Archive for November, 2009
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Infinity Ward and Steam have swung the banhammer, but is it enough? Infinity Ward and Steam have completed the first wave of bans for players using cheats for the PC version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 claims Infinity Ward’s Rob Bowling, with 2500 accounts now blocked from connecting to the game’s multiplayer service. Posting on Twitter , Bowling claimed ” the Steam ban hammer is coming down ” and it certainly doesn’t look like it was an an empty threat - we’ve found plenty of accounts now serving Modern Warfare 2 bans. This is the first public statement regarding cheating in Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward since the game’s release and its controversial switch away from dedicated servers. New anti-cheat abilities were touted as a major benefit for the game with the move from Punkbuster to Valve’s inhouse anti-cheat system VAC, promising a hack free experience for gamers. It’s likely more hackers will face the wrath of Steam’s banhammer before long, although this will come as little consolation to those who’ve had their games ruined by cheaters, especially as VAC’s automated banning procedure is typically slower than manual methods - it’s taken over two weeks for this first round of bans to emerge, for instance
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Sign up to the folding team today and help cure diseases caused by misfolding proteins. This time last year the Custom PC/ bit-tech folding team set itself the challenge of adding an additional 360 GPUs to our combined effort to contribute work to the distributed-computing project folding@home. We’re pleased to announce that, almost exactly a year to the day, we’ve met that target - so a big congratulations is in order for everyone who increased their contribution. Forum regular Nova was the last user to add to the countdown with the addition of two GeForce 8800 GTS - well done! The team isn’t standing still though - there are still plenty of proteins to be folded, so we’ve set ourselves a new goal - 750 more GPUs . This number has been chosen as this is how many additional GPUs that the team will require to close the gap with the current number 1 team and move up from our current world ranking of 6 .
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The image of Tux the Penguin - the Linux mascot - in the ‘Three Monkeys’ pose was used to deface Daily Internet Services-hosted sites. An attack on UK web host Daily Internet Services left customers’ sites inaccessible late last week, replacing index pages with a cartoon featuring Tux the Penguin - the Linux mascot. As reported over on Softpedia , the attack - believed to have been carried out on Thursday by Heart_Hunter of the TH3_H4TTAB cracker group - saw all pages named ‘ index ‘ replaced with a page containing the pro-Linux cartoon. As many sites rely on an index page to point browsers in the right direction, affected customers found their entire sites inaccessible. Daily Internet Services spotted the defacement attack at 09:52 Thursday morning, and by 21:00 that evening had successfully replaced affected pages with backup copies. What is slightly more concerning is the news that the company is still investigating the root cause of the attack: while an outdated version of PHP is thought to have been at fault - which has since been rectified - the company is still unsure as to the exact mechanism used to gain unauthorised access to customer sites. Despite this, Daily Internet Services claims that it is ” confident there will be no repeat events as all servers are locked down. ” While the security hole has hopefully been patched and the affected files restored from backup, the effects of the attack are still being felt by the company’s customers: several servers from the web cluster used by Daily Internet Services to provide customer hosting have been removed for investigation, resulting in decreased performance as the remaining systems in the cluster need to serve more requests. While the scale of the attack - described by the company as only affecting a ” small number ” of its hosting customers - might not compare to automated malware injection techniques used in the past, it still represents a major blow for those who rely on their website to conduct business - and is likely to have hurt customers’ faith in Daily Internet Services
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UK webhost suffers defacement
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The Eee PC 1201T uses AMD’s dual-core Congo MV40 processor, but with a 12.1″ screen and weighing 1.4KG is it even a netbook any more? The line between netbook and notebook continues to blur with the announcement of the new Eee PC 1201T from Asus - which features an AMD dual-core processor. As reported over on Netbooked , the new Eee PC model is more of a sub-notebook than a netbook with a dedicated Radeon HD3200 graphics chipset to power its not exactly tiny 12.1in 1,366 x 768 display. The form factor isn’t the only variation with this model of Eee PC, either: rather than the Intel Atom ultra-low power processor so favoured of netbook manufacturers Asus has opted to stick an AMD ‘Congo’ MV40 processor in the unit, offering a dual-core processor clocked at 1.6GHz. The rest of the specifications are fairly beefy for a machine released under the Eee PC name, too: 2GB of RAM, 802.11b/g/n wireless networking, Bluetooth 2.1, and a 320GB mechanical hard drive in place of the solid-state disk often preferred for netbook use. All this extra power - and the dual core processor - comes at a price, sadly: with a 12.1in screen the unit is significantly larger than previous models of Eee PC, and tips the scales at a 1.4kg; battery life has also taken a hit, with Asus claiming a maximum of four hours under optimal conditions. So far no official launch date or price has been revealed, but Asus will have to play a careful game with this one: with the specifications and form factor being so close to a traditional notebook, the price will have to be low enough to convince people to make the sacrifice in processing power over alternative systems. Is this the sort of system that would interest you, or has Asus lost its way with the Eee PC brand
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Asus announces AMD-based netbook
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