Computer viruses make it to orbit

Image via Wikipedia A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS).

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games. Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had traveled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected.

Read more about this at BBC News.

Reenact Your Best Gaming Moment, Win an $1800 Video Pro PC

iBUYPOWER, maker of gaming PCs, is launching a new line of video PCs, developed with the amateur videographer in mind. And to promote them, they're giving away one of their $1800 Video Pro systems - packed with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 processor, ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card and 8 GB of DDR- 2 RAM, in a Gigabyte Poseidon gaming tower case - in their Favorite Gaming Moments YouTube Contest.

Just reenact your best moment, upload the video to Youtube any time before the end of August, and the winner will be selected from a group of ten finalists by the You Tube community in the second week of September.

http://www.ibuypower.com/WinAPC/WinAPC.asp

Does Your Computer Meet The System Requirements to Run That Game?

Knowing the system requirements of your computer help before you purchase any computer games, the most important thing is to check the game’s minimum system requirement because if your computer doesn't meet the system requirement, you either experience a huge “lag” or bad graphics or can't even play the game at all.
What can you do if you don’t know anything about your computer’s specification? Of course, you can look up the computer sales receipt or call up the computer shop or manufacture hoping that they’ll tell you your computer specifications, but the pain truth is they are not likely to entertain these kinda calls.

Now you can skip all of that and just depend on the “System Requirements Lab” website to tell you if your computer can run that game.

Go on over and check it out.

Currently, the System Requirements Lab works with Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Center and Vista. The Browsers you need are either Internet Explorer 4.xx and higher or a Mozilla based browser (Firefox, Netscape, etc.) with Java 1.3.1 and higher.