Another security hole found in IE
Secunia published an advisory on Tuesday stating that an error could be exploited to fake the address bar in a browser window. This tactic could be used in phishing scams that attempt to trick people into believing they are on a legitimate site, when in fact they are viewing a fraudulent Web page. Phishing is a prevalent type of online scam that seeks to pilfer personal information from unsuspecting Internet users. The scams typically combine spam e-mail with fraudulent Web sites that appear to come from a trusted source, such as a credit card company or a bank.
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7.4.2006 Second Metafile Vulnerability Found in Windows
Round two begins for Microsoft, as they are faced with yet another WMF vulnerability. A hacker who goes by the name ?concoruder? posted his two newly discovered WMF vulnerabilities on Monday, on the popular security mailing list Bugtrap.
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10.1.2006 New Vulnerability Found In Windows Vista
A security vendor based in Aliso Viejo, California has found a vulnerability with a 'medium' security rating in Microsoft's Windows Vista.
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28.2.2007 First security fail found in Windows 7
The good folks at F-Secure uncover the first Windows 7 security fail … and it’s a classic.
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5.5.2009 Xbox 360 crash fix found
A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string.
Dan, from Duluth, or 'goldeneyemaster' as he is known, told the game spot forum here that he thinks the main reason that the xBox 360 freezes is because the power supply overheats. The solution is to lift the power supply off the floor and allow the air to circulate better around it.
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26.11.2005 DoS Flaw Found in Windows XP, Server
Security firm Secunia warned Thursday of a new flaw within Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that could cause a denial of service issue. The vulnerability can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which in turn would cause Windows to crash.
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3.6.2006 The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
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17.4.2009 Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood-Top 10 reasons Microsoft.com chose IIS7
Dogfood….yummmm! Yes it is true, Microsoft.com has been running Beta 3 of Windows Server 2008 in production since June 12, 2007. What does that mean?
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8.9.2007 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Vista “Out of Memory” errors
You just can’t seem to throw enough memory at Vista. There have been a number of issues that Vista users have reported relating to copying and moving data, especially large numbers of files.
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17.10.2007 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 Resolve Windows Vista Out of Memory Errors
Windows Vista "out of memory" errors are intimately connected with the way the operating system manages virtual address space.
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29.8.2007 Windows Vista Memory Tweak Guide
With every release of a new operating system come new demands and Windows Vista is by large no exception to this rule.
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23.10.2007 Windows 7 Non-Uniform Memory Access Architectures
Windows 7 will be able to take advantage not only of faster CPUs, but of multiple processors on a single chip. The 64-bit edition of the operating system in particular will be able to support over 64 Logical Processors per machine.
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28.12.2008 Minimem - Optimizing Windows Memory Usage
Running too many applications can cause computer performance to slow down or even crashed.
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24.8.2009 Release Unused Memory with VC RamCleaner
One of the main factors that causes computer performance slowness could be due to memory leak whereby memory is not being released properly after it was used.
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13.10.2009 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Xbox Gets Bigger Live Games, Memory Card
Microsoft plans to allow Xbox Live Arcade games to use more space, announcing it had increased the official size limit from 50 to 150 megabytes. In addition, the company also announced a larger memory card with a capacity of 512MB.
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5.3.2007 Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Intel has been tinkering with a concept of a phase change memory device chip for nearly 30 years.
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18.4.2007 eBoostr - Boost Windows XP with Flash Memory
MDO Ltd. announces the release of eBoostr, a complete replacement for Microsoft ReadyBoost technology for Windows XP. Upgrade the performance of your PC without upgrading its components. Get ReadyBoost-like technology in Windows XP.
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14.11.2007 Vista SP1 Installed System Memory RAM
One of the aspects that Service Pack 1 changes for Windows Vista is the way that the operating system reports the amount of installed system memory.
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13.6.2008 Free Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic Utility
Windows Memory Diagnostic is a free utility available for download from Microsoft designed to sniff out flaws in a machine's RAM modules.
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28.8.2008 How To Remove and Disable Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool
Windows 7 and Windows Vista comes with a memory diagnostic utility named as Windows Memory Diagnostic. Windows Memory Diagnostic is an utility that capable of scan, check and diagnose computer’s memory subsystem including physical RAM modules or sticks.
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5.10.2009 Microsoft announces 512MB Xbox 360 Memory Unit
t's about time Microsoft announced that 512MB Memory Unit, which will land at $49 and at the outset come preloaded with Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (huzzah!).
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5.3.2007 Memory Prices Set to Hit the Bottom in the 2H '07
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money.
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26.4.2007 Windows 7 RTM chkdsk memory issue isn’t a showstopper
Windows 7 RTM contains what appears to be a memory leak bug that occurs when the chkdsk /R command is initiated on a non-system volume.
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8.8.2009 Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
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8.9.2009 Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Windows 7 RTM ReadyBoost 256 GB of Memory Cache Support
Users running the latest iteration of the Windows client will be able to add an extra 256 GM of memory cache in order to handle the overload on the physical RAM installed on their computers.
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12.10.2009Reclaim Memory by Mastering Windows' Task Manager
The best way to speed up your PC is to give it more available memorybut freeing up as much of the memory you already have is cheaper and easier than
cracking open your case to
install a
new stick of RAM. It takes a lot of memory to get a modern Windows system up and ... well, not doing anything in particular, really. Between
cryptic system processes, confusing "helper" applications, and background utilities, a whole lot of who-knows-what gobbles up memory and slows down
your work. While a lot of programs claim to optimize memory use and pare down processes, Windows' built-in Task Manager can do the job just fine,
given the right tools and know-how. Today you'll extend and empower Windows' Task Manager to speed up your system by cutting out unnecessary memory
hogs.
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15.02.2008FTC Rules Rambus Monopolized
DRAM
In a unanimous decision, the
Federal Trade Commission found
memory chip maker Rambus
liable for monopolizing the
market through its conduct
concerning four memory
technologies that were used in
DRAM chips...
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02.08.2006Columbia University professor could trigger a Blu-ray injunction
With a few victories already under her belt, a celebrated physicist seeks to leverage those wins in a contest to reclaim her legacy. The other side of
the story is that everything with a blue laser diode in it has just come under suspicion...
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22.03.2008Reclaim Your Hard Drive Space the Easy Way
How many times have you run out of space on your C: drive and wondered… where did all my free space go? If you are tech savvy you'll probably
open up your CCleaner shortcut and
clean out the temp files, but where has the rest gone?
The answer is a great little freeware utility called DriveSpacio that
helps you find out where all that free space has gone, similar to the more well known
WinDirStat utility. The
benefit of using this one is that it integrates directly into the Explorer shell and has a lot more reports.
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10.09.2008Apple states iPhone apps are not for business use
A Swedish customer found out the hard way that applications sold through the iTunes store are for personal use only, with business use forbidden by
Apple, when trying to reclaim tax on a purchase he made from the store, according to news site The Register. With a business section containing 78
pages of apps on the iTunes Application Store, one would assume that they are aimed at business use.
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22.09.2009Personally identifiable data on 18 M + found in a parking lot
A USB memory stick containing the source code and passwords to a UK Government database of 18 million citizens was found in a bar parking lot, thought
to be accidentally left behind by an IT employee...
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04.11.2008Memory trick breaks PC encryption
Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to
recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It was previously thought that data held in so-called "volatile memory" was only
retained for a few seconds after the machine was switched off. But the team found that data including encryption keys could be held and retrieved for
up toseveral minutes.
"It was widely believed that when you cut the power to the computer that the information in the volatile memory
would disappear, and what we found was that was not the case," Professor Edward Felten of the University of Princeton told BBC World
Service's Digital Planet programme. Volatile memory is typically used in random access memory (RAM), which is used as temporary storage for
programs and data when the computer is switched on.
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05.03.2008Sony's Comeback Gamble to Reclaim the Mainstream CE Market
Yesterday, Sony launched the
next stage in a comeback
campaign to reposition itself,
not only in its key markets
but in the public mind. The
campaign involves some
controversial moves, including
expanding its high-end Bravia
brand to smaller and less
expensive HD displays - some
of which are not 1080p...
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28.02.2007Dell lets users avoid 'bloatware', users not satisfied
Dell is allowing its customers
to decline the unwanted
software applications loaded
on new PCs, after hundreds of
users complained about such
"bloatware" on a company
blog.
Many software
companies pay PC vendors to
install their applications on
new computers, hoping to gain
new customers or persuade
users to upgrade to a new
version. But customers say it
can take a savvy user hours to
remove unwanted programs, and
those who are less
sophisticated may never be
able to reclaim the wasted
memory.
On Monday,
Dell agreed to give buyers of
certain models the option to
avoid what the company calls
"preinstalled software."
Buyers of Dimension desktops,
Inspiron notebooks, and XPS
PCs can now click a field in
Dell's online order form that
will block the installation of
software for productivity,
ISPs, and photo and music. ..
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22.06.2007Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.
This experiment graphs the
memory usage of Chrome and Firefox 3.5 (along with Safari and Opera)
over a series of 150 Web page loads using an automated script. Firefox 3.5 shows the lowest memory usage in all categories, including average memory
usage, maximum memory usage, and final memory usage. Chrome uses over 1 GB of memory due to its process architecture. Safari 4 and Opera show memory
usage degradation over time, while Chrome and Firefox 3.5 are more reliable in freeing memory to the OS.
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21.06.2009Lexar to put Wi-Fi on a memory card
The memory chip manufacturer will use technology from Eye-Fi to add network connectivity for users of its own memory cards...
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11.01.2008Apple found guilty of patent infringement
Uh oh! It seems Apple has been bringing out so many new products with new features recently that it has forgotten about a little matter called
patents. A company named Opti Inc. is the winner here, with a technology they patented called "Predictive snooping". Ars Technica has the story, and
the fine for Apple is a hefty $19,008,728. The number seems strangely precise. The patent, which is fully named "Predictive snooping of cache
memory for master-initiated accesses" is for a method that allows more efficient data transfer between the memory, CPU and other devices. Opti had
filed the patent back in 2002, and initiated a lawsuit against Apple back in 2007.
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25.04.2009New Qimonda GDDR5 Memory Promises 3x Performance of GDDR3
In advance of its likely acceptance by JEDEC as an international standard for memory implementations, Qimonda said today it is now sampling the first
Graphics Double Data Rate 5 memory in 512 Mb modules...
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01.11.2007Inside the Improved Firefox 3 Memory Manager
Mozilla software engineer Stuart Parmenter explains the new and improved inner workings of the Firefox 3 memory manager and what was involved in the
quest of decreasing the browser's memory load. Not simply all about fixing memory leaks, it involved solving memory fragmentation issues as well,
as Windows and most other operating system allocates memory in blocks and may not "see" small enough fragments of memory as usable in practice.
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12.03.2008The Ultimate Intel Core i7 Memory Performance Guide
Today we are going to look at how various memory frequencies, timings, and configurations influence the memory bandwidth and the real-world
performance of Core i7 processors. This is particularly important to not only help you get the most out of your Core i7 CPU, but to potentially save
you a lot of money. After all, it is possible to configure a Core i7 processor with triple-channel memory operating at 1066, 1333 and 1600MHz, or
even faster. But what are the benefits of using more aggressively clocked memory? With the new Core i7 platform, DDR3 should finally get its chance
to shine. As noted before, the Core i7 features an on-die memory controller with support for triple-channel DDR3 memory.
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10.12.2008Intel Nehalem to play nice with enthusiast memory
Intel's switch to an integrated memory controller with the upcoming Nehalem core will offer enthusiasts to finally take advantage of fast memory
devices “ which are constrained by the front side bus (FSB ) today. The memory controller bandwidth is catching up with performance memory, which
means that we should see dramatically improved memory performance once the new CPU arrives.
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15.05.2008IBM quietly takes a stake in Spansion's racetrack memory
After quietly taking an equity stake in two-year-old startup flash memory manufacturer Spansion, IBM now plans to augment its own still emerging,
futuristic "racetrack" memory with flash memory dubbed MirrorBit...
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30.04.2008IBM Announces Memory Chip Advancement
A new semiconductor alloy
jointly developed by IBM and
its partners will spur the
development of faster and
smaller memory chips. The
companies say the advancements
would lead to smaller chips
than currently possible with
flash memory...
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12.12.2006Corsair Demonstrates Benefits of 4GB Memory for Gaming PCs
Corsair, a worldwide leader in enthusiast computer and
flash memory products, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, announced today lab findings that show significant
increases in performance and efficiency when increasing system memory capacity from 2GB to 4GB. Testing procedures and results can be found in the
application note AN804: Gaming Performance Analysis “ 4GB vs. 2GB, which is now available online
HERE.
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06.05.2008Sony, SanDisk Develop Smaller
Memory Stick
Sony on Thursday announced
that it had developed a new
version of its proprietary
memory card format called
Memory Stick Micro. About a
quarter of the size of its
predecessor, Micro is designed
for use in compact mobile
phones. The product is
expected to ship in the first
half of 2006...
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