[News] From Todays Browsing

• For all you Knoppix fans version 4.0.2 has just been released. For those of you that are not familiar with Knoppix here is the Wikipedia link. Knoppix is a Linux LiveCD distrubution. Recently I have been trying out The Auditor security collection which is a LiveCD distribution based on Knoppix. It has been designed with a menu structure that groups the various tools into the various phases of a security audit, foot-printing, analysis, scanning, wireless, brute-forcing, cracking. It also includes a very comprehensive collection of wifi and bluetooth tools.
  

• The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft lost over $US 4 billion over 4 years from the Xbox. Even more interesting is that they expect to loose money on the Xbox 360 as well and this is all part of the plan to gain a strong foothold in the lucrative console market.

• Microsoft have released Service Pack 2 (KB887979) for Office 2003, it is a compilation of all previous updates as well as containing “some significant security enhancements”. There are two versions of the Service Pack, Office2003SP2-KB887616-Client-ENU.exe (51Mb) might require whereas the Office2003SP2-KB887616-FullFile-ENU.exe (104Mb) will not.
  

• Tom’s Hardare Guide has a great comparison of 22 Serial ATA and Ultra ATA Hard Drives which is worth a read, I was just happy to see that my 74 GB Raptor from Western Digital came up tops for performance. I use this 10,000 rpm SATA drive for my OS, applications and of course games. I have had this drive for a year now and I do notice the performance when the booting my OS and loading games and applications.