Afternoon Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 07:36 PM CET - Feb,02 2003
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- Shuttle wing lost sensors, maybe heat tiles - As federal
investigators begin to
look into why the space shuttle Columbia broke apart, NASA officials said
the left wing lost hydraulic sensors, lost tire pressure and then experienced
intense heat before the shuttle broke up Saturday morning.
- Microsoft Inadvertently Donated To al-Qaeda-Linked Group? - An
interesting
report from Pravda, of all places, concerning Microsoft caught our eye
today. The newspaper, which was the U.S.S.R.'s flagship state-owned propaganda
newspaper back in the day, reported today that
Microsoft donated money to a charity that the FBI has since linked to
al-Qaeda. From Pravda's English edition (including the poor translation):
Corporation Microsoft and its president Bill Gates are still haunted with
troubles. This time the troubles don't concern accusations of monopolization
of the operating systems market. As it turned out, the corporation sponsored
bin Laden.
- The Matrix: Special Edition - On April 29th, Warner Brothers will
release
a
two-disc special edition of The Matrix, just in time for The
Matrix Reloaded's release in theaters. The special edition DVD will
include all of the features from the original DVD release, The Matrix
Revisited, and new features as well.
- It's time for the RIAA to sing a different song - It seems
that everywhere one looks these days,
the RIAA
and its counterparts in other countries, are busy blustering their way around
and demanding that those who do not commit a crime should be held responsible
for it. They are busy with their demands that Verizon provide the name of a
user who may have downloaded some music which may be copyright and they are
busy with their allegations about KaZaA music service, a company which has the
good sense to challenge the operation of the RIAA.
- Official FX Benchmark - GeForce Zone have published an
official
GeForce FX 5800 Benchmarks Results from NVIDIA Asia Pacific, the card was
tested using a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 based system with: I85E chipset, 512MB RAM and
Windows XP.
- GF FX AA Comparison - HardOCP's Brent Justice has posted an
"unofficial" antialiasing image quality comparison between the GeForce FX
and ATI Radeon 9700.
- DirectX9 - FS2002 problem solved - In order to resolve the problem
Flight Simulator 2002 must be deinstalled, therefore to install the Service
Pack 1 of Windows XP, and finally reinstall Flight Simulator. (thanks
msfn.org)
- Purge Online Beta v1.3.5 - A new version
1.3.5 beta client for Purge Online (the upcoming online FPS) is now
available via the Purge Community Website. This new beta fixes many severe
bugs and greatly optimizes the netcode in the game.
- Win2k Services.exe patch -
This update addresses the "Services.exe May Hang When You Restart a
Service" issue in Windows 2000, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base
(KB) Article 328477. Download now to resolve the hang in Services.exe caused
by repeatedly starting and stopping the Logical Disk Manager administrative
service.
- Win2k Commerce Server Performance Patch -
This update addresses the "Performance of Microsoft Commerce Server-based
Programs May Degrade Over Time" issue in Windows 2000, and is discussed in
Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article 316430. Download now to resolve
performance degradation caused by Commerce Server re-creating Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) connections instead of re-using cached
information.
- TweakNow PowerPack 2003 Professional v1.2.2 -
TweakNow (download)
has released TweakNow PowerPack 2003 Professional v1.2.2, a comprehensive and
easy-to-use Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP utility that lets you fine-tune
Windows and Internet Explorer.
- Lavasoft Ad-Aware 6.0 build160 - A new Build 160 of
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
6.0 has been released.
- Coding Workshop Ringtone Convertor 3.9.6 -
The Ringtone Converter (download)
is a software program for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac systems that
allows you to add new ringtones to your mobile phone without the need for
cables or expensive premium rate SMS services. The Ringtone Converter supports
most makes and models of phone including Audiovox, Alcatel, Ericsson, HTC,
Kyocera, Motorola, Nokia, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, Sony,
Sendo, Sharp and Siemens handsets, with more added every month.
- HijackThis 1.91 -
HijackThis (download)
a general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the
article Hijacked!, but expanded with almost a dozen other checks against
hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks.
- DVD2SVCD v1.1.1 build 2 -
Freeware DVD2SVCD is
a completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA and AVI files to SVCD.
- NVIDIA Detonators v42.86 (leaked) - Guru3D has posted
a leaked
Detonators version 42.86 for Win2k/XP. Try at your own risk.
- Sony DRU-500a Firmware - Sony has released
firmware 1.0g for the DRU-500a drive. The new firmware is supposed to
improve reading efficiency.
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