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(hx) 01:53 AM CEST - Sep,19 2002
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- Signs of water found on distant planets - Italian astronomers have
found signs of water, a necessary ingredient for life, in the atmosphere
of planets orbiting distant stars.
- Indian center plans teraflop supercomputer - The Bhabha Atomic
Research Center (Barc), India's leading atomic research organization, said it
has developed a supercomputer with a
sustained speed of 43 gigaflops. According to news reports, the
supercomputer, dubbed Anupam-PIV, uses 64 Pentium 4 processors each running at
1.7 GHz with 256 Mbits of memory each.
- Motorola 2003 Phone Plan Leaked on Internet - Motorola on Wednesday
said
a preliminary plan for the phones it expects to launch in 2003 leaked onto
the Internet earlier this week. According to the plan, posted by a member of
online mobile phone discussion Web site Howard Forums, Motorola is planning to
introduce phones with more multimedia features such as high-resolution color
screens, musical ring tones, two-way video conferencing and photo downloading
capabilities. The phones are expected to be released throughout 2003,
the posting said.
- Test equipment precedes demand for 40-Gbit networks -
Test equipment for 40-Gbit/second networking continues to emerge, as
vendors at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference announced products
illustrating that the technology is ready even if the market isn't. Spirent
Communications announced 43-Gbit/s optical interfaces for its OTA-4400
bit-error-rate tester, complementing the system's previously announced ability
to test electronics at that speed.
- Warchalking is theft, says Nokia - Warchalking, the technique of
highlighting areas where wireless networks can be accessed freely, has been
blasted as theft. And the practitioners of
warchalking are
being slammed as bandwidth thieves in an advisory issued by mobile and
wireless vendor Nokia.
- Creative Interview Interview - Guru3D has conducted
an
interview with Creative Labs Europe as they discuss the recent switch back
to NVIDIA chipsets and also cover the reason why Europe will never see the
Creative-branded 9700.
- Image-projection keyboard eyes mobile gear - Canesta Inc. has
launched its first product, a
projectable keyboard that could help solve the problem of how to get lots
of text into pocket-sized devices. The Integrated Canesta Keyboard is based on
a controller and two optical components that project the image of a keyboard
onto any flat surface and use a light source to track the movement of fingers
on that image.
- Corrupt CDs List - There's a
list of the
music CDs that 1. Prevent you from copying it for personal use or
from playing it on computerized devices (computers, DVD players, game consoles
like PlayStation, MP3 players, consumer CD duplicators, high-end stereo
equipment and car CD players). 2. In the United States, Canada and the UK,
these "copy-protected" CDs are often unmarked. Once you buy it, you can
only exchange it and hope that the replacement isn't garbage too.
- MS silently fixes password sniffing bug with XP SP1 - Keystrokes,
including passwords, can be sniffed when using Windows Terminal Server or the
XP remote control feature. MS has
rolled
a fix silently into SP1 without making any public statement on this
serious problem.
- Lindows v2.0 -
Version 2.0 offers networking features for connecting with Windows-based
PCs, support for more printers and a streamlined interface similar to the
Windows desktop (announcement
/
ISO release notes /
screenshots).
- ABIT system brings high performance to budget GeForce4 - ABIT is
making a play for the high performance graphics market
with a new cooling system that it claims will allow you to push performance of
a GeForce4 Ti4200 chip up to the level of a Ti4600. The company has just
completed a European tour extolling the virtues of the Siluro GF4 Ti4200 OTES,
which will be available on 23rd September, and expects a UK street price for
the card below L150, so you get Ti4600 for about half the price.
- 2GHz Celeron Introduced - Intel today introduced the
Intel Celeron processor at 2 GHz. Intel Celeron processors provide
consumers with a great way to get on the Internet. The Intel Celeron processor
at 2 GHz delivers the right combination of features and frequency at an
appropriate price point for the value desktop consumer market segment. Based
on the 0.13-micron process technology, the processor utilizes the 478-pin
packaging, and features a 400 MHz system bus. In 1,000-unit quantities, the
desktop Intel Celeron processor at 2 GHz is priced at $103.
- ATI 9000 Round-Up - In general,
the RADEON 9000 Pro beats the GeForce4 MX 440 by a small margin and often
lags behind the MX 460 (being cheaper). Therefore, we can say that this
solution takes a middle position on the market. In spite of some performance
inferiority the RADEON 9000 Pro has better prospects than the GeForce4 MX 460
because the latter lacks both for shaders (except half-hardware vertex
shaders) and normal high-level anisotropy.
- The Satellite Pro 6100 Review (Toshiba's high performance notebook)
- As you might have guessed it the addition of the NVIDIA Geforce4 420 GO chip
and S-Video out makes a great necessity for presenting business orientated
presentations on large monitors or projectors. With its integrated P4 1.7Gig
mobile chipset the
Satellite Pro 6100 delivers a new dimension to modern day mobile computing
for the business user. The aspect able performance enables consumers to run
today's modern business based applications at maximum efficiency. Working with
word, excel, PowerPoint and even advanced programs such as 3D studio max
shouldn't be a problem with this notebook
- CDRW Round-Up -
LiteOn
LTR-48125W CD-RW /
Lite-on
LTR-40125S CD-RW /
Samsung 40x12x40 CD-RW /
Yamaha
CRW-F1 CD-RW
- Self Booting Linux CD with UT2003 Demo - Epic Games'
much-anticipated Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo is now available on a
self-booting Gentoo Linux-based LiveCD, allowing you to play the Unreal
Tournament 2003 Demo using any modern PC with an NVIDIA GeForce 2 or greater
graphics card and a CD-ROM drive. Full networking, OSS sound and Creative
Soundblaster Live! and Audigy support included, allowing for the full gaming
experience including LAN/Internet play, EAX environmental audio and of course
3D accelerated OpenGL graphics. The CD also serves as a fully-functional
Gentoo Linux installation CD. You can download the
CD
using this link.
- Sonique2 Alpha 2.1.9.18 -
An updated build of the second alpha of
Sonique2 has
been released.
- Windows Commander 5.11 -
A new version of
Windows Commander (download
~
mirror) has been just released. This new version 5.11 fixed: 1) Copying to
device with trailing colon (e.g. prn:) was no longer possible; 2) Searching on
multiple drives was not working if space after ";", e.g. c:\; d:\; e:\ ; 3)
Packing with ARJ no longer packed recursively (folders in subfolders were not
packed); 4) Files in subdirs may be copied in reverse order; 5)
WinXP: Some associations stopped working.
- GNOME 2.0.2 -
GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop
environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the
software developer. GNOME is included in pretty much every BSD and GNU/Linux
distribution and works on many other Unix systems.
- Windows XP SP1 International versions - Download WinXP SP1
Brazilian /
Dutch /
English /
French /
German /
Italian /
Japanese /
Spanish /
Swedish.
- Hardware Sensors Monitor v4.1.1.1. -
Hardware Sensors Monitor has been updated to version 4.1.1.1. This new
version adds support for Winbond W83791D, W83637HF, W83L784R, W83L785R.
- MSN Messenger 5 Build 527 Leaked - There is
a new leaked build the MSN Messenger 5.0.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.00 Beta 3 -
HyperSnap-DX 5 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows.
It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab
DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. This new beta features 2
new functions added to "Image" menu - "Shadow..." - adds a drop shadow to the
image, and "Frame..." - adds a flat or 3D frame. They add the shadow or frame
around the current selection, or around the entire image if selection is not
visible or re-set to entire image. They also have an option to auto-add a
frame and a shadow to all screen captures you make.
- VIA Audio Drivers Pack v3.11c - VIA released a new
audio drivers pack version 3.11c.
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