Tuesday, January 28, 2003
French Actor Jean Reno to sue US Singer Billy Joel for "look-a-like" damages.
"Everytime he appears in public he reduces the value of my unique screen presence. Pitton!"
posted by Special K 2:01 PM

Monday, January 13, 2003
Siezed Beatles Bootlegs were "mastered" with AB-CD Masterizer Pro
The cache of 500 professionally mastered bootlegged Beatle CDs was recovered by Dutch police.

The CDs source material was magetic tapes stolen in the 1970s that containing tracks which have never before been released.

They were discovered in Holland when police cracked a piracy racket, arresting five people in raids in west London and the Netherlands.

Police said the CDs were "priceless" and were 100% Red Book-compliant audio CD. The authorities believe the thieves used AB-CD Masterizer Pro to create dynamic crossfades between tracks, edit PQ subcodes, set the gain for each channel of each track, cleanly trim the tracks.

* AB-CD Masterizer Pro is the popular OSX pro-sumer audio mastering software that offers MP3 decoding technology so users can burn MP3 files to standard audio CD. The CDs can then be played in any home, car or portable stereo CD player. AB-CD also has native support for FireWire CD recorders, which increases CD burning speeds and can now take advantage of 12x CD recorders.

* The Beatles were a popular musical group from Liverpool.

* Netherlands is home to the popular character, Peter Pan.
posted by Special K 2:01 PM

Sunday, January 12, 2003
The Bee Gee with the Hat dies
Special mobile phone ringtone to be created as permanent memorial.
posted by Special K 5:39 PM

Thursday, January 02, 2003
Rare Word macro virus spotted in Bangladesh
Waether.B, a rare Microsoft Word 6.0 macro virus has been spotted in Bangladesh for the first time in 7 years, according to a local system administrator.

Ibrahim-ul-Haque, head of the Bangladesh PC Club, told the AFP news agency he suddenly came across the virus when opening one of his old resumes he had archived on a CD ROM over the weekend.

"I remembered Weather.B straight away. This fellow was very buggy, slight thing."

The Weather.B Word macro virus first appeared in October 1996, in Taiwan, and consists of four macros: AutoNew, AutoExec, AutoOpen, and ToolsMacro. The virus is most common in the Himalayas and South East Asia. When an infected document is first opened, a dialog box will appear, but will not go away when its one button is clicked.

Computer security experts regard the virus as very easy to remove.
posted by Special K 10:17 PM

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