‘Vista Only’ Games Cracked

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

As previously predicted, the so-called ‘Vista Only’ games have been cracked to work on DirectX 9 and thus Windows XP.
“News has filtered through on this last week of June that the first week of June released and infinitely forgettable Shadowrun has already been hacked to work on DirectX 9 and therefore Windows XP. P2P fans’ [...]

Destiny revokes my sleep permit

Friday, November 17th, 2006

I can not sleep. At all. By some evil turn of fate, it has been decided that I can not have one good night’s sleep at all this week. Tonight, therefore I’ve given up.
I should be more tired really - I spent a good hour or so ripping apart Martin’s computer to try to diagnose [...]

Intel Chips in Macs… Windows on Macs…

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Now, Intel has released their microprocessors on Macs. The results will no doubt be humourous. Already someone has predicted the future in this ‘interesting’ reproduction of the official ‘Intel on Mac’ advertisement. Watch it right to the end, it’s a great laugh.
Also, ‘hackers’ (as they have been called in so many news articles) have managed [...]

Windows Defender

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

The new version of Microsoft AntiSpyware, presumably when it comes out of beta testing will be aptly called ‘Windows Defender‘. According the Anti-Malware Engineering Team’s article, there will be significant improved to the software, including its release as a service and automatic updates via the Windows Update service. I believe Microsoft are finally taking a [...]

Computer viruses infect cars

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Yes, the title there is correct.
“Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected operating systems that transfer within a range of 15 feet.”
SC Magazine

So far technological computer viruses can infect:

Most computer operating systems (Microsoft Windows being the most common)
Several [...]