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(hx) 02:34 AM CEST - Sep,03 2002
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- China Appears to Block Web Search Engine Google - China appears
to have blocked leading search engine Google, sparking speculation of a
crackdown on Internet content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party
congress in November. The U.S.-based Web site, which has become popular
among Internet surfers in China because of its simplicity and ability to run
thorough Chinese-language Web searches, was inaccessible via Chinese servers
as early as Saturday, users said.
- Malaysia to launch piracy crackdown -
"Operation Genuine" will involve some 300 officers from the Domestic Trade
and Consumer Affairs Ministry as well as software experts from the Business
Software Alliance (BSA), which represents U.S. software publishers, it said.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance estimates that U.S. trade
losses due to the piracy of movies, music, software and publishing materials
in Malaysia last year rose to $316.5 million from $140 million in 2000.
- DOOM III and Quake IV Dates - Amazon UK says
Doom III ( jun 2003) and
Quake IV (25dec 2003), well, we will see :)
- Organic robot mimics sea life - An organic
robot designed to imitate primitive life forms has been created by
scientists in the US. The Public Anemone is a robot set in a rock pool filled
with greenish water which reacts to light and touch, much like an real sea
anemone.The researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Boston
see their robot as a way of exploring artificial life.
- Smallest PC in the World Now As Pentium 4 - Chaps at Warp2Search
have snagged some
very hot and interesting screenshot´s of the new EzGo Pentium 4 Minipc. It
rumours that this version will be released in 3.quarter 2002.
- Epox introduces SiS648 motherboard - Epox Computer recently
introduced its latest Pentium 4-platform motherboard, the
EP-4SDA5+.
- Soltek's GeForce4 Ti 4600 Review -
The card has AGP x2/x4 interface, 128 MB DDR SDRAM located in 8 chips on
both PCB sides. The card comes with Samsung memory of 2.8ns access time which
corresponds to 357 (714) MHz; the memory works at 325 (650) MHz. The GPU runs
at 300 MHz which is typical of the Ti 4600.
- Creative 3D Blaster 5 RX9700 - Creative has a very interesting
history with graphics cards. Its the only company we know of that has produced
graphics cards based on 3DFX, S3, nVidia and ATI technologies. Whats even more
interesting is that earlier this year, Creative acquired 3D Labs meaning we
shall be looking at Creative's "in-house" graphics cards soon. Now that does
raise an interesting point- why would Creative chose to release a Radeon 9700
Pro based card when they're expecting their own 3D Labs solution pretty soon.
T-Break don't have an answer for that yet, however,they do have
Creative's Radeon 9700 Pro based card- the 3D Labs Blaster 5 RX9700 in out
hands today.
- TDK veloCD 48x16x48 CD-RW Drive Review - While CD drives have
become rather stagnant as far as speeds are concerned, the CD-R/RW market is
still gaining speeds faster than one can keep up with. Join TweakTown as they
take a look at the newest offering from TDK;
namely the veloCD 48x16x48. With blistering speeds and some very nice
additional features, it may be the drive to beat in the near future. Come see
what makes it so special!
- NVIDIA Detonator 40 Evaluation -
The new Detonator 40.41 drivers deliver on what NVIDIA claims, though.
Mainly, gamers get a little extra performance and more business-oriented users
have a couple new features to increase productivity. The inclusion of
anisotropic filtering support has been long overdue, but for the most part,
the feature is still too slow to be used at high resolutions. From a
logistical point of view, the new control panel is much easier to navigate and
should be very easy to adapt to. Now, if only ATI could take a hint and
simplify the myriad of quality and performance settings cluttering the
Catalyst drivers...
- Detonator Comparison - Geek Extreme has
compared the 40.41 Detonators with the previous 30.82 drivers on a Geforce
3 Ti 200.
- Windows XP and Service Pack 1:Why The XP Keygen Won't Help For Long -
So what do I want to say? Just this:
It doesn't matter how many keys you make with the keygen. You can make
BILLIONS for all I care. It's just not going to matter in the end because
Microsoft, by using Windows Update, will verify YOUR key against THEIRS. If
YOUR key isn't on THEIR list you lose. It's really that simple. Generate all
the damned Home, Pro and Corp VLKs you like, it's not going to make one iota
of difference. Your freshly generated keys might work for a short period of
time, and bypassing or choosing not to use Windows Update at all will save you
from a frozen PC for however long you choose to walk this path. BUT MAKE NO
MISTAKE - sooner or later you're going to get stuck.
- PHP 4.2.3 RC2 & MySQL 4.0.3 - There is an
release
candidate 2 of PHP 4.2.3 and also
MySQL
4.0.3-alpha (what's
new) has been released today.
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