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Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 07:37 PM CEST - Aug,21 2004 - Post a comment / read (10)
  • New Download.Ject Attack Serves Up Porn - A new version of June's Download.Ject attack is hitting users through a pair of instant messaging services, planting backdoors on fully-patched Windows XP PCs, and serving victims with a diet of porn ads. According to Thor Larholm, a senior security researcher at Newport Beach, Calif.-based PivX Solutions, the new attack is probably the work of the same group of hackers who launched the original Download.Ject assault in June.
  • Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect in WinXP SP2 - This problem occurs if the program connects to a loopback address other than 127.0.0.1. Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) prevents connections to all IP addresses that are in the loopback address range except for 127.0.0.1.
  • Vulnerability in the IDirectPlay4 API Could Allow Denial of Service - A denial of service vulnerability exists in the implementation of the IDirectPlay4 API of Microsoft DirectPlay due to a lack of robust packet validation. If a user is running a networked DirectPlay application, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DirectPlay application fail. The application would need to be restarted in order to resume functionality.
  • Off-topic: Hummer PC - This project started with a 1/6th scale RC Hummer from NewBright Toys . The idea was to build a fully functioning gaming computer - but to also be able to unhook all the peripherals and drive the truck around, when I got bored and needed a break.
  • Off-topic: Swedish "paper computer" maker attracts investors -Cypak AB, a company developing radio frequency identification, processing and communication technology applications, has received 30 million Swedish Krona (about $4 million) from the Swedish Industrial Development Fund and IT Provider, a venture capital group.  While other RFID companies have pursued RFID sensors working with fixed infrastructure, Cypak wants to embed RF powered microcontrollers in paper products to enable monitoring and control functions in a wide variety of paper-based applications.
  • Off-topic: Olympians Banned From Blogging - The International Olympic Committee is barring competitors, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from writing firsthand accounts for news and other Web sites. An exception is if an athlete has a personal Web site that they did not set up specifically for the Games.
  • Apple recalls 28,000 PowerBook G4 batteries - Apple has recalled 28,000 of the batteries used in its 15in aluminium PowerBook G4 laptop computers sold earlier this year in the US and via its online and retail stores, after receiving four reports of the batteries overheating. Apple has reported the fault to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The CPSC said yesterday that an internal short triggers the fault, causing the lithium ion rechargeable batteries to overheat.
  • LCD price cuts on the rise due to oversupply - Prices are expected to fall for 17 and 19 inch Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) TV panels based on Thin Film Technology (TFT), according to a report by Electronic News. Low demand in the first half of 2004 has forced suppliers to reduce demand forecasts in the year. "Despite an increase in large sized LCD panel unit shipments of 17 percent in the second quarter compared to the first, demand fell short of expectations, spurring an oversupply in the market," stated the Global LCD Supply and Demand-Q204 report from iSuppli/Stanford Resources.
  • Intel, AMD Prepare Chip Price Cuts - Intel's high-end Pentium 4 models clocked at 3.00GHz – 3.60GHz shipping in either LGA775 or mPGA478 packaging will decrease pricing by about 18% - 35%, sources claimed. The Pentium 4 560 (3.60GHz) will cost $417 starting from the 23rd of August, whereas lower-speed versions, such as 3.40GHz, 3.20GHz and 3.00GHz will be priced at $278, $218 and $178 respectively. Intel's Celeron and Celeron D chips will also become more affordable by about 6.7% - 13.5%.  AMD will also slash its prices by aggressive margin of up to about 30% - 35% to either match or beat the prices of competing Intel's products.
  • OCZ Technology Overclocks DDR2 to 766MHz - OCZ Technology said Friday it had managed to overclock its DDR2 SDRAM memory modules to 766MHz, a speed-bin that has never been achieved so far.
  • ATI RV410 to ship in October - ATI will launch its would-be GeForce 6600 GT beater late next month or early October, sources from among Taiwan's graphics card companies have claimed. Like other X800-derived chips, RV410 is expected to be PCI Express native, as are Nvidia's GeForce 6600 and 6600 GT. The ATI part will sport eight pixel pipelines and six vertex engines, reports suggest, and operate a 128-bit memory bus clocked to 500MHz for an effective 1GHz with DDR SDRAM. The core is also clocked to 500MHz. Like the 6600 it will be fabbed at 110nm by TSMC.
  • Taiwanese Makers Open Up 16x DVD Burners - The latest DVD burner from ASUS, DRW-1604P, is capable of recording DVD±R discs at 16x, DVD±RW discs at 4x, DVD+R DL (Dual Layer) at 4x, CD-R discs at 32x, CD-RW discs at 24x and also read DVD-ROM and CD-ROM discs at 16x and 40x speeds respectively. The optical disc drive is equipped with technologies aimed to avoid buffer underrun and other errors while writing. Pioneer's DVR-A08XLA recorder boasts the same specification, as ASUSTeK is an OEM supplier for Pion
  • Doom 3 vs. Half Life 2: Regardless of Which is Better, We All Lose. - We may be on the cusp of a new sea change in gaming, but unlike all the others I'm not sure this one is a positive change. With the launch of Doom 3 two weeks ago and Half Life 2 (supposedly) going gold in roughly a week it looks as though we're entering a new era of "Optimized" Gaming where hardware and software manufacturers work hand-in-glove to ensure titles are absolutely optimized for their own technology.
  • Counter Strike: Source: Performance Preview  - Valve Software has just released its demo of Counter Strike: Source along with Half-Life 2 stress test for gamers around the globe to evaluate their six years work on the new incarnations of the world's most-popular game titles. Specially for gamers and hardware enthusiasts X-bit Labs decided to compare different graphics cards in a yet another "judgment test".
  • NForce 3 Motherboard Roundup - After many months of waiting, NForce 3 has finally arrived for the desktop market. Three variations of the chipset are commonplace now, the 150, 250 and 250Gb. Aside from 250Gb supporting Socket 939, the only real difference between the vanilla 250 and the Gb variant is the addition of Gigabit LAN. 150 loses out on the NVidia SATA RAID, which is a shame; but in reality the price delta between 150 and 250 will probably make the 250 the no-brainer choice for enthusiasts.
  • Athlon 64 Motherboard Round Up (Socket 754) - All of the motherboards in this round up are good boards and will suit anyone building a new machine, or upgrading an old one. The question, is finding the one that suits your needs and budget the best.
  • Valve Stress Test - Radeon X800 Pro vs GeForce 6800GT - Elite Bastards benchmarked the Radeon X800 Pro and GeForce 6800GT - using this new test, as well as throwing some 6800 Ultra scores into the mix for good measure. They've tested using a host of different settings, as well as taken a look at the performance hit the two cards have with varying levels of anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.
  • Hitachi's 7K400 Hard Drive Capacity Reaches 400-GB, Maxtor's MaXLine III Advances Serial ATA - Hard drive maker big guns are slowly but surely boosting capacity and adding new features. THG looks at Hitachi's latest drive, which now boasts 400-GB capacity, and Maxtor's newest, which offers native Serial ATA with command queuing features.
  • SATA-roundup - 160 GB - Nordic Hardware has posted a 160GB SATA harddisk roundup.
  • Belkin Hi-Speed USB2.0 8-in-1 Media Reader/Writer - TrustedReviews have posted a review of the Belkin Hi-Speed USB2.0 8-in-1 Media Reader/Writer.
  • Sharp LL-171A-B 17in TFT monitor review - On the subject of ports, the LL-171A-B is an analogue only monitor. No DVI port is available here, just a D-SUB one to marry up with your graphics card. This has obviously kept the cost down and at under L260 pounds (at the time of writing) the price is not that bad.
  • Eumax Titan Notebook Cooler review - For around $20 the Eumax Titan notebook fan pad is a cheap investment for those that worry about overheating their hardware or burning their lap.
  • Microsoft's XP Professional X64 Edition Gaming Performance - Build 1218 is a major step forward for Microsoft's 64-bit Windows program, as we're finally starting to see performance increases over today's 32-bit Windows XP variants. This could be due to optimizations on the OS level, the addition of 64-bit DirectX 9.0 components, nVidia's 64-bit Forceware drivers, or a combination of all of the above. While performance varies from application to application, many applications and games are now seeing noticeable performance boosts under 64-bit Windows. While the performance boosts are not up to par with the 15-20% boost which AMD promised in the past, we're certainly seeing steps in the right direction. For comparison, all of the previous Windows XP 64-bit builds we've previewed at GamePC have more or less shown performance decreases compared to their 32-bit equivalents.
  • NV40 Technology Explained - This article at 3DCenter.org explains how NV40's pipelines work – and why Nvidia designed them this way. Part two will explain how to take full advantage of the pipelines. Part three will discuss Shader Model 3.0 and other features.
  • Guide to Vertical Synchronization, Triple Buffering, and Temporal Anti-Alias - Team Radeon has just published an in-depth guide to Vertical Synchronization, Triple Buffering, and Temporal Anti-Alias.
  • Windows XP SP2 and Prescott CPU Compatibility Issues? - Warp2Search is reporting that there are possible issues with Windows XP builds after installing SP2. While using Prescott core CPUs, as soon as they install SP2 and reboot, the system hangs at the Windows splash screen. Changing the CPU to a non-Prescott version corrects the problem.
  • Iometer 2004.07.30 - Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. This release adds ports to NetWare on i386, Linux on PowerPC, and Linux on XScale. It features enormous code changes due to code cleanup and portability enhancements and an optional Linux kernel module to reduce even more the system overhead to capture the performance statistics.
  • BitComet 0.54 - BitComet (download) is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files.
  • WinRAR 3.40 Beta 5 - WinRAR (changelog ~ Win32 ~ DOS ~ Linux) is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
  • Fresh UI 7.17 - Fresh UI (download) is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies.
  • ATITool v0.0.21 - ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
  • ATI Radeon DNA-drivers 2.8.4.8a  - These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers, use them at your own risk. The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the Beta Catalyst drivers from ATI.
last 10 comments:
FX5900(02:50 PM CEST - Aug,22 2004 )
Can someone explain to me how people are claiming ATI is better for HL2???
Anyone who reads the "Valve Stress Test - Radeon X800 Pro vs GeForce 6800GT" will see the 6800GT was consisently better. Who told you ATI was better for HL2? Gabe? And you ATIdiots believe Gabe??? :lol:

CaptStar(10:50 PM CEST - Aug,22 2004 )
Well, lets see. When HL2 was first announced, Valve said it would run better on ATI cards. ATI had a graphics card bundle with HL2. Nvidia had Doom 3, ATI get Half-Life 2, need I say more?

v1m(11:04 PM CEST - Aug,22 2004 )
Free porn ads? Hell, who needs SP 2? ;-)

xxxx(02:19 AM CEST - Aug,23 2004 )
ati 9700 performs well in cs:s and in time demo i got 79fps average. as for nvidia, yes, they perform better and in some cases it's because people are using dx8 or dx7 instead of dx9(commandline options) which is on ati by default. either way, 9700 can handle the game with no problem. just so you know. people have complained of poor fps, probably matches their poor computer knowledge. i'm sure valve the game dummy proof soon

xxxx(02:20 AM CEST - Aug,23 2004 )
ggrobot> New Download.Ject Attack Serves Up Porn - A new version of June's Download.Ject attack is hitting users through a pair of instant messaging services, planting backdoors on fully-patched Windows XP PCs, and serving victims with a diet of porn ads. According to Thor Larholm, a senior security res

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wow, i must be lucky, been running sp2 for a while now and leaving internet on 24hrs a day.. not one problem.

GoutBoy(06:17 AM CEST - Aug,23 2004 )
Nice FX5900, but save your breath they wont listen. Ati just isnt reliable thats all there is to it.

FX5900(07:33 AM CEST - Aug,23 2004 )
CaptStar... my point EXACTLY. Valve SAID it would run better with ATI, but the benchmarks aren't showing that. Anyone who listens to Gabe is a moron... he is the king of hype and false deadlines.

CaptStar(01:25 AM CEST - Aug,24 2004 )
Oh, I didnt get what you meant.

xxxx(02:27 PM CEST - Aug,24 2004 )
as i said a long time ago, nvidia will walk all over ATI in HL2..i got a rig with a 9700 and there is a lot of people with bad fps in hl2. the bad fps comes as soon as u enable AA and AF on nearly any card. there are some that say they don't have fps problems but then they don't indicate most times what they have turned off.

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