Wednesday February 13, 2008
- Legal and Police Actions against Intel Headquarter in Germany - Lionel - 13:00:05
The European commission has decided to seriously strike some large corporate to demonstrate that the EU authorities are considering suspected monopoly cases as serious. German police forces have carried out a search in Intel headquarter in Munich as well as in headquarters of the founder's partners (including distributors and resellers)
If this is not really new, the scale of the police actions must have been a surprise for Intel executives, and no doubt AMD is most likely thinking of ways to benefit from such problems affecting its historical competitor.
[translation by Linathael]
- Microsoft Mac Office 2004 Update - MacEnsteph - 11:53:59
Microsoft Mac business unit released an update for Microsoft Mac Office 2004 (version 11.4.0, 12 MB).
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
[translation by Linathael]
- Microsoft friendly bid for Yahoo turns hostile - Lionel - 10:34:51
Following the announcement of the board of Yahoo to refuse the offer from Microsoft to purchase it, Microsoft have increased the pressure and has addressed shareholders directly in an attempt to convince them of the commercial merits of their offer.
It appears that MS is now moving towards a hostile takeover of the coveted company. This solution may cost them much more than 44 billion, since other interested parties, such as Google, could raise the stakes in the rush to gain control.
[translation by jeremy]
- England looking at the French graduated response to piracy - Lionel - 10:26:18
There is no longer the slightest doubt. Soon P2P networks will be under close surveillance and "pirates" will be warned before eventually (3rd time) their Internet subscription will be terminated for one year and they will be blacklisted, making any new subscription impossible during that period.
England seems to have appreciated this method of enforcement and is (hastily) considering its adoption.
It must be said that this approach has the benefit of enforcing sanctions against pirates that is totally different and far less traumatic than those proposed previously (by our freinds from the RIAA, amongst others), those being heavy fines and possible imprisonment(and lots of legal fees).
[translation by jeremy]
- NVidia dresses up its old chips and calls them new - Lionel - 10:03:57
Source : Hardware.fr
NVidia will shortly announce its new reference of video cards for portable computers - the 9500M GS and the 9300M GT.If you believe that these products will find their way into the next MacBook Pro thus the release must be imminent - you should know that you are being fooled. In effect the 9500 GS is already installed in the Santa Rosa machines.
NVidia has not created anything new - it has been content just to change the name of the old chips. The 9300M GT is identical to the old 8400M GT and the 9500M GS is a perfect copy of the 8600M GT already fitted in the MBP for several months!
Certainly the uninformed will believe that thay are buying a more powerful product, something that marketing department will do nothing to disavow.
[translation by crispin]
- A good way to reinstall the system on a MacBook Air - Lionel - 09:48:40
Given the limited size of the hard disks of MacBook Air, the majority of owners will certainly want to reinstall its system, so that unused languages and printers drivers can be purged.
If you have bought the external DVD unit, it is very simple. Connect it and restart the machine holding the ALT key- and at this moment insert the DVD which will mount in some seconds. Attention: the DVD unit does not power up immediately. Avoid using force otherwise you risk causing damage. Also avoid moving the unit when it is in use and turning it around its cable - this causes the DVD to rub!
If you did not get the DVD unit, you will have to do the installation using CD/DVD sharing. While waiting for Mac OSX 10.5.2 (now available) the software could be found on the DVD installation disks of the MacBook Air. Install them and restart
You will have access to this option in the Sharing option of the system preference.
You will just need to start 'Remote Install MacOSX' found in the Utilities folder in Applications and follow the instructions.
Another easy way is to use WiFi:
- If you have an Airport N (and this is strongly advised) set it up to use the 5 GHz band and place it close to the machines in use.
- Once you have restarted holding the ALT button, it will be necessary that you enter the password for the Airport Attention the keyboard will be QWERTY! Take care or you risk that your password will be rejected if it contains the a,q,w,z,m .. (assuming that you normally use a french keyboard).
The installation starts slowly but accelerates with the installation of big files. A small distance between the WiFi unit and ac allows rapid transfers - up to 300 Mbits/s.
[translation by crispin]
- Apple TV 2.0 Update - MacEnsteph - 00:41:09
As announced by Steve Jobs at the MWSF almost a month ago, it's finally available for the public! (Thanks to Jean-Jacques for the info).
This 2.0 update gives users the possibility to rent movies, buy music online (iTunes Store) and view both Flickr and .Mac slideshows, it also brings support for 5.1 HD sound.
The update is available through Apple TV.
[translation by xavier]
