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(hx) 01:50 AM CEST - Sep,17 2002
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- Remote Security Monitoring Over Pocket PC 2002 Devices - Axis
Communications announced last week the launch of
AXIS Camera Explorer (ACE) for Pocket PC, a software package that allows
Pocket PC 2002 users to receive video from Axis network video equipment so
that they can remotely monitor secure areas.
- SonyEricsson P800 slips to 2003? - The briefest of reports at
French website Mobilmag suggests that the much-hyped SonyEricsson P800, which
integrates PDA and a 2.5G cameraphone, has been
delayed until January 2003. The story doesn't cite any sources, but says
that stability concerns are the reason for the delay. A spokesman for
SonyEricsson told us this morning that "we will start shipping the P800
to operators in a few weeks, with availability in selected markets during Q4."
Which suggests that some markets won't see it until 2003.
- New AES crypto standard broken already? - Theoretical attacks
against AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) winner
Rijndael and runner-up
Serpent
have been published. They might work in the practical world; they might
not.
- Speed of light broken with basic lab kit - Electric signals
can be transmitted
at least four times faster than the speed of light using only basic
equipment that would be found in virtually any college science department.
Scientists have sent light signals at faster-than-light speeds over the
distances of a few metres for the last two decades - but only with the aid of
complicated, expensive equipment. Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State
University have broken that speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres,
using off-the-shelf equipment costing just $500.
- Designing AUTOnomy - It had to have four wheels, but pretty
much everything else was open for consideration. When General Motors decided
to develop an all-new fuel-cell vehicle with electronic (rather than
mechanical), drive-by-wire controls, our team started with a clean sheet. The
early result was
our first concept vehicle, AUTOnomy. The working demonstration model,
named Hy-wire, is being introduced officially to the world on September 26,
2002, during the Paris Auto Show.
- Sony shows its first Blu-Ray disc recorder for consumers - Sony
showed to the public its next-generation, optical disc video recorder for
consumers that is based on the "Blu-ray Disc" format leveraging blue-violet
laser beam technology. The company showed the product during the press
pre-view session on Sept. 11, 2002 at the "Sony Dream World 2002" exhibition
held at Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. The new recording format can
accommodate a single-sided single layer
media with a capacity of 23.3GB, 25GB or 27GB, with a data transfer rate
of 36Mbps, or x1 speed of the specification. In the exhibition hall, four
units of the optical disc recorders were displayed to appeal as post-DVD
products.
- HW Round-Up -
Radeon 9700 /
MSI GeForce4 Ti4600-VTD MS-8872 /
round-up of
five GeForce4 Ti4600's /Corsair
256MB PC2700 DDR /
Seagate Barracuda SATA V (Serial ATA and the 7 Deadly
Sins Of Parallel ATA)
- Confirmed 9700 Bug - In certain cases, after installing the
RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB in an
AGP
8x capable motherboard, the system will not post, or boot up. Not all AGP
8x motherboards are affected. Some Customer's have reported that lowering the
AGP transfer speed in some instances, will allow the system to then post. ATI
Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates
will appear on this page when they become available.
- Sharky's Tweak Guide - Today's video cards become
increasingly advanced, the sheer number of options and tweaks that go unseen
to the average user seems to increase. Sometimes these remain unseen because
ATI and NVIDIA will often neglect, or outright refuse,
to make these tweaks available with their standard driver package. While
many of these configurable items can be relatively benign, there are still a
healthy number of extremely rewarding (we're talking extra performance and
image quality here) options that can greatly enhance the visual quality and
speed of modern ATI and NVIDIA video cards.
- Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo Tweak Guides - Both
Techspot and
TweakTown have posted an Unreal Tournament 2003 demo tweak guides.
- Netscape and Mozilla Bug -
The bug reveals the URL of the page a user is viewing to the Web server of
the site visited last. This allows a Web server to track where users go after
they leave the site, even if the next Web address comes from a bookmark or is
manually typed into the browser.
- Outlook Express Lets Attackers Skirt Filters -
A
feature in Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook Express mail client that enables
users to send large e-mails in several parts can also be used by virus writers
and attackers to sneak malicious code past filters and anti-virus software.
The feature is disabled by default but can be enabled with a few mouse clicks
from the Tools drop-down menu. The tool is meant mainly for users on slow,
dial-up connections who need to send large e-mails. When enabled, it breaks
messages into two or more parts, sends them to the recipient, whose mail
client then automatically reassembles them into one message before delivery.
- Windows Media Player Series 9 Fix - Blistering-Games is the first
to release
a fix for the Media Player Series 9 bug whereby Media Player errors when
playing certain MP3-encoded files." Certainly worth checking out if you've got
the new Media Player 9.
- Detonator re-jig for Win 98 "on the way" - Allaying the fears of
many gamers that graphics company Nvidia may be dropping support for Windows
98 operating systems in its Detonator driver series, the company says a new
version of the driver is on the way for this favoured relic. UK Public
relations spinster Andrew Humber
assured the
INQUIRER that a version of the 40.41 Detonator driver that includes
support for Windows 98 is in the pipeline.
- VMWare 3.20 -
VMware Workstation 3.2 has been released! Workstation 3.2 is available as
a free update to all registered customers of Workstation 3.0 and 3.1; you can
download the updated binary packages below. Existing Workstation 3.0 and 3.1
serial numbers will work with VMware Workstation 3.2.
- jv16 PowerTools 1.1.0.146 Beta -
jv16 PowerTools is basically the Tool to control your computer. Until now
your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16
PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed
for monitoring, cleaning and controlling the registry, the file system and
your Local Area Network.
- FlashFXP v2.0 RC3 Build 878 - FlashFXP is the most powerful
and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the
market today.
This new build fixed some random crashes on exit and the transfer complete
status message wasn't always displaying the exact file size.
- BeSweet v1.4RC8 - With
BeSweet, you can backup your DVD's audio into MP3 / MP2 / OGG / AIFF / WAV
& CD.
- BootXP v2.25 RC1 - A new version of
Boot XP has
been released.
- Powerstrip 3.28 Final - The final version of
Powerstrip 3.28 has been just released.
- nVHardPage NVIDIA Tweaker v1.01.9b -
This program
serves on enabling/disabling hidden features in NVIDIA control panel and
tweaking NVIDIA Direct3D & OpenGL settings.
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