Friday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:03 PM CEST - Jun,13 2003
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- N-Gage boss slams GBA, reveals business model details - Nokia's
head of entertainment and media, Ilkka Raiskinen, has
attacked Nintendo's GBA in today's Dow Jones, accusing the system of
failing to appeal to adult demographics, and has revealed some details of the
development business model for N-Gage.
- IM's bursting--say goodbye to e-mail - The number of people using
instant messaging (IM) software at work is set soar over the next few years,
as part of a wider boom that will see
more
than a trillion IMs sent worldwide each day by 2006, according to the
latest research. The survey, carried out by The Radicati Group, predicts that
IM is on the verge of becoming a ubiquitous communication medium, much as
e-mail is today.
- Al-Jazeera Hacker Pleads Guilty - 24-year-old California man has
pleaded guilty to charges that
he hijacked the Internet domain of Arabic news service Al-Jazeera in March.
The U.S. Attorney's office filed the deal with John William Racine II, a Web
designer in Norco, California, in the U.S. District Court for the Central
District of California in Los Angeles on Thursday morning. In exchange
for his guilty plea, the government is recommending Racine be sentenced to
three years probation and 1000 hours of community service, and pay a $1500
fine.
- Thai hackers ordered to work for victim - University
students who broke into a Thai government Web site are to work on the same
site as punishment. Thai university students arrested for
hacking have been ordered to pay for their crime by serving at the very
Web site they defaced. According to the daily newspaper The Bangkok Post, the
ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) ministry's portal was
breached recently. The hackers had last month planted a bogus news flash on
the ministry's site, detailing plans to set up a new club to promote
prostitution and pornography. The message was removed after a few hours and
the intrusion traced to a local university.
- The Enemy Within: Firewalls and Backdoors - SecurityFocus has
posted an
article called "Firewalls and Backdoors". They provide info on
firewall types, backdoor classifications, some examples of real backdoors and
tips on mitigating their use on your network.
- New ZoneAlarm Toughens Firewall -
Version 4 continues the expansion by Zone Labs into areas beyond the scope
of a classic firewall, to take on tasks such as combating viruses and worms.
After the outbreak of the mass-mailing VBS worm Love Letter in May 2000, Zone
Labs added a feature called MailSafe to its firewall. MailSafe quarantines
incoming e-mail messages that contain VBS attachments. Zone Labs has expanded
the feature on its paid Pro and Plus products over the years, and now monitors
for 47 file types out of the box.
- AMD on target for September Athlon 64 launch -
The Athlon
64 processor AMD is readying is on target for a September launch,
representatives of the firm confirmed earlier this week. But so far there's
not that many samples of the Athlon64 out there in the wild, as AMD struggles
to improve both its clock speed and its thermal profile, insiders tell the
INQUIRER.
- Intel warns vendors not to overclock 865 chipsets -
INTEL
warned that system manufacturers and users that attempt to overclock 865
chipsets using PAT (performance acceleration technology) may end up with
systems that are not under warranty. The stern warning sends out a clear
challenge from Intel to motherboard makers including Asus, Epox, Abit and
others that introducing a BIOS to enable elements of 875 technology in 865
chipsets is meeting strong disapproval from the chip giant.
- PCI Express: Interconnect of the future -
The PCI Express Base 1.0a Specification and Card Electromechanical 1.0a
Specification have already been released, although we won't see any PCI
Express products until 2004, probably the first being video cards from nVidia
and ATi, along with motherboards based on the Grantsdale chipset from Intel.
At the server end of the market, Intel is looking to introduce PCI Express
with the Lindenhurst and Twin Castle chipsets. With new form factors and
promising great performance, the future looks good.
- Interview with Developers - Multiple Pixel Shader Precision modes -
check it out.
- Philips Unveils Mirror TV -
Philips has announced its Mirror TV technology, and plans a small-scale
roll-out to hotels late this year. The company hopes to get Mirror TVs into
people's homes eventually, too, but that will take longer. A Mirror TV is
basically a two-way mirror with an LCD screen behind it. When the LCD is
activated, you see the display. When it's turned off, you see your reflection.
A special lamination developed by Philips makes all of this possible. The LCDs
will be wide-screen, with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a high 1280 by 768
resolution. Philips plans to offer the mirror/monitors in 17-, 23-, and
30-inch sizes.
- Pixel Shader 2.0 precision - Digit-Life has posted
an article on Pixel Shaders in DirectX9.
Kanguru Media X-change review -
The 20GB Kanguru Media X-change 2.0 ($249.95 direct), a versatile mobile
problem solver, provides portable hard drive storage and offers reading and
writing compatibility with the six most common forms of portable storage media
used with devices such as digital cameras and PDAs.
- Samsung ML-2150 Laser Printer review - The features such as
21ppm, and the onboard 16MB of ram, is quite commendable. For any
environment, that should prove to be more than enough. Also, should you feel
compelled to do so, you can expand the memory all the way up to 144MB, which
in my opinion is much more than any printer will probably need. Being
compatible with every version of Microsoft Windows to date, along with various
Linux OS, Mac OS (8.6 and greater), SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and SCO, is also a
very promising asset.
- Albatron KM18G Pro M-ATX nForce2 review -
The KM18G runs off of the nForce 2 IGP Northbridge and the MCP
Southbridge. Although we ve checked out the nForce 2 SPP (System Platform
Processor), this is our first experience with the IGP version which sports
integrated graphics with allocation of up to 128MB of system memory. The
integrated graphics comes to us via the Geforce 4 MX (NV17) core which runs at
250 MHz. Although this won't be a selling point for those of us using ATI
radeon 9000+ cards or Ti / FX based cards, it will appeal to someone looking
for a system with solid integrated graphics for an office system or even to
play the most recent games only with toned down settings.
- AMD Athlon XP 3200+ review - Yep definitely recommended.
There are two things I do not like about this product, the price tag, our own
pricewatch database reports this product in it's cheapest form for
444 USD which is a lot of money for a processor.
- Leadtek A310TD 128MB FX5600 review - Overclockers New Zealand has
posted a
review on Leadtek A310TD 128MB FX5600. By looking at the scores above, I
find it hard to convince the consumers that FX5600 would give them a better
gaming experience than a good old GF4 Ti. Generally speaking, Leadtek A310
(FX5600) is around 10~35% slower than a standard GF4 Ti-4800SE. The FX5600 may
come out on top if FSAA is used but that is about it.
- Barracuda ATA V (120GB) review -
Seagate's Barracuda ATA V ST3120023A disc drive delivers 7,200-RPM
performance for desktops and entry-level ATA servers, with a capacity of 120
Gbytes. The product features a FDB motor for the quietest acoustics in the
industry, superior reliability and the Ultra ATA/100 interface. The drive
includes Seagate's exclusive 3D Defense System and a one-year limited
warranty.
- TEAC CD-W552PUK USB 2.0 review -
Is it worth buying this drive? If you need a portable drive to move
between machines, I would recommend it wholeheartedly, not only is this drive
a real looker and very well built, its a great performer for everyday use,
with some of the best audio quality ive had the pleasure to listen to.
- Chip-Con Prometeia Mach II review -
Prometeia Mach II is probably the most advanced cooling solution to date.
It has the capability of removing up to 200W of heat dissipation which allow
you to overclock your Pentium 4 to reach 4Ghz or Athlon XP to 3Ghz
comfortably. Prometeia Mach II will make a fine machine for hobbyists
into 3DMark benching and distributed computing, as a extremely powerful gaming
rig and as a workstation machine for rendering, video and CAD applications
which are CPU intensive. Whether it going to worth your money will depend on
your usage model.
- MAME v0.70 - MAME
(win32
~
win32 Pentium Pro optimized) stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator,
and currently runs 1800+ classic (and even some not so classic) arcade games.
- Serv-U 4.1.0.7 Beta -
Serv-U (download)
is a powerful, easy-to-use, award-winning FTP server created by Rob Beckers.
An FTP server uses the FTP protocol to share files across the Internet.
- Nero InfoTool 2.00 -
Nero InfoTool is very usefull for getting a quick overview about your
system configuration. It will display important Information for the purpose of
discovering errorsources.
- MBM-Net v1.0 -
MBM-Net is a
companion program to Motherboard Monitor 5. It allows you to monitor computers
on your network and display information such as CPU temperature, system
temperature, and fan speeds. That way you can see the status of your machines
in one convenient window instead of remote desktop"ing" into each machine and
checking! You can monitor any computer on your home network or over the
internet using MBM-Net! Up to 255 machines are supported.
- AtomTime Synchronizer 3.2.1.0 -
AtomTime Synchronizer is a
useful and handy utility to keep your PC clock accurate. It can periodically
check and synchronize your computer time with a NIST atomic time server,
synchronize time between computers and act as a time server.
- WinDVD Platinum 4.5.28.108 -
WinDVD Platinum (download)
is the latest version of WinDVD which is a simple-to-use DVD player that
combines all the features of a standard consumer DVD player and offers much
more. It is the ultimate DVD player with advanced audio and video functions,
not found anywhere else.
- CopyToDVD 2.2 -
CopyToDVD is the
easiest way to backup your files. Integrated to the shell or used as a normal
application, CopyToDVD works with all CD & DVD Writers to create the cd type
of your choice.
- Dr. DivX 1.0.1 -
Dr. DivX is the
first and only official DivX Encoding application. Just as DivX and DivX Pro
have enabled anyone, anywhere to watch and distribute great looking digital
video, this now makes the act of creating DivX video as easy as the act of
watching it. It lets you create an awesome DivX video from almost any source
right on your computer in just three easy steps.
- Tray Helper v3.5 -
Tray Helper
it's compact award winning application with many features (f/e: email checker,
auto mail responder, anti-spam, popup-killer, event reminder and more).
- ICQ Lite Build #1211 -
ICQ Lite Build #1211 (download)
has been released.
- BlindWrite Suite 4.5 -
Blindwrite Suite (download)
is the best set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD, even protected ones.
Blindwrite Suite is the most powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your
original CD for personal private copy.
- GoldenHawk CDRWIN 3.9D -
GoldenHawk has
finally released a new version of
CDRWin.
- ASUS SmartDoctor 2 2.70 -
ASUS
SmartDoctor2 is designed to satisfy two major goals. One is to monitor
graphic chip Status, altering users about abnormal events, such as fan
malfunction or chip overheat. The other, as the name SmartDoctor implies, is
to cool down the graphic chip smartly when it is not necessary for it to be
kept running at full speed. SmartDoctor2 includes AGP Power Level Monitoring,
Fan RPM Monitoring, Overheated protection, Smartcooling technology, and Manual
Overclocking.
- S3/VIA Driver updates - There are new driver updates from S3
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