Evening Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 01:09 AM CET - Nov,15 2002
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- Microsoft pushes Xbox online - Estimates are that the company
will be lucky to
have a million Xbox Live subscribers by the end of next year, and
Microsoft's most optimistic projections call for 10 million subscribers by the
time a new version of the Xbox is introduced around 2005. Analysts estimate
that building the global network for Xbox Live will account for at least a
quarter of the $2 billion Microsoft has said it intends to spend to establish
its video game console.
- Teen says game inspired crime spree - Nineteen-year-old Micah
Zoerner of Somers, Wisconsin is charged with numerous counts of theft,
burglary and auto theft. He's being held in lieu of a 15-thousand dollar cash
bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 20th. He was
arrested Friday when officers in the village of Pleasant Prairie spotted him
breaking into vehicles parked at a local apartment complex. When he was
arrested, Zoerner had a vehicle that was reported stolen a week earlier from
the same complex. Detectives say
he told them he'd been inspired by the video game "Grand Theft Auto."
- Security Alert: US Admiral Proposes "Big Brother" System -
According to the
New York
Times and the
Washington Post, retired Vice Admiral John Poindexter has proposed the
creation of a tracking and monitoring system called "Total
Information Awareness". This system
would gather information about individuals from widely varied sources,
including telephone calling records, credit card charges, banking
transactions, airline reservations, and biometric databases -- all without
search warrants or prior notice. Poindexter is promoting the massive data
mining system as a weapon against terrorism, and has been quoted as saying
that it is necessary to "break down the stovepipes" between commercial and
government databases so as to facilitate the hunt for terrorist activity.
- Jowood in troubles? - An investor update on the
JoWooD
Official Website: "JoWood has already introduced extensive
restructuring measures so as to be able to concentrate on its core competences
- focusing on top titles with high sales potential. These measures will entail
additional expenses of at least EUR 20 million. For the time being, we have
therefore delayed publication of our quarterly figures and a detailed outlook
for the fourth quarter and the year 2002 as a whole. However, on the strength
of orders already received, we anticipate a considerable increase in sales for
the fourth quarter. We have already commenced talks with our bankers with a
view to ensuring the necessary liquidity for the company."
- Linux utility site hacked, infected - CERT advised that a popular
Linux
download site, tcpdump.org, was hacked and recent downloads were infected
with Trojan Horse code. Another in a string of similar attacks.
- MS Takes Hard Line on Security - Craig Mundie, who oversees the
company's Trustworthy Computing initiative, told an audience Wednesday that in
response to the threat of terrorist cyberattacks, Microsoft
would deploy security fixes to its installed base of hundreds of millions of
computers worldwide in the coming year -- even if those fixes break
applications in use by customers.
- 3ghz Pentium 4 Reviews - As I
mentioned morning,
Intel has released a 3ghz Pentium 4 which brings us Hyper-Threading
technology. You check some reviews&benchamarks: at:
Accelenation |
Ace's Hardware
| AnandTech |
Gamers Depot |
HardOCP |
Hardware
Unlimited | Hexus
| Sudhian |
Tech Report |
Tom'sHardware |
TweakTown
| Xbit Labs.
- Group proposes 1066MHz PCI bus specification - The industry group
behind the widely used PCI specification
announced plans to extend the roadmap to support 1066MHz bus speeds. PCI-X
1066 will be developed as a backward-compatible follow-on to the recently
announced PCI-X 266 and PCI-X 533 specifications, though the PCI Special
Interest Group will consider adding new features such as enhanced power
management, full isochronous support, redundant paths support, and modular
form factors, according to the Portland, Ore.-based organization.
- Wireless IRC for the Nokia 7650 - Germany-based mobileways has now
released
version 1.52 of WirelessIRC, an application which lets Nokia 7650 owners
connect to IRC networks to chat and share files by means of DCC. As an IRC
client, WirelessIRC allows users to connect to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
networks all over the world, where they can chat with thousands of other
people that have connected either via PCs, mobile phones or handhelds.
WirelessIRC provides menu shortcuts to most common IRC commands, and with
version 1.52 offers users the option to send and receive files by means of a
DCC relay proxy. Possible applications include taking a picture or recording a
voice note, for then to send it to another person on the network. A free trial
version of WirelessIRC 1.52 is available, while the full version of the
application can be purchased for $9.95 USD.
- Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Flying Cell Phone Tower! - Helios, in
fact, is the centerpiece of a next-generation startup called SkyTower
Telecommunications, an AeroVironment spinoff that plans to launch Helios and
many of its clones to an altitude of 12 miles -- only weather balloons and U-2
spy planes venture that high in the atmosphere -- where they would serve as
private communications satellites for consumers and businesses on the
ground...Helios
will bathe the ground directly below it in an electromagnetic mélange of
bargain-priced broadband Internet, third-generation (3G) mobile-phone service,
and high-definition TV signals. All you'd need is a dish the size of a cereal
bowl nailed to your roof to get the whole wireless package.
- Images and movies from the Sun -
The images and movies on this page are the most highly resolved solar
images ever taken. The observations were made with the Swedish 1-meter Solar
Telescope (SST) by Göran B. Scharmer, Boris V. Gudiksen, Dan Kiselman, Mats G.
Löfdahl, and Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort.
- VIA said to push back KT400A and P4X600 production to 2003 - VIA
Technologies has
reportedly decided to delay volume production of its KT400A and P4X600
chipsets from the fourth quarter to early 2003, according to sources at
motherboard companies.
- AMD postpones 90nm products to 2004 - Affected by the delayed
launch of K8-core processors,
the introduction of 90-nanometer (nm) products by AMD will be pushed back to
the first half of 2004, the company's latest roadmap showed. Originally,
AMD scheduled to roll out its 90nm, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) process-based
Athens core (for servers and workstations), San Diego core (for desktops) and
Odessa core (for notebooks) in the second half of 2003, following its
introduction of 0.13-micron K8 products from the end of 2002 to the first half
of 2003.
- ATI Introduces Next Generation IMAGEON 3200 - ATI today
introduced IMAGEON 3200, the most advanced multimedia co-processor for
handheld electronic devices such as PDA and the new generation of data-enabled
Mobile Phones. It integrates an advanced 2D graphics engine and an
MPEG/JPEG decoder alongside a powerful and versatile set of peripheral I/O
functions.
- GeForce4 4200 Go Mobile GPU - NVIDIA introduced the Company's
newest
mobile graphics processing unit (GPU), the NVIDIA GeForcet4 4200 Go GPU.
Based on the critically acclaimed GeForce4 Ti 4200 GPU, the GeForce4 4200 Go
GPU delivers the same features and level of performance that has earned the
GeForce4 Ti 4200 GPU the reputation as the "perfect" GPU for desktop PCs.
- Carmack Talks Quick about Doom 3 and NV30 - "My current work on
Doom is designed around what was made possible on the original GeForce, and
reaches an optimal implementation on NVIDIA's next-generation GPU. My next
generation of work will be designed around what is made
possible on NVIDIA's next-generation GPU. "
- 87gigabytes DVD soon? - Boston College researchers have found a way
to store about 19 times more data on a disk than a common DVD can hold, using
optical media made with common products, the December issue of Nature
Materials reports. An epoxy glue sold at hardware stores and a
glass-like substance were formed into a
DVD-size disk able to hold about 87 gigabytes, equal to 87,000 paperback
books. A typical DVD holds about 4.7 gigabytes. The discovery is unique
because the materials remained stable, keeping data intact, the project's
leader said.
- Epox offers KT400, Thoroughbred unlocked - Epox recently announced
a BIOS for
its KT400 boards, branded as the 8K9A, that offers a feature for those
wanting to overclocking Athlons without changing the processor itself. This
makes it an easier task to overclock AMD chips, given that there's always a
danger of losing the warranty on the microprocessor if you dabble too much.
Epox has made it possible to have processors that are multiplier unlocked on
AMD retail Athlons. This means you will be able to overclock your CPU just by
plugging in it into the board, and then overclocking at will, because of the
voltage and other settings Epox includes. The BIOS works for all Thoroughbred
processors -- including revision B -- that support FSB 333. All processors
from 2200+ up to the still unavailable 2800+ are supported.
- Office 2000 Service Pack 3 -
The Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) (download)
provides the latest product updates to Office 2000 and offers you the highest
levels of performance and security available for Office 2000. It can be
installed by enterprise, small business, or individual users. Office XP SP3
addresses issues described in several previous Microsoft Security Bulletins as
well as in several previous downloads.
- NVIDIA Premieres NVDVD 2.0 - NVIDIA announced the immediate
availability of NVIDIA NVDVD 2.0, the newest version of the Company's
versatile PC-based software digital media player. NVIDIA is offering consumers
a free, 14-day trial version, which can be downloaded starting today,
along with a trailer for MGM's upcoming James Bond 007 movie "Die Another
Day," provided by MGM and Ambient Digital Media.
- Customized OCIA version of Sandra 2003 Standard - As many of
you already know, the popular benchmarking tool SiSoft Sandra has released
their 2003 version of this program. In conjunction with OCIA,
SiSoftware has created a
customized version of this benchmarking program just for OCIA readers!
This version is like any other Standard 2003 except for the fact that it
features an OCIA splash screen and the "distributed by OCIA" info. Also, if
you choose to purchase the full version of Sandra 2003 through the Standard
version, OCIA earns a small commission. This money will go to cover site
expenses, such as hosting, contests, etc.
The file is a 5 MB download,
so it might take a little bit for you dial-up guys. Broadband users should
have no problems at all.
- Windows 2000 Post SP3-Hotfixes / WinXP Post SP1-Hofixes - This
document is a cumulative list of the articles that have been written to
discuss hotfixes that have been released since the release of
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and
Windows XP Service Pack 1.
- Windows .Net Server 2003 build 3714 released -
This
build is a continuation of the cleaning up of the code (shot1/
shot2) and implementation of the newer "Windows .NET Server 2003" (thanks
NeoWin).
- Star Office 6.0 Patch - Sun has released a
new patch (for both Windows and Linux) for Star Office 6.0.
- Intel Chipset Installation Utility 4.10.1012 -
This utility allows the operating system to correctly identify the Intel
chipset components and properly configure the system. The Intel Chipset
Software Installation Utility installs specific Windows INF files. The INF
files inform the operating system how to properly configure the chipset for
specific functionality, such as AGP, USB, Core PCI, and ISA PnP services.
- Nero InCD 3.51.61 -
Nero InCD
3.51.61 (mirror1 ~
mirror2 ~
mirror3) has been
released. InCD is Ahead Software's packet writing software for CD-RW's.
- ATI Catalyst Drivers 02.4 - ATI today released the latest
installment of their feature rich and well received Catalyst driver suite -
WinXP/2K ~
Win9x/ME ~
ControlPanel. Features: CodeCreatures score is improved by 20% at 4X AA
for 9700 series products, NASCAR 2002 framerate is up as much as 18% across
the entire Radeon products line, NHL 2002 performance is up as much as 35%
across the entire product line (largest gains on Radeon 7500/8500),
Performance on legacy (DX6 and DX7) apps is improved by as much as 15% for
Radeon 9700 series products.
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