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Mailing service of the newspaper 'Computer News'
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A new section “Latest News” has opened on the KV website.
Now you can find out the news of the computer world even before
publication of the next issue of the newspaper $ here they will be
appear constantly.
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News. No.8'1999
New security hole in NT
L0pht Heavy Industries has published information about the next
a security hole in Windows NT, this time allowing
any user receives system administrator rights.
The method works in Windows NT 4 Service Pack 4 and is based on the fact that
that Microsoft places the kernel and a number of system libraries in
special cache that can be edited
user. All these libraries are executed with permissions
administrator, and an attacker can add, for example, to
system32.dll is a program that performs all the actions
which are inaccessible to the average user. For example, change
administrator password. L0pht published the patch and notified
Microsoft problem.
Wait for AutoCAD 2000
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Intel optimizes LinuxIntel has entered into an agreement with Cygnus Solutions to
as a result of which new versions of the latest
The GNU compiler egcc will be able to optimize the code for the Pentium MMX,
P2 and P3. A compiler with Pentium II support has already been released, and
support for new Pentium III instructions will be ready early
summer. Egcc is an extension of the standard
compiler gcc (GNU C Compiler), distributed freely
license and is included with most Linux flavors. You can
imagine how important support for Intel extensions is on
compiler level for a system in which most programs
written under gcc and supplied in source code.
By the way, Cygnus also releases a version of gcc for Win32, and there is
there is every reason to believe that Quake III Arena is being developed
exactly on this compiler. The first Quake was written in DJGPP -
implementation of gcc for DOS, during development of Q2 version of gcc for
Win32 was in its infancy, and id Software switched
to another compiler. Now John Carmack says that
Separate development for different operating systems does not
justified, and versions for Windows, Linux and MacOS will be built
based on one set of sources.
The Pentium III ID is enabled programmatically
The scandal surrounding the processor ID continues,which Intel has built into its new processor, promising to provide
absolute security on the Internet. Summary
previous series: security experts in a few days
Intel's arguments were torn to smithereens, and defenders
privacy policy announced a boycott of Intel until it
will give up his unsuccessful venture. Intel reported that
the identifier can be disabled programmatically, after which it
It turns on only after a reboot. Not only that
the organizers of the boycott were not satisfied with this, Andreas Stiller
from the famous German magazine c't (Computer Technik)
developed a program that uses exclusively
documented features of the processor and including
identifier. Intel representatives admitted that his method
works, and suggested that PC manufacturers provide a shutdown
identifier via BIOS. Now Intel is consoled by the fact that
the famous mistake in Pentium mathematics, which cost the company
hundreds of millions of dollars did not hinder the success of this processor.
Hackers stole a military satellite
The British military found itself in a very unpleasant situation -
they stole one of the four satellites providing communications
Air Force planes. The kidnappers seized control of the satellite,
demonstrated this by changing its orbit, and sent a letter withthreats and demands to pay a large sum. More detailed
Neither the military nor the police provide information, but they admit
that such fun is too tough for idle hackers.
This is not the first time computer hackers have interfered
in the affairs of space agencies, but last time everything was not at all
so serious. Then hackers stole and published the software
software used by NASA to control satellites is now
an entire satellite, a military one at that, was kidnapped, and it wasn’t done
Just for fun and not to prove the concept, but for the money.
New generation Amiga
Amiga Inc., now a division of the company
Gateway promises to present a new platform by the end of the year
"Amiga". As one of the company's executives stated, during those eight
years that Amiga was officially dead, community
users of these computers continued to improve
system and develop programs for it, and these people
have definitely earned the right to work in a new, revolutionary
platform. Based on the meager information it provides
company, one can assume that the platform will indeed be
revolutionary. It is not yet known what processor it will be
be used, but the operating system is based on
recently introduced nano-kernel operating system by QNXreal-time Neutrino, on top of which will be deployed
multimedia processing levels. Similar to NetWinder, new
computers will be released in several versions: workstation
developer, Internet system and home computer. New
"Amiga" will be positioned as focused on
consumer platform that combines a wide variety of applications - from
mobile devices accessing the Internet to powerful graphics
stations.
A virtual company makes itself known
The Korean company Emachines employs only 20 people,
but at the same time she makes the computer whales move
industry. The company made a name for itself by releasing a full-fledged PC
for $399, while the most self-confident brands heroically
reduced prices to $599. For the second half of 1998 the company
sold 180 thousand computers, and for the first half of this year
received an order from retail for 700 thousand cars. Next year
Emachines expects to sell 2 million PCs. These are on sale
you won't earn much from cheap computers, but the company is everything that
possible, entrusts it to outsourcing companies, and all marketing is reduced
to independent advertising of retailers and to the website
companies through which electronic purchases are made. B
Emachines is going to present soonhigh-end model for $800 with stylish and colorful
iMac inspired design.
The 1 Tbit/s milestone has been passed
Siemens AG scientists demonstrated in Munich
fiber optic line more than 80 km long transmitting data
at speeds up to 1.2 terabits per second. It became possible
thanks to Electronic Time technology developed by Siemens
Division Multiplexing, dividing the band into 60 WDM channels
(Wavelength Division Multiplexing) 20 Gbit/s each.
The eternal dream of humanity about endless bandwidth
the ability of channels to transmit enormous amounts of data to
one step closer to reality, but for the introduction of technology
Siemens still needs to create network equipment,
capable of pumping so much data.
This secret speed of Pentium III
Apparently, wanting to spur buyer interest, Intel
banned manufacturers and developers until the deadline
talk about the performance of the Pentium III, but now
The processor has finally come out, and the first test results are already starting
appear on hardware websites.
Extensive testing of P3, P2, Celeron and K6-3 conducted by
Tom Pabst showed that in office applications where there is no
neither floating point calculations nor new instructions are usedSSE, K6-3 450 MHz works faster than Pentium III 500. But
in almost all other tests the K6-3 was certainly behind
Intel processors. The exception was "Quake2" in combination with
optimized for 3DNow 3Dfx drivers, where K6-3 450
beat the Celeron 400. As for the new instructions, they
use made it possible to achieve an increase in productivity in
some applications by 20-30%, but DirectX test results
6.1, optimized for both 3DNow and SSE, when switching to
Pentium III has changed very little.
Thus, the balance of power between AMD and Intel remains
the same. In high-quality stations of large manufacturers there will be
used expensive, like submarine, Pentium III and Xeon,
cheap office PCs will use K6-3, and home PCs
users and Belarusian companies will remain faithful to Celeron. This one
The processor war round hasn't changed anything, let's see what happens
after the release of K7 and Coppermine - version P3 with integrated
256 KB cache and frequency up to 800 MHz.
HP created a free software department
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Dmitry BORODAENKO
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