Friday, September 19, 2008

Google denies reverse-engineering Vista

TECHNOLOGY:
The source code for Google's Chrome browser gave the impression that the company had reverse-engineered Windows Vista to employ a useful security feature, but the company said it didn't in fact do so.

The Chrome source code said a particular security feature available on Vista, Data Execution Prevention, can be used on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1, though it's not documented for the older operating systems. The source code also said the feature can be understood with a disassembler, a method of reverse-engineering that deconstructs a binary file--such as Windows--into instructions more easily understood by a human.
An explanatory comment in the Chrome source code mentions use of a disassembler to figure out the security feature. "Completely undocumented from Microsoft. You can find this information by disassembling Vista's SP1 kernel32.dll with your favorite disassembler," the comment says.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day


International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers, of Corvallis, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bugatti Veyron 16.4, World's speediest demons

AUTOMOBILE:
Bugatti Veyron can get 0-60mph in 2.5 secs with max speed of 253 mph.

Head of Design Hartmut Warkuss and his team were faced with a Herculean task: they were to design a car that combined its classic heritage and state-of-the-art modernism in a unique and unmatched way.

A mid-engine sports car produced by Volkswagen Group' subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS, it is powered by a 1,001 hp (746 kW) W16 engine, and is able to achieve an average top speed of 407.47 km/h (253.19 mph).

The car is handcrafted in a factory Volkswagen built near the former Bugatti headquarters in Chateau St Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France).

It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the '24 hours of Le Mans' in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.

Megan Fox - World most sexiest woman

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :
Meet the sexiest woman in the world, she is Megan Fox.
Yes, Megan Fox has been voted as the sexiest woman in the world by FHM magzine in 2008, beating out Jessica Biel and Jessica Alba.
She began her acting and modeling career upon winning several awards in 1999 American modeling and Talent convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
She acted in couple of films in 2001, but she is well known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith in 2004 and 2007 live action film Transformers.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Sarah Palin Gets a Wikipedia Makeover


Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin got a glowing overhaul of her Wikipedia entry just hours before her nomination was announced. A mystery Wikipedia user -- under the name Young Trigg -- put in about 30 edits to the biographical article on the website. Should we believe everything we read?

The Commodore Makes a Comeback

The famous Commodore brand is to be attached to the lid of a Small, Cheap Computer. The UMMD 8010/F will be based on VIA's C7-M processor rather than an Intel Atom. It has a 10in screen, 1GB of memory and an 80GB hard drive, running Windows XP. There's a memory card slot, an Ethernet port and several USB connectors. The price is to be around the $400 to $500 range for other netbooks.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Eva Mendes: I collapsed after meeting Mick Jagger

FASHION , MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT :

Eva Mendes has revealed she was left speechless when she met Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

She met 65 year old Mick Jagger 4 years back in the lift.

'I literally collapsed when I got out of floor, He is really delicious, and he still looks really good.'