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- 2003 CES Mobile Tour - Just like last year's CES, the most amazing
demo car belongs to Alpine. I was wondering if it would be possible for Steve
Brown of Alpine to be able top his RSX installation from CES 2002. For CES
2003, Steve unveiled a Honda Civic that simply blew everybody away. What's so
amazing about it? Steve transformed the mild manner Civic into a single seater
with the driver sitting in the center for perfect sound reproduction.
Make
sure you check out the pics!
- Man Dies While Playing Diablo II - A
Hong Kong computer game enthusiast has been found
slumped dead at a terminal in a game centre after playing non-stop for
hours, police said today. The 28-year-old was found slumped at his screen
early yesterday after he apparently had played the online game Diablo II since
early Friday evening. A policeman found him in the game centre shortly
after 1 am, five hours after he began playing the popular game, according to
reports today. His death at a game centre in Hong Kong's Yuen Long district
came eight months after a 17-year-old game centre employee was found dead
after playing Diablo II through the night.
- Microsoft to share secret code - Microsoft on Tuesday announced
a new program to make the underlying code for its Windows operating system
available to several governments and governmental agencies for viewing. The
software company has already signed agreements with the Russian government and
NATO to allow them to review for free the underlying programming instructions
that Microsoft has long guarded as secret intellectual property.
- Discarded computer hard drives prove a trove of personal info -
Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives
at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the
129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49
contained "significant personal information" -- medical correspondence,
love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. One even had a year's
worth of transactions with account numbers from a cash machine in Illinois.
- Friendly fire - Product Activation zaps new XP Plus! pack -
Microsoft latest add-on for Windows XP, Plus! Digital Media Edition, has
fallen foul of Windows Product Activation. Numerous purchasers
are
finding it impossible to install (also check
this thread), and are being confronted by the comforting message "Plus!
Digital Media Edition uses Microsoft Product Activation to help prevent
software piracy. Please have an administrator run Plus! Digital Media Edition
on this machine and go through the Microsoft Plus! Product Activation Wizard.
Once that is complete, you will be able to run Plus! Digital Media Edition
normally."
- Battle of the Gaming Audio Titans: Creative Labs vs. NVIDIA - The
$150 Audigy 2 Platinum is the flagship product from Creative Labs. Sporting
24/192 DACs on all six channels and true 24/96 analog playback and recording,
the Audigy 2 is the gaming sound card that comes closest to the prosumer sound
cards. The equivalently priced $150 nForce2 platform represents NVIDIA's
flagship platform processor. It also promises 64 hardware accelerated 3D audio
streams, but claims to support 256 2D audio streams. Behind this processing
power is Sensaura's HRTF algorithms for positional 3D audio, considered by
many to be the reference standard. In a departure from our typical article
format,
we're going to throw up all the numbers first and then talk.
- Dates arrive for Barton, MP chips - People at AMD Taiwan have
given the
Inquirer details of when we may expect new 32-bit chips from the firm, off
the record of course. The long awaited MP2600+, a chip intended for dual
multiprocessing systems, will be introduced on the fourth of February next.
Bartons - which come as the 2500+, the 2700+ and the 3000+ and which will have
a fabulous 512K of cache but won't use silicon on insulator nor Super Silicon
28, as far as we can tell, are set to be introduced on February 7th.
- eVGA.com: Case Mod Contest -
eVGA.com is hosting
it's first Case Mod Contest, giving case modders an opportunity to
highlight their own case designs and place them upon a pedestal of
distinction. This is a no-holds barred competition where values will be placed
on aesthetics as well as functionality. The contest will run from January
15th, 2003 until February 28th, 2003. Contestants will have a chance to win
one of the following fabulous prizes from eVGA: a e-GeForce4 TI 4600 8x, a
e-GeForce4 TI 4200 8x or a e-GeForce4 MX 440SE.
- EPoX 8RDA+ Voltage Modding Guide - The most important factor
determining overclockability is the VDD (voltage to the nForce2 chipset) and
next important factor is the VDDR (voltage to the memories). As 8RDA+ BIOS
allows VCore up to 2.2V already therefore there is not a need to perform any
mod for that. In this article, we will show you how to mod the VDD and VDDR in
order to
get amazing FSB out of this board.
- Koepi's XviD Codec build 15012003-1 (win32) -
XviD (download)
is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded
with XviD. This new version features Fresh CVS checkout, Fixed I/P/B-decision
- crash problem solved, iframes should be set correctly now, Added simple
idct, QPel smearing bug will resolve with the next ffdshow/lavc version,
Gruel's new 2-warppoint-GMC code (rc4) - doesn't work with chroma ME yet.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.03.00 -
HyperSnap-DX 5 (download)
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. HyperSnap-DX 5 can capture frames from many
software DVD players and other video playing software.
- Intel Chipset Identification Utility 2.70 -
The Intel Chipset Identification Utility provides an easy way to identify
the specific Intel chipset that is located on your motherboard.
- Realtek ALC650 Drivers v3.38 (2003/01/15) -
The ALC650 CODEC supports host/soft audio from Intel 810/815/820/845
chipsets as well as audio controller based VIA/SIS/ALI chipsets.
- WinAmp 3 Build #495 (int.beta) -
This version has been posted on the
official download http of Nullsoft, but is internal beta. (thanks
SavageNews).
- Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 PCI Device Driver & BIOS - Highpoint
RocketRAID 1520 PCI device, driver and BIOS updated to
version 2.34s.
- Asus Detonator Drivers 42.01 For Win98/ME - Asus has released a new
set of
Nvidia Detonator Drivers version 42.01 For Windows 98/ME.
- Lite-On IT XJ-HD163 firmware - Lite-On IT has released
a new firmware
version, GH5S, for their XJ-HD163 (16X/48X) DVD-ROM drive.
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