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2001/05/23

		MailWorm To Confuse Echalon	2001/05/23
The worm's code contains a list of almost 300 terms that could trigger surveillance systems--such as the much-theorized Echelonsystem that scan for e-mails whose content could affect national security. Words such as toxin, detonator, conspiracy, uzi, grenades and assassination all appear in the body of the virus.
	Source:		Editor: Anders Johansson

		Mandrake In Trouble	2001/05/23
The popular Linux-distrobution Mandrake got some serious trouble.
	Source: Newsforge		Editor: Anders Johansson

2001/05/22

		FindChanges 1.3	2001/05/22
FindChanges allows you to examine your hard drive, or sections of it, to find when files and/or directories were last changed. "It came about because of problems I had after installing various programs. The problems did not show themselves for days later and by then I had installed more programs and made some changes to prefs files so it was difficult to determine what was causing the problem. If such a problem occurs now, I can find what changes have been made and remove them in reverse order until the problem disappears." Version update - 1.3 * Menu item Remove Marked Items didn't work correctly * Did code optimizations which sped up search routines
	Source: Aminet		Editor: Jens Larsson

		New MEDIATOR models!	2001/05/22
Elbox Computer, the company that introduced the PCI standard to Amiga computers with their MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, is proud to announce expanding the MEDIATOR busboard product line with three new models: * MEDIATOR PCI 4000 - for Amiga 4000D computers installed in E/BOX 4000 tower cases (Power Tower) with the Zorro III/PCI busboard; * MEDIATOR PCI ZIII - for all Zorro III equipped Amigas (A4000T, A4000D, A3000 and A1200 equipped with the Zorro III busboard); * MEDIATOR PCI ZIV - for Amiga 1200 computers equipped with the Zorro IV busboard. The MEDIATOR PCI busboard line is designed so as to enable expanding the Amiga with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders.
	Source: Czech Amiga News		Editor: Jens Larsson

		AmigaOS 4 beta test program...	2001/05/22
Elwood wrote on ANN: "Here is the complete "How to" to beta test OS4.0"
	Source: Ann		Editor: Jens Larsson

2001/05/21

		Amiga-Mediator Site OPEN	2001/05/21
Sam Thomas writes: "The Unofficial Amiga-Mediator Site is now open! The site contains a complete guide to configuring many parts of the Mediator software with complete graphical guides to each stage. Be it the graphics drivers or the Network driver, it is covered. Future updates will cover more software and all of the latest drivers."
	Source: Sam Thomas		Editor: Jens Larsson

		Medication Version 1.0 Out!!	2001/05/21
Sam Thomas writes :"The first version of Medication is now available. Medication is a MUI GUI system which allows EASY configuration of the Monitor tooltypes and Envarc settings that the Mediator software uses. Available from Aminet soon and available NOW from (the NEW) 'Unofficial Amiga-Mediator Site' in the 'Medication' section."
	Source: Sam Thomas		Editor: Jens Larsson

2001/05/19

		AmigaOS 4 Beta Tester	2001/05/19
Fleecy Moss from Amiga wrote this on the AmigaOne mailin list: "Hey guys 8-) whilst I know we all want to beta test the AmigaOne/OS4, we do have code ready to test that can be run on existing Amigas. If anyone is interested in doing this, please send an email to gary@amiga.com giving your machine configs and testing skills. You will have to sign an NDA to do the testing, but it will really help to iron out any problems and speed OS4.0 on its way.
	Source: Ann		Editor: Anders Johansson

2001/05/17

		Amiga 4k hardware guide	2001/05/17
"This great guide gives detailed information about the Amiga 4000, which probably will solve any problem you have."
	Source: AmigArt		Editor: Karl Olofsson

		TaskiSMS 2.57	2001/05/17
A new version of TaskiSms has been released updates and bugfixes: * fixed auto close send window option (now it closes it only when message was succefuly sent) * added abort of SMS sending process * SMS creation date is now stored in SMS file, not only in folder index (useful with rebuild folder index) * updated Lycos plugin
	Source: AmigArt		Editor: Karl Olofsson

2001/05/15

		Secret Code In IIS	2001/05/15
Well they done it again! They never stop amusing us =) Last Thursday, Microsoft admitted its engineers planted a secret password in its software that could be used to gain illegitimate access to hundreds of thousands of Internet sites worldwide. Read this article and think about is for a while... How many undiscovered backdoors is there ?
	Source: SlashDot		Editor: Anders Johansson

2001/05/11

		AmiNet-GUI With A New Url	2001/05/11
"The amiNet-GUI is still online! Due to a technical problem the URL www.aminet.de is offline, but you can reach the GUI at http://www.aminet-gui.de. For easier use, the site will be recreated in PHP, soon. So it's possible to provide it in several languages... stay tuned an have a look!"
	Source: Czech Amiga News		Editor: Anders Johansson

		Descent: Freespace screenshots	2001/05/11
: "AmigaExtreme has a few nice looking screenshots of the Amiga version of Descent: Freespace."
	Source: Ann		Editor: Anders Johansson

2001/05/08

		SDL ported to AmigaOS	2001/05/08
SDL the audio and video library has been ported by Gabriel Greco to AmigaOS. SDL is also available for Linux, MacOS, QNX and Windows
	Source: AmigArt		Editor: Karl Olofsson

2001/05/05

		Interview with Laszlo Torok	2001/05/05
Damir Arh writes: "We asked the author of MooVId, Laszlo Torok, a few questions about himself and his Amiga related work. You can also read more about his Amiga collection and plans for the future. The interview can be found at the Digital Amiga Dream website."
	Source: Boingworld		Editor: Jens Larsson

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