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(hx) 11:38 AM CET - Nov,05 2002
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- SBC has plans for Internet security - SBC Communications announced
Monday that it
is
forming an Internet security project designed to improve network defenses.
The company said that network-based security could bring several significant
advances. For example, a network could be designed to detect unusual flows of
traffic converging on a particular customer. If the traffic is considered a
distributed denial-of-service attack, the network could automatically filter
the offending traffic from multiple locations, SBC said.
- Braid virus winds its way through e-mail - Although the
company has seen only 43 copies of the virus--indicating an extremely slow
start--W32.Braid
shares some attributes of the widely spread Klez family of viruses and
could have similar success. Among the similarities, both viruses forge a fake
sender address in the e-mails they use to propagate themselves, which makes
finding infected PCs more difficult.
- Nokia struts new phones at NMIC - At the Nokia Mobile Internet
Conference, Nokia is showing
a slew
of new phones, including the 6800 messaging device, 2100 entry-level phone
and 7250, 6100, 5100 and 8910i models.
- Intel doubles cache on new Xeons - The new chips--formerly
code-named Gallatin--are enhanced versions of Intel's Xeon line for
multiprocessor servers. The fastest of the new
chips
runs at 2GHz and contains a 2MB tertiary cache, a reservoir of memory for
rapid data access. The older Xeon, which came out in March, tops out at 1.6GHz
and has a 1MB cache.
- End-Of-Life For the GeForce4 Ti4600: GeForce4 Ti4200 Forever -
According
to Xbit-labs, NVIDIA had stopped producing the GeForce4 Ti4600 graphics
processors at TSMC fabs and the company's closest partners confirmed the
information. Moreover, some retailers indicated the tight supply of the
GeForce4 Ti4600 based products in the channel
- NV30 Tech Facts - NVIDIA's "Are You Ready?" web site has been
updated
with a new "F" button, which reveals some facts about the upcoming NV30: 3
times the size of a Pentium 4 microprocessor ~ 35 times the size of NVIDIA's
RIVA 128 GPU, released just five years ago ~ 3.9 years, if you took one second
to count every transistor ~ 4.5 times the population of Tokyo, Japan ~ If
converted to US Dollar bills and placed end-to-end, would stretch from New
York to Hong Kong ~ More than the number of people in the entire world who
speak French or German ~ nice hype :)
- Tech PC Cooling Guide - In any method of cooling you need a form of
fluid to rush past the CPU to take the heat with it (convection cooling). With
most computers the fluid is air blown by a fan over the heatsink. In those
more adventurous overclockers looking for a reduction in temperatures, more
speed or less heat water is used. This is more of a technical challenge since,
as we all know, water and electricity don't get along. For the most
insane/rich/hardcore (delete as you see fit) overclockers out there there is
Phase Change. Based on the same technology that keeps your milk cold in your
fridge, it is capable of
producing
temperature well blow zero.
- WinXP Pro/home Patch: Explorer May Generate An Application Error When
You Close A Folder - Windows may not respond when you try to open or close
a folder by using Windows Explorer. When this occurs, you may be able to
restart Explorer.exe to cause Windows Explorer to work correctly again.
Download
patch.
- Windows Movie Maker 2 Beta -
Windows Movie Maker 2 Beta makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie
Maker 2, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your PC.
Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops.
- Zoom Player 2.90 RC2 -
Zoom Player (changelog)
provides special zooming functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating
overscan. Zoom Player's scaling system allows you to exactly match the video
area to your screen's dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color
in order to test for brightness bleeds
- PassMark SoundCheck v2.0 -
PassMark SoundCheck (download)
is a Windows based application that allows users to test their PC sound card,
speakers and microphone.
- Final Fantasy XI benchmarks hit Web - Squaresoft have
released benchmarks
for Final Fantasy XI which you can download to see if your system can
stand it.
- UT2K3 Retail Benchmarking Utility - HardOCP has posted
a
new version of benchmark utility for UT2K3.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.01.00 Final -
HyperSnap-DX 5 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows.
It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab
DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games.
- CloneCD v4.1.0.0 - Elaborate Bytes has released
a new
version of CloneCD 4 (FTP)
- the ideal CD copy program to make backups of your Music and Data CDs.
- Nero InfoTool v1.03 -
Nero InfoTool is a
utility which analyses and displays the most important information about a
drive, disc, configuration and software.
- NVIDIA BIOS Editor v1.0 RC3 Rev.400 -
NVIDIA BIOS Editor enables you to do virtually anything with your graphic
card BIOS (as long as it is NVIDIAs). Now, it is simply a must have for me and
according to the forum, for many other people, too. It enables you to change
the sign-on message text & color, GPU & memory clocks, hidden features like
SBA (Side Band Addressing) and much more.
- ATI Developer Drivers 7.79 Leaked - The drivers come from the
set version 7.79 (7.79-021019m-006244C-ATI) and individual driver versions
for each Operating System are as follows: Windows 2000/XP - 6.13.10.6200,
Windows 98/98SE/ME - 4.13.01.9069
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