Friday, July 18, 2003

The Joys of an In-Dash MP3 Player -- 6:33 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Believe it or not, kids, it's time for some original content from The Haus! I'll pause while you recover from your heart attacks. My new Hun Speak column is a bit of a departure from our normal fare. Have you considered getting an MP3 player for your car? If so (or even if you haven't), check out The Joys of an In-Dash MP3 Player. After you read this article, you'll want to run out and get one too. Check it out!

Thursday, July 17, 2003

DOOM III Requirements -- 9:58 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Phobos Lab emailed id's John Carmack, asking about the minimum system specs to run DOOM III. Here it is:

1GHz CPU
256MB RAM
GF1 or Radeon 7xxx series card

I wouldn't expect 100fps on a system like that, but it will run. My Athlon XP 1800+, 512M PC2100, and GF3 Ti200 might stand a chance! I can't wait . . . Thanks Blue's News.

Netscape Completely Gone? -- 2:19 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

MozillaZine is reporting that AOL is killing off Netscape entirely, even to the point of removing logos from buildings. Of course, anyone who thought that AOL was going to be a good steward of Netscape needed to have their head examined. They got Netscape so they could get leverage with M$. Once that leverage was no longer needed, see ya! Of course, at least Mozilla is out there and it's open source. That cannot be taken away. Hopefully some folks with axes to grind against AOL and/or Microsoft can step up and provide more funding.

Another note: it appears that AOL has released all of the Netscape code that was under the Netscape Public License and relicensed it under the Mozilla Public License. That will help their plan to relicense the thing as MPL/GPL/LGPL.

Slackware Turns 10 -- 12:07 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

J.t.'s and my favorite Linux distribution, Slackware, turned 10 today. You can take a trip on the Way-Back Machine and read the message announcing Slackware 1.0 which sported kernel .99pl11 Alpha and came in two series on either 11 or 13 floppies. Thanks Slashdot.

Windows Hole du Jour -- 9:56 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Microsoft has released a patch for every version of Windows except ME to patch a hole in the "remote procedure call (RPC) process". What does this mean?

The flaw is in a component of the operating system that allows other computers to request the Windows system perform an action or service. The component, known as the remote procedure call (RPC) process, facilitates such activities such as sharing files and allowing others to use the computer's printer.

By sending too much data to the RPC process, an attacker can cause the system to grant full access to the system.

So if you run any of those versions of Windows, hit Windows Update ASAP. Thanks HardOCP.

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