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Longhorn, Native IL and Intel ?!? What the ...

A comparatively old article but very interesting facts. Read about Writing an end to the bio of BIOS !

It talks about the collaboration of Intel and MS to promote a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading, a process that kicks in every time a PC is switched on or restarted.

Beautifully said :

"After 23 years, it was time to start from scratch," said Richmond. "There's a certain life span for every technology. You can expand it and grow it, but at some point you have to start over."

Reminds me of why such a total change in the APIs in Longhorn was brought in ...

Ok anyway on this context i was wondering whether MS will develop a new chip that can execute IL natively instead of Assembly code to optimise the execution of managed code ! If such a thing happens in the future, the efficiency of Longhorn applications will be amplified tremendously but then all the backward compatibility goes for a toss and surely the slashdotter's hue and cry on Monopoly and yada yada yada will keep rising :(

Well you never know what's in store but on the lines of what Richmond says, it looks to me like 'a perfect new start of the managed era !'.

Dodge this !

Check out this Dodging game ... Its completely done in Javascript and is bloody addictive ..

All you got to do is Dodge your way out ... Change the speed and others the way you want it ... I'm going to start writing this as a C# Winform app ! Will post that pretty soon :)

Novarg || Mydoom

The virus of the week in the Windows world is called W32.Novarg.A@mm or W32/Mydoom@MM. It will arrive as an email attachment with a file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip. It can affect all versions of Windows back to Windows 95. If you get infected, it will set up a backdoor on your system and use that to do a number of other nasty things. It will also mount a denial of service attack against SCO Corporation. There are a variety of subject lines and text it uses in the email. You can see some of them at Symantec's write-up of this threat here. 

via BugBlog

Also read more on '1 in 12 e-mails carries nasty new virus. Mydoom could be worst Net worm ever'

I remember reading a similar 'Worst worm ever' statement when Sobig hit the net and many networks went crashing down. But how do these virus creators keep creating new viruses ?! I would love to see MS hire all the best hackers and virus creators around who can figure out the vulnerabilities and exploit it and inform MS about it before anyone with a malicious intent tries to do the same. In my point of view, that is the best way to improve the quality of a product. If you can't stop them, use them ;)