Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:57 AM CEST - Jun,13 2002
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- Will Cable Unplug the File Swappers? - A host of cable companies,
including AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, Comcast, and Cox Communications, are
moving
away from the old flat-fee pricing scheme that allowed users to download and transmit
endless amounts of data [especially music, movies, and software] over high-speed
connections. Instead, they're rolling out new pricing schemes that could put limits on
bandwidth usage per month and charge users additional fees if they go above the limit.
- Calculators vs. PDAs: Who wins? - U.S. students have been using
graphing calculators for more than a decade, and Texas Instruments accounts for more than 80 percent of school sales,
according to the NPD Intelect market research firm. Texas Instruments no longer worries
about rival calculator companies cutting into those sales. But after a decade of producing
ever more powerful machines, the Dallas, Texas-based company faces what may turn out to be
a more serious challenge: software that turns handheld computers into graphing
calculators.
- Credit-card hackers stung with bogus IIS 'sploit - What happens when
you float a
counterfeit IIS hole in a carder chatroom on IRC, tantalizing its young denizens with
a quick, easy score? Do they proxy up, patiently enumerate the site, grab banners, analyze
what they're up against and carefully plot an attack? Or do they rush into the trap like
so many elite lemmings?
- X-windows remote DoS with big fonts - X-windows, with or without the
font server (XFS) running can be crashed remotely via Mozilla when fonts are set to an
unnaturally large size with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Tom Vogt of Lemuira.org has reported.
- Microsoft's Gopher hole deepens - Microsoft sends out a 'critical'
security alert, telling people to patch a hole in Internet Explorer that could let hackers
exploit the Gopher protocol to attack PCs. But it looks like the threat is worse than
first thought. If you leave this vulnerability unpatched any hacker or cracker
can gain root access control over your system. Once root is achieved, the attacker can
steal anything they want from you including your personal databases, contacts, records,
documents and more... PivX
cleans up someone else's mess with another small, free, streamlined security tool to
make your computer safe once again
- Watching web porn is 'cheating' - Leading US relationship advisor Dr
Phillip McGraw has hit out at users of internet porn, insisting that it is cheating on their partners.
McGraw, who offers advice to millions of Americans on Oprah Winfrey's TV show, said that
women should not put up with their partners looking at web porn, which he described as an
addiction,
- Toshiba tunes in to TiVo - The company licenses TiVo's technology for digital
video recording, allowing it to make chips and components for a wide range of devices
that can record TV shows.
- nForce PCI writes mystery: Solved! - Last week, TechReport revealed the
possibility that NVIDIA's nForce chipset may have a problem with PCI writes. They checked
with MSI and NVIDIA to get their input on the matter. Now they have some answers.
- Imation RipGO! USB Mini-CD Burner & MP3 Player - Imation has a nice solution
with this Mini-CD Burner/MP3/WMA Player unit. The RipGO takes the small form factor of
Minidisc and combines it with the practicality of conventional CDR's. If you don't have a
burner, it will even do that for you..."
- Video Card Roundup - VisionTek's
Xtasy GeForce Ti 4400 & 4600 / GeForce4
Ti 4400/4600 Roundup / GeForce4
Ti Roundup / GF4
Roundup / Leadtek
WinFast TV 2000 XP / eVGA's e-GeForce4 Ti 4600 / Ref. GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB / MSI
Geforce 4 Ti4600 / Ti 4400 Shootout / Asus V8460 Ultra Geforce
4 Ti / GF4 Cooler from Thermaltake / Plextor 40x
- Detonators Driver Comparison - The Technology Vault has posted a
small driver comparison between version 28.32 and 29.42 of the Detonator drivers
- WinDVD Tweaker 3.41 - All this
new version does is fixes a problem when WinDVD Tweaker didn't read default WinDVD
values when WinDVD had not been ran before in Windows XP.
- Mozilla 1.1 Alpha out - Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla is a cousin to Netscape Communicator that
is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of
Netscape.
- CloneCD v4.0.1.6 - CloneCD
is a powerful CD copy program. It writes in RAW mode, allowing full control on the written
data. Therefore, CloneCD will produce real 1:1 copies of your CDs. This new version fixed
compatibility problems with certain applications, if "Hide CDR-Media" was
enabled.
- RAM Idle Professional v2.0 Final - RAM
Idle Pro is a smart memory management program that will keep your computer running
more efficiently, faster, and longer. RAM Idle works by freeing up physical RAM wasted by
Windows and other applications. RAM Idle also includes a Cache and startup manager program
that will give you more power to optimize your Windows.
- MSI Intel USB 2.0 Driver for ICH4 - MSI have released a new
Intel 845E/G/GL v2.04 Driver based on Mainboard with ICH4 southbridge chips.
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