Made in China, a security risk?

Recent reports of counterfeit computer hardware from China have once again sparked the discussion on whether we should worry about security risks resulting from using this hardware. Obviously I am referring to counterfeit hardware such as corporate switches and routers from respectable manufacturers such as 3com and Cisco. These are commonly used by network providers, corporations and of course governments. Apparently copies of these products have shown up that are indistinguishable from the real thing, but are not manufactured by the original manufacturer.

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New Mobile GPU Drivers from NVIDIA

We’re in the midst of testing quite a few laptops, but one of the more interesting developments of late that you may have missed is that NVIDIA has finally delivered on a mobile graphics driver that can be used with the vast majority of recent notebooks. While that may not matter a whole lot for the business user, anyone that does any gaming on a notebook knows what a pain it can be trying to find new drivers. In the past we have seen issues with some “gaming notebooks” utterly failing to run recent games because of the lack of updated drivers. Such problems will now hopefully be a thing of the past, although the first “mobile reference driver” did have one pretty noteworthy limitation: it was only for the GeForce 8M and 9M products. With their second mobile driver, NVIDIA addresses the large number of GeForce 7 users that may not have seen an “official” driver update in a long time. Here’s the text of the press release:

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Quick Tip – Three Ways To Copy VHS Tapes to DVD

One question I get asked often is: “How Do You Copy VHS to DVD?”. The answer – There are three ways a consumer can copy VHS tapes to DVD:

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PC Video Converter Studio 5.1: complete tool for converting video files

PC Video Converter Studio 5.1 is programs designed to convert video formats between AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, WMV, ASF, MOV, RM, RMVB, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, MKV, iPod, iPhone , Zune, PSP, Mobile Pocket PC, Zen, Flash Video, m4v, MP4.

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The New Internet Games in Windows 7

If you’re running the Windows 7 Beta and hadn’t already noticed, we are introducing 3 new Windows Games for Windows 7.

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NEED FOR SPEED: CARBON CHEATS

Cheat Codes
Type any of the following cheat codes at the ‘CLICK TO CONTINUE’ screen. Some codes may work if entered at the MAIN MENU screen.

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Download Accelerator Plus 9.1 Final

Legal Disclaimer: If you experience problems downloading Download Accelerator Plus 9.1 Final, please download the file without using your download manager and check your firewall settings. Problems downloading? Try Internet Download Manager or FlashGet

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How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps

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16 steps to write flexible business validation in C# using Validation Blocks

Validation is one of the most important parts in any software project. Building flexible business validation is every one’s dream. Rather than writing frameworks from scratch to do these things, Microsoft validation blocks makes it a breeze. In this article we will discuss how validation application blocks help us to build flexible validations using validation application blocks. Its just a simple sixteen step process to put our business validation in action using validation blocks.

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C# Tips and Tricks (Extension Methods)

Extension methods allow you to create new functionality on existing types. Even if the types are sealed. They are declared like static methods and called like instance methods. They are valid for use on interfaces or constructed types. The trailing sample code illustrates the use of extension methods to add a Triple and Half method on the decimal type.

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