Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too FarThose keys have security permissions that only allow the Local System account to modify them, so I relaunched Regedit in the Local System account using PsExec: psexec ?s ?i ?d regedit.exe

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology

Top 20 geek novels -- the results! from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360

AnandTech: Inside Microsoft's Xbox 360: "The CPU itself features three of these PowerPC cores and is currently manufactured on a 90nm process, however Microsoft will most likely be transitioning to 65nm as soon as possible in order to reduce the die size and thus manufacturing costs. "

IBM Holds Servers

IBM Holds Servers: " revenue decline by 7.6%, and lost its third-place standing to Dell "

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group

Mac Rumors: Intel forms 'Apple' Group: "that Intel Corp. has formed an internal 'Apple group'."

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com

Intel Faces Increased Risk From Flash-Memory Venture - Forbes.com: "We believe Micron gross margins for its NAND business were roughly 20% in its most recent quarter, well below Intel's gross margins of 61%.' "

Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register

Read two biometrics, get worse results - how it works | The Register: "Daugman produces the calculations governing the use of two hypothetical biometrics, one with both false accept and false reject rates of one in 100, and the second with the two rates at one in 1,000. On its own, biometric one would produce 2,000 errors in 100,000 tests, while biometric two would produce 200. You can treat the use of two biometrics in one of two ways - the subject must be required to pass both (the 'AND' rule) or the subject need only pass one (the 'OR' rule). Daugman finds that under either rule there would be 1,100 errors, i.e. 5.5 times more errors than if the stronger test were used alone.
He concludes that a stronger biometric is therefore better used alone than in combination, but only when both are operating at their crossover points. If the false accept rate (when using the 'OR' rule) or the false reject rate (when using the 'AND' rule) is brought down sufficiently (to 'smaller than twice the crossover error rate of the stronger test', says Daugman) then use of two can improve results. If we recklessly attempt to put a non-mathemetical gloss on that, we could think of the subject having to pass two tests (in the case of the 'AND') rule of, say, facial and iris. Dropping the false reject rate of the facial test (i.e. letting more people through) in line with Daugman's calculations would produce a better result than using iris alone, but if the facial system rejects fewer people wrongly, then it will presumably be accepting more people wrongly."

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News

Hyperthreading hurts server performance, say developers - ZDNet UK News: "Hyperthreading hurts server performance"

My Way News

My Way News: "The UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara, has eight computing engines on a single chip, "

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons

Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons: "Intel Dempsey reviewed, challenges Opterons "