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To: Joe NYC who wrote (170853)	9/10/2002 2:58:11 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Anyone running Windows XP? A few hours ago Tech TV reported the biggest security hole I've ever seen. Seems that you can have your hard drive wiped by simply going to a webpage. And the webpage is easy to set up. Microsoft has supposedly tried to keep this silent, under the rug, even though they have known about it for 11 weeks. Service pack 1 fixes it. Unfortunately people that have dial up will have a hard time DLing SP1. Most people dunno what a service pack is. There is a quick fix. Search for a file: uplddrvinfo.htm and either rename it or delete it. (applies to all versions of Windows XP only) More.... grc.com Attention Windows XP Users A little-known but critical vulnerability exists in Windows XP. It has recently been repaired in Service Pack 1. This vulnerability allows the files contained in any specified directory on your system to be deleted if you click on a specially formed URL. This URL could appear anywhere: sent in malicious eMail, in a chat room, in a newsgroup posting, on a malicious web page, or even executed when your computer merely visits a malicious web page. It is likely to be widely exploited soon. This vulnerability is so dangerous that it would be irresponsible for me to say more. Microsoft has known of this problem for months and has, inexplicably, done nothing before now. Although XP's Service Pack 1 is not small (approx 30 MB for express installation or 140 MB for the network install), and even though a much quicker and easier solution to this problem exists, the only thing I can safely recommend (without revealing too much) is to urge all XP users to somehow obtain and install Service Pack 1 immediately. (If you have a slow Internet connection, perhaps a friend can download the executable Service Pack file and burn it onto a CD for you?) This problem does not affect any systems other than Windows XP. If you have any friends or co-workers running Windows XP, please urge them to update their systems' too. Once the details of this vulnerability have leaked through other channels I will provide additional information.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (170853)	9/10/2002 3:42:02 AM
From: Gordon Hodgson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hey Jozef, speaking of 399 days, do you think AM-Defunct will still be in business then? Wouldn't surprise me if Intel puts the "Crush" on them soon...you know like getting a pop can ready for recycling. For AMD "resistance is futile..."

To: Joe NYC who wrote (170853)	9/10/2002 1:25:36 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel's Banias To Use Rating Scheme Battery Life Will Be Emphasized, Not Pure Gigahertz By Mark Hachman (You might like this, Joe. Or Maybe you would prefer that I not post this, so as to keep my post count low, you little hypocrite.) extremetech.com Intel Corp.'s upcoming Banias processor will use a "performance rating" system similar to that used by rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel president Paul Otellini said in a roundtable discussion with journalists Monday. Intel faces a knotty marketing problem with Banias: since the upcoming mobile microprocessor runs at a slower clock rate than Intel's current Pentium 4, how to sell it to speed-obsessed consumers? The answer: a ratings system, although not the one AMD uses, Otellini said. Instead of pure gigahertz, Intel will choose to highlight the Banias' battery life, which Intel officials have said runs "all day". Otellini highlighted Bapco's MobileMark benchmark as one the chip maker would highlight prominently. Intel belongs to the Bapco organization, as does AMD; however, AMD has also claimed certain Bapco tests unfairly favor Intel's chips. "The difference will be that we will be up front on what the actual performance is, and what benchmarks we're using," Otellini said. "We'll always be up front on what the clock speed actually is. And we won't use products that are based on the competition." Intel will not use AMD's "performance rating" scheme, Otellini said, which is based upon a formula that compares its cores against prior generations. A year ago, Otellini began saying that "gigahertz didn't matter," Otellini said. Banias will also be marketed as a "platform brand", Otellini said, probably similar in design to the Celeron brand Intel gave its processors for low-cost PCs, or the Xeon line designed for servers and workstations. Although a Xeon may be designed upon the same architecture as the Celeron, the two chips can be clocked at different speeds and feature different amounts of cache to ratchet performance up or down for the target market. Banias will also include an integrated form of wireless networking. At this point, Intel favors hybrid 802.11a/802.11b chipsets and access points, Otellini said, who agreed that Intel was currently ambivalent to the 802.11g specification. Intel may also develop special benchmarks to evaluate the effect of hyperthreading, which will first appear in Intel's desktop 3-GHz desktop processors during the fourth quarter of this year. "I don't know whether SPECmarks cover hyperthreading or not," Otellini said. wbmw

To: Joe NYC who wrote (170853)	9/10/2002 1:55:49 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 186894

And in the "new and improved" Excel test, spreadsheet like activities amount to only 10% of the Excel test, and an Intel favoring Sort (a database-like function) amounts to 90% of the test. Using Excel database sorting in an Excel spreadsheet as the primary computational test is either unbelievably stupid or blatantly biased. Excel only does the sort functions on command from a mouse click or an command from within a macro. Entering new data does not cause the data to be re-sorted, unless the user writes a macro to add the data to the spreadsheet and invoke a "sort." OTOH, changing one parameter in one of my simulation spreadsheets necessarily causes all million or more cells to be recalculated and 20 graphs to be redrawn. Guess which CPU (Athlon XP 1900 or P4 - 1500) refreshes the graph in 2/3 the time? HINT - the P4 is real good at moving things around, but don't ask it to compute anything! Petz