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(hx) 03:12 AM CET - Dec,10 2002
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- Israel works with FBI and Caught Suspected Credit Card Hacker -
Israeli police, aided by the FBI,
arrested an Israeli suspected of hacking into computers of a U.S.-based
electronics company and stealing personal information, including the
credit card numbers of some 80,000 customers, according to court document
released Sunday. David Sternberg, 24, of the port city of Haifa, was arrested
late Friday while driving in a stolen car, police said. The FBI notified the
Israelis he was wanted in 2000 and police began searching for him in 2001,
according to the transcript of his detention hearing. Sternberg allegedly
broke into the computers of a large U.S. company that sells CD-ROMs and DVDs,
but police refused to release the name of the company. The court document also
did not mention the company's name.
- Teen Hacker, Hollywood Nemesis, on Trial - Jon Lech Johansen was
only 15 when he wrote and distributed on the Internet for free a program that
unlocked copy-protected DVDs, giving Hollywood nightmares and making him a
folk hero among hackers.
Three years later, he's going on trial in an important test case for
Norway's strict laws against computer piracy and hacking.
- Cool Gifts for a modest budget - I had a lot of fun coming up
with
this guide. Hopefully you find something in here that will make your
Techie happy on Xmas day. Most are quite affordable and should get you
thinking about what to get that special someone on your list.
Here we go!
- Analyst Downgrade Hurts Video Game Stocks - Shares in video game
publishers and retailers closed broadly lower on Monday after
an industry analyst cut his ratings on several publishers, citing concerns
about the important holiday retail season.
- Snails to invade Nokia 7650 - According to information posted
on the official Snails
website, the game is currently in an early beta stage after having
undergone the alpha stage in breakneck speed. A free beta of the game
for Nokia 7650 users is available for download from the website, which can be
played on any 7650 provided sufficient memory is available (thanks
InfoSync).
- IBM Announces World's Smallest Working Silicon Transistor -
IBM today announced the world's smallest working silicon transistor. With
this transistor IBM has been able to push silicon to limits on a molecular
scale not previously achieved. At 6 nanometres in length, this new transistor
is at least 10 times smaller than the state-of-the-art transistors in
production today. The Consortium of International Semiconductor Companies in
its 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors projected that
transistors have to be smaller than 9 nanometres by 2016 in order to continue
the performance trend. IBM is the first company to make working transistors
below that gate length.
- nForce2 selected for Mach V gaming PCs - NVIDIA today
announced that
Falcon Northwest has selected NVIDIA nForce2 processor technology as the
recommended platform for its line of award-winning Mach V gaming PCs. Gamers
and hard core PC enthusiasts who place a premium on performance and speed can
immediately order Mach V desktop PCs that take advantage of the leading
performance and advanced features offered by the NVIDIA nForce2-based Leadtek
WinFast K7NCR18D-Pro motherboard and the AMD Athlon XP 2800+ processor with
333MHz frontside bus memory technology.
- AMD Athlon XP 2800+ and Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 -
Well, today we are going to compare the performance of two processors from
Intel and AMD, namely Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz and AMD Athlon XP 2800+. These
two top models are now rated similarly,
which
makes the comparison really interesting.
- Professional 3D Accelerators in 3ds max 5 - The guys at Digit-Life
had a chance to
test professional video accelerators on a dual-processor system. The test
program is 3ds max from Discreet of the new fifth version.
- FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 -
FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 was just released, download its ISO from an ftp server
near you.
- Microsoft Gets Tough On WindowsXP.nu - In the latest incident of
Microsoft muscling sites which it deems to have unfavourable content in terms
of leaks windows site
Windows XP.nu is being threatened by legal action by dutch lawyers acting
on the behalf of the US software giant. Microsoft is threating a lawsuit under
the guise that the site violates international copyright laws and that
visitors could potentially confuse the site with the official windows xp site.
- Microsoft Winter Fun Packs - Get enhancements and tools to help you
have fun with your computer and Windows XP this holiday season:
Windows Media Player 9 Series Fun Pack |
Windows Movie Maker 2 Fun Pack |
Photos and Browsing Fun Pack |
Winter Fun Screensavers.
- MSN Messenger tweaking tool -
Tweak Msgr is an application that allows you to change hidden settings for
MSN/Windows Messenger. Settings commonly used by network/systems
administrators in schools, or business's using or want to use Instant
Messaging as a communication tool. These settings do not exist with MSN
Messenger 5. If MSN Messenger has been disabled at your school or work then
this will most probably enable it.
- myIE2 0.6.750 Beta (free) -
myIE2 can open more web pages in one MyIE instance but occupies very
little in the way of resources. The tabbed interface to the windows is nice,
and the interface is clean and simple. If your looking for a small, simple
frontend to IE, take a look at MyIE
- Scope 2.0 (free) - Scope
(download)
is a multi-tabbed browser which displays web pages using either the IE or
Mozilla engine - or both if you want to compare pages side by side. In
addition to being extremely fast, Scope is very, very lightweight - only about
250k for the whole program. It seems be be nice browser, however the latest
version is from summer and the program still contains some bugs...(thanks
MajorGeeks).
- NetCaptor 7.10 Beta 1 (shareware) -
NetCaptor is the most
powerful web browser on the planet! Other browsers only show one page at a
time or squish them together in an overlapping mess. NetCaptor gives each web
site its own tab.
- RegionKiller v2.7.0.2 - Elaborate Bytes has released
a
new version of their DVD RegionKiller software. With this software you'll
be able to watch foreign DVDs on your home theatre PC without being hassled by
possibly non-working DVDs.
- Fujitsu Diagnostic (SCSI) 2.0 -
SDIAG is a simple and reliable SCSI diagnostic tool developed by Fujitsu
verifying the condition of your Fujitsu SCSI Hard Disk Drive. A high
percentage of Hard Drives returned to the manufacturer are actually diagnosed
as No Trouble Found (NTF).
- Fujitsu Diagnostic (IDE) 6.01 - FJDT
can diagnose your suspected faulty hard drive by checking the S.M.A.R.T.
data and also by scanning the entire surface of the drive, sector by sector,
to verify media integrity.
- Western Digital Data Lifeguard 10.0 -
The Data Lifeguard Online Diagnostics service is a free web-based
diagnostic utility capable of testing any manufacturer's EIDE hard drive. The
purpose of the Data Lifeguard Online Diagnostics service is to provide the
user with an easy method to physically test the health of the hard drives
installed in his system without the need to create a bootable diskette or to
reboot the system.
- Samsung Diagnostic 1.25 -
This program is used to diagnose the disk when the Samsung hard disk is
suspected to have failures. It is strongly recommended to back up your data
before using this program.
- VobSub 2.22 -
VobSub 2.22
fixes problems in the closed caption extraction routines, has real multiangle
processing which makes indexing even more accurate and the playback problems
with DVD players using automatic DVD graph builder have been fixed.
- DVDxCopy 1.2.2 -
Version
1.2.2 is now available. It fixes a problem with the installer that could
cause problems with other software that makes use of certain registry keys.
Also, a problem with installing on a fresh installation of XP was corrected.
If you have had a problem installing DVDXCopy, or installing the DVDXCopy
drivers, please download 1.2.2 . Also, there is a patch available that will
update v1.2.x to v1.2.2
- PowerStrip 3.30 Beta Build 359 -
PowerStrip (download)
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide
range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest
Radeon 9700DV and Matrox Parhelia.
- CPUBENCH 4.0.0.6 -
CPUBENCH calculates the
speed of the CPU by performing 12 tests, a diversity of floating-point and
integer calculations: MFLOPS, MIPS, PI, Lorenz, Dhrystone, Whetstone etc.
- Fraps 1.9B -
Fraps is a tool that
lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs
using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take
screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the
average framerate between two points. - <
- Asus PC Probe 2.19.00 - ASUS has again released a new version of
their
PCProbe monitoring utility.
- Official ATi CATALYST 02.5 - ATi has officially released a new
non-beta driver set CATALYST 02.5 for their RADEON series of video cards -
CATALYST 02.5 Release Notes,
ATi RADEON Win2k/XP v6.13.10.6218,
ATi RADEON Win98/ME v4.13.01.9072,
Control Panel v6.14.10.4000,
WDM Capture v6.13.10.6173 v3,
Hydravision v3.20.2020.
- Xabre 3.08 WHQL - SiS has released a new
drivers version 3.08 WHQL (WinAll) for the Xabre 80/200/400/600 video
chips/cards.
- DRU-500A and DRX-500UL Firmware -
This new
firmware will allow your Dual RW drive to record at 4X on 4X compatible
DVD+R media as well as improve the DVD-ROM reading performance with DVD
recordable/rewritable media.
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