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(hx) 01:26 PM CEST - Aug,17 2002
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- Record floods in middle EU - The floods are among several that have
killed about 100 people across Europe and forced tens of thousands to evacuate
their homes.
Along with Germany and the Czech Republic, flooding has hit communities in
Austria, Slovakia, Russia, and Romania.
- Sony scientist: Robots need culture - A researcher says that the
next wave
of robots will be able to interact with one another, form their own
languages and evolve new kinds of intelligence.
- New fault could generate giant waves -
Such waves, called tsunami, could pose a threat to densely populated
coastal cities in southwestern Japan. Researchers led by Jin-Oh Park of
the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center in Yokohama discovered the
fault using a seismic reflection profile, developed by measuring vibrations
from the surface that are reflected back by deep rock formations.
- Russia accuses FBI agent of hacking - A G-man who
nabbed two Russian hackers in a sting operation is charged by Russia with
downloading evidence from a server without authorization.
- Military computers' data exposed - A security company cracks U.S.
military networks,
gaining access to tens of thousands of government computers that military
officials say hold unclassified data.
- AMD plans Athlon boost - The chipmaker will introduce, at a
minimum,
an Athlon XP 2400+ and an Athlon XP 2600+ for desktop PCs toward the end
of the month, sources familiar with AMD's plans said. AMD is also evaluating
whether to increase the speed of the chip's front-side bus--the pathway used
to shuttle data between the processor and PC memory.
- ECC-Eliza V4.09 -
Your Computer Psychologist
- Eliza is an amusement psychologist program that chats with the user in
plain English, and uses advanced AI methods in order to solve the user
problems or just entertain the user :)
- Antivirus Databases -
Norton Antivirus /
Kaspersky AVP
/
McAfee VirusScan 4.x / 5.x DAT file v4218 /
McAfee VirusScan SuperDAT File v4218 (engine v4160) /
AVG
6.0 ENG
- Windows XP SP1 Build 1097 Leaked - Another
SP1 leak (mirror)
from Microsoft FileVersion: 5.1.2600.1097 (xpsp1.020813-2140).
- CardBus PC Cards Update for Win2K SP3 -
This update resolves the "CardBus PC Cards May No Longer Function on
Specific Docking Stations After You Apply SP3" issue in Windows 2000 Service
Pack 3 (SP3) and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article
Q327269.
- XP-Antispy 3.61 -
XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that let's you disable some built-in update
and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP. For example, there's a service
running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don't know
what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet,
especially the MS ones.
- PowerStrip 3.21 Beta Build 318 -
PowerStrip 3.20 provides
advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of
graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest GeForce4
Ti4600.
- BearShare 4.0.2 (free) -
BearShare
is an exciting Windows file sharing program from Free Peers, Inc. that lets
you, your friends, and everyone in the world share files. Built on Gnutella
technology, BearShare provides a simple, easy to use interface combined with a
powerful connection and search engine that puts thousands of different files
in easy reach.
- mIRC v6.03 - mIRC
(download)
is a highly configurable IRC client with all the goodies other clients on
UNIX, Macintosh and even Windows, combined with a nice and clean user
interface.
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