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World's most powerful microscope gives 3-D look at atomic structures

Within the past few months, scientists there began using what they say is the world's most powerful microscope -- a 12-foot-tall electron microscope that officials said enables researchers to see 3-D images of atomic structures.

And that kind of information will aid them in advancing nanotechnology research, said scientists working with the microscope.

The Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope, delivered to the Berkeley lab between Thanksgiving and Christmas, 2007, lets scientists see smaller objects than is possible with a traditional light microscope, said Peter Denes, director of the microscope project at the Berkeley, Calif.-based lab.


The electron microscope uses an electron beam instead of light. As the beam passes through something, the electrons scatter depending on what was in their way. The scatter pattern is then used to create the image that the scientist sees, Denes added.

"This new microscope goes beyond what we could do before," he said. "I don't know what we'll find with this microscope. The goal is always to discover the unknown, and that's a little bit hard to predict. The microscope can see things that were not visible before, so it should open up new areas and new discoveries."

The microscope was built by was built by FEI Co. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, which runs the Berkeley lab, the University of Illinois system, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and CEOS GmbH, a maker of optical components in Heidelberg, Germany.

The new equipment was built as part of an effort to see three dimensions at an atomic level. The $27 million project, which includes the new microscope, a second electron microscope slated for delivery before the end of 2009 and a five-year research effort, is being funded by the Department of Energy.

Denes explained that the new microscope has a resolution of half an angstrom. To give some perspective on that, a fingernail grows 10 angstroms every second, and the continental drift moves at 10 angstroms per second.

"If you have two things spaced half an angstrom apart, you could tell them apart [with this new microscope]," said Denes. "But more importantly, it's not just the ability to tell them apart but the clarity and contrast in the image. ... It's not as simple as looking at a picture and being able to tell what it is. You need to be able to interpret what you see."

And being able to interpret atomic structures should help scientists create new nanotechnology.

"Understanding the atomic structure of materials helps you know how to design them," said Denes. "Knowing how to set up the patterns ... where to put the atoms, how the interfaces between two different types of materials works is very important. It's all about how to custom-design materials."




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Microsoft confirms Excel bug, hacks; recommends blocking files

The attacks, which the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) downplayed as "targeted, and not widespread," are using a bug found in Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Excel Viewer 2003 and Excel 2004 for Mac. Newer editions -- Excel 2003 SP3, Excel 2007 and Excel 2008 for Mac -- are not vulnerable, Microsoft claimed. That last version, Excel 2008 for Mac, launched earlier Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

"Microsoft is aware of specific targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability," said Tim Rains, the security response communications lead at Microsoft, in an e-mail forwarded by the company's public relation firm. "Microsoft is aggressively investigating the public reports and customer impact."

According to the security advisory Microsoft posted Tuesday night, the vulnerability -- which it did not specify -- could let attackers jimmy a PC sufficiently to snatch control from the rightful owner.

The likely attack vectors, said the advisory, would be to attach a malformed document to e-mail or stick it on a Web site, then convince users to open the file.

Office file format vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities specifically within Excel, are not new. Attackers have uncovered -- and used -- a wide array of bugs in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents for nearly two years, often in pinpoint attacks that seed a very small number of businesspeople with spam that includes attached files.

In lieu of a patch -- which Microsoft did not promise it would produce -- the company recommended that Office 2003 users run suspect Excel files through MOICE (Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment), a free conversion tool released last year that converts Office 2003 format documents into the more secure Office 2007 formats to strip out possible exploit code. Alternately, it told administrators they could block all Office 2003 and earlier formats except those in "trusted locations" by using File Block, a last-ditch defense that requires editing the Windows registry or modifying Group Policy settings.

Ironically, file blocking -- albeit enabled by default first in Office 2007, then in September's Office 2003 SP3 update -- has raised a minor ruckus in the past week as users complained of the practice, and Microsoft tried to calm the waters by making it slightly easier to unblock the older, but banned, formats.

The last time that Microsoft patched any edition of Excel was in August 2007, when it issued MS07-044, an update that fixed a similar document format flaw in Excel 2000, Excel 2002, Excel 2003 and Excel 2004 for Mac.

source : computerworld.com


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Microsoft Switches Plan, Offers Vista SP1 Public Beta

Web site offers instructions to download and install the latest preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

In a quick turnabout, Microsoft Corp. made the newest tweak to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) available to the public on Friday.

Just two days earlier, the new version, dubbed Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh, had been handed out to a group of about 15,000 testers who had been working with the service pack for several months. At the time, Microsoft said the refresh was "not available for public download."


Friday, it changed its mind and posted instructions on its Web site for downloading and installing the new code using the Windows Update service.

According to the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh Public Availability Program, users must uninstall Vista SP1 Release Candidate -- the earlier version offered to the general public a month ago -- before attempting to download and install the refresh.

The refresh requires the same time-consuming, multiple-reboot process used by Vista SP1 RC in December. Also, users who have uninstalled that version must wait an hour before beginning the laborious update. "The installer service needs to clean up and complete the uninstall prior to installing the RC," said instructions posted on the Web. "Failing to do this can result in installation errors when installing the RC version."

Three prerequisite updates are also required before SP1 can be installed. Windows Update feeds them to the PC prior to downloading SP1, with a reboot after each. One of the prerequisites is a patch Microsoft mistakenly sent to all Vista users' PCs last week when it meant to send it only to machines running Vista Enterprise or Vista Ultimate.

The company, which has slated Vista SP1 for final delivery this quarter, said as recently as Thursday that the update remains on track.

Manual + Download: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx

source: pcworld.com


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Vista SP1 Features the Same Sins as Windows Vista

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 comes with the same sins as Windows Vista. The service pack is not even out the door, and is already putting users at risk.

Microsoft has plugged the first security holes in Vista SP1 as the service pack is still in the Release Candidate Stage. In mid December the Redmond company opened up the testing process of Vista SP1 to all users. And with an install base over 100 million strong, the public Release Candidate for SP1 is quite a popular item among Vista downloads, especially for users looking for a breath of fresh air from the expired Wow.


However, despite the fact that Microsoft has offered an impressive list of security enhancements in the documentation delivered alongside the service pack, Vista SP1 is by no means bulletproof. Moreover, it seems that the service pack comes with some of the same vulnerabilities as the RTM version of Vista. Case in point: a vulnerability in Windows TCP/IP that can allow for remote code execution. On January 8, 2008, Microsoft released security bulletin MS08-001, labeled with a maximum severity rating of Critical, addressing two vulnerabilities in Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) processing.

And it seems that Vista SP1 features the Windows Kernel TCP/IP/IGMPv3 and MLDv2 vulnerability just as Windows Vista. "A security issue has been identified in TCPIP that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer," Microsoft revealed in the description of the Security Update for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC0.

And Windows Vista SP1 RC0 is not the only operating system in beta testing affected by the vulnerability. It seems that Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 is also affected by the flaw, and as such Microsoft has also patched the RC development milestone of its last 32-bit server operating system. You will be able to download the patches from the links below:

- Security Update for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC0 (KB941644)
- Security Update for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC0 for x64-based Systems (KB941644)

- Security Update for Windows Server 2008 RC0 (KB941644)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2008 RC0 for x64-based Systems (KB941644)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2008 RC0 for Itanium-based Systems (KB941644)

source: news.softpedia.com


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Windows Vista successor scheduled for a H2 2009 release?

Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to “key partners” as a “Milestone 1” (M1) code drop for validation purposes.

A roadmap received by TG Daily indicates that the new operating system will be introduced in the second half of 2009.

While it has generally been believed that Windows 7 was scheduled for a 2010 debut, Microsoft has revised the roadmap and apparently moved up the release date by a few months: A recently distributed roadmap of the OS lists a release to manufacturing in H2 2009. Microsoft declined to comment on this date.

The current M1 drop is available to Microsoft partners in English only and has shipped in x86 and x64 versions. An interesting feature that has been highlighted by Microsoft is the ability of the M1 software to handle a heterogeneous graphics system consisting of multiple graphics cards from different vendors. A new version of the Media center is already integrated in this software, but supports PC speakers only at this time.

If Microsoft will be able to keep the H2 2009 RTM (and most likely) release date in place, the company will have two busy. The M2 code drop is currently scheduled for April/May 2008, M3 will follow in the third quarter. The dates for the first Beta and the release candidate are still listed as “To be determined” but it doesn’t take much to see that the first beta versions could become available a year from now.

We will have more clarity on when we could see Windows 7 going into production will when Microsoft announces Windows Logo Program Changes for Windows 7. According to the policy of the firm, these changes will be announced 18 months prior to the scheduled RTM.

There are very few pieces of information about Windows 7 and the features it will bring available at this time. So far, we have heard only about new touchscreen features as well as – and probably most interesting – MinWin, a much smaller kernel of the operating system that takes up only 40 MB of memory.

source: tgdaily.com


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Sorry for the delayed post, i've been working for some IT project in a few weeks. Now, im here and ready to post and respon any of the IT news.
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