Versign Sues ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has given Verisign the right to manage several Top Level Domains (TLDs) including ?.com? and ?.net? Verisign accused ICANN of violating anti-trust laws, breaching contracts, and interfering with contractual relations. ICANN has been preventing Verisign from introducing new services, Sitefinder. Sitefinder deals with expiring domain names and search for non-existent names Site refers mis-typed web addresses to specific sites. Verisign is paid for those referrals Waiting List Service Sale of expiring domain names service also pending approval WLS has triggered lawsuits by competing registrars ICANN versus Verisign versus ITU for control of the Internet.
Space News: Mars Rovers
Hours have been scaled back with the approach of Autumn on the red planet Shorter days and increased dust storms have reduced the power output of solar cells Power down from 900 watt-hours/day to 650 watt-hours/day Both rovers are fully functional Transmitted 11,000 images and 9.1 gigabytes of data Trying to figure out the meaning of spherical grains in the sand Found evidence of water?evidence is not fully analyzed
Space News: Rosetta
Rosetta is planned to reach the comet 67P/Churyumon-Gerisimenko in 2014 Will map comets nucleus and find a suitable landing site Will dispatch a lander, Philae, to comet?s surface The landing site is expected to be a 4km wide rock or ice chunk. Lander will stick a probe into surface to remain tethered since gravity very low
Website of the Week: www.darpa.mil Do we really need 64-bit processors?
32 bit processors can address 4 GB or RAM 64-bit processors can address 16 exabytes (16 billion gigabytes) of RAM Useful for monster databases and high end animation and mathematics programs The Chip Wars
AMD has released
Athlon 64 for desktop and notebooks Opteron for servers Both are hybrids that can run 32 and 64 bit applications. Both support the .86 command set and a new 64 bit command set Sun, HP, and IBM have announced servers based on these chips
Intel has released
64-bit Itanium is not gotten much traction Does not run 32-bit apps and has not gotten much traction Rushing to release a hybrid version of the Zeon chip that will support both 32 and 64 bit applications
This new version may kill Itanium
The Operating System Wars
Versions of Linux sold by SUSE and Red Hat Beta version of the Windows XP 64-Bit Edition
Can run both 32 and 64 bit applications Can be downloaded from Microsoft now as a trial version Will run on both AMD 64-bit chips
Microsoft Operating System News
Next operating Longhorn will not be released until 2007 ? 2008. Longhorn will include
Avalon, a new graphic engine (Max OS like) Indigo, a new communications architecture (enhanced .Net) WinFS, a new file system based on relational database technology to facilitate data searching ?Baked-in? adaptive security (dynamic system protection) Longhorn will blur the lines between web application and operating system
Longhorn developers site is up and running .
Visual Studio .Net tools have been released to support Longhorn applications Longhorn beta has been released to developers
Windowx XP Reloaded may bridge the gap until Longhorn is released
Will incorporate some on Longhorn?s features early Probably security features
Microsoft Proposes Caller-ID for email
System would eliminate spoofing ISP would submit list of mail server addresses and domain names serviced Exchange would match return address against that database AOL, Yahoo are testing similar authentication systems
RSA Conference Held This Week
RSA is a security company specializing in encryption Conference honors 3rd Century Mathematician, Sun Zi, who proved the Chinese Remainder Theorem.
Modern Public Key Encryption is based on Chinese Remainder Theorem Public Key Encryption Infrastructure (PKI) is the cornerstone of modern Internet security Main security issues discussed at conference
Complacency by public with password selection Cellphones may suffer next round of attacks
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