Thieves hit traffic monitoring pilot

2006-02-07 Leave a comment

Thieves hit traffic monitoring pilot
Despite being plagued by the theft of its fibre optic infrastructure, the traffic monitoring project between Johannesburg and Pretoria is still on track, says the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral).

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Project manager Alex van Niekerk revealed today that the R28 million project has been hit by thieves several times since the deployment of the fibre optic backbone for 70 closed-circuit television cameras. The cameras are to be installed between the Shell Ultra City, on the N1 freeway, and New Road, in Midrand, on the South-bound side of the N1.

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CPU Rightmark

2006-01-21 Leave a comment

Latest News. CPU Rightmark

Changes to this version include:
* Completely new user interface design, new icons.
* CPU frequency and CPU/OS load system tray indicators.
* Integration with Windows power management and standard LCD backlight interface.
* Flexible per-profile and per-power source PST, ODCM and Windows power management settings.
* Improved ODCM management with user-customizable throttle states table feature.
* New CPU performance level management logic allowing instant multiple-states PST/ODCM transitions.
* Determination and support for new CPUs: Intel Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition 900 series, Intel Core Solo and Core Duo processors (preliminary); new Intel logos.
* Support for “non-mobile” versions of ICH4 and ICH6 south bridges in Intel Centrino mobile platform advanced settings.
* New command-line profile-changing options (-nextprofile and -prevprofile).
* Fixed CPU frequency display on older Intel Pentium 4 models (Northwood/Willamette).
* EIST/DBS settings (Intel Pentium 4 / Pentium M advanced settings) are now always remembered, regardless of the “Remember these settings” option.
* Added user-definable delay (as a registry setting) to the management procedure start (on startup and resume from standby/hibernate).

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Are virtual assets taxable?

2006-01-18 Leave a comment

“On April 15, 2004, I will truthfully report to the IRS that my primary source of income is the sale of imaginary goods,” Dibbell wrote on his blog at the time, “and that I earn more from it, on a monthly basis, than I have ever earned as a professional writer.”

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Security Now! Transcript of Episode #22

2006-01-15 Leave a comment

Security Now! Transcript of Episode #22

Description: Leo and I carefully examine the operation of the recently patched Windows MetaFile vulnerability. I describe exactly how it works in an effort to explain why it doesn’t have the feeling of another Microsoft “coding error.” It has the feeling of something that Microsoft deliberately designed into Windows. Given the nature of what it is, this would make it a remote code execution “backdoor.” We will likely never know if this was the case, but the forensic evidence appears to be quite compelling.

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