How To Reset, Remove, Clear or Reveal CMOS BIOS Security Password
There are times that we need to reset the computer’s BIOS security password. Yesterday I was at the local government technical school facility and the person who is in charge of the computer told me that they are not able to reinstall Windows because they are not able to get in the BIOS to set the boot order as it is password protected. The lecturers do not know the password as it is not set by them, but by some unknown student.
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Restore and Reset File Association in Windows Vista
Windows Vista allows user to change and set default program association for most kind of file extension type via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” or “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link.
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21.6.2008Kodak Designs New CMOS Sensor
Eastman Kodak Company revealed today in a press release that it has created the world’s first 1.4 micron, 5 megapixel device, the KAC-05020
Image Sensor. Using significantly smaller pixels, this sensor enables a higher level of resolution in small optical formats which will be especially
useful in devices like cellphones: the sensor allows for full 720p video at 30fps in a quarter-inch camera. Unlike other small-pixel sensors which can
produce poor images, especially under low light conditions, the 1.4 micron pixel used in the KAC-05020 is reportedly able to provide image quality
that can equal or surpass what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel CMOS designs.
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05.02.20088-Megapixel Mini-Cameras
Coming
8-megapixel resolution images,
traditionally restricted to
high-end digital SLR cameras,
will soon be possible with
small point-and-shoot cameras
and cell phones, thanks to a
new sensor developed by
Micron. The CMOS chip will
also eliminate lag between
taking pictures...
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19.05.2006Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's
latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire. The problem, can
easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account
and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one.
The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.
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12.10.2009Updated: Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data
Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's
latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire. The problem, can
easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account
and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one.
The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.
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13.10.2009Analysis: After yesterday, it's time to reset
Among the comments we received yesterday after our all-day, wall-to-wall coverage of the deluge that struck the technology industry, was a complaint
asking, why we didn't pick some happier news?..
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24.01.2009AMD, Qimonda in joint chip simulation project
Microprocessor manufacturer AMD and memory chip vendor Qimonda have launched a joint chip simulation project for 32nm CMOS and beyond.
The program, dubbed SIMKON, aims at simulation at a very early stage in the design cycle. Thus, the companies which both maintain production
sites and mask making facilities in Dresden, Germany, hope to achieve significant benefits in terms of design time and cost during the design and test
cycles of new chip generations. The simulation program includes modeling and simulation at the physical level and refers to materials, architectures
and manufacturing processes.
With the simulations, the companies intend to define and optimize nanometer production processes in
advance. AMD will use the simulation results to optimize its CMOS transistor architectures for the 32nm node and beyond. Qimonda is working in a
similar direction and plans to achieve extremely planar wafer surfaces as a precondition for the manufacturing of DRAM chips with these extremely
small geometries.
In addition to AMD and Qimonda, nine universities and research institutes participate in the project which in
part is is funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) as a part of its IKT2020 research program. The ministry will spent €9
million (about $12.3 million) for the project.
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04.09.2007DisplayPort to Support Fiber Optic Cables
The industry's video display
standards group, VESA,
recently approved DisplayPort
1.1 as an industry standard.
Now, a company called Luxtera
has received the go-ahead from
VESA to develop DisplayPort
technologies using CMOS
photonics. Luxtera is hoping
that its development into the
DisplayPort standard will help
replace copper cables with
optical ones as the medium for
transferring high-bandwidth
digital video signals.
According to the press
release: " High performance
optical video interconnect
based on Luxtera's CMOS
Photonics technology is now
possible with the addition of
Hybrid Devices to the standard
resulting in an improved
visual user
experience ."
According to Luxtera, no
other currently announced or
available video standard
offers the advantages of
DisplayPort. " Optical
technology, particularly
single mode technology, can
most effectively address the
longer reach market needs for
digital signage, projectors,
imaging, quiet office and
digital home and support much
higher performance picture
quality for the end user at
both short and longer
distances ," said Eileen
Robarge, group leader for the
Luxtera DisplayPort task
force. With the backing of
Luxtera's technology and
VESA's approval, DisplayPort
seems to be on its way as the
next major computer display
standard.
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19.04.2007Microsoft Punishes Xbox Live Cheaters
Microsoft's "Major Nelson"
sent out a warning at the end
of October last year, advising that gamers steer clear of "Gamesaving" to illegitimately increase their Gamerscore.
He said
that Microsoft may reset the Gamerscore of offenders who are tampering with save files for that purpose, since it is a breach of the Xbox Live
Terms of Use. Tuesday, that warning has been
acted upon, as cheaters have come to find that their respective
Gamerscores have been reduced to zero, and their Xbox.com profiles have been
stamped with a message informing that they cheated for their Gamerscore and it has
now been reset. StripClubDj, for example, is one the most known of "Gamesavers", and usually held a top spot on Gamerscore Leaderboards.
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26.03.2008China Blocks Apple's ITunes, Amazon Over Tibet Songs
Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of the 20-song "Songs for Tibet - The
Art of Peace" collection Wednesday. Users in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen confirmed that since as early as Wednesday morning, Beijing time, they
began receiving "unknown error" messages when they tried unsuccessfully to access the store. Although Apple does not operate an iTunes Store in
China, users may download free content such as podcasts, and those with U.S. credit cards may buy content from the U.S. store.
Although
Amazon.com remains available in China, its pages for both the "Songs for Tibet" CD and download page fail to load, returning: "The connection was
reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading," the most common error message received for blocked sites.
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23.08.20089 years down the road with Neowin
Hi there it's Steve here, otherwise known as Neobond on the forums. It's also weekend, and a perfect day for an "opinion piece". Remember
back in 2000 when we started? Many of you will because we still have a very large active user base for people who joined in 2001 when our forum
database was reset for the first and only time in our history.
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21.06.2009Next-gen iPhone component list leaked?
It's been a few days since there's been an iPhone rumor, so here goes folks. DigiTimes has posted a component list, complete with suppliers,
for Apple's inevitable next-gen iPhone. Source: DigiTimes. The sources are all from the industry supplying the components to Apple, and they
state that the new "iPhone 3.0" will be launched mid-2009, and shipments will kick off in May, with the first being in the amount of 5 million
units. DigiTimes states, "TSMC have landed foundry orders for GSM EDGE power amplifiers, Bluetooth ICs and 3.2-megapixel OmniVision CMOS image sensor
(CIS) used in the upcoming iPhone model, indicated the sources.
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16.04.2009Latest biometric technology scans veins
CNET is reporting that Sony has developed a new biometric scanning technology, called 'Mofiria', that scans the veins in your finger in order
to provide access to your laptop or PC. The scanner uses a CMOS sensor to capture scattered light within the finger veins, and compresses the date to
allow it to be stored on laptops, or even cellphones. There are many benefits to this new method, claims Sony. Firstly, this technology claims a
high accuracy rate, with less than 0.1% false identification. Secondly, it takes a lot less time to scan the finger; it takes 0.015 seconds to scan on
a computer CPU, and 0.25 seconds on a mobile phone CPU.
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03.02.2009Canon Launches 12.2 Megapixel Digital Rebel XSi (450D)
Today Canon launched the latest in their entry-level Digital Rebel series – the 12.2 Megapixel XSi. Called the 450D in the rest of the world,
the Digital Rebel XSi extends the resolution of the Canon CMOS sensor to 12.2 Megapixels from the current Digital Rebel XTi 10.1 megapixel. Also new
to the Digital Rebel are a 3.0” LCD with Live View. This is a low-resolution 230,000 3.0” LCD like the Canon 40D – it is not a
hi-res 3” screen as seen on the Nikon D300 and Sony A700.
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24.01.2008Comcast traffic blocking: even more apps, groupware clients affected
Last week, we reported on
mounting evidence that Comcast is targeting and disrupting BitTorrent traffic on its network. Further digging by interested
parties has turned up more indication that BitTorrent isn't the only popular P2P protocol being tampered with by the United States' largest ISP.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
noticed the same sort of
packet forging that the AP did (and that
Broadband Reports readers did some time ago), and continued its testing to see if other applications are affected. The answer is
a disturbing "yes." The results of
additional testing done by the EFF indicate Comcast is sending forged reset packets with some Gnutella traffic. When the EFF ran
a Gnutella node on a Comcast connection, the forged reset packets disrupted communication between the nodes.
What's particularly
insidious about Comcast's packet forging is that it's transparent to both its customers and those on the opposite ends of the connection.
Applications such as BitTorrent and Gnutella retain some of their functionality, but they'll also appear to malfunction for no apparent reason.
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22.10.2007AMD Delays Bulldozer Processors to 2011
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said that the company had reset plans for the launch of its new micro-architecture code-named Bulldozer and the
first truly next-generation processors will only emerge in 2011. This slightly contradicts the optimism caused by comments of the companys chief
executive officer, who promised to śramp upť the first chips produced at 32nm node in mid-2010.
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06.03.2009How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4
Like a lot of other issues with Hotmail and non-IE browsers, you just need to change the User Agent string to fool Hotmail into thinking it is dealing
with a browser it knows about. In Safari, this is pretty easy to do. As far as we can tell, however, Safari doesnt remember the User Agent settings
from session to session, so you would need to reset the User Agent for each new session that you want to check your Hotmail account.
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08.03.2009Ballmer takes on Google, the economy and Windows 7
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with his usual optimism, but he also brings a clear
sense of reality: the tech industry is in for some rough times.
"The fact of the matter is, this is not a downturn, this is a
bit of a reset. Those are quite different and we're trying to really suss through what we think that means for us," Ballmer said in an interview
with CNET News.com's Ina Fried on Thursday, a day after delivering the keynote address at the conference.
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09.01.2009Sony's new 'mofiria' aims for more accurate biometric ID
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04.02.2009Twitter administrator account hacked, others compromised
It seems Twitter is still having its share of security trouble, because according to Cnet, a person by the name of Hacker Croll was able to hack into
a Twitter administrator account, by guessing the secret question to reset the administrator's password on a Yahoo e-mail account where the Twitter
password was located. This person was also able to view the details of 10 other accounts including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher according to
screenshots posted to a French blog site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that while no account information was altered or removed in any way,
email address, mobile phone number, and the list of accounts blocked by that user were viewed.
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02.05.2009Facebook users targeted by botnet spam
Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive
contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users will find a trojan downloader, dubbed "Bredlab" or "Bredolab" by anti-virus
companies. The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet. This
gives attackers full control of the PC, allowing them to steal user information or use the PC to send spam emails. One of the servers is based in the
Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.
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