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- Gigabyte flooded with e-hate mail - The 17 year-old girl who
wrote the Sharp virus has been
attacked by other virus writers in a torrent of sexist abuse. Just one day after
Gigabyte denied claims that she was using her virus writing ability to fight against
sexism in IT, her website was flooded with personal attacks from 'enlightened' members of
the hacker community.
- Dozens of human embryos cloned in China - Chinese scientists are
claiming a great leap forward in human cloning - the creation of dozens of
cloned embryos advanced enough to harvest embryonic stem cells.
- PS2 Linux Kit Shipping in May - Sony announced through an e-mail
that the Linux PS2 kits
were available for pre-order. The kits should be shipped May 22nd.
- More on MPEG4 Fees - On Jan. 31, the agency charged with
licensing MPEG-4, a standard for digital audio and video compression, announced a series
of new fees. Manufacturers of software programs that incorporate MPEG-4 would
be required to pay 25 cents for each copy they sell (up to a cap of $1 million per
year). More controversially, the alliance of companies pushing the MPEG-4 standard also
proposed a "use fee" -- a 2
cents an hour charge that either users or manufacturers of the software would have to
come up with.
- Hack Turns iPod into PDA - Provue Development has released a
personal info and contact manager app called iPod Organizer. The program enables use of iPod for storing and
retrieving phone numbers, email addresses, flight numbers, appointment times and other
data. It also comes with a sync feature.
- Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 All-in-Wonder Review - The
All-In-Wonder series have extra capabilities, we're not talking about the nifty 3D
features and performance here, no built-in Stereo TV tuner, MPEG playback that translates
itself in DVD, VCD and basically any video format hardware decoding.
- Abit KR7A-133R Review - The KR7A-133 is an updated version of Abit's popular KR7A, a premier
KT266A motherboard. The KR7A-133 features the same KT266A Northbridge as the KR7A, but has
an updated Southbridge, the VT8233A, which has native ATA/133 support. The KR7A uses the
VT8233 Southbridge, which only supports up to ATA/100 speeds.
- MSI-645Ultra Motherboard Review - MSI offering of the
645 platform performs extremely well and very stable with no suprises throughout the
testing phaze but a major bug in its AMI BIOS have somewhat hindered its overall score.
- IBM ThinkPad A31p - Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an
exlusive first look at IBM ThinkPad A31p.
- Thermaltake Active Memory Cooling Kit Review - RAM module is
more often clocked in last time, through that the memory modules warm up more strongly. The
Cooling Kit is supposed to add to the improvement of the refrigerating capacity. The
question Needs normally a customer this Kit? or it is a alternative only for Overclocker.
- EPoX and Visiontek GF 4 Ti4600 problem solved -
- More on Creative Audigy Rumor - Apparently, a Chinese or
Taiwanese user hacked
the drivers and made his SBLive! card into a fully fuctional Audigy, minus the
Firewire ports (and, presumably, the Philips DAC). Now, even if this is all true, I'm not
sure this one rises to the level of real news. I haven't paid attention to it much myself,
but I have heard from folks in the know that the Audigy's 24-bit/96KHz capabilities don't
run all the way through the card's audio pipeline. This Audigy review at GamePC doesn't indicate any real advances in the Emu
10K2 chip. And we all know about Creative's traditional (ahem) breakneck pace of
innnovation.
- WinSuperSite Updated - yeah some articles seems to be
useful: The Road to Windows "Longhorn" , Office XP
Tips and Windows XP Tips, Windows .NET
Server Family FAQ, Windows
XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) FAQ.
- Windows XP Configuration Tweak Guide - This
guide is designed to help you get the most out of your Windows XP system. It will
provide you with tips and instructions on how you can tweak/hack/modify your own Windows
XP configuration for better performance, functionality, and usability. Use at your own
risk.
- Unchecked Buffer in SNMP Service Could Enable Arbitrary Code to be Run
- download patch.
- ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 - ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0
contains a redesigned interface for a smoother user experience with even stronger
security. ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0 'hardens' security further with enhancements to its powerful
Program Control feature. Program Control allows users to determine which programs are
allowed to communicate with the Internet, thus preventing Trojan horse programs from
'calling home' and transmitting a user's information or opening a back door on the PC that
a hacker can manipulate remotely.
- Active Network Monitor 1.0 Beta 3 - Active Network Monitor (ANM)
is a tool for the day-to-day monitoring of computers on a network. ANM runs under Windows
NT/2000/XP.
- XP Skins v0.9 beta - XP Skins change the
look of older windows programs with one click of the mouse: now all your programs will
support xp skins (Windows XP themes).
- Winamp Pilot 3.00 - A new version of Winamp Pilot (download)
has been released. This is a plug-in to control Winamp outside the program itself.
This new version has been completely rewritten, it should be more stable and all EInvalidOperation
errors should be finally gone now.
- WebSite-Watcher 3.40 - You can use this baby to track your
favourite websites or software for changes.
- KaZaA 1.5.1 - The KaZaa Media Desktop is a second-generation peer-to-peer
file-sharing service with which you can search and download media files from other KaZaa
users.
- LimeWire v2.2.3 - LimeWire is a
software package which enables individuals to search for and share computer files with
anyone on the internet. LimeWire is compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and
can connect with anyone else running Gnutella-compatible software.
- CpuUsage System Service - Have you ever faced a situation where
you have waited for a program to complete and had the feeling the program may have
crashed? Wouldn't it be nice if you could always see if your CPU is really working? Well,
you could have the task manager window in front, but how about a program that doesn't
waste valuable screen space? CPUUsage System Service is a free tool that displays the cpu load as a
tray icon image. It's very easy to use and utilizes minimal resources.
- ALI AGP ver. 1.83 Driver - ALI support have released a new AGP Driver v1.83 (release notes).
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