Afternoon Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 09:32 PM CEST - Jul,04 2002
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- Greek ban on gaming threatens Internet cafes - A Register reader in
Greece emails us claiming
that the Greek government has effectively outlawed Internet cafes by "all LAN and
Internet games and any kind of game that is supported by electrical, electronic or
software means." If anybody so much as has something looking like a game on the
screen, he tells us, the cafe manager is liable for arrest.
- Music labels go after song-swappers - Major music companies are preparing to mount
a broad new attack on unauthorized online song-swapping. The campaign would include
suits against individuals who are offering the largest troves of songs on peer-to-peer
services.
- Net radio raises a pirate flag - The 39-year-old McLeod, a game designer who works out of
his home in England, is the author of Streamer, a new
software program designed to let people create online
radio stations that are difficult for the authorities to trace.
- cDc prepares user-friendly stego app - In an effort to help Netizens in
the more paranoid corners of the world evade national censorship, the cDc's Hacktivismo
group is developing
a browser product called Camera/Shy capable of creating and displaying images with
messages which would likely get a Web site shut down or filtered in places like Saudi
Arabia and China.
- Nanotechnology Coming! - Nanotechnology focuses on the miniature, but
one thing about it is massive: the hype. Boosters have long panted about a coming age of
tiny machines that will enhance human intelligence, cure disease, wipe out poverty -- and
create fortunes. The National Nanotechnology Initiative, a federally backed research
program, has forecast that nanotech
will spawn a $1 trillion market by 2015. The froth has sparked an inevitable backlash:
Some doubters now dismiss nanotech as sci-fi fantasy and a business bust in waiting.
- Are Holograms Finally for Real? - Such startlingly lifelike projections
are so compelling a technology -- as we saw when R2-D2 emitted his "Help me,
Obi-Wan" hologram of Princess Leia 25 years ago in the original Star Wars -- that
it's difficult to imagine a future in which they're not ubiquitous. It's the present
that's the problem. Until now, holograms have been little more than second-rate gimmicks,
thanks to the fact that holographically creating anything more than small, washed-out
images has proved exceedingly expensive and time-consuming. But that's about to change.
- Cartoon Inspires Student to Create a New Approach for Encryption - An
unlikely combination of interests -- cartoons and math -- has inspired a sophomore at the
University of Dayton to develop a new, and potentially
unbreakable, encryption technology.
- KPNQwest pulls the plug on Ebone - KPNQwest, the bankrupt Dutch
telecommunications group, has begun shutting down its Ebone network, leaving up to 4,500 companies
without their Internet connection.
- Lindows OS Sucks? - Both NewsForge
and BayArea.com. have posted negative Lindows reviews...
- Sneakemail against Spam - Sneakemail is a free service that you can use to create some 'ghost
e-mail addresses' which you can use when filling out online forms. Each e-mail address can
be destroyed if you find that you are receiving any unwanted emails.
- An End-To-End Look at Linux for the Playstation 2 Review - So what do
you have access to? The entire graphics system is totally open. This includes the
EECore(CPU), VU0 & VU1(Vector coprocessors), GS (Graphics Processor), IPU (Mpeg
decoder/texture manager), FPU(Floating point coprocessor), and the interconnecting
controllers, (DMA, Video/graphics interface controllers) You also have access to the
documentation, but it's limited. Read more.
- Microsoft gets into PC hardware business - A report in the Economic
News claims that Microsoft and FIC will jointly launch a so-called "Dream PC"
which doesn't even use
an Intel chip, but instead makes use of a Via C3. The report claims that the first
jointly developed "Dream PC" will be introduced towards the end of this month
and that Microsoft will also show quite a few so called "baseline" or cheap
machines which run with Via C3 600MHz chips and Windows XP.
- PCExpo / TechXNY 2002 Coverage - PC Stats has published their PCExpo /
TechXNY 2002 coverage.
- Chaintech GeForce 4 Ti4200 - It seems to me that nearly all the
manufacturers are using the reference Ti-4200 design to shorten time-to-market and to cut
down R&D costs. The use of black PCB and golden HSF gives a refreshing look to this
card. I am sure that case modders would love it.
- ABIT BD7II-RAID & BG7 Review - ABIT BD7II-RAID is
based on Intel 845E chipset while BG7 is based on Intel 845G chipset and both officially
support 533Mhz system bus and the new ICH4 Southbridge that support six USB 2.0 ports and
6 channels 20-Bit AC'97 audio codec. BG7 is integrated with Intel Extreme Graphics and the
support of DDR333 which will enhance system performance further. However, DDR333 is not
officially supported by Intel now but the next upcoming 845PE/GE chipsets. As usual, the
boards sport a light brown PCB and are lightly featured with LAN, USB 2.0, 5.1 Channel
Audio and RAID (BD7II-RAID only). We will check out in details the board features, BIOS
settings, overclockability as well as performance.
- Pioneer DVD-106S DVD Drive Review - Pioneer Electronics, famous for
their hi-fi and home theater components such as the prestigious Pioneer Elite line of
receivers and DVD players has also ventured into making optical drives for the computer
industry. Their slot loading CD drives are a hit among various OEM manufacturers such as
Compaq and have been used in their systems for quite sometime. The latest Pioneer optical
drive to hit the market is their DVD-106S DVD/CD-ROM drive which also features the same slot loading
mechanism found on the other Pioneer models.
- Lian Li PC-9300 review - I've just checked out Lian Li's entrant in the
very very stylish desktop case, or alternatively computer that won't look too out-of-place
among your hi-fi components sector of the market. The PC-9300 has more features,
and more extras, than you might expect. And it's not nearly as hilariously expensive as
the last case of this type I reviewed.
- AMD Overclocking Database - Tweakers Australia has just updated their AMD CPU overclocking
database with some new additions including the new Duron 'Morgan' based processors, as
well as the XP2200+ processor.
- Terminator III Teaser - The teaser trailer (70seconds) for Terminator
III - Rise Of The Machines has been released over on Quicktime Trailers. If
wanna see some PICS, here is link1
and link2 :P I love the first two Terminators, and I'm hoping that T3
rocks.
- GTA3 editing utils - GTA3Mods.com has been updated with ome
useful utilities for editing various settings in GTA3 : Weapon Editor / Car Stats Editor
- PHP 4.3.0 Alpha 2 - It is based on the current PHP 4 CVS (4.3.0-dev) and includes the new scripting engine which
greatly improves the object model, adds exception handling and provides a much better
infrastructure for the integration of external technologies like Java or .NET.
- Red Hat Linux 7.4 Beta - Red Hat Software has released a beta version (CD1
/ CD2
/ CD3
) of their upcoming Red Hat Linux 7.4 (Codename Limbo) distribution.
- KDE 3.0.2 - The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability
of KDE
3.0.2, the third generation of KDE's free, powerful desktop for Linux and other
UNIXes.
- Diet Kaza v1.02b - Diet
Kazaa is a utility that removes all advertising, speeds up searches, gives more
results and takes out useless icons (i.e. Shopping).
- Nero Burning-ROM 5.5.9.0 - Ahead have released a new version of Nero v5.5.9.0.
This new version added Nero Express !!! For Nero Express features please see the Nero
Express product info page. (mirror1 / mirror2 / mirror3 / mirror4 / mirror5)
- ASUS PCProbe 2.17.00 - Asus
PCProbe is a small utility to monitor the computer's fan rotations, voltages and
temperatures.
- Philips Soundcard Drivers - Philips Multimedia has released new WHQL certified drivers
for their 70x series of soundcards (though no drivers for Win2K).
- RADEON Beta drivers - Warp2Search have posted a new beta RADEON drivers build 7.74-020609n-002628E. To be exact: ATi
RADEON WindowsXP Drivers 6.13.10.6107, ATi RADEON Win2000 Drivers 5.13.01.6107 and ATi
RADEON Win98/ME Drivers 4.13.01.9044.
- New EPoX BIOSes - KT-133M ,
KT-133M+ / EP-4B2A2, EP-4B2A2+, EP-4B2A2L / EP-4B2A,
EP-4B2M, EP-4B2M+ / EP-4BEAR, EP-4BEA
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