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Sunday Tech Reading - tech|
(hx) 01:42 AM CEST - Jun,27 2005 |
SECURITY...
- Hackers probe Outlook Express flaw -
The risk of an attack related to a flaw in Microsoft Outlook Express
climbed this week, after underground hacking sites began circulating sample
code for exploiting it.
The exploit, which the French Security Incident Response Team drew
attention to on Monday, is designed to take complete control of PCs with
certain versions of the Outlook Express e-mail program installed on them, when
users visit newsgroups controlled by the hackers.
- Fresh Javascript Browser Exploit -
The latest
problem centres around the ability to refresh a page other than the one
currently open - if that page has loaded a popup in the first place. It would
allow visitors clicking on a malicious link to Hotmail to initially be served
with the correct page, before being transferred seconds later to one which
looks identical on another server. If the URLs were similar, it's likely many
users wouldn't notice the change.The exploit sample below only works on IE:
however, tests seem to suggest it may work on other browsers.
- IE Pop-Up Spoof Won't Get Patched - In the attack, JavaScript is
used to display a pop-up window in front of a trusted Web site. The pop-up
appears to be part of the legitimate site, but actually is linked to a
different, malicious site. A user might be fooled into sending personal
information to the scammers. Although the pop-ups could be used by attackers,
overlaying multiple windows in a Web browser
is a feature, not a vulnerability, according to an advisory posted Tuesday
on Microsoft's TechNet Web site.
- Nuclear secrets go global on the web - A Japanese power plant
worker has
inadvertently leaked nuclear secrets onto the web thanks to a virus
infection. The unnamed employee had stored about 40MB of confidential reports
on his home PC. When the system was infected with a virus the details were
leaked.
OFFTOPIC...
- Kick Ass Kung-Fu -
Kick
Ass Kung-Fu is an immersive game installation that transforms computer
gaming into a visual, physical performance like dance or sports. You can fight
and defy gravity like kung-fu movie actors - only there's no wires or
post-production needed, thanks to the real-time embodied interaction and
virtual set technology.
- Study claims most parents ignore game ratings -
BBC News is reporting that most parents don't seem to mind their children
playing video games rated for adults
TECHNOLOGY...
- Internet Explorer 7 Screenshots -
Bink.nu has just
posted some screenshots of what appears to be Internet Explorer 7 running
on a version of Longhorn at Gnomedex. The screenies highlight some of the new
RSS features
scheduled to be put in IE7, and were obviously taken by a digital/phone
camera.
- Future of HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Battle Still Unknown -
Actually, we won't have to wait too long to see who's going to win this battle.
Although HD DVD players are expected to be in stores for the holiday shopping
season, the backers of Blu-ray think they might still have an ace up their
sleeve: Sony Corp. plans to include a Blu-ray drive in its hotly anticipated
PlayStation 3 video game console. It won't arrive in the U.S. until next year,
but the popularity of the PlayStation franchise might just prove to be
sufficient for PS3 to be a smashing success.
HARDWARE...
-
NVIDIA Forceware 77.72 - SLI without bridge -
In fact, even 6600GT, 6800GT and even the 7800GFX can run in SLI mode without
the bridge. Although it works, there is a drop in performance. In fact, I
heard that 6200 can be run in SLI too. Is this NVIDIA's strategy to ensure its
position in both the graphics and platform chipset by introducing this
software update ? The answer is very clear. We went ahead and tested our
6600GT with and without bridge on a NF4 SLI mainboard. Previously my system
was running 71.89. I removed the bridge and 71.89 was able to allow SLI
without bridge to work (preliminary)? Anyway, I installed the 77.72 and
rebooted. On startup, it detected an SLI capable system and asked if I want to
enable SLI. Yes of course. A pop up window says that Performance will be
better if a bridge is installed.
-
Kingston DDR-533 Modules -
The Kingston HyperX DDR-533 modules tested demonstrate excellent
compatibility with various motherboards on Intel 865P/G and 915P/G, VIA
K8T800Pro and NVIDIA nForce 3 chipsets, average overclocking capacity in terms
of timings (they allow 2.5-3-3 timings in DDR-400 mode), and good operating
stability in these conditions.
-
ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE Motherboard - Considering this motherboard is made
for gamers and overclockers alike - a niche market which demands
performance and looks, the extras (and extra costs) are well worth it. For the
average user however, this motherboard is a little much for what it costs.
-
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX Video Card - The single slot cooling solution
on the 7800GTX is certainly more than pleasing and its power consumption
stands on par of the 6800U. However,
there are signs
where NVIDIA could be offering a higher clocked G70 touted 7800 Ultra when
ATI unveils their R520 "Radeon X900" end of next month.
-
Powercolor Bravo X700 and MSI NX6600 -
The MSI NX-6600 256mb is a great performer; whilst it didn't outscore the
X700 in most of the tests it did provide excellent frame rates across the
board. Stability was never an issue and display quality was always great.
MSI's bundle is really first class and the volume of things you get with the
card is very surprising considering the relatively low retail price of the
card.
-
Connect3D X700Pro 256MB PCI-E -
The only bad things for this card is the VGA cooler, it was not good
enough for a long hours of heaving loading 3D applications. So, a suggestion
to change to other VGA cooler is highly recommended for increase the life span
for the card and also for better cooling performance.
-
ATI Radeon X800 XL -
The ATI X800 XL is backed by 256MB of GDDR3 memory. A 512MB version is
available also, but the extra memory does little in terms of real world
performance. Like all other videocards currently on the market, the Radeon
X800 XL supports S-Video/Composite TV-out as well as component output for HDTV
owners.
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SATA II to the Power of 3.0Gb/sec: Three Drives Reviewed -
So what do we think of Hitachi's T7K250, Samsung's HD160JJ, and Western
Digital's WD1600JS? For now, SATA300 does wonders for multimedia and
content creation. The higher transfer rates help in audio/video data
throughput more than in office productivity applications due to the
requirements for large amounts of data to be moved. In time, however, we
should see improvements in drivers to help reach the true potentials for the
new SATA standard.
-
Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 Hard Drive -
The Hitachi SATA II drive is a very fast and great performing drive
overall, but it cannot nearly perform as a SATA II drive. Being realistic, the
SATA II bandwidth (300GB/s) seems impossible to fill with the mere 7,200RPM
mechanical drives; they are still unable to fill the bandwidth of SATA 1.0 to
begin with. This drive will not stand a chance against a really fast drive,
like the WD Raptor 10.000RPM drive, even though it is a SATA 1.0 drive
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Hitachi SATA II 500 GIG Hard Drive - One such drive (to tantalize you
taste buds) is
Hitachi's new SATA II 500 GIG monster. Not only does it offer 500
Gigabytes, but also SATA II - 3.0 Gb/s speeds and a 16MB buffer.
-
Portable Storage from Seagate 5GB Pocket Size and 400GB External -
Seagate has heated up the competition with a USB 2.0 5GB pocket drive which at
first sight looks more like a yoyo and
a monster 400GB external drive supporting USB 2.0 and Firewire with push
button backup. The poor old 5GB pocket drive from Seagate is about 300% slower
than the Firewire version of the 400GB external device but they are in a
different league.
-
BenQ DW1625 DVD burner - The drive supports a wide range of media
brands and has not shown a conflict with any of the known brands used for this
review. Its reading speed is quite good, both with the CD and DVD formats.
Unfortunately, it does not support overburning and does not recognize 90mins
CD audio. discs. Error correction is very good and will satisfy most
end user's needs, since it managed to flawlesly read all test media inserted,
whether that be CD or DVD.
-
BenQ DW1640 DVD burner - Copy protected games were not that easy to
rip, but the drive managed to complete any task, especially with PSX games
that reported the fastest performance. Unfortunately, the burner cannot
back-up SafeDisc 2.9 and above. Burning quality was great, but
the drive shows a small preference for the +R media format.
-
LiteOn SOHW-1653SX DVD burner -
The 1653SX can write up to 16X with DVD+R media, up to 12X with DVD-R
media, and 4X with DVD+RW and -RW. It can also write DL media up to 4X burning
speed.
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Sony DRU-800A DVD burner -
The drive can burn at 16X speed, both DVD+R and DVD-R media. With RW
media, the supported speeds are 8X and 6X for the DVD+R and DVD-R
respectively. The most important feature is DVD-R DL recording at 4X. DVD+R DL
is also at the same speed.
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Teac DV-W516GB DVD burner -
The 16X speed is supported for both formats. The drive's specs also report
a 4X DL writing speed and an 8X speed for +RW media, while for -RW media the
drive reaches the 6X burning speed.
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U.S. Robotics SureConnect ADSL Wireless Gateway - Similar to other
products of type, the major benefit of
the
USR9106 is that it allows you to connect your PCs, laptops and other
802.11g or 802.11b devices wirelessly to the Internet and other network
resources. The integrated 4-port Ethernet switch also lets you network 10/100
Ethernet devices/computers, and the device works with both Microsoft and
Sony's online videogame platforms.
-
eDimensional AudioFX Force Feedback Gaming Headset -
The eDimensional AudioFX is certainly a very interesting headset. In
addition to the usual functions of providing crystal clear audio reproduction
and recording, it also produces vibrations in the earcups for added realism!
While vibrating earcups may sound like a stupid idea, they do actually improve
the gaming experience by letting you actually "feel" the sound. In addition,
the intensity of the vibrations also vary according to the sound. This
actually improves audio localization by strengthening the audio cues with
vibratory cues.
-
Sony MFM-HT75W 17in Multifunction Display - Dubbed a 'Multifunction'
display,
the MFM-HT75W offers pretty similar specifications to the likes of the
Samsung and Toshiba but there are some major differences. As with the other
two the screen has a 15:9 ascpect ratio 1,280 x 768 native widescreen
resolution. However, Sony has employed its X-Black display technology,
providing a high brightness, high gloss image.
GUIDES...
- The interactive AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron rating and product ID guide -
The guide is really easy to handle: Simply select the line code of your
Athlon 64 CPU over the dropdown fields and you'll get the proper values and
descriptions in the fields below.
- Video connectors -
Everything you need to know about video connectors found in PC and CE
products: RF, Composite (RCA), S-Video, Component, RGB, VGA and DVI.
- Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PS3 - A Hardware Discussion -
This article really helps to have an understanding of everything you have
read before.
- HardOCP $1500 system guide Q2-05 -
This
system should offer competitive performance for both application and
gaming users. Second, let's upgrade an already existing system in the
tradition of our previous upgrade guides. This second system will offer a
no-holds-barred attention on gaming performance.
- Apple's OS X 10.4 review -
The
user-interface is extremely elegant the little eye candy effects make you
go wow every time. It seems fairly stable and robust and is designed to offer
better protection against malicious software which can lower the costs of
ownership over time.
SOFTWARE...
- Ten Free Games Worth Downloading - You can find plenty of games
around the Internet that are completely free - and don't suck! Hard to
believe,
but read on.
- Sun Java J2SE Runtime Environment 1.5.0 Update 4 -
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) (release
notes) provides a complete environment for applications development on
desktops and servers and for deployment in embedded environments. It also
serves as the foundation for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
and Java Web Services.
- Power Defragmenter GUI 2.0.105 -
Power
Defragmenter (download)
is based on Sysinternals defragmentation "engine". Basically its just a very
advanced GUI for the Sysinternals core application which takes defragmentation
process to a whole new level.Very high defragmentation speed, efficiency and
ease of use.
- Microsoft AntiSpyware BETA Refresh (Build 614) -
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect
Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known
spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This download requires (WGA)
Windows Genuine Advantage verification, the software is also free for all
licensed Windows XP (SP2) users.
- Futuris Imager 5.2 -
Futuris Imager (download)
is a compact and simple image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 30
graphical formats, including all popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000
and so on).
- DeepBurner 1.6.0.198 Free -
The new version of
DeepBurner (download)
implements a couple of new features, brings some improvements and adjustments
as well as fixes of known bugs and errors.
- PureVideo Decoder 1.02.145 - Watch videos on your desktop PC,
notebook PC, or HDTV without the annoying artifacts and imperfections of
traditional PC-based video solutions.
NVIDIA PureVideo technology
(download
/
release notes ~ PDF) delivers smooth HD video in all formats and with
superb picture clarity. And the high-precision subpixel processing enables
videos to be scaled to any size so that even small videos look like
high-resolution videos.
- NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.5.6 -
The NGO ATI Optimized Driver is a tweaked version of the ATI Catalyst
driver. The main purpose is to satisfy the users with a better performance and
better image quality.The Driver has support for all Radeon cards.
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