Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:16 AM CEST - May,09 2002
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- GameCube Modchips - According to Dutch geek news website Headliner, there are four hacking teams
developing mod chips, which will allow imported and copied games to be played on the
Xbox. One team, Neo Tech, has already said that it will not be marketing its 'Neox'
mod chip for fear of going into the ring with Microsoft's legal department. Neo Tech
created a mod chip for the PlayStation 2 but was forced to pull out after legal murmurings
from Sony.
- Xbox Modchips - Again, according to Headliner, seems there are now 3 modchips available all trying to get
the retail modchip on the streets first. The first - Messiah X - Created
by the Messiah (the first full no-swap modchip for PS2) development team. Comming from
China and working on their Xbox Mod Chip which will be called MX (Messiah X). The
developers are currently implementing the DVD features and a real demonstration should be
available soon according to some sources, the second ENIGMA-X - 30 wires
and boots everything including import originals (also macrovision off) and the last one -
Xtender
- It boots backups, and will be released shortly. The chip is made up of a lattice chip
and an eeprom. Spec: 31 wires, plays imports and backups, no DVD feature, and works on all
consoles.
- Mobile security cards "cloned in minutes" - Mobile
phone security cards can be
cloned in minutes allowing hackers to make calls charged to their victim's account,
according to research from IBM. In a paper to be presented at a major security symposium
next week, Big Blue will reveal that hackers can discover the security number of a GSM
phone in minutes. The process, known as a 'partitioning attack', involves the analysis of
power flows in the phone's SIM card, which can determine the codes inside.
- Video games to help you relax - Gary McDarby and his MindGames
team at MediaLab Europe are looking at using gaming technology to aid people suffering
from depression or trauma. In their latest project, called Brainchild, you try to unlock a door simply through your brain waves.
"You are playing a video game but hopefully over time you would learn what is it that
helps you relax," explained Dr McDarby.
- Domain Registry Will Charge Premium for Privilege of a ".pro"
Address - Lawyers, physicians and accountants soon will be able to register Web
addresses in a worldwide Internet domain reserved exclusively for certified professionals,
but they will have to pay nearly 10 times the cost of ordinary domain
names. The new .pro domain will cost you ~ $250-$300 per year.
- Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick - Did
you know Microsoft was convicted of software piracy last year by a French
court? Not many people do. The Commercial Court of Nanterre fined Microsoft 3 million
francs because it illegally included another company's proprietary source code in
SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line animation package.
- "Cute" Trojan Could Take Over Your PC - According to
Symantec and McAfee, the e-mail in question has the subject line: "Thoughts..."
with a message that reads, "I just found this program, and, I don't know why...but it
reminded me of you. Check it out." If the user is tricked into double-clicking
the attachment, which carries the file name "cute.exe," the Trojan is installed
on their PC.
- Super-thin Color Display Unveiled - Royal Philips Electronics of
the Netherlands yesterday unveiled advances in color LCD display technology designed for PDAs and phones.
Specifically, the company announced a 3.5-inch QVGA thin-film-transistor liquid crystal
display (TFT-LCD) color module that is 3.5mm thick.
- Home Networking in Windows XP Guide Updated - Micorosoft have
Updated the Network Troubleshooting page. It contains a lot of useful information
if you have a Home Network
- MPEGed 1.00 RC2.1 - FreeWare
MPEGed allows you to easily modify MPEG file properties without re-encoding and
without sacrificing quality.
- WinDVD 4 Trial - Intervideo have now released a WinDVD 4 trial for
users to evaluate as well as shipping both versions of the retail product.
- MS Messenger v4.60079 - Microsoft has updated its MSN and
Windows Messenger client, it now upto build
v4.6.0079.
- Googlesearchtool v1.5.5 - This software application
(Freeware) is a handy tool for people like me who are spending lot's of time searching the
various newsgroups posts, images, links, news and stocks in googlec.
- Spider v1.16 - I discovered a privacy 'bug/feature' in Internet
Explorer3/4/5 (for important informatio about IE6, see history): IE stores the visited
URLs in some hidden files and whenyou clean your cache and history, this information is
notdeleted! I wrote a software program
to scan these hidden filesfor URLs and to put those URLs in a file. So the user's
privacy is at stake because anyone with this program, can go to the PC ofsomebody else and
see the URLs he has visited!
- NVRefreshTool 0.75b - A new version of the NVRefreshTool is
now available. Brings simplicity back to fixing the refresh rate problem. You must only
run this program after each new installation of Detonator XP drivers that use the
compressed mode format. The program is not designed to be memory resident.
- ATI Radeon Glide Wrapper - A Glide Wrapper is a driver that lets non 3dfx-cards play
glide-only-games.
- Aureal Vortex Control Panel v2.10 Beta - This is the
first version to support all sound cards in one single file. Please uninstall all
previous versions of the control panel first because otherwise they will conflict with
each other.
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