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Tech News: Protocase Custom Cases and Enclosures

Making a custom PC enclosure with Protocase

So where do you turn to, when you need a PC case designed and machined for your specific requirements? You go to a company that specializes in custom manufacturing of PC enclosures. Enter Protocase, a custom PC enclosure designing and manufacturing company with multiple offices in North America.

…The Protocase team was willing to hold my hand through the process, and fill in the blanks that I could not. All I really had to do was submit my idea to them and they’d flesh it out. This is one of the strengths of working with a company like Protocase: if you can do it yourself they’re happy to simply manufacture your well thought out plans – but if all you have is a rough idea and no experience making a PC case, they will help you from start to finish.
by Don Woligroki.

Nintendo to launch news service through Wii

Video gamers could get some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launches an online news service through its popular Wii console.
from The Associated Press.

Command Line Makes a Comeback

PowerShell 1.0, which was formerly known by the code name Monad, extends to administrators, developers and enthusiasts a powerful new interface for their Windows machines that’s based on stringing together small, well-defined applications into pipelines—a handy capability on which Linux and Unix administrators have long relied.
by Jason Brooks.

Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD

On December 26, 2006, a member of the Doom9.com forums named muslix64 introduced himself as circumventing the content protection — not the copy protection — of HD DVD. Additionally, he made available an open source program named BackupHDDDVD. At the time, this program was a command line program that bypassed the content protection — providing the individual successfully obtained the title and volume keys associated with the HD DVD. Once the individual has the keys, the AACS protection can be sidestepped, and the HD movie content can be extracted. According to muslix64, it took all of eight days to successfully circumvent HD DVD content protection.
by Thomas Mennecke.

Geek to Live: Hide data in files with easy steganography tools

Remember those invisible ink kits from when you were a kid? You’d write a secret message that no one could see unless they had a black light or the decoder marker. The digital equivalent of invisible ink is steganography software, apps that embed files and data inside other files, hidden from everyone who doesn’t know any better.
by Gina Trapani.

Scientists unveil most dense memory circuit ever made

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The most dense computer memory circuit ever fabricated — capable of storing around 2,000 words in a unit the size of a white blood cell — was unveiled by scientists in California.
from Yahoo! News.

Cisco discloses three router security problems
Cisco publishes workarounds for IOS vulnerabilities that could lead to DoS attacks

Cisco Systems is warning of three vulnerabilities within its Internet Operating System (IOS) software that could allow a denial-of-service (DoS) attack or let a hacker run arbitrary code on an affected switch router.
by Jeremy Kirk.

Ever-ready PCs drain lifeblood of the planet

RESEARCH from 1E, provider of waste management software, revealed that up to two million PCs were left on between the Crimbo and New Year break amounting to an estimated energy cost of three million quid.
from The Inquirer.

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