Seagate Technology, the largest maker of computer hard drives, Smade a pre-emptive strike against an emerging competitor on Monday when it filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing STEC Inc. of patent infringement. In the suit, Seagate contends that STEC’s solid-state drive products violate four Seagate patents covering how such drives interface with computers.

The WWWeb Presents...

• Mega-Explosion in Space - David Narkevik, an undergraduate at West Virginia University, was re-analysing data from the Parkes telescope in Australia when he came across a five-millisecond burst of energy so powerful that it "saturated" the equipment
• New Radiohead Album Oct 10th - If you order the download only, you can pay HOWEVER MUCH MONEY YOU WANT for it. Like, there's no set price. 
• GTA: San Andreas Anime Mod - I was just surfing the net and I found this video on youtube of an anime mod for the PC version of GTA: San Andreas.  
• Computer Display Calibration 101 - If you've invested in a quality monitor for your computer, you owe it to yourself-- and your eyes-- to spend 15 minutes setting it up properly for your viewing environment

The Interweb Presents; mediadefender's trade secrets, python scripts to identify packers, XP is better then vista, science images, baffled  astronomers, writing and memory, mmo gold farming, terror in peace march, popular video game sites, and drupal modules.

• Python script for packer identification - I really like PEiD, but it is Windows only and I haven't been able to get it to just output the packers from the commandline, so I wrote this script which uses a PEiD database to identify which packer (if any) is being used by a binary.
• MediaDefender's Trade Secrets and Confidential Information -  Recently, despite security precautions by our client, a person or persons illegally accessed MediaDefender's email and other files, and stole trade secrets and other confidential information including social security numbers and personal information of certain of its employees. 
• Microsoft bows to pressure on XP - The XP date change applies to retailers and other manufacturers who sell Microsoft products. Independent firms that use Windows XP when installing and maintaining computers and networks for businesses can continue to offer it as an option until 30 January 2009.

Sonata is an elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD). The latest version is 1.2.3. Features: Expanded and collapsed views, Automatic remote or local album art, Automatic fetching of lyrics, Playlist and stream support, Support for editing song tags, System tray icon with tooltip, Popup notification, Library searching and playlist filtering, Audioscrobbler (last.fm) support, Multiple MPD profiles, Keyboard friendly, Support for multimedia keys, & Commandline control.

Music Player Daemon (MPD) allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Mod, and wave files) and managing playlists. MPD is designed for integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. It also makes a great desktop music player, especially if you are a console junkie, like frontend options, or restart X often.

Anubis is a tool for analyzing the behavior of Windows executables (by convention these files normally have an .exe extension) with special focus on the analysis of malware. To this end, the binary executable is run in an emulated environment and its (security-relevant) actions are monitored. This makes it the ideal tool for quickly getting an understanding of the purpose of an unknown binary.

Create a Fake Search Warrant - This script has been created for district courts all across the United States with the intent of improving national se

What is hot, interesting, or just plain weird this week on the Internet front? Check out my weekly dug web sites, from my Digg profile.

Free partion software is a great alternative to the typical Partion Magic. Also see this list of Small, clean, no-install software, a guide to very small software for your PC. Once you grab some tiny apps you are ready to, run Windows with NO services.