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(hx) 02:17 AM CEST - Apr,05 2003
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- The cell phone is 30 years old -
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the first public telephone call
placed on a portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper, ArrayComm's chairman, CEO
and co-founder, placed that call on April 3, 1973, while general manager of
Motorola's Communications Systems Division. It was the incarnation of his
vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car
phones.
- Secret UK stealth plane project revealed -
The craft pictured is full-scale model and was completed in 1999, after
five years of work. The L20 million programme, codenamed Replica, was jointly
funded by BAE Systems and the UK Ministry of Defence. Replica was never
intended to be as difficult to detect as the exotic and extremely expensive
pure stealth aircraft such as the US F-117a and B-2. But UK stealth
specialists are said to have achieved their goal of striking a balance between
low observability and cost. It also demonstrated British expertise in the
complex world of stealth technology.
- Athlon XP 3000+, AMD closing in on Intel -
The new Athlon XP 3000+ is based on AMD's new 0.13-micron process which
will also be used in manufacturing the upcoming Athlon-64. The Athlon XP 3000+
is based on a new core, codename Barton, which has a number of advantages over
the previous, Thoroughbred, Athlon XP core. The biggest advantage, from
looking at the specifications, obviously is the larger cache memory.
- Microsoft to tweak XP after DOJ complaints -
Microsoft
will give more prominent display to a button in Windows that allows
computer users to remove the company's Internet Explorer browser, company
spokesman Jim Desler said. The company believes the button's original
placement complied with the settlement, Desler said. But he said the company
agreed to change its position in the Windows "start menu" after talking with
the Justice Department.
- Spammers attack wireless networks - Nearly three-quarters of
malicious
connections to wireless networks are used for sending spam, according to
new research. Security consultant Z/Yen set up two wireless local area
networks (Lans) on behalf of RSA Security to monitor unauthorised connections
- a so-called 'honeypot' trap.
- PentaWare Ships File Manager - PentaWare, a company best known for
its PentaZip compression program,
is entering the file manager arena with the release of PentaSuite.
In addition to common file manager features like file viewing and compression,
PentaSuite offers something very new: It can write to CDs and even span them,
saving files across several discs. When combined with the scripting and
scheduling abilities borrowed from PentaZip, this could make it a reasonable
backup program. Many users, however, may find its $100 price tag steep.
- OpenOffice gets programming kit - The OpenOffice.org group on
Friday announced
a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives
to the Microsoft Office suite. The free software development kit lets
programmers add features such as new spreadsheet calculation formulas. It
includes program samples and a 900-page guide that describes components such
as macro programs that automate word processing tasks and the standard
interfaces that add-on modules can use to plug in to OpenOffice.org.
- SMS 2.0 SP5 - With the introduction of
Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 5 (SMS 2.0 SP5), Microsoft
continues to sustain and enhance the capabilities of SMS 2.0. For an overview
of several key improvements, refer to List of Fixes in Systems Management
Server 2.0 Service Pack 5 (Q816549) in the Knowledge Base on the Microsoft
Product Support Services site.
FreeBSD 4.8 Now Available - FreeBSD's Murray Stokely announces the
availability of FreeBSD 4.8, the latest FreeBSD-stable release, which has
dealt with known security issues, and added initial support for Firewire,
HyperThreading, and other new hardware technologies.
Red Hat 9.0 Download Links - Red Hat, Inc today announced the
availability of Red Hat
Linux 9. ->
CD1 (MD5SUM, CD1: 400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad) ~
CD2 (MD5SUM, CD2: 6b8ba42f56b397d536826c78c9679c0a) ~
CD3 (MD5SUM, CD3: af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f990913396d).
The Animatrix Movie #3 - The latest Animatrix episode has
been released, you can grab the high-res .MOV version from
the official page.
Seismovision Demo Player v2.21 -
Seismovision is a versatile demo player for Quake 1, Quake World, Quake 2,
Quake 3 Arena, Half-Life, Counter-Strike Retail, Unreal Tournament, Unreal
Tournament 2003, Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, Return to Castle Wolfenstein,
Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 and Soldier of Fortune 2. The AVA (Auto-Version
Adaptation) 'technology' makes Seismovision the best demo player every
professional gamer.
Duke3D runs natively on Linux - So it took four days, but
Duke3d now runs in Linux,
courtesy of Icculus.org. Ironically, a win32 port has yet to be released.
(thanks
Slashdot.org).
DUP-DVD v2.2.0 -
DUP-DVD is a powerful tool to convert a DVD movie to SVCD/VCD - easily,
quickly, effortlessly. With DUP-DVD you can make a DVD backup to SVCD with
just a click.
DameWare NT Utilities 3.70 -
DameWare NT Utilities is an enterprise system management application for
Windows NT/2000/XP, which provides an integrated collection of Microsoft
Windows NT administration utilities incorporating a centralized interface for
remote management of Windows NT/2000/XP Servers and Workstations.
Remote Task Manager 3.7.6 -
SmartLine, Inc.
has released a new version (3.7.6)
of their network management solution, Remote Task Manager for Windows
NT/2000/XP and Windows Server 2003.
Ad Muncher 4.5 Build 5911 Beta -
Ad Muncher (download)
is a program for Windows systems which removes adverts, popups and general
browsing annoyances from all popular browsers and web-utilizing programs (as
well as most banner displaying and popup generating programs.
Detonator 43.45 Driver Benchmarks - BitBender has
benchmarked Nvidia's latest Detonator driver release, 43.45.
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