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(hx) 12:38 PM CEST - Jul,12 2006
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- Desktop K8L chips won't show up until 2008? - According to
DigiTimes' moles at Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, AMD will kick off its
transition to 65nm process technology on the desktop with new Athlon 64 X2
3800+, 4200+, and 4600+ chips in the first quarter of 2007, and dual-core
Semprons will follow later in the year. These sources suggest that desktop
K8L chips won't show up until at
least the beginning of 2008.
- Latest ForceWare drivers cause system crashes -
HardOCP
tested two nForce 570 SLI mobos in systems outfitted with the latest
nForce 570 SLI/570/550 9.16 platform drivers and ForceWare 91.31 graphics
drivers, and in both cases the machines apparently suffered from not only
crashes, but also data corruption. Amusingly, this report comes on the same
day as
NVIDIA's boastful press release about achieving "excellent" stability
results in a Veritest study.
- AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (AM2) Overclocking Performance -
This new revision codenamed 'Orleans' brings a number of new features to
the Athlon 64 line-up including SSE3 support, an updated memory controller and
a 90nm SOI process. However despite of the fact these new processors are
substantially different to past revisions, AMD decided to play it quiet.
- Super Talent's 2.5" IDE Flash hard drive - Super Talent's 2.5" IDE
Flash drives are available today in sizes up to 16 GB. The prospect of a
silent, lightweight notebook hard drive with frugal power consumption is
certainly tantalizing,
but what about performance?
- 50TB Coated DVDs? -
An
Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVD's which can
be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes
(about 50,000 gigabytes) of data.
- HP may ship color version of Lightscribe later this year - Yeah,
there will be
color Lightscribe burners before Christmas.
- Dell XPS M1210 notebook -
The base model comes with an Intel
Core Duo Processor T2300E (1.66GHz/667MHz FSB/2MB cache), although this
can be upgraded to the top-of-the-line T2600 (2.16GHz/667MHz FSB/2MB cache).
- [!] Microsoft plugs worm hole in Windows -The
patches were delivered in seven security bulletins, five of which
Microsoft deems "critical," its most serious rating. One of the urgent fixes
addresses a flaw in a Windows component that could be used to spread a worm.
Other updates deal with Office flaws that have already been used in targeted
attacks.
- Win98, WinME Support Ends -
Customers looking for support from Microsoft for Windows 98 and ME will be
out of luck after today as both products have reached their end of life date.
- Vista may not be ready for January -
Bill Gates saying that he is only 80 per cent sure that it will be in the
shops by January.
- The new Office 2007 icons - Microsoft has published the pictures of
the new Office 2007 icons.
- Firefox 2.0 Beta -
Mozilla is hoping that users find this release to be a "good echo" of what
they have gotten used to. Firefox 2 hasn't changed much, interface-wise, from
the original.
- Apple Boot Camp - 1.0.2 Beta 1 -
Apple has released an update to Boot Camp. Boot Camp is the software
solution that will allow the Intel Macs to dual boot into Windows. For people
who want to run Windows on their Intel Macs, this is the fastest solution.
This is update might include bug fixes, maybe new features too.
- Intricate Steps of How to Hack Into a Computer -
Here is a huge map that pretty much shows you all possible ways to gain
entrance into a system. From finding exploits and scanning ports to password
cracking
- BPI demands Internet providers to pull the plug on file sharers -
Now, the British Phonographic
Industry (BPI) in the UK aims to tackle file sharing by demanding the
Internet Service Providers Cable & Wireless and Tiscali to suspend the
accounts of 59 accounts for a list of IP addresses it believes to be engaging
in copyright infringement of music
- E-Rope - The coolest power strip idea -
That blue light may get a bit annoying after five minutes. But it looks
kewl for that same amount of time :) However,
the PowerSquid design is probably much better...
- 2007 Mercedes-Benz SLR 722 Edition unveiled -
The car accelerates from
standstill to 62 mph in only 3.6 seconds, and 124 mph is reached in just
10.2 seconds. The maximum speed is 209 mph
- BMW Remote Park Assist - Driving your car into a cramped parking
space can be a harrowing experience, but
BMW says it has developed a robotic parking system to solve the problem.
- How to make ice that sinks -
The key to the trick is heavy ice
- Street Artist "Installs" Fake People in City -
This artist has created fake people and animals, placing them all over
Washington DC and New York
- Best Places to Work in IT - Overall Rankings - For the 13th year in
a row,
Computerworld conducted a survey to identify the 100 Best Places to Work
for IT professionals. A total of 20,435 IT professionals responded to the
employee survey from the final 100 companies selected.
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