Brian Brinegar, OLS student, recently coordinated a 57-hour video gaming marathon, which raised more than $11,000 for Child’s Play charity. The charity provides toys and games for children’s hospitals around the world, including Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.
Among the other participants were John Groth, Purdue alumnus and network administrator for TCN, and Purdue alumnus Dan May.
“Three of us played all the major Super Mario Brothers video games and broadcasted the event live over the Internet from Friday, June 27 in the afternoon and ended sometime Monday around 12:30 am,” said Groth. “On average, we had 2,000 or more people watching the feed at any time and over 600 donors to the charity.”
Donors were linked from the Super Mario Marathon Web site --www.mariomarathon.com -- directly to the Child's Play charity, www.childsplaycharity.org.
“We are exhausted from the event, but very grateful for the overwhelming response from the online and gaming community and their generous donations to Child's Play,” said Groth. “We also had lots of support from our friends and family, including our supervisors at work since we needed a day off to catch up on sleep.”
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Jumat, 31 Oktober 2008
Intel's Moorestown would make iPhone less secure
Putting Intel's Moorestown chip package inside a future version of the iPhone would make the smart phone less secure, according to an independent security researcher.
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"That will make the iPhone x86 and that will make a lot of attacks easier," said Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security researcher, in an interview at the Hack In The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[ For a look at other enterprise-worthy smartphones on the market, check out "Supersmart phones for extreme mobility." For more on bringing the iPhone into the office, read "How to make the new iPhone work at work." ]
Due for release in 2009 or 2010, Moorestown is a chip package designed for smart phones and other handheld computers. The heart of the package is an upcoming version of Intel's Atom's processor, an inexpensive low-power x86 processor. Apple has never said it intends to use Moorestown in future products, but Intel is widely believed to be hopeful that Apple will adopt the chip package.
"The iPhone uses the Arm processor and most people are not familiar with it," Dai Zovi said, noting that x86 processors are familiar territory for malware writers and hackers looking for vulnerabilities.
"If you're doing exploits and vulnerability research, you need to know the specifics of the processor that's running," he said.
Dai Zovi is a well-recognized figure in computer security circles and is widely known for winning a 2007 hacking contest that involved hacking into a MacBook Pro laptop. The feat by Dai Zovi and partner Shane Macaulay won them the MacBook Pro as well as a $10,000 prize, and laid to rest popular misconceptions that MacOS X was somehow immune from the type of security vulnerabilities that affect Windows-based computers.
Intel executives declined to comment on Dai Zovi's remarks, saying any discussion of a Moorestown-based iPhone is purely hypothetical. In addition, they said Intel's policy is to decline comment on other companies' products.
MacOS X is seen as generally safer than Windows, because the small market share of MacOS X means most malware writers and hackers choose to focus their efforts on Windows instead. But that could change as iPhone sales boost the number of MacOS X users.
"The iPhone is another OS X platform and whereas now the market share for OS X is definitely under 10 percent on desktops, on smart phones they recently sold more phones than RIM," Dai Zovi said, referring to the maker of the BlackBerry line of handheld devices.
The iPhone runs a slimmed-down version of MacOS X, the operating system used in Apple's desktop and laptop computers. As a result, some of the security features that are included in the desktop version of MacOS X are not included in the phone version.
"The iPhone is significantly less secure than the desktop version of OS X," Dai Zovi said.
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"That will make the iPhone x86 and that will make a lot of attacks easier," said Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security researcher, in an interview at the Hack In The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
[ For a look at other enterprise-worthy smartphones on the market, check out "Supersmart phones for extreme mobility." For more on bringing the iPhone into the office, read "How to make the new iPhone work at work." ]
Due for release in 2009 or 2010, Moorestown is a chip package designed for smart phones and other handheld computers. The heart of the package is an upcoming version of Intel's Atom's processor, an inexpensive low-power x86 processor. Apple has never said it intends to use Moorestown in future products, but Intel is widely believed to be hopeful that Apple will adopt the chip package.
"The iPhone uses the Arm processor and most people are not familiar with it," Dai Zovi said, noting that x86 processors are familiar territory for malware writers and hackers looking for vulnerabilities.
"If you're doing exploits and vulnerability research, you need to know the specifics of the processor that's running," he said.
Dai Zovi is a well-recognized figure in computer security circles and is widely known for winning a 2007 hacking contest that involved hacking into a MacBook Pro laptop. The feat by Dai Zovi and partner Shane Macaulay won them the MacBook Pro as well as a $10,000 prize, and laid to rest popular misconceptions that MacOS X was somehow immune from the type of security vulnerabilities that affect Windows-based computers.
Intel executives declined to comment on Dai Zovi's remarks, saying any discussion of a Moorestown-based iPhone is purely hypothetical. In addition, they said Intel's policy is to decline comment on other companies' products.
MacOS X is seen as generally safer than Windows, because the small market share of MacOS X means most malware writers and hackers choose to focus their efforts on Windows instead. But that could change as iPhone sales boost the number of MacOS X users.
"The iPhone is another OS X platform and whereas now the market share for OS X is definitely under 10 percent on desktops, on smart phones they recently sold more phones than RIM," Dai Zovi said, referring to the maker of the BlackBerry line of handheld devices.
The iPhone runs a slimmed-down version of MacOS X, the operating system used in Apple's desktop and laptop computers. As a result, some of the security features that are included in the desktop version of MacOS X are not included in the phone version.
"The iPhone is significantly less secure than the desktop version of OS X," Dai Zovi said.
The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy
Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.
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A key developer of the platform was Microsoft corporate vice president Amitabh Srivistava, who discussed the effort with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr and Editor at Large Paul Krill at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles earlier this week.
[ For more news from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, check out InfoWorld's special report. ]
InfoWorld: So you would develop locally on your machine. The whole deployment phase is then automated onto the platform?
Srivistava: Yes. And the same bits that you have been developing on your machine, exactly the same bits get deployed to the cloud. Once you have developed and you have been testing on a development machine, you see it working and you say, "OK, looks pretty good, let's go try it on the real stuff." Then you don't have to compile again. And we provide a very effective, very distributed storage that consists of mostly things like blobs, tables, a management system, and a lot of computation all designed to be scalable and available.
InfoWorld: It must have been at least 10 years ago when Microsoft had to change its strategy and go to the Internet, and you had Internet Explorer coming out of that. Is this cloud initiative as dramatic a change as that was?
Srivistava: A lot of these pieces are coming together as a coherent services strategy and now we can articulate it in a way and we can actually see how all of these pieces are going to evolve. Basically, I think that's why we can exactly say who's doing what and we can start looking at it end to end, in all directions to go back and say, "How does a customer solve this problem, what does it mean to write a service?"
InfoWorld: Does this mean a diminishing of shrink-wrapped, boxed software? Are people going to be buying online? Deploying online?
Srivistava: I really don't think it's an either/or proposition. I see it more as an extension of the server to the cloud. And clearly yes, some things that are running on premises, on server, will move to the cloud. But on the other hand, you're also opening up new opportunities because a certain class of applications will be written where they'll be doing part of the things on premises and part of the things on cloud. People have some data they're not going to move to the cloud no matter what happens. They're going to keep it on premises. Certain functions are not going to go away. [And] there are clear advantages [that] the cloud brings. If you marry the two together, you're opening up a new class of applications. I think it's going to be an interesting dynamic and I think it's net-additive.
InfoWorld: It was a year and a half ago when the "software plus services" phrase was first floated by Steve Ballmer, and I think a lot of us were wondering, "Oh come on, what does he mean? Live updates, what does he mean?" And now it's clear, this is a developer play. This is about building services in the cloud.
Srivistava: [With] Windows Azure, we just did not take Windows Server and just put it on the cloud, OK? What we said was "let's go look at the problem we want to solve." I mean if you have something [that] works fine on the cloud, why would we not put it [there]? But wherever it makes sense, do it [there].
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» Back to special report: Microsoft PDC 2008
A key developer of the platform was Microsoft corporate vice president Amitabh Srivistava, who discussed the effort with InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr and Editor at Large Paul Krill at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles earlier this week.
[ For more news from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, check out InfoWorld's special report. ]
InfoWorld: So you would develop locally on your machine. The whole deployment phase is then automated onto the platform?
Srivistava: Yes. And the same bits that you have been developing on your machine, exactly the same bits get deployed to the cloud. Once you have developed and you have been testing on a development machine, you see it working and you say, "OK, looks pretty good, let's go try it on the real stuff." Then you don't have to compile again. And we provide a very effective, very distributed storage that consists of mostly things like blobs, tables, a management system, and a lot of computation all designed to be scalable and available.
InfoWorld: It must have been at least 10 years ago when Microsoft had to change its strategy and go to the Internet, and you had Internet Explorer coming out of that. Is this cloud initiative as dramatic a change as that was?
Srivistava: A lot of these pieces are coming together as a coherent services strategy and now we can articulate it in a way and we can actually see how all of these pieces are going to evolve. Basically, I think that's why we can exactly say who's doing what and we can start looking at it end to end, in all directions to go back and say, "How does a customer solve this problem, what does it mean to write a service?"
InfoWorld: Does this mean a diminishing of shrink-wrapped, boxed software? Are people going to be buying online? Deploying online?
Srivistava: I really don't think it's an either/or proposition. I see it more as an extension of the server to the cloud. And clearly yes, some things that are running on premises, on server, will move to the cloud. But on the other hand, you're also opening up new opportunities because a certain class of applications will be written where they'll be doing part of the things on premises and part of the things on cloud. People have some data they're not going to move to the cloud no matter what happens. They're going to keep it on premises. Certain functions are not going to go away. [And] there are clear advantages [that] the cloud brings. If you marry the two together, you're opening up a new class of applications. I think it's going to be an interesting dynamic and I think it's net-additive.
InfoWorld: It was a year and a half ago when the "software plus services" phrase was first floated by Steve Ballmer, and I think a lot of us were wondering, "Oh come on, what does he mean? Live updates, what does he mean?" And now it's clear, this is a developer play. This is about building services in the cloud.
Srivistava: [With] Windows Azure, we just did not take Windows Server and just put it on the cloud, OK? What we said was "let's go look at the problem we want to solve." I mean if you have something [that] works fine on the cloud, why would we not put it [there]? But wherever it makes sense, do it [there].
HP, Dell, Toshiba recall Sony laptop batteries again
Three of the biggest laptop computer makers are recalling certain batteries because of a risk they may overheat and catch fire. Sony made the batteries and the recall mirrors -- yet appears a lot smaller than -- a similar one that occurred two years ago.
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This time, around 100,000 batteries are affected, a fraction of the 9.6 million batteries recalled in 2006. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba have already issued recalls for the batteries that were used in their products and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said "consumers should stop using recalled products immediately."
The batteries in question were manufactured between October 2004 and June 2005 and to date there have been about 40 incidents reportedly globally of overheating, Sony said Friday.
Most of the incidents are believed to be due to manufacturing line adjustments made during the period that may have affected some batteries, Sony said. Additionally some may have been due to raw material flaws.
Of the 100,000 batteries affected, around 35,000 were used in laptops shipped in the U.S. By far the greatest number, about 32,000, were shipped with HP laptops.
The maker said it is recalling batteries that have a barcode label beginning with A0, L0, L1, or GC that were shipped with HP Pavilion dv1000, dv8000, and zd8000 models; with Compaq Presario v2000 and v2400 machines; and with HP Compaq nc6110, nc6120, nc6140, nc6220, nc6230,nx4800, nx4820, nx6110, nx6120, and nx9600 computers.
Toshiba's U.S. recall covers around 3,000 Satellite A70/A75, P30/P5, M30X/M35X, and M50/M55 laptops and Tecra A3, A5 and S2 computers.
Dell is recalling battery model OU091 in Latitude 110L and Inspiron 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160 computers.
Consumers who believe they have batteries that have been recalled should stop using the batteries and check with their PC vendor.
An additional 2,000 batteries were shipped in the Japanese market and the remaining 63,000 went to consumers in other regions, including Europe and Asia. Recall notices for machines shipped in these other regions are expected to be issued shortly.
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This time, around 100,000 batteries are affected, a fraction of the 9.6 million batteries recalled in 2006. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba have already issued recalls for the batteries that were used in their products and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said "consumers should stop using recalled products immediately."
The batteries in question were manufactured between October 2004 and June 2005 and to date there have been about 40 incidents reportedly globally of overheating, Sony said Friday.
Most of the incidents are believed to be due to manufacturing line adjustments made during the period that may have affected some batteries, Sony said. Additionally some may have been due to raw material flaws.
Of the 100,000 batteries affected, around 35,000 were used in laptops shipped in the U.S. By far the greatest number, about 32,000, were shipped with HP laptops.
The maker said it is recalling batteries that have a barcode label beginning with A0, L0, L1, or GC that were shipped with HP Pavilion dv1000, dv8000, and zd8000 models; with Compaq Presario v2000 and v2400 machines; and with HP Compaq nc6110, nc6120, nc6140, nc6220, nc6230,nx4800, nx4820, nx6110, nx6120, and nx9600 computers.
Toshiba's U.S. recall covers around 3,000 Satellite A70/A75, P30/P5, M30X/M35X, and M50/M55 laptops and Tecra A3, A5 and S2 computers.
Dell is recalling battery model OU091 in Latitude 110L and Inspiron 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150, and 5160 computers.
Consumers who believe they have batteries that have been recalled should stop using the batteries and check with their PC vendor.
An additional 2,000 batteries were shipped in the Japanese market and the remaining 63,000 went to consumers in other regions, including Europe and Asia. Recall notices for machines shipped in these other regions are expected to be issued shortly.
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