Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:37 AM CET - Jan,15 2002
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- No let-up in warez crackdown? - Federal agents have not
arrested any members of the "DrinkOrDie" piracy ring, but roughly 30 people,
including an executive of a major company, have retained lawyers to negotiate settlements with the government, said
Allan Doody, who is overseeing the anti-piracy effort. There is an another article at CNET.
- 2600 Magazine Seeks Another Opinion In N.Y. DeCSS Case - Lawyers
for the New York-based "hacker quarterly" 2600 magazine have asked that the
full 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider a decision by three of its judges to
uphold a ban on publishing software code that can unlock encrypted video on DVDs.
- Worm poses as Microsoft update - A new
worm masquerading as a software update from Microsoft is capable of deleting all files
on the hard drive of an infected computer but has so far spread very slowly.
- Details On Severe IE Hole Posted Online - Instructions on how to
exploit a critical security hole discovered last month in Microsoft's latest Web browser
were posted today
on the Internet, raising concerns that malicious code may soon appear that takes
advantage of the flaw (some explots: local files, JS Pop-Up DoS, and more).
- Has Ericsson Got Nokia in a Color Bind? - The world's largest
mobile phone maker is so shocked by how successful rival Ericsson's recent launch of its
tiny T68 has been, say published reports, that it is planning
its own color-screen handset.
- ATI R300 details out - According to TheInquirer.co.uk, the
card is an NV25 killer while ATI's lower market model the RV 250 which many assumed to be
an NV17 killer now has large speed advantages over Nvidia's offering.While clock speeds
are still under waraps, the RV250 will be spawned from the R200, currently branded as the
Radeon 8500.
- GeForce3 Production Stopped? - Nope :P Xbit-Labs have
received an e-mail from Andrew Humber, NVIDIA European PR Manager, who told us that the
information about the discontinuance of GeForce3 chips production taken from the Ukranian web-site was incorrect.
At the same time, Mr. Humber didn't deny that the GeForce4 based graphics cards will start
shipping right after the chips announcement on February 5, 2002.
- A Comparison Of 13 LCD Monitors - Tom's Hardware Guide has
posted a comparison of 13 LCD monitors.
- ATI RADEON 8500 Extreme Overclocking Experience - XBit-Labs managed to
find 7 individual regulators on ATI RADEON 8500: 5 of them were responsible for
powering the graphics core and memory.. In comparison with NVIDIA GeForce3 based cards,
which are usually equipped with only 2 regulator chips, increasing Vcore and Vmem on
RADEON 8500 seems a really difficult task. But as they found out later, it will be no obstacle
for a true overclocker :)
- Microsoft releases new Office tools - Instead fixing holes in
MSIE, Microsoft launched new tools for linking its Office desktop software into its
growing .Net Web services plan :P
- Network_Sucks - connections monitor - Network_Sucks
is a as the name says, a network packet sniffer. The program runs under Windows 2000, NT
and Windows XP and it has many features: Filtering rules, Interface selection,
Auto DNS, DNS caching, Advanced log system, Decoding ability, Advanced
protocol description, Editable protocol list, .DLL support.
- Clean LimeWire - Clean
LimeWire is the parasite free version of LimeWire that hit the Net in its official
release version on January 5th. A file trader on Zeropaid described it accurately when he
said "basically they take the source code from Limewire.org, strip out any
adware/spyware/banner ad/trojan/anythingelseyoucanthinkof, and then recompile it".
- Eraser v5.3 - Freeware Eraser
is an advanced security tool (for Windoze), which allows you to completely remove
sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully
selected patterns.
- XMovie v1.9.5 - XMovie is a reference movie player for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3 audio, MP2
audio, WAV, AIFF, AC3 audio, Quicktime and DVD's on Linux boxes.
- Opera 6.01 beta (build 1022) - This beta features: Clear
visited links in the Delete private data dialog will now also clear the visited date in
bookmarks, Merged in HTML-banner support changes from main-branch, fixed
crasher in ouniansi.dll initialization, Fixed find in page, now searches backwards
and finds multiple matches in the same textblock, Tuned the behavior of the font
switcher, and many more...
- Fantom CD 1.1.8 build v1314 - Fantom CD is a software for reading CDs and running CD programs
without a CD by creating a virtual CD-ROM drive on the hard disk using software methods.
- Windows Commander 5 RC1 - Windows
Commander is a file manager program for Windows. It offers multiple language support,
search, file comparison, directory synchronization, quick view panel with bitmap display,
ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plus plugins, built-in FTP
client with FXP, HTTP proxy support, and more.
- Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility v4.0 - The Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility was developed by Intel
Corporation to enable consumers the ability to identify and, in some circumstances,
determine if their Intel processor is operating at the correct and rated frequency
intended by Intel Corporation.
- Gainward ExperTool v2.81 - Gainward have released a new version
of their ExperTool v2.81.
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