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- Korean firm offers $100,000 in hacking competition - A Korean
company is offering $100,000 (£70,000) in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be
run this week. The first hacker to gain access to a server run by Korea Digital Works and leave their
name on the site's front page this week will find it an enriching experience .Korea
Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root
access to a server, on Tuesday 16 April at 11am Korean Standard Time (2am GMT) at the
Munhwa Daily Newspaper.
- Huge hydrogen stores found below Earth's crust - Scientists have
discovered vast quantities of hydrogen gas, widely regarded as the most promising
alternative to today's dwindling stocks of fossil fuels, lying beneath the Earth's crust.
The discovery has stunned energy experts, who believe that it could provide virtually
limitless supplies of clean fuel for cars, homes and industry.
- Coca-Cola unveils Vanilla Coke - Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it will
start selling Vanilla Coke, confirming recent reports that the world's largest
soft-drink maker was planning a new version of its flagship product. Vanilla Coke will hit
store shelves in the U.S. May 15.
- WD caches up 80 gig HDD - Western Digital is extending the 8MB
cache buffer offering down the Caviar line with a Special Edition version of the 80GB
EIDE hard drive.
- Intel confirms Pentium 4 price cuts - The biggest price drop in the
Pentium 4 family is the 2.20GHz/512K chip, which falls by 25 per cent to $423 from
$562. The $562 remains the price of the 2.40GHz/512K Pentium 4. The 2.0A drops 22 per cent
from $364 to $284, the 2GHz/256 from $342 to $262 (23%), and the 1.90GHz P4 drops seven
per cent to $225 from $241. Intel has however taken the axe to its 1.20GHz Pentium III
desktop chip, which falls 32 per cent from $241 to $163, while its other Tualatin Pentium
III, the 1.13A with 256K, drops 12 per cent to $153 from $173. These chips are now proving
somewhat hard to find. Other price cuts Intel makes today are on its LV/ULV mobile Intel
Pentium III-M: the 866/512 drops 24 per cent to $241, which is also the price of the
850/512 - meaning the latter is on its way out. The 800/512 drops 18 per cent to $198 from
$241.
- HP upgrades DVD+RW drives--at a price - The company will swap the
first-generation DVD100i drives with ones that will handle both DVD+RW
(DVD-rewritable) discs and the less-expensive DVD+R (DVD-recordable) discs. Last month the
PC maker backed off of its initial claims that it would offer an upgrade for its earlier
drive, the DVD100i, saying it would not be possible.
- Pro Card comparison - Digit-Life has posted a
comparison of professional 3D accelerators in 3D Studio MAX 4.26.
- GeForce4 Reviews - Visiontek GeForce4 Ti 4600 & 4400, Chaintech's
A-GT61 SE (Ti 4600), SUMA
GF4 MX 440, MSI GF4Ti4600-VTD (MS-8872), MSI
G4MX440-T, Asus V8460 Ultra, Triplex GF4 Ti 4600, PCI
GeForce4 MX,
- Mozilla 1.0.0 RC1 - Mozilla
1.0.0 Release Candidate 1 is out! Mozilla is an open-source web browser, designed for
standards compliance, performance and portability.
- LAME MP3 3.92 Codec - LAME is a fully GPL'd MP3
encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
- PowerStrip 3.16 Beta Build 273 - PowerStrip 3.16 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable
hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium
I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600.
- Mouse rate checker 1.1b - This little utility measures
and displays the sample rate of a mouse. the sample rate (in Hz) tells how often (per
second) the mouse sends information to your computer. So the best way is to use a ps/2
mouse and tweak it to 200Hz. To use this checker, just move your mouse over the pad really
fast and you will get the average speed.
- RockNES X v2.0 - This is the Windows version of the RockNES, a Nintendo
Entertainment System 8-bit (NES) videogame emulator for PC machines.
- Gravis Xperience 4.5 Final Drivers - This
drivers supports the following Gravis game controllers: Xterminator Force, Xterminator
Dual Control, Xterminator Digital GamePad, Eliminator Precision Pro, Eliminator Joystick,
Eliminator AfterShock, Eliminator GamePad Pro, BlackHawk Digital, GamePad Pro, Stinger,
and Destroyer AfterShock.
- Detonators 28.32/28.35/28.80 Comparison - There is a nice Detonator Driver Comparison featuring version 28.32, 28.35 and 28.80.
- Nvidia Detonator v27.45 Driver for WinXP/2k - Here's a new Nvidia Detonator 27.45
Driver for WinXP/2k from Dell. This driver should work with nVidia's 128MB DDR
GeForce4 Ti 4600.
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