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(hx) 02:07 PM CEST - Jul,11 2002
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- Gamers invade Army Web site - The U.S. Army says more than 400,000 people
have downloaded the service's new recruiting game since it became available last week.
- U.S. Developing 'Star Wars' Style De-Mining Gun - The United States
army will soon conduct trials of a Star Wars-style cannon that will clear surface-laid mines
by zapping them with a high-powered laser, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday. Dubbed
Zeus, the laser cannon is mounted on the top of a Humvee all-terrain military vehicle and
operated from the cab. A low-powered laser will "illuminate" each mine, and the
operator will then switch on the main beam which will either explode or evaporate the
explosives in the device which can be up to 250 yards away from the vehicle.
- Nvidia to flex new nForce chipsets - Graphics chip leader Nvidia is expected to
announce next week a new generation of nForce, its integrated product that combines
graphics and chipset functions. Nvidia introduced nForce last year, after signing a
deal with chipmaker AMD. nForce combines a chipset--which connects an AMD Athlon or Duron
processor with other PC components such as memory--with a low-end graphics processor..
- Studios sue defunct $1 movie site - The movie studio's trade
association files
a suit in California federal court against Film88.com in an apparent move to stop the
site's owners from reappearing online in another incarnation.
- Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' movie - Warner Bros. announced
production plans Tuesday for the warring superhero
film "Batman vs. Superman," which would pit the two DC Comics characters in
a "battle of the titans," according to director Wolfgang Petersen.
- Microsoft to ship smart-phone software 'any day now' - After repeated
delays, Microsoft is finally ready to ship its Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software, formerly code-named Stinger,
in the coming weeks but mobile phones based on the software may not appear for up to six
months after its release, a company executive said here Tuesday.
- VIA Announces P4PB 400 Mainboard - VIA Technologies announced the VIA P4PB 400 Mainboard, the world's first mainboard to
feature the VIA Apollo P4X400 chipset. The VIA P4PB 400's performance features are
impressive and include AGP 8X, providing 2100MB/sec of graphics bandwidth, double the
speed of today's standard platforms. DDR400/333 RAM enables the new Intel Pentium 4
processors with 533MHz FSB to perform to its full capacity by supplying a 3200MB/sec of
fast double data rate memory transfer rates.
- Intel 2.8GHz Pentium 4 to Ship Early - Intel Corp. is pushing up the release of
a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 to this summer in hopes of boosting sagging sales of its flagship
PC processor, sources close to the company say.
- gBOX Review - LittleWhiteDog let us know that he just finished putting
paw prints all over the new gBOX from AMS Electronics. The gBOX is an aluminum barebones
mini-pc (9.5" x 8.3" x 12") built around the P4M266 chipset featuring
integrated video, sound, USB 2.0 and an ATA133 controller. For testing purposes, a 2Ghz P4
Northwood processor was used along with an eVGA GeForce 4 Ti4600 card and an Audigy board.
- ECS AG400 Review - VR-Zone has done up a review on the new ECS
AG400 card based on the SiS Xabre 400 GPU. SiS Xabre 400 supports AGP 8X and DirectX
8.1 therefore it will make it a worthy competitor to the GF4 MX440 in terms of price and
performance and even to the GF3 Ti200. The cool thing about ECS AG400 is that it offers
3DVR connector that allow 3D Glasses to be used to obtain 3D Effects during gaming. By
turning on the Transparent mode offer as a feature by the Xabre 3DWizard tool, in games
such as Quake 3 or Counterstrike, the walls are transparent therefore it is great news for
Cheaters but bad for Gamers.
- HW Reviews Round-up - ABIT GF4 Ti4200 128MB
/ MSI GeForce4 Ti
4200 / Plextor PleXCombo 20/10/4012A / Enermax Fan UC-8FAB, Hoodman H300 LCD Hood / Cobalt3 Pyramid I
Temperature Controlled Fan Silencer / Watercooling
The GF4 (part#2) / Samsung
181B LCD.
- Modding Your Mouse - No, this is not an article about cooling. This is
something little that you can do to make your mouse's life a bit better. Everybody wants to look good, your mouse
too.
- Understanding CPU Caching and Performance - In order to
really understand the role of caching in system design, it helps to think of the CPU
and memory subsystem as operating on a consumer-producer (or client-server) model: the CPU
consumes information provided to it by the hard disks and RAM, which act as producers.
Driven by innovations in process technology and processor design, CPUs have increased
their ability to consume at a significantly higher rate than the memory subsystem has
increased its ability to produce...
- MSIE 6 Build 2800.1067 for 2000/XP Released To Testers - This build has
already been leaked to the net by the cool folks over at #Winbeta on DALnet! If you are
running either Windows 2000 or XP, feel free to snag the Windows 2000/XP package (11,7
megs) below. Otherwise, please obtain the full package for all supported platforms (44,7
megs) from one of the well-known IRC channels: #Winbeta on DALnet, #betas on
irc.betasonline.com, etc.
- POV-Ray v3.5 Available - It is with
pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray
version 3.5 is now officially
available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms.
- ICQ Lite Alpha Build #1025 - ICQ
Lite Alpha Build #1025 has been released- this is a lite version of ICQ.
- BeFaster v3.0 Final - BeFaster (download)
is an internet speed up toolkit with some powerful tools. It supports AOL, Symantec
PcAnyWhere, Opera, Dial-up modem, Lan, Cable Modem, xDSL, ISDN, T1, DirectPc and Cable/DSL
running PP.
- Icon Scanner v1.2 - Icon
Scanner scans folders and drives on your computer to extract hidden icons and cursors.
You can view icons as thumbnails in a window, and save them to .ICO files. It features an
Explorer like interface, recursive directory search, file type filtering, and more.
- HDCleaner 2.317 - HDCleaner clears
the fixed disk and removes unnecessary file garbage from all available drives. The most
important groups of files, about BAK, CHK, GID, ~ * *, TMP, are before-configured already
and need to be only selected.
- AccessFIX v1.4 - AccessFIX recovers Access databases. It extracts the structure and the
table contents from damaged database files, creating new trouble free files.
- ExcelFIX v3.3R - ExcelFIX
recovers cell data from corrupted MS Excel files. It extracts text, numbers, formulas, and
formats. It lets you select, diagnose, view and save the damaged file.
- ATI Radeon driver version 6.13.10.6118 - This driver is only for Windows XP and the 2k, 9x come soon.. The
driver contains: new control panel ( all OSes ) and new WDM.
- First Radeon 9000 & 9000 PRO WHQL Drivers - Well it seems like it
has been confirmed that the RV250 will be called the Radeon 9000 and 9000 PRO (the
difference being the core and memory speeds). Sapphire Technologies have posted a new driver for the RV250.
They are based off the 6102 set (7.73.3) and are WHQL certified. The download weighs in at
about 35MB and it includes the Control Panel, Driver Files, Hydravision and WDM files for
XP, 2K and 9x. (thanks DriverHeaven.net).
- Cyberdrive CW058D CDRW Firmware - Cyberdrive have released a new firmware
for their 32x CDRW drive. Version 140D.
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