12th March 2003 Archive

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• Samsung unwraps first Centrino notebook

  X10 co-developed with Intel

  Samsung is first off the starting-block with a Centrino-based notebook, the X10, this morning, ahead of the mobile processor platform's official launch later today. Samsung has a head start in any case: it was Intel's sole Centrino validation partner, working with the chip giant to tune both hardware and chipset to the …

  Personal 12 Mar 2003, 07:34

• Reg Kit Watch

  Update Centrino a go-go

  Mobile Fujitsu has announced its Centrino-based 'thin and light' LifeBook S6000. Driven by a 1.4GHz Pentium M, the S6000 will sport a 13.3in LCD when it ships next month. Each machine can take up to 1GB of 266MHz DDR SDRAM, and buyers can select a 30, 40 or 60GB hard drive. Modular optical drive options include CD-ROM, DVD-ROM …

  Personal 12 Mar 2003, 07:49

• AMD rolls out mobile Athlon XP dozen

  Barton-based chips debut

  AMD today got its mobile processor announcement out ahead of arch-rival Intel's by unveiling 12 mobile CPUs and four notebook manufacturers who've bought the parts. The chips in question are members of the Athlon XP-M family: the 1400+, 1500+, 1600+, 1700+, 1800+, 2000+, 2200+, 2400+, 2500+ and 2600+. By our count, that's ten …

  Channel 12 Mar 2003, 08:32

• PayPal switches off indy news site account

  Iraqnophobia?

  A US independent news site which relies upon reader donations has had some of its air supply cut off by PayPal. In a email sent to WhatReallyHappened.com yesterday, PayPal's Orwellian-sounding "Merchant Risk Department" wrote: As you know, the PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right …

  Media 12 Mar 2003, 08:39

• BOFH is now passé – consultant

  My dreamboat sysadmin

  Rick Freedman, IT consultant and author, says he sees changes coming in the typical IT admin job description. No longer will sysadmins or network administrators be able to get by on technical talent alone. In the near future, they're going to need - gasp - people skills. For many people, the phrase "IT tech" conjures up a …

  Data Networking 12 Mar 2003, 09:40

• CWU steps up action over BT jobs-to-India

  Protest

  BT's new workers in India will be earning just 70p an hour while the monster telco rakes in 40p for each and every directory enquiry it receives. So says the Communications Workers Union (CWU), which is stepping up its campaign to try force BT to back-down over plans to move thousands of jobs to India. It's calling for another …

  Business 12 Mar 2003, 09:44

• Teen delinquents laugh in the face of CCTV

  Chilling footage shows blaggers' contempt for technology

  Hopes that the extensive deployment of CCTV cameras in high streets the length and breadth of the UK would see an end to violent criminal behaviour by teen ne'er-do-wells seem to have been dashed. A chilling report in This is Kidderminster details how a laughing gang of delinquents filmed themselves on such a camera in …

  Bootnotes 12 Mar 2003, 09:45

• Intel launches Centrino mobile platform

  Going through the motions

  Intel's Centrino has arrived, though given the volume of co-marketing partnership press releases issued over the last few weeks, you have to wonder whether a launch is entirely necessary now. But still, here it is: a platform comprising the Pentium M processor formerly known as Banias, Intel's 855 chipset family and its Pro/ …

  Channel 12 Mar 2003, 10:31

• Buy this supercomputer on eBay

  Punters with large garages only need apply

  Once a million dollar vector-parallel supercomputer for research projects at the Australian National University, this Fujitsu VPP300 is now being auctioned off at eBay. Although eclipsed by technology advances, the Jurgen Klinsmann (or perhaps Merv Hughes) of supercomputers can still boast impressive performance stat or two. …

  Servers 12 Mar 2003, 11:55

• Slim pickings for cybersecurity in DHS budget

  Muddled goals

  As the new Department of Homeland Security swallows nearly every cybersecurity office in the U.S. government, high-profile leaders are jumping ship, and analysts worry that only meager funding and muddled goals remain. It's existed for less than two weeks, but analysts are already concerned that the newly-formed Department of …

  Security 12 Mar 2003, 12:09

• Latest CodeRed variant lacks built in obsolescence

  Same old tricks with moderate-to-low risk worm

  Eighteen months after Code Red wormed its way through insecure Microsoft IIS Web Servers, yet another variant has found its way onto the Internet. CodeRed-F most closely resembles Code Red II, differing by only two bytes. This change means CodeRed-F is liable to spread indefinetly unlike CodeRed II, which was programmed to stop …

  Security 12 Mar 2003, 12:43

• Europe finds MS guilty, but wonders what to do about it

  Have we been here before?

  The European Commission's experts have decided they should do something about Microsoft, but face two problems - how to make the solution legally watertight, and how to make it work. That, according to Reuters, means the the Commission's move against Microsoft could still be some way off. We've noticed that Reuters is generally …

  Software 12 Mar 2003, 13:13

• Psion-Tek netBook in Swiss 4,000 unit GPRS deal

  A customer? Good heavens...

  Psion-Teklogix's netBook labours under many disadvantages, among these being: it's a Psion; nobody much buys it; and The Register loves it. Any two out of these three would surely be enough to defeat Hercules, but somehow it doesn't die - and oddly enough it just twitched today, we have a customer. Actually it really twitched …

  Mobile 12 Mar 2003, 14:37

• The full CMMI picture at IT-minds

  30 per cent off the official guide

  For this week only Reg associate IT-minds.com is offering you the chance to expand your knowledge of CMMI. This single volume comprises the full, official book version of the CMMI, the much anticipated follow up to the Capability Maturity Model. The book provides official documentation in book form for learning and implementing …

  Site News 12 Mar 2003, 14:37

• France's Thales wins key UK ‘robo-squaddie’ contract

  Could be worth £2 billion

  French defence contractor Thales has been awarded the £15 million contract for the assessment phase of the UK's version of the digital battlefield, the FIST (Future Integrated Soldier Technology) programme. Thales beat deadly rival BAE Systems to the deal, which in total could be worth something like £2 billion, and is actually …

  Software 12 Mar 2003, 15:58

• VIA chipset targets mobile Athlon XP-M

  Centrino who?

  VIA has followed AMD's Athlon XP-M launch with a chipset designed for the new mobile processor family. The ProSavage KN400 supports all 12 XP-M processors, including the Barton core-based 2500+ and 2400+ parts. All speeds of DDR SDRAM are supported. The chipset's VT8235E South Bridge integrates UniChrome 2D/3D graphics and …

  Channel 12 Mar 2003, 16:27

• Francestinks.com sinks.com

  Well well, what a surprise...

  We considered sharing francestinks.com and germanystinks.com with you last week, but took the view that you could live without information on puerile exercises in xenophobia that seemed to have the (perhaps not entirely) subsidiary goal of selling related merchandise. We thought we'd leave off writing about it until vengeful …

  Media 12 Mar 2003, 16:29

• Swiss move to block Al Qaeda mobile phone supply

  It's not just the clocks, then?

  With commendable swiftness the Swiss parliament has moved to cut off Al Qaeda's mobile phone supply, reacting to an almost entirely imaginary scare set off by intelligence services just a few days ago. Switzerland, you'll recall, was allegedly one of the few places where you could buy a prepaid GSM SIM module for cash, without …

  Bootnotes 12 Mar 2003, 17:03

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