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- Hacker busted - Federal authorities yesterday accused a British
computer administrator of
hacking into 92 computer networks operated by the U.S. military and NASA,
including one break-in that shut down systems at a navy facility in New Jersey
immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Authorities said two of the
computer systems were at the Pentagon. The intrusions also made inoperable the
network that serves the military district for Washington, officials said. [Reuters]
- Potter Pirates Fail to Copy Film on the Internet - Computer geeks
have apparently
tried and failed to use their technical wizardry to copy a pirated version
of Warner Bros. newest "Harry Potter" movie to the Internet before its Friday
theatrical release. Warner Bros., a unit of AOL Time Warner AOL.N , said
on Tuesday that it had opened a copy of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets" that it discovered in a hard-to-find location on the Internet and
found it to be an empty decoy.
- Drug-resistant bacteria discovered in Detroit - A 40-year-old
Detroit area woman had endured painfully infected foot sores for more than a
year. Doctors gave her numerous antibiotics, but nothing worked. Finally, last
April, they amputated one of her toes -- and made a frightening discovery. Her
sores were infected with a virulent new strain of the bacterium staphylococcus
aureus, or staph aureus. By stealing genetic material from another bug, the
new strain
became totally resistant to vancomycin, the longtime drug of last defense
against it. Health officials would not identify the metro Detroit woman or
what hospital treated her.
- Nokia: BlackBerry phone ripe by 2003 - The first Nokia phone to
feature BlackBerry maker Research In Motion's e-mail software will be launched
in the United States by the end of 2003, Nokia said Tuesday.
The $250 Nokia 6800 is aimed at business workers used to getting e-mails
on BlackBerry devices and includes a keyboard that emerges when the
clamshell-shaped phone is unfolded, said Nokia business applications product
manager Brannon Perkison. Nokia licensed the RIM software earlier this month.
- NVIDIA's David Kirk Interview - Hardware Accelerated has posted
an interview with NVIDIA's Chief Scientist David Kirk as he talks
aboutNV30, nForce2, Cg and more.
- Athlon XP Price Drop - According to other sources,
AMD cut prices for the Athlon XP 2200+, 2100+, 2000+, 1900+, 1800+ and
1700+ processors. The Athlon XP 2200+ was said to be still priced at over
US$100, while the prices of the other five processors fell by as much as about
40% to US$60-90. Prices of the high-end Athlon XP 2400+, 2600+, 2700+ and
2800+ remained unchanged.
- Intel breaks 3GHz speed barrier - It may be a year before the 3GHz
chip, expected this week, and its hyperthreading feature catch on among
business buyers, but gamers and affluent consumers will have them both on hand
for the holidays.
PC makers
such as Dell Computer will offer the 3GHz chip in their
performance-oriented desktop models, which sell for $2,000 and above.
- AMD ships mobile 2200+ - AMD yesterday launched the
mobile Athlon XP 2200+, and in a pleasant change from recent 'launches',
actually has parts in stock to ship. Fujitsu Siemens, AMD's biggest customer
in Europe, is fitting in the 2200+ into the AMILO A-x600 series and it has
stock available now.
- Future Look: OpenGL 2.0 - Currently available as version 1.4,
OpenGL has proven to adapt with the evolution of graphics hardware, though
it's age is becoming starkly apparent as compared to Microsoft's latest
DirectX D3D technology. In hopes of revitalizing the decade old standard,
3Dlabs recently offers a new approach outlining the features of a possible
OpenGL 2.0 revision.
- Installing PHP 4 on your Windows box -
This article continues along that line with the installation and
configuration of PHP 4. If you have Apache up and running, PHP will further
enhance your server by offering a myriad of new possibilities. First, here is
a short explanation of each PHP.
- VisualRoute 7.0d -
VisualRoute (download)
delivers the functionality of key Internet "ping," "whois," and "traceroute"
tools, in a high-speed visually integrated package. VisualRoute automatically
analyzes Internet connectivity and performance problems, displaying the
results in an easy to understand table and on a world map.
- Windows XP Keychanger tool - Wanna change your winXP key from the
pirated key to your genuine key?
This tool says it does it.
- DirectX 9.0 RC0 Build 9.0.308.3 - Its been leaked and now available
for
free download. Don't forget that this is a pure beta and will expire in a
month or two.
- SNES9x Windows v1.39a - This is a
Windows port of SNES9X.
Now the Windows port not in beta stages anymore, and it's getting better. The
most significant improvements are the 3Dfx support implemented in this Windows
version.
- Visual Boy Advance v1.2 -
Visual Boy
Advance is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows
system. This is the DirectX version of Visual Boy Advance. You can also
try the SDL
version. SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. It is a cross platform
library for graphics, input, audio, threading, etc... that can be used for
games, emulators, etc. To some people, the SDL version on Windows may be
faster than the DirectX version.
- ICQ Lite Beta Build #1068 -
ICQ
Lite Beta Build #1068 (history)
has been released- this is a lite version of ICQ (not the web ICQ) :)
- MSN Messenger Service 5.0.0540 - MSN Messenger (Win98/ME
~WinXP
~
Win2k/NT4SP6) is an instant-messaging program that notifies you when your
friends are online so you can send messages or chat with several friends at
once.
- WinAce v2.3 beta 3 -
WinAce is an
archiving utility with an easy-to-use interface for creating, extracting, and
viewing archives. If you're looking for archiver utility that has HIGH
compression ratio, this one is for you.
- Opera 7 for Windows Beta 1 -
Opera Software has
released Opera 7 for Windows Beta 1 (Mirror)
The saying "Less is more" couldn't be more true! Opera's code has been
reworked from the rendering engine and up, giving you a faster browser packed
with features in an exceptionally small download. Enjoy new features such as
the new e-mail and news client, a sleek new interface, improved Hotlist,
skinning or drag-and-drop and much, much more.
- Blindwrite Suite 4.2.2 - According to VSO-Software the company
behind
Blindwrite, v4.2.2 is the only 1:1 copy software to support latest
protection (Securom 4.8, Safedisc 2.8), without a CD emulator required.
- kX Project Drivers 5.00.3527 Beta -
The kX Audio
Driver is an independent WDM driver for all EMU10K1 and EMU10K2-based
soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or E-mu Sytems Inc.,
including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio Production Studio
(APS) card, and the Audigy series of cards.
- Windows 95/98/Me nVidia Detonator 40.72 (Updated) - If you
experienced difficulty with this driver between November 8th and 11th,
please download again. We have corrected the issue and updated the file.
- Matrox W2K/XP Beta Driver (v5.87.037.0) - Matrox released a new
beta drivers for G200/200MMS/400/450/450MMS/550 cards. Officially the set
only is for 200MMS/450MMS but works with the other cards too.
- nForce 1.14 Driver - There's WHQL'ed driver set for nForce 1
chipsets: nForce 220/230/415/420/430 for
Windows 9x/Me &
Win2K/XP.
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