Helpforce | Providing Free 24/7 Computing Technical Support on the Internet

Helpforce provides free technical support 24 hours a day, to the Internet. We support all problems, errors, crashes and aim to answer all questions.

View today's Daily Briefing

Helpforce » Back Issues of Daily Briefings

Send this page to a friend or colleague!

Technical Support

eHelp Support

eTalk Community

eLinks Database

Helpforce FAQ

Downloads

Bootdisks

Other Resources

UNIX Guides

About Helpforce

	Corporate Site
	Headlines
	Contact Us
	eHelp login

	Previous Daily Briefings
	Remote eHelp
	v:Book

Join Helpforce!

Recognize these logos?

Helpforce needs you!

Click Here to sign up and become a Helpforce member

Friday the 2nd of July 2010

Welcome to the Helpforce Daily Briefing, on Friday the 2nd of July 2010

1. Virus Warnings
2. Daily Technology News
3. Latest Shareware and Freeware
4. FAQ for the day
5. Advice of the day

This is a free service provided by Helpforce.com, to unsubscribe please visit http://www.helpforce.com
For free technical support, visit us at http://www.helpforce.com

1. Latest Virus Alerts From Sophos
---------------------------------------
JS/Timean-Gen on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/jstimeangen.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-MP on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkmp.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/EncPk-QT on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkqt.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/DwnLdr-IHB on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojdwnldrihb.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/IRCBot-AGR on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojircbotagr.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/Mdrop-CRL on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojmdropcrl.html?_log_from=rss
Troj/QQPass-APP on 2 July 2010 09:54:52 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojqqpassapp.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Agent-BD on 2 July 2010 04:34:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malagentbd.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Agent-BE on 2 July 2010 04:34:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malagentbe.html?_log_from=rss
Mal/Bifrose-AF on 2 July 2010 04:34:36 Z
http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malbifroseaf.html?_log_from=rss

2. Latest Technology News From Slashdot
-----------------------------------------------

-- Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KGZ-rMmGpZs/Roger-Ebert-Backs-Down-On-Video-Games-As-Art)
Jhyrryl writes "Roger Ebert has again posted about video games. It's an apology of sorts, for having publicly said that games are not art. He wrote, 'I should not have written that entry without being more familiar with the actual experience of video games. ... My error in the first place was to think I could make a convincing argument on purely theoretical grounds. What I was saying is that video games could not in principle be Art. That was a foolish position to take, particularly as it seemed to apply to the entire unseen future of games. This was pointed out to me maybe hundreds of times.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QLZsz3Lcyv4/MS-Design-Lets-You-Put-Batteries-In-Any-Way-You-Want)
jangel writes "While its strategy for mobile devices might be a mess, Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented design for battery contacts will allow users of portable devices — digital cameras, flashlights, remote controls, toys, you name it — to insert their batteries in any direction. Compatible with AA and AAA cells, among others, the 'InstaLoad' technology does not require special electronics or circuitry, the company claims."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Yw6FHpyVx2M/In-UK-Computer-Science-Graduates-the-Least-Employable)
Rogerborg writes "The BBC reports that in the UK, computer science graduates are now the least employable of students leaving with a degree, 17% of them being unable to find a job within six months of graduation. Unsurprisingly, medics, educators and lawyers do better, but even much mocked communications and creative arts graduates are finding work more easily."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Consumer Guide To Stem Cell Clinics
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zVrUAltay18/Consumer-Guide-To-Stem-Cell-Clinics)
Penguinsh- writes "Patients seeking stem cell treatments now have a guide to the various clinics purporting to offer such treatments. Not exactly a Zagat or Michelin, but much more objective information from qualified experts than was available before in one place. Created by the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the guide was the brainchild of a task force convened by former ISSCR President Irving Weissman of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- How Game Gimmicks Break Immersion
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MJ7sw1XtpPg/How-Game-Gimmicks-Break-Immersion)
The Moving Pixels blog has brief discussion of how gimmicky game mechanics often break a player's sense of immersion, making it painfully obvious that he's simply jumping through carefully planned hoops set up by the developers. The author takes an example from Singularity, which has a weapon that can time-shift objects between a pristine, functional state and a broken, decayed state. Quoting:
"The core issue with this time control device is that it's just not grand and sweeping enough. It doesn't feel like it's part of a world gone mad. Instead it's just a gameplay tool. You can only use it on certain things in certain places. You can 'un-decay' this chalkboard but not that desk. You can dissolve that piece of cover but not most of the walls in the game. The ultimate failure of such cheap tricks is that they make the game world less immersive rather than more compelling. The world gets divided into those few things that I can time shift, that different set of things I can levitate, and that majority of things that I can't interact with at all. ... I'm painfully aware that all that I'm really doing is pushing the right button at the right place and time. Sure, that's what many games are when you get down to it, but part of the artistry of game design comes from trying to hide this fact."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Qualcomm Makes Open-Source 3D Snapdragon Driver
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FXw48hFSIoQ/Qualcomm-Makes-Open-Source-3D-Snapdragon-Driver)
An anonymous reader writes "Qualcomm today posted the source code to a Linux kernel driver for 2D/3D support on its OpenGL ES Core found on Snapdragon-based phones like the Nexus One. The company is trying to get this driver into the mainline Linux kernel, but it turns out that the user-space driver is still not open source, which has resulted in some problems already. The ongoing discussion can be found on FreeDesktop.org."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- RIAA Calls YouTube-Viacom Decision Bad Public Policy
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I64-PhptgMg/RIAA-Calls-YouTube-Viacom-Decision-Bad-Public-Policy)
adeelarshad82 writes "The Recording Industry Association of America voiced its opposition to the recent decision in the YouTube-Viacom copyright infringement case, stating that 'the district court's dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] upsets the careful balance struck within the law and is bad public policy.' Cary Sherman, RIAA president, also wrote in a blog post, 'It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- The Ignominious Fall of Dell
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-FJghOpuGP0/The-Ignominious-Fall-of-Dell)
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder discusses the ignominious decline of Dell, one akin to that of Computer Associates, leaving the company forever tainted by scandal and a 'shocking breach of faith with customers.' Dell's pioneering business model and supply chain helped make desktop computing ubiquitous, affordable, and secure. But years of awful quality control and customer service have finally caught up to the company in a very public way that will do irreparable damage to the company for years to come. 'What we've learned about Dell recently doesn't qualify as an understandable mistake. Only a rotten company sells defective computers and lies about it.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/1W2rylfpaFY/Stop-the-Math-Presss-Presses-mdash-Knuth-Announces-iTex)
After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Do Scientists Understand the Public?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ERIiZESERQQ/Do-Scientists-Understand-the-Public)
Mab_Mass writes "The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has an interesting article on the relationship between scientists and the public. [Here's the paper itself, as a PDF.] Rather than point the finger at an 'ignorant' public, this article chastises the scientists for a poor understanding of how to communicate with non-technical people. With a look at the issues of climate change, nuclear waste disposal, genetics, and the future of the Internet, the article provides examples of how the experts in these fields are failing to present their message in a way that encourages public discussion and support."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Solar-Powered Flight Grounded By Equipment Bug
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/YxA85tTcTCI/Solar-Powered-Flight-Grounded-By-Equipment-Bug)
crimeandpunishment writes "If your plane is powered by the sun, it's tough to fly if your crew is in the dark. A 24-hour test flight for the world's first solar-powered round-the-world flight had to be postponed Thursday due to an equipment problem that would have left mission control out of touch with the technology on the experimental aircraft. When they're able to make this test flight, they hope by flying all day they'll be able to fully charge the batteries, then use the stored energy to power the plane all night."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Upyxf2DkzMA/Zoho-Dont-Need-No-Stinking-PhD-Programmers)
theodp writes "When it comes to tech academic credentials, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has The Right Stuff: a Ph.D. in EE from Princeton. But Vembu has eschewed Google's Army-of-Ph.D.s approach to software development in favor of tapping into the ranks of high school grads who would not normally go to college for Zoho. Seeing his youngest brother succeed at programming without a college degree convinced Vembu that others could follow that example with the proper training and guidance. And studying the best employees in his own company led to another epiphany: 'What if the college degree itself is not really that useful?' thought Vembu. 'What if we took kids after high school, train them ourselves?'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Best Format For OS X and Linux HDD?
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/gfGyecQQ5Xc/Best-Format-For-OS-X-and-Linux-HDD)
dogmatixpsych writes "I work in a neuroimaging laboratory. We mainly use OS X but we have computers running Linux and we have colleagues using Linux. Some of the work we do with Magnetic Resonance Images produces files that are upwards of 80GB. Due to HIPAA constraints, IT differences between departments, and the size of files we create, storage on local and portable media is the best option for transporting images between laboratories. What disk file system do Slashdot readers recommend for our external HDDs so that we can readily read and write to them using OS X and Linux? My default is to use HFS+ without journaling but I'm looking to see if there are better suggestions that are reliable, fast, and allow read/write access in OS X and Linux."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- HDBaseT Supporters Hope To Kiss HDMI Goodbye
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-CKnEBcPSNI/HDBaseT-Supporters-Hope-To-Kiss-HDMI-Goodbye)
arcticstoat writes "HDMI's short-lived reign over the TV cable racks could soon be over, thanks to a new usurper that combines several connections into a standard Cat5e/6 network cable with an RJ-45 connector. Designed by a coalition of consumer electronics manufacturers called the HDBaseT Alliance, which includes Sony, Samsung, LG and Valens, HDBaseT promises to not only carry video and audio signals, but also provide a network connection, a USB signal and even electricity using a single cable. The Alliance predicts that we'll start seeing the first HDBaseT equipment creeping into the shops later this year, but says the bigger wave of adoption will occur later in 2011."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

-- Microsoft Busting Its Own Browser+OS Myth
(http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MPUVs-wo6E0/Microsoft-Busting-Its-Own-BrowserOS-Myth)
An anonymous reader writes "Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley used her Redmond magazine column this month to point out that after years of arguing that the browser is 'inextricably linked' to the operating system, the company's current push to get users to drop IE 6 for newer versions, plus IE's separate release schedule, are disproving its own argument. From the article: 'Microsoft has insisted that its browser is part of Windows, and, ironically, that's coming back to haunt the company. Customers can mix and match different versions of IE with different versions of Windows. ... But Microsoft has done very little to get this message out there. I'd argue this is because it makes plain the absurdity of the company's claims that IE is part of Windows.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

3. Latest Shareware from Planet-Shareware
-----------------------------------------------

4. FAQ of the day from Helpforce
-----------------------------------------------

-- How do i install more ram on my compaq presario 7470?
(http://www.helpforce.com)

Question: How do i install more ram on my compaq presario 7470?

Answer: Well, its quiet easy. Firstly find out what RAM you need to buy, this should be in your computer documentation (Usually its SDRAM) then find out the speed of Ram - its best to buy 133 MHz. Then open the computer, earth yourself and CAREFULLY fit it. You may need to remove a ram board if all slots are used up and none are free. Reply Posted on 31/10/2002 Hi Tony:The 7470 is limited to two ram slots. The original will be a pc-100 around 64mb.You "might" be able to slip a 133 in beside it.you should be able to slip in a 256mb dimm.or pull your 64 and drop in 2 128's or 256's.

5. Advice of the Day from ask-leo
-----------------------------------------------

Thank you for your continued support, please do not reply to this email address as emails will not be answered.

Content copyright by its' respective owners

Search Helpforce

From eTalk

There are a total of 1673 posts on eTalk (501 topics and 1172 replies)

There are 0 guests and 2 members making a total of 2 users on eTalk.

Click Here to enter the eTalk Community.

Advertise Here!

Your Link Here?
Give your website the exposure it deserves!

Click Here For Details

Technology News

Stay up to date with technology, with a free, short daily briefing on current happenings

Alternatively visit here for more information

To view our back issues, click here

Members - eHelp Login

Click here for technical details about Helpforce's site

Kindly Hosted by:

Please visit www.asis.com for more details on Internet Access, Web Hosting and Computer Repair.Skydive North East