Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:31 AM CEST - Jun,12 2002
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- City shuts for Matrix - ONE of the world's busiest cities will shut down for two days, all in the name of show business.But
don't look to Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo or London, instead focus your gaze on Sydney.
The producers of The Matrix Reloaded plan to fly a helicopter below roof-tops across the
east of the city and over Martin Place for the movie's dramatic final scene. Wow! :)
- How Yoda became an action star - How did
the wizards at director George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic effects shop get a
character invented as a Muppet to do all that? By punting the rubber-dummy routine and
remaking Yoda as an entirely computer-generated (CG) creature. Hey, it worked for Shrek!
- EarthLink takes Wi-Fi to public places - The ISP has begun selling 'EarthLink
Wireless High Speed,' which will let customers use about 650 Wi-Fi networks in places
such as coffee shops, hotels, and airports.
- IBM's new spin on nano-storage - IBM's nanotech project,
code-named Millipede, features a chip with more than 1,000 heated spikes that holds up
to a trillion bits of information in a postage stamp-size area. It could store 10GB in a
cell phone.
- VIA BUYING AMD? - Make of this as you will, but The Inquirer heard from
normally highly reliable sources at Computex last week that as recently as this time
last year Via was seriously considering buying AMD. That would have been a masterstroke
for Via CEO Wen Chi Chen if he could have pulled off the plan. Formidable obstacles -- no
doubt in the shape of Jerry Sanders III as well as the sums of money that would probably
have been involved -- might well have convinced Via that the time for such an acquisition
was not ripe.
- Phone handsets get Nintendo-style games capabilities - The basic
premise is simple enough, and not exactly rocket science. Nintendo's Game Boy is ARM-powered, large
numbers of mobile phones are powered by ARM chips, so how come mobile phones don't run
games of Game Boy class? As The Register observed to TTPCom, if its techies didn't know
the answer to that question before they even asked it, then the company was in big
trouble. But more properly, the development was about evolving handsets so they could
function as games consoles.
- R300 Performance & Pics - I found that a Hong Kong Magazine PC
Market did talk about the performance of the ATI's new generation card, R300. They said
that the performance of the R300 will
be about 20% better then Geforce 4 Ti4600, and they did run 3DMark 2001se, however due
to under the NDA, they can't tell us the exact number. They test the R300 in the VIA KT400
demo at Taiwan Computex. In addition, hwupgrade.it has posted what they claim are some RV250 pictures that they
managed to grab at Computex.
- Carmack on DOOM3 rendering - It's quite old, but here is link to Beyond3D's
interview with J.Carmack as he talks about DOOM 3 rendering. It's worth reading.
- 3Digest: May 2002 - Monthly 3D
Digest is the project of iXBT.com devoted to releases of new drivers for popular
videocards (released since April 10, 2002 to May 10, 2002). As usual, there are many
diagrams containing the information on changes in operation of videocards at change to
last version drivers, and also summary diagrams of popular modern videocards performance.
- Soundcard & Speakers Tweaking Guide - We have been hard at work at
TechSpot with some articles that will be posted soon. The first to see the light is our updated
Soundcard & Speakers tweak guide that has gone through a series of minor changes
plus one big addition, now covering Creative's Extigy soundcard.
- MSN Chat Security Fix - This patch addresses the vulnerability discussed in Microsoft Security
Bulletin MS02-022
- Gamespy Arcade 1.1 - GameSpy Arcade is an
application that detects which supported multiplayer games you have installed and links
you into all the online games that are currently being played, ,not only that but it works
as a chat program and can update your games while you chat!
- Morpheus v1.9 - Morpheus
Preview Edition continues the Morpheus tradition of providing a full-featured and
easy-to-use P2P application that allows users to share content across the Morpheus Users
Network. This new edition of Morpheus utilizes open protocols established by the Gnutella
developers, and enables users to directly communicate with each other and search for any
type of digital file across the network.
- WinDVD Tweak 3.4 - WinDVD
Tweaker is a Free program designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software to
enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure.
- NeroMIX v1.3.0.29 - NeroMIX creates or copies anything you throw at it, in the slickest
possible way. Just grab any data and burn it! NeroMIX is the Emperor of Style in
Multimedia CD creation, combining dynamic CD burning (data, audio, copying) with the
newest Internet audio technology all in one customizable interface!
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