http://www.techzonez.com/forums/ The Latest Tech, Software, Hardware and Games News. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:16:12 GMT vBulletin 30 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.techzonez.com/forums/ http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27919&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:03:46 GMT The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an... The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools.

:download: Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

:view: SeaMonkey homepage ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27919 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27918&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:46 GMT Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the... Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors the various parameters. By clicking its icon, you'll view real time values for each component. Hmonitor supports all Windows OS: Windows 9X/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003, inluding X64/EM64T editions.

:download: Hmonitor 4.5.1.3

:view: Hmonitor homepage ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27918 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27917&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:59:58 GMT VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platforms licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere,but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.It has batch-processing capabilities for... VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for Windows platforms licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere,but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files,although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

:view: Changelog

:download: VirtualDub 1.9.10 (32-bit) | VirtualDub 1.9.10 (64-bit)

:view: VirtualDub homepage ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27917 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27916&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:58:03 GMT Thunderbird is a free, open-source and cross-platform mail client. It is based on the Mozilla codebase. :view: Release Notes (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.3/releasenotes/) :download: English US: Windows... Thunderbird is a free, open-source and cross-platform mail client. It is based on the Mozilla codebase.

:view: Release Notes

:download: English US: Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

:download: Other languages: Windows | Linux | Mac OS X

:view: Thunderbird homepage ]]> Alternative Browsers/Email Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27916 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27915&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:52:55 GMT Microsoft last Friday said it was looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts.

The bug can allow hackers to hijack Web mail accounts, steal data and send illicit tweets, said Google security engineer Chris Evans in a message posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list.

Evans also published a demonstration that showed how the flaw in IE8 could be used to commandeer a user's Twitter account and send unauthorized tweets.

The vulnerability, known as a "CSS cross-origin theft" bug, has a long history. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who recently published a paper on the subject, have traced it back as far as 2002. Those researchers will present their paper at the Conference on Computer and Communications Security next month.

:story: Full story: Computerworld ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27915 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27914&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:51:19 GMT Sony is apparently taking its fight against PS3 jailbreaks a step beyond court injunctions with a new firmware update that blocks hacks meant to let users play pirated games on the system. System software update 3.42, made available for download Monday, contains features that PS3 owners report... Sony is apparently taking its fight against PS3 jailbreaks a step beyond court injunctions with a new firmware update that blocks hacks meant to let users play pirated games on the system.

System software update 3.42, made available for download Monday, contains features that PS3 owners report patch the exploit used for PS JailBreak, a USB dongle that would allow PlayStation 3 owners to dump borrowed games onto the system's hard drive. It's probably the most publicized of the hacks; PSGroove, open-source code that allows homemade games to be played on the console, is also reportedly impacted by the firmware update.

Sony, for its part, made just a brief statement on its PlayStation blog, calling the update "minor" and noting that it includes unspecified "additional security features." The update is mandatory for those wanting to access PlayStation Network features.

:story: Full story: c|net ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27914 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27913&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:48:56 GMT Dell said on Tuesday that it plans later this month to stop selling PCs downgraded to Windows XP, ahead of next month's deadline to stop nearly all shipments of PCs running the older operating system.

Microsoft ended sales of Windows XP some time ago, but has continued to allow PC makers to sell Windows 7 machines that are "factory downgraded" to the older operating system. However, even that option is set to end October 22 for Dell and other PC makers.

"This means that we will stop offering XP as an option for customers starting this month in preparation for next month's deadline," Dell said in a blog post. The company plans to continue offering driver support for Windows XP until December 2012.

Although Microsoft is requiring PC makers to stop selling PCs with Windows XP running, the computer maker has agreed to continue to give customers with Windows 7 Professional the right to downgrade to XP through the entire life cycle of Windows 7. It had originally planned to end that right with the shipment of Windows 7 Service Pack 1--a move that would have meant that companies' right to downgrade machines would have varied from computer to computer.

Volume licensing customers have always had additional options when it comes to running older versions of Windows--including XP. Dell will continue to offer some customers the ability to use a Windows XP image on their corporate computers.

:story: Full story: c|net ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27913 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27912&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:14:02 GMT Working on an airline, you receive free or reduced-priced flights. Such was the case when Roger Gay took the opportunity of a free flight from London to Manchester. He boarded the flight some minutes before it was due to leave the terminal. The flight was filling up. Roger’s allocated seat was... Working on an airline, you receive free or reduced-priced flights. Such was the case when Roger Gay took the opportunity of a free flight from London to Manchester. He boarded the flight some minutes before it was due to leave the terminal. The flight was filling up. Roger’s allocated seat was already taken, so he sat in another, vacant seat.

A few minutes later a woman in airline uniform (not a stewardess) holding a clip-board marched up to the man in Roger’s originally allocated seat and in her official capacity asked, “Are you Gay?”

The man sank down in his seat, blushed and sheepishly uttered, “Yes.”

The woman said, “Then you have to get off.”

Roger, realising that the airline had over-booked and he had to give up his perk seat, put his hand up and said, “I’m Gay,” and started to get up.

Immediately another passenger stands up and miltantly calls out, “I’m gay! They can’t chuck us all off.” ]]> Fun Stuff Fenalaar http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27912 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27911&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:10:48 GMT A Nun was sitting at the airport, waiting on her flight to Chicago. She looked over in the corner and saw one of those weight machines that tells your fortune, and thought to herself, "I'll give it a try and see what it tells me."

She went over to the machine, stepped up on the scale and put her nickel in, and out came a card that read, "You are a Nun, you weigh 128 pounds and you are going to Chicago."

The Nun sat back down. She told herself that the machine probably gives the same card to everyone. The more she thought about it, the more curious she got, so she decided to try it again.

She went back to the machine and again put her nickel in, and out came a card that read, "You are a Nun, you weigh 128 pounds - you are going to Chicago and you are going to play a fiddle."

The Nun says to herself, "I know that is wrong - I have never played a musical instrument a day in my life."

She sat back down. From out of nowhere, a cowboy came over and sat down, putting his fiddle case in the seat between them. Without thinking, she opened the cowboy’s case, took out the fiddle, and started playing beautiful music.

Surprised at what she had done, she looked over at the machine thinking, "This is incredible - I've got to try this again!"

Back to the machine she went, putting in another nickel, and another card came out. It read, "You are a Nun, you weigh 128 pounds, you are going to Chicago and you are going to break wind."

Now she knows the machine is wrong, as she thought to herself, "I've never broke wind in public a single time in my life." But getting down off the machine she slipped, and as she was straining to keep herself from falling to the floor, she broke wind.

Absolutely stunned, she sat back down and looked at the machine. She said to herself, "This is truly remarkable! I have go to try this again."

She went back to the machine, put in another nickel, and another card came out. It read, "You are a Nun, you weigh 128 pounds, you have fiddled and farted around and missed your flight to Chicago." ]]> Fun Stuff Fenalaar http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27911 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27910&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:27:50 GMT A friend of mine brought me his Dell laptop to see if I can figure out why the keyboard ocasionally freezes up and stops working. I looked in the hardware manager and found no indications of a problem,. Started up the laptop and ran a few programs and no problem. Then I realized the cursor... A friend of mine brought me his Dell laptop to see if I can figure out why the keyboard ocasionally freezes up and stops working.

I looked in the hardware manager and found no indications of a problem,. Started up the laptop and ran a few programs and no problem. Then I realized the cursor froze up and keyboard would not work as soon as I attempted to connect to a network. I couldnt even do ctrl/alt/del

Restarted the laptop and right away went into the network connection to connect to a network and right away froze again.

Anyone have an idea? ]]> Hardware captainron19@ao http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27910 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27909&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:32:37 GMT The buckyball was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Texas, and named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, noted for popularising the geodesic dome. To mark the discovery of this specially shaped molecule composed entirely of carbon on 4... The buckyball was first discovered 25 years ago by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Texas, and named after the architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, noted for popularising the geodesic dome.

To mark the discovery of this specially shaped molecule composed entirely of carbon on 4 September 1985, Google has changed the second O in its logo to a manipulatable version of a buckyball for the day.

Buckyball is the colloquial name used to describe a spherical fullerene – an abbreviation of buckminsterfullerene, its full name.

There are a variety of different buckyballs depending on the structure – the most recognisable, and first discovered, is the Buckminsterfullerene C60. It shares the geodesic structure of a panelled football and is the smallest fullerene molecule in which no two pentagons share an edge – giving it structural strength.

:story: Full story: The Guardian ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27909 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27908&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:29:25 GMT A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States. Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States District Judge Janet Hall in... A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States.

Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Diamreyan made more than US$1.3 million in a scam that suckered 67 victims between 2004 to 2009, prosecutors said. This type of fraud, called an advance-fee scam, was the number-one type of Internet fraud in 2009, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Last year, advance-fee fraud accounted for nearly 17 percent of the Internet fraud logged by the FBI.

Diamreyan pretended to be different people -- Prince Nana Kamokai of Sierra Leone or an airport director from Ghana, for example. He said he needed to move between $11.5 million and $23.4 million out of the country and offered victims 20 percent of the funds, if they would help him out.

After using fake documentation to convince his victims that he was legitimate, Diamreyan would get them to wire him different types of fees such as "PIN code fees" or courier services charges with the understanding that they would then get the money. These fees would pile up, but the promised money never arrived.

:story: Full story: Computerworld ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27908 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27907&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:27:49 GMT A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.

Facebook confirmed the bug Friday, after notifying affected users of the issue.

Andrew Jones was one of the victims. He thought that his Facebook account had been hijacked Sunday after a friend pointed out a spam message on his wall. He quickly changed his password, but worried that some of his other e-mail accounts might have been taken over too. "No other signs of compromise were visible, and I concluded the most likely scenario was a public computer I had used recently had some type of malware on it," he told the IDG News Service via e-mail.

Turns out that the problem was all Facebook's.

"Earlier this week, we discovered a bug in the code that processes photos as they're uploaded. This bug caused us not to make the correct checks when determining whether a photo should be posted to a person's profile," Facebook said Friday in an e-mailed statement. "We quickly worked to resolve the issue and fixed it shortly after discovering it. For a short period of time before it was fixed, a single spammer was able to post photos to people's profiles that they hadn't approved."

:story: Full story: Computerworld ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27907 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27906&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:26:07 GMT After well over a decade of "development," 2K Games announced today that Duke Nukem Forever will actually see the light of day. The publisher went on to say that Gearbox Software has taken the reigns on the project, rescuing it from development limbo after the game's original studio 3D Realms went under. Gearbox Software is responsible for titles such as the recently successful Borderlands.

The game will be on display at this weekend's PAX 2010 convention in Seattle, where press and gamers in attendance can have a go at the title 14 years in the making.

After years of being the punchline to countless vaporware jokes, it seems 2K Games is fully committed to resurrect the title once and for all. The Wall Street Journal quotes Gearbox president Randy Pitchford as saying the game is already in the "polishing" stages, but forgive us if we're skeptical about this one until the title is in our hands.

:source: c|net ]]> Tech News Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27906 http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27905&goto=newpost Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:14:49 GMT Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing. ... Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

:download: Ubuntu 10.10 Beta

:view: Ubuntu homepage ]]> Linux Reverend http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27905