Preview of Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Microsoft has released the Release Candidate (RC) released its upcoming Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Together with Windows Server Foundation, the new server operating system to replace Windows Small Business and Home Server, Windows Server 2012 Essentials is designed here on networks with up to 25 users (CALs).
According to the blog entry, the developers have simplified compared to the beta version to import SSL certificates and existing Office 365 users. To speed up the installation, the setup program included only critical updates, other updates are recorded later. In addition, we've updated the Windows SBS Best Practices Analyzer and enables support for DHCP (DHCP Role).
The date for the publication of the final Windows Server 2012 Essentials Microsoft calls the end of the year. Until then, it would still add-on software such as Windows 8 Companion app and publish a Windows Phone 7 app, on which you can access data on the server.
At U.S. $ 425 expensive Essentials is a set number of CALs on the package, the license is for use on systems with up to two CPU sockets. Prices are based on a purchase from your Open License Program. The Foundation version to be delivered only with hardware (OEM), Microsoft calls the prices accordingly. As a successor to the Microsoft Home Server explicitly praises the Essentials edition: He will then dominate all services put in your Home Server. Compared to the previous Small Business Server 2012 Essentials server does not have Exchange and SQL Server with more, making the necessary licenses must be purchased separately.
Coolpix S800c: Nikon announces compact camera with Android
With the Coolpix S800c a major camera manufacturer has announced a compact camera with the smartphone operating system Android. But not the current version 4.1 Jelly Bean is running on the new Coolpix, but the older Android 2.3 Gingerbread. As it stands with the update capability, Nikon has also revealed yet.
The fact that the Japanese go this step is unusual in that she had so far not even a compact camera with built-in Wi-Fi program. However circulated for weeks first pictures and specifications of the camera in the network.
The S800c connects via Wi-Fi to the Internet and makes it possible to download apps directly from the Google Play Store, so Nikon in a press release. So shall not only social networks like Twitter or Facebook can be driven comfortably on the Coolpix will also run photo apps and games. Already installed, the application "my Picturetown" that connects the camera directly with the same Nikon's photo storage service.
All other technical data are less spectacular: Inside the S800c a 1/2 ,3-inch CMOS image sensor has a resolution of 16 megapixels and rear exposure. This should succeed photos even in low light conditions, the manufacturer promises. The camera's sensitivity ranges from ISO 100 to ISO 3200. Also equipped with Nikon's New from the EXPEED C2 image processing system that will provide more enhanced movie shooting.
A ten times optical zoom, the Nikkor lens. It thus covers a small-screen equivalent focal length of 25 mm to 250 mm. The maximum aperture is f/3.2 at the wide angle, telephoto at f/5.8.
Navigation is done via a 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen, which will achieve the same sensitivity as its smartphone counterpart. A resolution of 819,000 pixels, also would ensure a wide viewing angle, so Nikon.
In addition, the S800c is equipped with GPS, which allows the recording as a photo location geotag noted in the EXIF data. Moreover, the Coolpix in full HD (1080p) films at 30 frames per second and makes motion images at a frame rate of up to 240 frames per second in QVGA resolution.
From the end of September will be available the Coolpix S800c in black and white for about 400 euros.
Dell is selling fewer computers
With a significant reduction in earnings guidance for the current fiscal year 2012/2013 Dell has disappointed investors. Also on 4 August, which ended fiscal second quarter brought less revenue than expected. Especially the business with consumers collapses. Michael Dell asking his fellow shareholders to be patient: The ongoing restructuring of the company he founded, to a service provider and supplier of large companies will take quite some time to complete.
Dell has implemented in the second fiscal quarter of 14.5 billion dollars (11.7 billion euros). Compared to the second quarter of the previous financial year, which is a decline of eight percent. The number of units sold has dropped by a tenth to 10.4 million. The net profit has fallen by as much as 18 percent to 732 million U.S. dollars (590 million euros). In the last twelve months, Dell draw from the operation's free cash flow of 2.8 billion U.S. dollars. A year ago, this figure was at 5.1 billion U.S. dollars.
To consumers and small business customers (small office), Dell only sell equipment and services worth $ 2.6 billion - a drop of 22 percent year on year. But since the cost of this division have not fallen proportionately, the margin has disappeared in the same period from 3.1 percent to only five per thousand. Opposite analyst Michael Dell repeatedly stressed to focus on the segment of medium-and high-end devices. This market is shrinking. The lower class prevailing price war Dell avoids deliberately; which substantially reduces the revenue, but it should save the margin.
Dell suffers from several effects: consumers are currently prefer to tablets and smartphones than laptops, saves the public sector in the U.S. and many traders are waiting for the new Microsoft operating system Windows 8 They have therefore reduced their inventories and less ordered. Accordingly, Dell hopes that Windows 8 PC and laptop market, as well as Windows Server 2012 give a new impetus to the server market.
Dell is committed to the long term, but markets with much higher profit margins: Great company to sell more software, services, servers, networking and storage solutions than ever before. "This is a long-term strategy," Michael Dell said on Tuesday with analysts, "It will take time." Therefore buys his company also vigorously: Alone in the first half, six acquisitions announced. Five have already been settled, the purchase of the software provider quest to follow in the current quarter. For services, servers and networks could establish Dell in the second quarter, with software and storage solutions, however, sales fell.
Region manner considered Dell hopes on emerging markets. But except for Russia, where sales increased by 47 per cent was achieved, it was everywhere downhill: China -10 percent, Asia Pacific Japan 12 percent, Brazil -15 percent, -30 percent in India. By comparison, North, Central and South America -6 percent, Europe and Middle East -12 percent.
The forecast for the beginning of February Ending Fiscal Year Dell had also significantly reduced. Instead of the previously expected earnings growth, there will be a fall: $ 1.70 per share is a good Füntel less, even without consideration of the current share buyback program. Large investors did not like the prospect. In after hours trading, Dell's shares lost more than 4.5 percent to 11.78 U.S. dollars. In mid-February, the securities had to 18.16 U.S. dollars yet seen a three-year high.
Toshiba: Server SSDs SAS12G interface
With first SAS12G products was expected to actually until 2013. But just in time for Santa Clara, California currently held Flash Memory Summit Toshiba announces now already for October first SSDs with the accelerated to 12 Gb / s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.
For copies of PX02SM series, the manufacturer promises a read speed of 900 MB / s and 120,000 IOPS (input and output operations per second), which then requires however a fitting SAS12G controller. Corresponding copies LSI and PMC-Sierra Division Adaptec had already demonstrated, they stick with specific product announcements, but still returned. When writing plays fast connection does not matter: At 400 MB / s and 30,000 IOPS is theoretically sufficient for the new Toshiba SSDs also SAS6G (6 Gb / s).
For this Toshiba klotzt in memory: Besides versions with 200, 400, 800 GB with 7 mm height that should be available in October for "selected projects" available, the manufacturer will in the course of the fourth quarter and a 1.6-TB SSD deliver the 15-mm case. All data stored in particularly robust eMLC chips from the 24-nanometer manufacturing. For the 400-gigabyte version specified Toshiba a write endurance of 7.3 petabytes in randomly distributed queries - theoretically the life of the SSD five years if they are ten times a day completely overwrites. The probability of failure of 0.44 percent Annual Failure Rate (AFR) is similar to other current server SSDs.
Considerably less robust, but probably cheaper versions are also announced the PX02AM series with 100, 200 or 400 GB and SATA 6G interface. Here is the Write Endurance only 2 petabytes. However, the rate is also much lower: Toshiba promises applicable to them, at best, 500 MB / s (read) and 240 MB / s (write) and 36,000 IOPS (read) and 5,000 IOPS (write). Here the life of the SSD achieved just three years if they are about ten times a day completely overwrites.
These SSDs are just like the series PX03AN (55, 120, 240, 480 GB) intended for use in entry-level servers. The last-mentioned Varianen also work with conventional consumer-grade (CMLC) chips from the 19-nanometer manufacturing and reach compared to PX02AM series depending on storage capacity and 1500 IOPS distributed writes. Prices are not yet well known here.
Defence of Facebook warnings
It was obvious that the operators of commercial social media appearances would be affected due to lack of warnings or incorrect information-imprint. Especially Facebook performances offer here some working surfaces. The extent seen first major warning wave has now brought the company Binary Services GmbH from Regenstauf rolling. Their managing director Florian Blischke brought it in the recent past in the context of file-sharing warnings to some notoriety. Sent represented by Hans-Werner Kallert the company similarly worded antitrust warnings to operators of commercial Facebook pages that contain no imprint. Along with the warning received Affected solicitation of a boilerplate criminal act and declaration of a cost accounting of the firm in the amount of 265.70 euros.
To what extent such a warning is, in principle, depends on many factors and can therefore only individual case to determine exactly. It is clear that each not only purely private use Facebook page must contain a page for visitors easily accessible imprint. So if you do not imprint on his commercial Facebook page, should rectify quickly. Detailed information on Legal and patterns can be found on the Internet.
The imprint must be on the Facebook page but not only exist, but for the visitor to be found easily. In the current warnings is lifted to a judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg on 19/08/2011 (ref. 2 HK O 54/11). This was judged according to the TMG (German Telemedia Act) that the imprint-mandatory information must be easily and effectively visually perceptible. You must be discoverable without having to search. Therefore already subject to the term "information" a violation of § 5 TMG. In addition, should also be clear on what the imprint refers Telemedia. (BGH) has, however, already with a judgment of 20.07.2006 (Case No.: I ZR 228/03) decided that specifying a provider identification is sufficient for a website, when "this without having to search through two links and the terms Contact "and" Imprint "is reachable. Why in this context the term "information" for the imprint, information should not be sufficient, remains the secret of the LG Aschaffenburg. But the judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg in the world, and within the limits of what is permissible in unfair competition disputes over jurisdiction of the websites can be freely selected from Abmahner.
In order to accommodate the imprint holds under the tab "Info" is currently a certain danger. Anyone who has received a warning because of the alleged lack of imprint, but this under "Info" is available should each other advice for a lawyer specializing in intellectual property law. This then helps in the assessment of individual risk. The cost of such a defense depend largely on underlying dispute. The current in the warnings is believed a dispute value of 3000 euros.
There is some evidence that this is excessive. So the Celle Court recently the dispute for interlocutory injunction proceedings for violations of § 5 TMG 2000 Euro set (judgment 14.06.2011, Az. 13 U 50/11) for the main action, the court an argument worth 3000 Euros as appropriate at. In the references cited in the judgment of the LG Aschaffenburg warnings assumes a value in dispute of 2000 euros. The LG casting recently in a similar case (Decision of 01.12.2011, Case No.: 8 O 74/11) also set a dispute of 2000 euros. So there is much to be here to accept only a dispute of 2000 euros. It is not excluded that in other jurisdictions significantly higher values underlying dispute located.
The risk of litigation costs in an argument is worth 3000 Euros for the first instance at about 1440 Euro and a dispute of 2000 euros at around 1060 euro. For other values in dispute, a look at the process cost calculator.
The problem is the resistance when the imprint in the Facebook Timeline "hidden". Here to talk about the legal requirements of easy accessibility already requires a lot of imagination, because of the entry, over time more and more gradually dropping and so after a short time is not discoverable or visible without scrolling long. Also, the "pinning" of the imprint at the front position of the timeline does not work against warnings, because the imprint entry here after a week moves down.
It is safer to Facebook at the moment when the imprint is in a separate, newly created tab named "Contacts" accommodating. That alone is not, however, because at the moment the indication of the imprint-rider in the manner provided for mobile devices Facebook-view is not technically possible at m.facebook.com. In this view, only the Info tab is accessible. To act on the requirements of § 5 TMG sequence required under the TMG must say both behind a tab named "Contacts" and under an additional "info" tab be kept. So then the current purely actually possible would be implemented in terms of Legal Notice.
Even if the warning "in the matter" appears justified because of Abgemahnte to be warned when actually could show no easily accessible imprint on his commercial Facebook page, that does not mean that the warning is also justified. To admonish commercial, make sure your Abmahnende compete for Abgemahnten. Only if there is a legitimate interest in a caution. The Binary Services GmbH provides Kallert lawyer as "the IT system house with strong added functions" represent actual fact, on the company's website for virtually every conceivable IT-related topics relevant offers and services. Whether it actually includes spending in the areas listed are achieved, would clarify if necessary, the courts. A response to the request from H to sample projects Blischke was guilty. Formally, the expected on the website extremely wide range of products and services presented but sufficient to establish a competitive relation with many companies active on Facebook. Nevertheless, an examination by a specialist lawyer to pay off well here, when the trade of Abgemahnten content far enough from the specified range of activities of the binary Services GmbH away.
The enforcement of competition law injunctive relief is also not allowed if they improperly taking into account all circumstances. This is especially true when it serves mainly to arise against the offender is entitled to compensation for expenses or costs of prosecution can. Any party will probably say here immediately, just as it is. However, the legislature has set a successful misuse defense pretty high hurdles. However, the systematic thinning of the internet, considering possible antitrust violations by the Abmahnenden be an indication of a very abusive reliance for revenue. Case collections can help to convince the court that it just is not about stopping an infringement of competition, but the cost of production.
The same applies if the Abmahntätigkeit a competitor out of proportion to its existing commercial or professional activities. The abusive reliance on § 8 paragraph 4 of the UWG concerns the litigation authority and thus a prerequisite process. You must be tested at each stage of the proceedings of its own motion. Here Abmahnpraxis in regard to these cases will be to watch. It is not unlikely that some of the cost risk Abgemahnte not be shy and courts to clarify whether there is here a Rechtsmissbräuchlichkeit.
If you have received a legitimate warning, it is important to keep the potential damage to a minimum. Therefore, do not sign the pre-formulated especially premature failure of the undertaking Abmahner. In the present a pre-failure warnings relevant undertaking is annexed, which will undertake the Abgemahnten to pay for any future violation of 3000 euros Binary Services. Moreover, the proposed explanation very far-reaching and detrimental to Abgemahnten formulated. After that, should the receiver "for each violation, and the exclusion of the plea of continuing relationship" commit to refrain from it in the future, "an underlying noisy TMG the provider's duty website to entertain without specifying a § 5 TMG corresponding imprint". Furthermore, should the Abgemahnten undertake to pay the costs of using a lawyer Kallert dispute of 3000 euros.
Here lurk the same two cases: First, it is absolutely unnecessary to make a commitment in the declaration of failure to pay the required legal fees. On the other hand refers to the declaration of not only the abgemahnte Facebook page, but to all Internet sites of the individual concerned. Anyone who still maintains other websites obliged to deal with the signature to every time to pay 3000 euros to the Binary Services GmbH, if on any other website or other legal notice requiring social media presence a defective imprint can be found. This can quickly become costly and is hardly avoid later because you have closed with the signature under the pre-declaration a fundamentally legal agreement.
Usually it makes sense for a legitimate warning, issue a modified cease and desist letter, which contains no fixed penalty, but this is at the discretion of the other side and for review by a court. Moreover, should not be given the declaration of a flat rate, but always specifically on the World Wide Web view of the concrete abgemahnten Facebook page refer, or about http://www.facebook.com/IHRE-FACEBOOK-SEITE. Abgemahnte should not commit more than absolutely necessary. With the submission of such a close Unterlassungsverpflichtungserkärung take the opposite side of a lot of wind out of the sails and avoid an expensive process, eg in the context of an injunction. But it is important that the self-worded cease and desist letter is tailored to their specific case and contains a sufficient penalty scheme. , An ideal solution for all cases, it unfortunately does not give here, which is why we recommend a consultation with an experienced lawyer specializing in intellectual property law.
By the submission of punitive desist you lower the value in dispute already enormous, because then it only goes to the rightful abmahnenden attorney costs. Here you can then question about the carrying amounts in dispute of 3000 euros and refuse to pay the costs involved. This dispute then goes to trial, the risk of litigation costs is only around 255 euros. It is not unlikely that the Abmahnern with comparatively so little dispute - it's all now just to the attorney's fees in the amount of 265.70 euros - and the apparent large number of warnings, the motivation is taken to sue at all.
Facebook as a platform operator is fine when it comes to imprint warning letters out: The company needs only to ensure that their own (Facebook) Imprint is easily accessible. For the imprint of individual commercial Facebook pages, however, the respective user is responsible. He can hold harmless with a warning not to Facebook, nor may they make excuses for the fact that Facebook it a suitable solution for the accommodation of the imprint provides.
Of course it would be preferable if Facebook would provide a platform operators here a working both for PCs and mobile device solution. But by law, the company undertakes no obligation. At most, the users themselves could Facebook persuaded to take care of the issue.
Microsoft warns of PPTP and MS-CHAP
Microsoft warns of serious security problem in authentication via MS-CHAP v2, which comes in especially Microsoft's VPN technology Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is used. Three weeks ago, the encryption expert Moxie Marlinspike presented at the Black Hat conference in front of the Web Service Cloud cracker who can crack any PPTP access for $ 200 within 24 hours.
The basic problem has been known for many years: MS-CHAP v2 is a strange combination of three verschwurbelte DES operations. The crack can be reliably by trying all 256 possible DES keys - no matter how complex the password used. This task a specially designed server with FPGAs done in less than a day.
Those who logged a PPTP logon process with a network sniffer can chapcrack with the open-source tool to extract required for this token and can be at Cloud Cracker for $ 200 crack the key with which he can then decrypt the entire network traffic. The same also applies for corporate WLANs secured with WPA2 and MS-CHAP2. The MS-CHAPv2-Challenge and Response can be caught with FreeRADIUS WPE and feed then again at chapcrack.
For more security, there are essentially two strategies: Either you pack the MS-CHAP authentication in a separate tunnel verschlüsslten - Microsoft recommends the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) - or, switching to a secure VPN technology. As alternatives, suggests Microsoft L2TP/IPSec, IPSec with IKEv2 or SSTP before. The open-source OpenVPN protocol is not in the list before.
Pirates quarrel about Ponaders "funding scandal"
A fundraiser for John Ponader, the political manager of the Pirate Party has attracted a broad debate to himself. Idea of Ponader and his supporters was to ask him for his political work, to a monthly base income of 1,000 euros available - financed through crowd-funding. The total represents the initiators according to what the loud self-presentation as a "writer, director, drama teacher, actor and musical performers" working Ponader had previously received from the job center.
The suggestion receives from different directions fierce headwind: So-called Florian Zumkeller Quast and Paul Meyer-Dunker, her character chairman and vice chairman of the Young Pirates, Ponaders behavior as "intolerable." He used his position in order to gain a "personal privilege". With an unconditional basic income, for which he enters politics, which have nothing to do. The young pirate suggested that Ponader should better use for a general allowance for board work.
On one of the Facebook pages of the Pirates Anonymous is even in the name of the movement deprived of support - at least until Ponader was in office and "free rein" enjoy. In the controversial rant Ponader is accused, among other things, do not want to work for reasons of convenience and his party with the "political sidelines" to shoot.
Also available via podcast at a Question Time who stood Ponader on Sunday, it rained criticism - to the proposal, but he could go to work at McDonald's. Ponader himself emphasizes that he does not see the money as a donation but as a "test" form of the unconditional basic income. Klaus complained Peukert from the National Board of the pirates the prevailing attitude in the debate: "Who does not work shall not eat." He pointed out Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate, who financed his full-time work for the party in the meantime also by donations.
Earlier, the income situation Ponaders have been the subject of media attention: The debate over whether the called "Hartz IV pirate" Ponader dubbed illegitimate benefits have referred culminated, finally, in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in which Ponader renounced the transfer of services to the public.
Samsung puts billions in Texas mobile chip production
Samsung Austin Semiconductor is planning to invest around $ 4 billion in upgrading its chip factory in Texas. This is the manufacturing subsidiary of South Korean IT company announced Tuesday in a press release. The work will start in August - mass production will be possible from the second half of 2013. The upgraded fab will produce mainly intended for mobile devices, System-on-Chip (SoC) on 300-mm wafers using 28-nanometer technology, Samsung said. According to the group, these are the largest investment by a foreign company in the U.S. state of Texas.
Industry observers believe that the future there gefertigen chips mainly for iPhone, iPad and Samsung's own equipment is intended - Apple and the Galaxy manufacturers dominate the global smartphone market in the meantime. At the same time, both companies are stuck in a bitter patent dispute. In a California jury on Tuesday the process should begin its sentencing deliberations, a conference of the two CEOs did not result in sudden agreement. Bloomberg estimates that Apple's chip contracts accounting for nearly nine percent of Samsung's sales.
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 660 with 1152 cores for complete systems
Nvidia offers complete systems for the more expensive players graphics card GeForce GTX 660 Ti now also offers a non-Ti version. It is compatible with DirectX 11.1 and therefore supports Target Independent Rasterization, which should increase with Windows 8 is about the Direct2D performance when processing edge-glätteter geometry. In retail, the GeForce GTX 660 can acquire not yet, but that should change in the coming weeks. Nvidia has finally available from between the GeForce GTX 660 Ti 290 euros and available from 80 euros GeForce GT 640 currently. Graphics cards with no sparing, in the 28-nanometer process produced Kepler graphics chips
The GPU of the GeForce GTX 660 will total 1152 shader cores (GTX 660 Ti: 1344), working with 823 MHz. Via turbo speed them on guaranteed 888 MHz - and if the environmental factors such as power consumption and temperature are, and beyond. Nvidia provides the graphics card with 1.5 or 3 GB of GDDR5 video memory, which communicates over 192 data lines with the GPU. According to Nvidia, the memory speed will be 2.9 GHz, the data transfer rate at a maximum of 134 GB / s However, conflicting data, because at 2.9 GHz, the transfer rate would be at 139.2 GB s / In the later for retail imaginary, individually available graphics cards can still vary the specifications. To play in the full-HD resolution, the performance of the graphics card is sufficient.
For the multi-screen operation, the GTX 660 and suitable offers two dual-link DVI ports, an HDMI socket and a DisplayPort (v1.2). The latter should be able to spend even 4K resolutions. The graphics card occupies two slots and is a good 24 inches long.
Nvidia has a maximum power consumption of 130 watts and recommends the complete system manufacturers to operate at least a 450-watt power supply. The map draws on over a six-pin power connector.
Multiplatform spy works its way to smartphones and VMs
End of July, viruses, researchers have discovered a Trojan called Crisis (also known as Morcut), spying the users of Windows and Mac OS X in many ways. The pest installs a backdoor and then hides using rootkit functions on the system. Crisis brings extensive espionage functions, listen to some Skype calls, intercept keystrokes and wiretapping webcam.
The anti-virus company Symantec has now found that the pest under Windows still has some other interesting tricks up its sleeve: So should make Crisis in search of VMware images to and infect with a copy of itself. In addition to the Trojans about the so-called Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI) install modules to devices running Windows Mobile, the precursor to Microsoft's current smartphone platform, Windows Phone. What exactly can the modules align there is not yet clear - they have not yet found their way into Symatecs virus lab.
Spread the virus was revealed through social engineering using the Java file AdobeFlashPlayer.jar, which was signed with a self-signed VeriSign. If you run the file and ignores caused by the self-signed certificate error, either a payload for Windows or Mac OS X is done - depending on what kind of system the file was started.
It is noticeable that the spying program was previously spotted by any of the major anti-virus vendors in the wild. The samples have been uploaded by the antivirus service VirusTotal, which she left to the virus labs. The low incidence suggests that the spy was used only for specific missions, of similar to the commercial modular FinSpy Finfisher Trojans. According to Dr. Web is at the recent discovery of the remote control system, also known as Da Vinci Italian company hacking team.
The manufacturer advertises his espionage tool as "hacking suite for government surveillance" and promises the product brochure (PDF), among other things, that it is to wiretap Skype calls is. In addition to Windows and Mac OS X to Da Vinci also support iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Linux. If you enlarge the screenshots included in the brochure, it is clear that apparently Da Vinci can also spy on the whereabouts of the persons monitored.
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