Archive for September 7th, 2007

Pontiac G8 Ute a distinct possibility?

GoAuto – News

HOLDEN has factored a major new export program – believed to be the new VE Ute – into its production plans at its manufacturing plant at Elizabeth in South Australia.

Stolen From: Pontiac G8 Ute a distinct possibility – Autoblog


Dreamcast: Sega's Last Scream

DreamcastRetrograding Gaming: Dreamcast: Sega’s Last Scream

Imagine if you released the first videogame console with a built-in modem. Imagine if you released a game console that put no restriction on online play, not forcing the purchase of any add-ons, services, or subscriptions. Imagine if you created a gaming machine that took memory cards that doubled as GameBoy-like mini-PDAs. Imagine if you had the strongest quality-wise launch line-up for a gaming console debatably of all-time, including staggering support from Capcom, two of the greatest fighters ever made, the first football series to give Madden a run for its money in years, and the true debut of a Sonic the Hedgehog full 3-D platformer.

Now imagine if you screwed all that up.


Dreamcast: Sega’s Last Scream

DreamcastRetrograding Gaming: Dreamcast: Sega’s Last Scream

Imagine if you released the first videogame console with a built-in modem. Imagine if you released a game console that put no restriction on online play, not forcing the purchase of any add-ons, services, or subscriptions. Imagine if you created a gaming machine that took memory cards that doubled as GameBoy-like mini-PDAs. Imagine if you had the strongest quality-wise launch line-up for a gaming console debatably of all-time, including staggering support from Capcom, two of the greatest fighters ever made, the first football series to give Madden a run for its money in years, and the true debut of a Sonic the Hedgehog full 3-D platformer.

Now imagine if you screwed all that up.


Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers

Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers – Security – www.itnews.com.au

"In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away," said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. "If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It’s very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there’s not much we can do about it."


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