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Phantom OS: WhatFor, FAQ etc
Number one online IT-biting resource TheRegister today published wonderful article about Dmitry’s operating system, Phantom. Next, OS News resource follows ElReg and provides their view here.
Some missing information is available right from DZ’ website:
Phantom operating system
Why a new OS?
Object model of Phantom OS
Bootstrapping Phantom
Samples of Phantom operations
Most interesting is to read smart comments to both. [...]
USB Flash Recovery
USB flash drives tend to loose some sectors over time thus rendering data unavailable. Under no circumstances do not try to use Windows tools to get it back, you will not be able to restore your flash drive.
Photoshop CS4 on Steroids
Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration (read all)
UPD: nVidia releases videocard with 1500 MB onboard memory
“Adobe is at the forefront of the Visual Computing Revolution,” said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVDIA.
“CS4’s GPU features are sending shockwaves through the creative industry.
“Photoshop users are always looking for maximum performance, and we recognized that tapping [...]
UEFA Champions League
Lyrics
Ils sont les meilleures equipes
Sie sind die allerbesten Mannschaften
The main event
(repeat)
Die Meister
Die Besten
Les Grandes Equipes
The Champions
Une grande reunion
Eine grosse sportliche Veranstaltung
The main event
Ils sont les meilleurs
Sie sind die Besten
These are the champions
(repeat)
Perfect speed with SATA AHCI driver
Small change of Windows XP driver from IDE to AHCI made friend’s workstation blazingly fast and quiet, though it required some registry-level tweaking.
Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey
Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools.
The survey calls into question Microsoft’s oft-cited claims that Vista is its most secure operating system.
Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ [...]
Plasma TV components applied to password cracking
Forget networked PCs or even PlayStation 3s, components commonly found in plasma TVs are the latest thing in password cracking tools.
High performance FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chips are the Chuck Norris of number crunching, equally suited to image processing and (with a bit of modification) password cracking.
During the Black Hat conference in Washington in [...]
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