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(hx) 12:17 AM CET - Jan,12 2004
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- Cyber X Games Cancelled - A huge event funded by Microsoft,
ATI and AMD has been
hit by problems due to networking and patches. The event held in Las
Vegas, America is tied with the Consumer Electronics Show 2004. A lot of blame
has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve. The
Cyber X team needed a 3MB file to patch systems ready to play the popular
online game, Counterstrike. The file could only be obtained from Valves Steam
network. Since there were 1000 or more computers, grabbing a patch of 3MB on
each one fried one of Valves routers.
- Internal IBM memo seeks firm's switch to Linux system - In an
internal memo that reached the Internet,
an IBM executive challenges company employees to abandon Microsoft operating
systems by the end of next year. Such a shift would be a dramatic boost
for IBM's efforts to sell its corporate customers software based on the
open-source Linux operating system.The message from IBM's chief information
officer, Robert Greenberg, says Big Blue's chairman, Samuel Palmisano, had
challenged the company's information-technology department, "and indeed all of
IBM, to move to a Linux-based desktop before the end of 2005."
- Off-topic: Robotic Segways play soccer with humans -
An unconventional version of soccer is being played by US scientists in a
bid to develop to help better co-operation between robots and humans.
Researchers constructed the soccer playing robots by modifying Segway personal
transporters. The two-wheeled transporters are controlled by two on-board
laptops and can play soccer by pushing a ball along the ground. Running into
the ball at speed enables them to pass to one another and even shoot for goal.
- Samsung Introduces Trio of Digicams - Samsung is
showing three new digital cameras at the Consumer Electronics Show,
including two inexpensive, high-megapixel models and one bundled with a
program that lets you create a custom animated avatar to display on the
camera, a cell phone, or a Web site. The 3.2-megapixel U-CA 3 comes bundled
with DigiStudio software. With it, you can take a picture of a friend, then
paste the image onto a ready-made animated avatar and add music. You can
change the hairstyle, outfits, and background scenes, and even make the avatar
dance. You can e-mail the avatar to friends, or set the camera to display the
animation when it starts up.
- NVIDIA nForce3 250 is Coming Closer -
The nForce3 250 family of chipsets is expected to support AMD 64-bit
754-pin, 939-pin and 940-pin microprocessors and is ready to power both
high-end AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 FX microprocessors as well as
performance-mainstream AMD Athlon 64 chips. The nForce3 250 products are very
likely to bring a number of advanced features its predecessor – NVIDIA nForce3
Pro 150 – lacks, such as 2 Serial ATA-150 ports as well as external 2 Serial
ATA-150 PHY support in addition to presently available AGP 8x, PCI, 2
ATA-33/66/100/133 channels with RAID 0,1 and 0+1 support, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet,
USB 2.0, etc.
- Ximeta Netdisk review - Ximeta Inc. based in Irvine, CA recently
unveiled
its line of Netdisk external hard drives. The Netdisk is a robust external
hard drive solution that takes advantage of Ximetas own NDAS technology.
Ximetas site states, NDAS is an acronym for Network Direct Attached Storage,
XIMETA's patented disk storage technology which allows direct connection to
your network without a server, IP address, or a protocol.
- Concurrent Sessions in Windows XP SP2 -
More news has surfaced regarding the issue of having concurrent sessions
under SP2 of Windows XP when operating Fast User Switching (FUS). This will
allow more than one user to remotely connect to a machine at the same time.
- Mod your FX5900 into a FX5950 Ultra *UPDATED* - For those of you
with a Geforce FX5900 card out there you might be interested in this. There
has been some ongoing discussion over at the Futuremark forums with info on
how to flash your FX5900 video card into a FX5950 Ultra.
- DC++ 0.306 -
DC++ (download)
is an open source C++ client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect
allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits.
- GAIM 0.75 -
Gaim (download)
is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and
Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN
Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
- InboxShield 3.0 -
InboxShield filters (download)
your incoming mail and separates good mail from Spam mail. Thanks to it's
Intelligent Filtering Technology (IFT), InboxShield learns as you are
receiving mail. So the more you use InboxShield, the better it performs.
- WINner Tweak 2.4.8 -
WINner Tweak
is powerful software for tweaking, optimizing, tuning Windows 2000/XP.With
WINner Tweak you can easy increase performance and manage your system using
tweaks and utilities. This system tweak package includes tweaks for Windows,
Hardware, Security, Network and Software.
- XMPEG 5.03 (free) -
This
program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the
possibillity to re-encode them in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes
Xmpeg faster, more stable, and offers more options.
- NVIDIA ForceWare 53.04 -
These are
NVIDIA ForceWare drivers wiith build 53.04. They appeared on NVIDIA's
website moments ago as Windows XP Media Center Edition. No worries as these
are normal reference drivers. No word yet on performance.
- Lite-On DVDs Firmware - LiteOn have
released a
new
DVD Dual firmware updates for LDW-811S, LDW-411S and LDW-411SX.
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