Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:20 AM CET - Mar,15 2002
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- Xbox Launched In Europe - After a massive preordering program
where customers could already buy an empty Xbox box as a guarantee to get their console
today in store the Microsoft
gaming console finally has arrived on the shelves.
The launch is accompanied with the availability of 31 games in Europe including Halo, Max
Payne, Project Gotham Racing and Nightcaster. Microsoft will also hold a big launch party
in Berlin, Germany. The Xbox will approximately cost 479 Euro. It's damn expensive - at
least for me :(
- Uniform that makes soldiers invisible in the works - The
Army is hunting for a new military uniform that can make soldiers nearly invisible,
grant superhuman strength and provide instant medical care. AP/MIT An artist's
illustration depicting the possible look of the U.S. armed forces battle uniform of the
future. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is up for the task. The school said
Wednesday it has been awarded a five-year, $50 million dollar grant to develop the armor,
which could detect threats and protect against projectiles and biological or chemical
weapons.
- How codebreakers cracked the secrets of the smart card - The
challenge handed in the autumn of 1997 to a team of scientists working quietly
at a laboratory in Haifa, northern Israel, was to crack the encryption technique used to
unscramble TV signals delivered to many paying customers through cable and satellite
across Europe and the US. The so-called "smart" or "conditional
access" cards used to access Sky, ITV Digital, and other premium channels contain
wafer-thin computer chips holding complex codes to make sure viewers see only what they
have paid to see.
- Russia Unveils Space Shuttle for Tourists - American businessmen
and Russian engineers unveiled the first space shuttle designed exclusively
for tourism on Thursday, paving the way for tourists on a budget to taste life in zero
gravity. For under $100,000 would-be astronauts will be able to take an hour-long flight
aboard the Cosmopolis XXI, a snub-nosed rocket-powered shuttle about the size of a
minivan.
- Has your Internet sex habit become addictive? - Take this self-test :P
- Monkeys Able To Control Computer By Thought - An experimental
brain implant the size of an M&M's candy has allowed a monkey to control a
computer cursor by thought alone, Brown University researchers announced. The new device
uses a special mathematical formula to translate signals from a few motor neurons on the
surface of the monkey's brain into movement on a computer screen, with no need for the
extensive training previous experimental techniques have required.
- Cable Modem Hacking Tricks Uncapped Online - It wasn't
long before Hallacy, 21, devised a trick for modifying an obscure configuration file used by the service
to control the settings in his 3Com cable modem. A few tweaks later, Hallacy's
$50-per-month service, which had been downloading data at a poky 75 kilobits per second
(Kbps), was sweetly humming along at much brisker speeds in both directions.
- New Worm Is 'Turning Japanese' (When Needed) - Symantec's
Security Response team says the worm also known as Impo.gen, Zircon,
Fidao and DotaJaypee has 16 different Japanese subject lines it can use in e-mail
messages when it sends itself to addresses ending with Japan's dot-jp top-level domain.
All other e-mail addresses are sent a message with the subject: "Important."
Antivirus company Central Command said today that attached to Fbound's messages is an
executable file named "patch.exe" that, when launched, sends a copy of the worm
to contacts in the recipient's Windows Address Book.
- Law-enforcement DIRT Trojan released - Disgraced former
policeman and convicted felon
Frank Jones of Codex Data Systems has had his Web site hacked and his overpriced cop-spy
Trojan, aptly named D.I.R.T., released to
the public.
- Microsoft, zlib, and Security Flaws - As reported earlier
this week, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave much of the systems
based on the open-source operating system Linux open to attack. On Thursday,
researchers reported that at least nine of Microsoft's major applications--including
Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, DirectX, Messenger and Front Page--appear to
incorporate borrowed code from the compression library and could be vulnerable to a
similar attack.
- Creative Tracks Down "Squeal of Death" - Executives at
Creative Technology Ltd. said they believe they've isolated
the so-called "squeal of death" associated with the company's Audigy sound cards,
and that it's not tied to the sound card itself. The "squeal," which
consists of a shrill tone caused by an audio loopback after a PC locks up, has been tied
to a specific PCI bridge chip used in at least one motherboard from Soyo Computer Inc. The
same squeal has also been tied to a PCI glitch in PCs manufactured by Dell Computer Corp.,
according to Steve Erickson, vice-president of audio development at Creative Labs,
Fremont, Calif.
- VIA Launches P4X333 Chipset - VIA Technologies today announced
the VIA Apollo P4X333 chipset. With DDR333 support, 533MHz processor bus, AGP 8X, ATA-133,
USB 2.0 and Double-Speed V-Link chip interconnect, the VIA Apollo P4X333 brings an
unmatched suite of new memory, system and I/O technologies to a single platform. In
combination these technologies enable Intelr Pentiumr 4 systems and servers to achieve
heights of performance never scaled before. The VIA Apollo P4X333 is shipping in OEM
quantities now.
- USB 2.0 Driver for Windows 2000 Delayed - The final release
version of USB 2.0 drivers for the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system has been delayed.
The final release version of the drivers for the Windows XP operating system were released
to the public on January 30, 2002. At that time, the Windows 2002 version was promised
"shortly thereafter'. Other reports made the release date February 2002.
- ABit Reveals Legacy-Free Motherboards - ABit's recently
announced 'MAX'
line of motherboards has proved interesting, with several new features and changes to
the current boards on the market now. With both AMD and Intel platforms, the aptly named
AT7 and IT7 are ABit's new bundles of joy.
- Rio Receiver Review - The Rio
Receiver accesses music on your PC without interfering with your PC's operation. Check
e-mail and browse the Web - all while your digital music collection is playing in another
room. Control the Rio Receiver using the full-function remote, just like your other stereo
components. There's no need to interrupt your activity when skipping a track or changing
playlists.
- Matrox Millennium G550 Dual-DVI Review - Looking at the Matrox
site, I noticed that there was a new driver that was recently released, v5.82. Matrox make
every component on their video cards, and this means they have 100% control over
performance tweaks in their driver sets. I was currently using the XP certified 5.72
driver and thought I would do a performance
comparison with the new 5.82 driver. Have a look for yourself... I was quite surprised
by the results!
- Plextor 40X CDRW Drive Review - The Plextor
PC-W4012TA combines both pure speed and features to impress anyone who might look at
its specifications. Today Hardware Pub will evaluate it to see if said drive stands up to
all of the hype that it has been receiving.
- Creative SoundWorks SW320 Review - The Creative SoundWorks SW320 is one of the latest additions to the
Cambridge SoundWorks 2.1 Speaker systems, which based on what Creative's website says,
should be considered into the Music listening speakers category. So for $49.99 (actually a
bit less than that), is this system really a worthwhile buy for those of you who are more
interested in good musical reproduction than positional audio for Games?
- The Dual Trap: Athlon MP 2000+ vs. Xeon 2200 - Tom's Hardware
Guide has written an interesting comparison review of the Athlon MP 2000+ against the
Xeon 2200.
- HighSpeed PC Athlon XP Unlocking Kit Review - When the new
Athlon XP hit the streets, many overclocking enthusiasts were concerned about the new
style of L1 bridges. You couldn't just grab a pencil and unlock the processor anymore. But
then along came HighSpeed PC with their unlocking kit and they claimed that life would be
good again saying that it was very easy and effective. Come join TweakTown as they delve
into this little kit to find out if it works, and if it really is as easy
as claimed.
- Adobe Photoshop 7 Preview - Functionality is one reason for its
immense popularity: Unlike many applications that become bloated with useless features,
each new version of Photoshop adds unique and innovative tools designed to make Adobe's product even
more powerful.
- XP Update: Resuming From Standby - This update addresses the "Devices May Not Power Up Properly When
Resuming From Standby" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsft Knowledge
Base (KB) Article Q311542.
- 1001 Free Fonts - This site offers tons of TrueType and PostScript fonts for Windows or
Mac.
- ePSXe v1.5.1 - ePSXe is a new
freeware PSX emulator that takes advantage of the PSEmu Pro plugin system. Nowadays it
supports some comercial games, featuring sound, mdec, memory cards, and enhanced
playstation graphics thanks to include support for the psemupro plugins. Right now, it is
the best freeware Playstation emulator out there.
- Visual Boy Advance v0.9 - Visual Boy Advance is a Game Boy
Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows system. This
the SDL version. SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. It is a cross platform
library for graphics, input, audio, threading, etc... that can be used for games,
emulators, etc. To some people, the SDL version on Windows may be faster than the DirectX
version.
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