to use this MOU and the brand name of world-famous Coca-Cola to contribute to the global awareness of Korea-made online games and to utilize Coca-Cola’s powerful offline marketing know-how in the online media for maximum synergies.

GSP is KIPA’s special program to sponsor Korea-made online game exporters in the global market. Through this program, KIPA sponsors small/medium companies that lack resources or capital to promote distribution or marketing overseas. KIPA provides www.gamengame.com that is open to any gamer in the world, along with the privilege to use all infrastructures, including the servers, for six months.

According a KIPA official, more than 5 million gamers a year are accessing www.gamengame.com to play Korea-made games in the world.

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AMD Phenom 9700 (2.4 GHz) launch has been cancelled and only 9500 and 9600 will be available for now. Some technical problem has been found in 9700 which causes system to freeze at 100% load on both the cores. The Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) errata is an L3 protocol issue causing a system hang when running certain client workload applications independent of platform. AMD is immediately introducing updated BIOS which will correct the TLB errata.