Researchers have uncovered what they seem to think is a flaw in Windows 7 that has no fix. At the Hack in the Box Security Conference in Dubai, Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar demonstrated their Vbootkit 2.0 software, and used it to take control of a computer running Windows 7 at boot time.
We’ve come across reports online that indicate that the HD totin’ EeeBox PC B208 HD (catchy isn’t it) will be hitting the shelves of our fair isle in June of this year
Microsoft has announced that the release candidate of Windows 7 will be available for download on the 5th May. Those of you with a subscription to MSDN or TechNet are lucky enough to be able to download it from yesterday! The release from Microsoft is as follows…
With Summer just around the corner and the desire to take our laptops alfresco soon upon us, we thought it might be sensible to pick up a storage device that can rough-it a bit and still keep on truckin’. So we’ve rounded up 5 consumer-level rugged external hard-drives for your perusal. Here we look at the: Lacie Rugged XL 1TB, Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB, Transcend StoreJet 25 Mobile, Freecom ToughDrive Sport and the Iomega eGo Portable BlackBelt 250GB
Apple are on an official countdown to find the one billionth Apple Store download. The promotion offers a brilliant prize for that one person, with a prize fund worth over
Some time ago now, I bought a Dell SC440 Power Edge server. Not because I needed it per se, more because I wanted it. And as any gadget fan will tell you, thats the reason most of these purchases happen. When it arrived, I had to choose an OS. As WHS is too pricey for my liking, I turned to penguin land, and Ubuntu in particular.
Back in March, I wrote an article about Carbonite, where I reported on a possible loss of data effecting users backups. Very quickly, we had a response to the post from the CEO of Carbonite David Friend, who stated that there had been a problem with the firmware on the Promise servers they were using. Although it had effected some users, it certainly was not the calamity it had been made out to be, and he had phoned those people effected individually to apologize.
Recently, it may have come to your attention that Microsoft and TomTom, the satnav maker, have reached a settlement over a patent dispute. The dispute revolves around the FAT file system, and it’s use in the TomTom’s Linux based OS. Microsoft said that the use of this file system infringed their patent, and so to court.
