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Wednesday Tech Reading - tech|
(hx) 06:15 PM CEST - Jun,08 2005 |
SECURITY...
- Microsoft Planning 'Lower Rights' IE 7.0 - A senior Microsoft
executive on Monday confirmed that the upcoming
Internet Explorer 7.0 browser upgrade will ship with reduced privilege mode
turned on by default to help thwart browser-based hacking attacks. The new
browser will also feature major changes in the way files are executed and new
anti-spoofing and anti-phishing technology to let users identify fake scam Web
sites.
- Alleged Pentagon hacker arrested -
British man
accused by the United States of hacking into scores of military computers
and disrupting operations was arrested in London on Tuesday to face an
extradition hearing, police said. Unemployed programmer Gary McKinnon, 39, is
accused of gaining illegal access to 53 computers owned by the Pentagon, NASA
and the U.S. Army and Navy between February 2001 and March 2002. He was taken
to a central London police station and is due to appear in court on Wednesday
for an extradition hearing brought on behalf of the U.S. government, London
police said in a statement.
- Hotmail threatened by MSN flaw -
A
cross-scripting security hole allowed malicious hackers to steal cookies
from Hotmail users and get access to their accounts. Microsoft took part of
its MSN Web site offline over the weekend, after it learned of a flaw that
could let an attacker gain access to Hotmail accounts, the company said. The
MSN Web site, http://ilovemessenger.msn.com/, contained a so-called cross-site
scripting flaw, a Microsoft representative said on Monday. In its initial
review of the issue, the company found that an attacker could use the
vulnerability to obtain "cookies" from Hotmail users by getting them to click
on a malicious URL. That could then grant access to those e-mail accounts, the
representative said.
- Shanghai Cracks Down on Pirated Movies - Shanghai is cracking down
on pirated videos ahead of the city's international film festival, putting
illegal copies of the latest "Stars Wars" movie and TV shows such as "Friends"
out of reach - at least for now.
Stores have temporarily closed or boxed up unauthorized DVDs to avoid having
them seized in police raids. Sidewalk sellers who peddle copies out of
suitcases are also lying low.
- Quantum cryptography network gets wireless link -
The
world's first quantum encryption computer network has been expanded to
include a wireless link that uses quantum communications codes. The wireless
connection was added to the DARPA Quantum Network, a quantum fibre-optic
network buried beneath the ground in Massachusetts, US. Quantum cryptography
guarantees security by encoding information as polarised photons which can be
sent down a fibre optic cable or through the air. Intercepting these photons
disturbs their quantum state, alerting both sides to an eavesdropper's
presence.
OFFTOPIC...
- Japan unveils "robot suit" that enhances human power - Japan has
taken a step into the science-fiction world with the release of
a "robot suit" that can help workers lift heavy loads or assist people with
disabilities climb stairs. The 15-kilogram (33-pound) battery-powered
suit, code-named HAL-5, detects muscle movements through electrical-signal
flows on the skin surface and then amplifies them.
- The "Star Wars" Worlds: More Science Than Fiction? - Everyone knows
the Star Wars galaxy is located "far, far away." But how realistic are the
alien worlds (see pictures) described in the science fiction saga? To find
out,
National Geographic News checked in with two experts on everything
extraterrestrial: Bruce Betts, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Society
in Pasadena, California, and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI
(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View,
California.
- Mission: Impossible 3 Start Date Announced - Mission: Impossible 3,
starring Tom Cruise, will commence principal photography on July 18th in
Italy, it was announced today by Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad
Grey. The film, to be directed by J. J. Abrams and filmed on locations across
Europe, the U.S. and Asia,
is scheduled to be released May 5, 2006. Cruise and his partner, Paula
Wagner, will produce for Cruise/Wagner Productions.
- Genes blamed for fickle female orgasm - Is this the ultimate excuse
for poor performance in bed? "Sorry, darling," the man says, just before
falling asleep.
"It's your genes."
TECHNOLOGY...
- Nintendo Revolution downloads NOT for free - According to a recent
article in Famitsu magazine
downloading classic Nintendo games onto your Revolution will not be free.
Boss man, Satoru Itawa, explicitly stated the fact, but added that some games
might be available for free download as a bonus for purchasing a Revolution
title or through special promotions.
- Intel-inside Mac benchmarked with
mixed results - Mac developers have already
begun testing the performance of Apple's limited edition Mac based on a
3GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. The Xbench tests show the performance of
PowerPC software running in the Rosetta environment. The resultant cores of
between 65 and 70 are a long way behind the 200+ rating achieved by the
fastest Power Macs, though since Rosetta does not support Altivec instructions
- there being no Altivec processor in the Intel machine.
- Longhorn Microsoft improves graphics by 55% - It's interesting to
see
Microsoft making another step towards total control of the graphics market
development - from now on accelerators will have to offer almost identical
features and the difference between them will be only in their quality and
performance. No CAPS, no tyranny of formats - all cards support everything.
That's all, these are all features that Microsoft decided to include into the
next version of its graphics API.
- Longhorn biggest release since Win95 -
Ballmer: I think Longhorn is going to be the biggest release we have done
since Windows 95. It's going to be a big thing, but I don't think we should
have expectations that we will have people lined up at midnight to buy a copy,
necessarily, despite the fact that Longhorn is a huge deal. I think it's
bigger than anything else we've ever done--except Win95. In a sense,
technically, it's much bigger than Windows 95.
- Sprint, Yahoo To Offer Pay Email Service On Cellphones -
Sprint
Corp. launched a pay email service with Yahoo Inc. for its mobile phone
customers, as the companies look to tap into the rapidly growing wireless
data-service market. Starting Wednesday, Sprint users with select handsets
will be able to download a program that greatly speeds up the delivery of
Yahoo emails through a more user-friendly interface. It will also allow the
storage of emails onto the phone, so users won't have to constantly go online
to review old messages. Both Sprint and Yahoo are banking that consumers will
pay the additional $2.99 a month for the new features.
- iTunes more
popular than many P2P sites - Apple Computer's iTunes online music store
is as popular as most music-swapping networks, according to a study released
Tuesday. The survey by market research firm NPD Group found that approximately
1.7 million U.S. households downloaded a song from iTunes in March. That was
good enough to earn the store
a second-place ranking with peer-to-peer downloading service LimeWire.
HARDWARE...
-
Lenovo shows off its first Thinkpad -
The first laptop, the Thinkpad X41T, is an ultraportable with a swivelling
screen that turns it into tablet. Lenovo claims that the X41T is 20 per cent
lighter than its closest competitor and, with the extended battery pack, has
the longest working time of any 12in laptop, at up to 6.3 hours. It uses a
built in graphics accelerator, and can be ordered with an Intel Pentium M
processor and up to 1.5GB of DDR2 Ram. UK prices start at £1,290 and models
will be available from July.
-
ATI Unveils Mobility RADEON X800 XT for DTR Laptops -
ATI Mobility RADEON X800 XT incorporates 16 pixel and 6 vertex pipelines
as well as 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface. According to ATI's performance
tests, the part features performance, which is on par with that provided by
ATI RADEON X800 XT graphics card. ATI's latest mobile graphics chip is
designed for PCI Express bus and will be available in AXIOM (Advanced eXpress
I/O Module) form-factor. The chip is manufactured using 0.13 micron low-k
process technology and features power-saving capabilities, such as POWERPLAY
5.0.
-
Single-chip ULi Athlon 64 chipset to come in July - DigiTimes is
reporting that mass production of ULi's upcoming
M1697 Athlon 64 chipset will begin next month. Like NVIDIA's nForce4
family, the M1697 is a single-chip solution. The chipset will support
dual-core Athlon 64 processors, 3Gbps "Serial ATA II" transfer rates, 20 lanes
of PCI Express, High Definition Audio, and RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 arrays.
-
Maxtor announces 500GB hard drives - Maxtor has announced that
it will begin shipping 500GB ATA/133 and Serial ATA hard drives in the
third quarter of this year. The half-terabyte drives will spin at 7,200RPM and
be available across Maxtor's QuickView, MaXLine, and DiamonMax lines.
300MB/sec transfer rates will be supported on the Serial ATA models, and since
Maxtor's current generation of desktop drives already support Native Command
Queuing, it seems likely that the new 500GB drives will as well.
-
ATI's CrossFire System Scores 15 498 in 3DMark05 - ATI Technologies
proclaimed the world's record 3DMark05 score that was achieved by the
company's CrossFire platform featuring two presumably overclocked graphics
cards.
The new record is 15 498 marks, which is around 6% higher compared to the
previous record held by a multi-GPU system based on NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
SLI platform.
-
AMD's Opteron 275 Dual-Core Processor -
AMD's dual-core Opteron processors are extremely impressive, not only in
terms of the amount of their raw performance capabilities, but as the basis
for a well rounded multi-core workstation / server platform. They are
extremely feature-packed processors (SSE-3, NX-Bit, x64 support) which do not
create much heat and consume very little power. The chips are pin compatible
with Opteron platforms of the last two years, and will require nothing more
than a BIOS update in order for older motherboards to support this new
architecture.
-
Mushkin Redline XP4000 DDR RAM - XtremeResources takes a look today at
Mushkin's latest high performance DDR offering, their Redline XP4000 RAM
modules.
-
Mushkin 2GB-Kit HP3200 DDR - Viper Lair posted
a review of Mushkin's latest memory kit
-
ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard - If you are looking for a top
overclocking board for Pentium4 LGA775, you have found the right one.
The
layout is well thought out and the board has ample overclocking headroom -
more than most people would ever need. Compatibility issues could not be
spotted and gaming performance is rock solid. Another review can be found on
Guru3D.
-
Gigabyte Silent-Pipe Radeon X800 XL (GV-RX80L256V) PCIe - My first
thought when asked to review
a completely
silent X800 XL was, 'Hey, that would be a perfect HTPC card. Good gaming
and silent! Sign me up!' Unfortunately, the height of the Silent-Pipe X800 XL
(GV-RX80L256V) due to its heatpipes will prohibit it from fitting in my
current HTPC case (an Antec Overture) and many others. Nevertheless, it still
seems like a top media PC option to me. Keep reading to find out if the
performance is on par with other X800 XL PCI Express cards and to learn more
about this cool and silent offering from Gigabyte.
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HIS X850XT IceQII Turbo and Platinum Series VIVO 256MB AGP - Based on
the performance of the two cards,
it doesn't make much sense to pick the Platinum Edition over the Turbo model.
At the default speeds, the Turbo was only a slight step behind the Platinum
Edition in most tests, and the Turbo can be manually increased to run at the
Platinum speeds using iTurbo anyway.
-
10 Mammouth CPU Coolers: Size Does Matter -
The Vanessa (L-Type) by Titan stands out, for its particularly good
cooling capacity and extravagant design features. The Sonic Tower by
Thermaltake also boasts an impressive cooling capacity, and if passive
operation isn't feasible, an optional 120 mm fan can be added, albeit at an
additional cost. If you don't have a lot of space in your computer, the
CNPS7700 Cu from Zalman is a good option, offering good cooling capacity with
minimal noise emission at a reasonable price
-
Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup External Hard Drive - It's called
Pushbutton as you can kick off a backup job simply by pressing the button on
the face of the drive.
The drive comes in both USB-only and a dual USB-Firewire version to meet
your needs. With that kind of capacity and connectivity, this drive sure
sounds like a winner. You can pickup the Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup drive
for about $310 which is actually only a couple bucks more than a 400GB Seagate
internal drive
-
DVD Burner round-up: Top 16x drives tested -
TechSpot has posted a DVD Burner round-up testing three of the most
acclaimed 16x drives currently available in the market: Plextor's PX-716A,
NEC's ND-3520A and LG's GSA-4163B - As far as king of the hill goes, the NEC
drive lists the best performance specifications from the manufacturer.
However, if you take the benchmarks under consideration, you have to be
impressed with LG's low CPU utilization. I don't know about you, but I am a
pure breed multi-tasker, and I put very high demands on my PC.
-
Sony DRU-800A 16x DVD±RW - Sony's new drive did pretty well in our DVD
read tests.
The DRU-800A was able to read both single layer DVD-ROM's and DVD-Videos at
16x and had some relatively good seek times. It also read DVD±R and DVD±RW
media at a respectable 8x, but slowed to only 5.7x when reading DVD+R DL and
DVD-R DL discs.
-
Pioneer DVR-109 DVD-Writer - The key point is that the
media
compatibility with this drive is horrible, media that have been on the
market for over a year and more is still not supported at certified speed,
even from large known manufacturers like Ritek and CMC Magnetics.
-
Logitech V200 Cordless Notebook Mouse - CoolTechZone posted
a review of Logitech V200 Cordless Notebook Mouse.
-
Logitech Formula GP Racing Wheel for the PC -
If you
don't want to spend over $60 for a wheel/racing combo, then this is the
racing wheel for you. Whether it's your bank account or your games, you can't
lose with this value combo.
-
Finding the Best 19" LCD Monitor for Your Application - Given the
performance of the latter,
it's hard to recommend one of these panels in comparison to what a ViewSonic
191b can offer. If you can't afford a ViewSonic 191s (now available for
less than $500), the best choice is a Hyundai L90D+. It's a little less
responsive than the 191b/s, but it costs less.
-
DoubleSight DS-1900 Dual 19 Inch LCD Monitor - With a retail price of
$1399
the DS-1900 has to do a lot to convince people that it is a worthy investment.
One on hand, it does have two high quality LCDs, an adjustable base, and a
very small footprint but there are a few tradeoffs. For example, the base is
small but possibly too small as it does include a restraining bolt and seems
unweighed when the displays are too far forward.
-
Nokia 6230i review - Tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz connectivity isn't
all
the Nokia 6230i has to offer: there's also support for EDGE and GPRS Class
10, HSCSD, and a range of applications such as an XHTML/WAP 2.0 browser,
support for Java MIDP 2.0, a Java-based e-mail client, voice commands,
polyphonic ringtones, a voice recorder and spacious phone book with Wireless
Village instant messaging support well in place. The Nokia 6230i also offers
USB support through its proprietary Pop-port, however for this purpose users
must disappointingly purchase a quite expensive data cable.
-
HP iPAQ hw6515 - Not only harbouring GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz and support
for GPRS Class 10, the hw6515 is also the first Windows Mobile communicator to
support EDGE for high speed data transfers, where applicable. Performance,
both for data and voice, proved very good, with above-par signal reception as
compared to previous Windows Mobile communicators as well as favourable
speakerphone quality.
The
HP iPAQ hw6515 (photos)
is slated for availability in major European markets in June.
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Sony VRD-VC20 -
The VRD-VC20 is Sony's 2nd generation stand-alone DVD recorder. The
VRD-VC20 adds a DV (1394) digital video input and dual layer writing
capability to the previous generation VRD-VC10. The VRD-VC20, like similar
products, is directed at the consumer who has amassed a library of analog
video recordings and would like to convert them directly to a DVD - without
connecting to a PC.
GUIDES...
SOFTWARE...
- MS patches XP for HD video acceleration -
Microsoft has patched Windows XP (download)
to allow the operating system to decode Windows Media Video HD movies using an
Nvidia GeForce 6 series GPU. Nvidia calls its WMV-HD acceleration technology
PureVideo, and it claims the system can reduce the host processor's video
decode load by up to 40 per cent, by getting the GPU to shoulder the burden.
The upshot, it says, are CPU resources that can now be dedicated to other
tasks.
- AntiAlias demo -
This
demo implements supersampling antialiasing by rendering the scene multiple
times with just a tiny tweak to the projection matrix between the renders and
accumulating the results in the accumulation buffer. It allows you to change
between 1x (no AA), 2x, 4x and 11x (default). If you enable antialiasing in
the control panel you can get really large AA modes, for instance 6x
multisampling + 11x supersampling, which would give you essentially 66x AA.
- Win32Whois 0.9.7 -
Win32Whois (download)
is a free, small and efficient tool that lets you retrieve registration
information for a particular domain or website.
- BitComet 0.59 -
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
- BitTorrent 4.1.2 Beta -
BitTorrent is a
peer-to-peer file sharing/distribution protocol designed for transferring
files from multiple locations.
- XPlite/2000lite 1.6 -
XPlite and 2000lite are
powerful configuration utilities for Windows creating a modular Windows
operating system where YOU are in control.
- FreeRIP 2.942 -
FreeRip
(download) is a
freeware application that lets you save audio CD tracks to Wav or MP3 or Ogg
Vorbis audio files. FreeRIP is also an audio file converter since it can
convert and encode Wav files to Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) or MP3 (.mp3), and back.
- CloneCD 5.2.4.1 -
CloneCD (download)
is a powerful CD-Copy program. It writes in Raw mode, which allows it to have
total control on the data written. Therefore, it will produce real 1:1 copies
of your CDs.
- DVD Region+CSS Free v5.89 -
DVD
Region+CSS Free (download)
enables you to watch and copy any region-coded/CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any
DVD drive. DVD Region+CSS Free decrypts not just DVD's, it now allows you also
to play, copy and rip protected Audio CD's
- CDCheck 3.1.5.0 -
CDCheck is an
application that checks your CD-ROM and tells you which files are corrupted.
It can also do a binary compare with copy on disk.
- VideoInspector 1.5.0.83 -
VideoInspector (download)
is a tools designed to provide you with as much information as possible about
your video files. With VideoInspector you'll know why your video files has no
sound or refuses to play correctly.
- INTEL Matrix Storage Manager driver 5.0.1.1001 -
This driver provides support for SATA RAID 5/10 on ICH7R-based chipsets,
as well support for AHCI & SATA RAID 0/1 on ICH7R/ICH6R/ICH5R-based chipsets.
- ForceWare 72.13 WHQL - The good news is that
it
is a WHQL approved driver (Microsoft tested and verified). Even better
news is that almost any GeForce and Quadro graphics cards is supported.
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