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(hx) 03:10 AM CEST - Aug,24 2004
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- 15 months' jail for computer games pirate -
CHING Seen Ming didn't have a job but he earned $5,000 a month - as much
as a middle-management executive. But he wasn't so much middle management as
middleman. He was a crucial link in an international piracy syndicate, helping
it to mass-produce pirated versions of video games. Ching, 40, was jailed for
15 months yesterday, after pleading guilty to copyright infringement. A
district court heard how the syndicate, called Fairlight, operated. Ching was
recruited by his brother, Seng Keng, who is in Malaysia, four years ago.
Syndicate members would upload the latest computer software and video console
games for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox to the Internet, bypassing
their copyright protection measures, to make them available for their
customers to download. The syndicate would charge about $170 for each download
of a particular program.
- [!] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird: New releases fix vulnerabilities -
New releases of Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Mozilla Firefox fix
several vulnerabilities,
including remote DoS and buffer overflows.
- Yahoo! E-mail Service Vulnerability - Finjan Software identified
a
new critical cross site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo's Web-based
e-mail service. This vulnerability allowed hackers to develop an attack that
could have caused significant computer damage during regular Internet use.
- Virus alert: Spies prize Webcams' eyes -
The Rbot-GR virus follows a fairly traditional malware route of exploiting
Microsoft security vulnerabilities and installing a Trojan horse on infected
machines. However, the worm also spies on users by taking control of their
Webcam and microphone, then sending images and soundtracks back to the
hackers, according to antivirus firm Sophos. As well as getting an insight
into homes and businesses across the world, the worm allows the malware writer
to take a look at information on the infected machine's hard drive, steal
passwords and launch denial-of-service attacks.
- Virus targets 64-bit Windows - Virus writers have
unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus
firm Symantec said Monday. The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems
mainly to be an experiment to test the concept of a 64-bit infecter and is not
actively spread, said Alfred Huger, senior director of security at Symantec.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer Drag and Drop Vulnerability -
http-equiv has discovered
a vulnerability
in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people
to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient
validation of drag and drop events issued from the "Internet" zone to local
resources. This can be exploited by a malicious website to e.g. plant an
arbitrary executable file in a user's startup folder, which will get executed
the next time Windows starts up.
- Internet Explorer Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability -
Liu Die Yu has
discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks against a user. The
vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer failing to update the address
bar after a sequence of actions has been performed on a named window. This can
be exploited to display content from a malicious site while displaying the URL
of a trusted site in the address bar. The vulnerability has been confirmed on
a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6 running on Microsoft Windows
2000 SP4 / Microsoft Windows XP SP1.
- Microsoft Pushes XP SP2 - After a nine-day postponement,
Microsoft this week plans to start pushing out Windows XP Service Pack 2
to PCs running Windows XP Professional Edition.
- How Google Could Overthrow AIM - There's an
interesting article over at Apple-X.net that speculates on the possibility
of an instant-messaging service offered by Google that would be based on the
open Jabber protocol. (thanks
Slashdot.org)
- Off-topic: Munch's famous "Scream," "Madonna" stolen - Police
fielded a flood of tips but still had no motive Monday for the daring theft of
"The Scream" and another Edvard Munch masterpiece by armed robbers who barged
into a lightly guarded Oslo museum and ripped the paintings from the walls
before the eyes of stunned visitors.
Masked, armed
thieves broke into the Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday and, as visitors and
staff watched in shock, tore "The Scream" and another famous Munch work,
"Madonna," from the walls and loaded them into a car. The getaway car and the
picture frames were found by police in Oslo hours later.
- Off-topic: HK firm develops cyber girlfriend - The Hong Kong
company Artificial Life, which developed the new game, says
the girl will appear as an animated figure on the video screen of a mobile
phone. But there is a downside to the virtual girlfriend - she will
require more flowers and gifts than many real women. Artificial Life is hoping
to launch the new game later this year, on the latest 3-G mobile phones. All
virtual girls will look the same - but each girl will behave differently -
depending on how much money is spent on her. On top of a general subscription,
men will be charged a fee to buy flowers and gifts for the virtual girlfriend.
In return, she will introduce them to different aspects of her life, like
letting them meet her female friends - also electronic images.
- Off-topic: Lucas to Make Sequels to Star Wars After All? - Star
Wars creator
George Lucas could be poised to make three sequels to the original space opera
trilogy, according to insiders at Lucasfilm. According to fan site
Theforce.net, employees at Lucas's company Industrial Light and Magic have all
been made to sign non-disclosure agreements to promise not to talk about the
possibility of episode's seven, eight and nine being made. Now industry
insiders are predicting the director will make the follow-ups, which pick up
where 1983's Return of the Jedi left off, despite insisting he would never be
lured into filming them
- Off-topic: How 8 pixels cost Microsoft millions - Economic Times,
one of India's biggest business daily's is
carrying a story about how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to
recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95. (thanks MadMan)
- Off-topic: Gene Tweaking Turns Couch Potato Mice Into Racers -
Altering a single gene turned ordinary mice into marathon racers that
could run for hours and eat huge amounts of food without getting fat, a team
of researchers reported on Monday.
- Off-topic: Teleportation goes long distance -
Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light
over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria. Long
distance teleportation is crucial if dreams of superfast quantum computing are
to be realised. When physicists say "teleportation", they are describing the
transfer of key properties from one particle to another without a physical
link. Quantum teleportation relies on an aspect of physics known as
"entanglement", whereby the properties of two particles can be tied together
even when they are far apart. Einstein called it "spooky action at a
distance".
- Intel cuts Pentium 4 prices - As promised last week,
Intel on Sunday dropped prices on a range of Pentium 4 processors, some by
more than a third. The fastest version of the chip, the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 560,
dropped by 35 percent from $637 to $417. The 3.4GHz Pentium 4 550 slipped by
33 percent from $417 to $278. The 3.2GHz Pentium 4 540 dipped 22 percent from
$278 to $218. The 3GHz Pentium 4 530 is down 18 percent, from $218 to $178.
- Intel Seen Readying New Wi-Fi Chips - In a press briefing scheduled
for Thursday,
Intel is expected to announce the availability of a "tri-mode" Wi-Fi chip
that supports the two most popular wireless data technology varieties --
802.11b and its speedier cousin, 802.11g -- and the less-used 802.11a. Intel's
current chips support only the "b" and "g" varieties. Intel would only say
that Thursday's announcement is "to introduce its latest wireless technology
for Intel Centrino notebooks."
- Kingston intros high-speed HyperX DDR2 memory - Kingston today
announced the release of Hyper DDR2 533-MHz (PC2-4300) and 675-MHz
(PC2-5400) memory modules. Shipping immediately in limited quantities,
Kingston offers HyperX DDR2 modules tested to run at PC2-4300 and PC2-5400.
- AMD64 3700+ Mobile Processor Released -
AMD Athlon 64 processor 3700+
for desktop-replacement notebooks is the most advanced PC processor designed
for notebook computing, offering outstanding 32-bit power today plus
compatibility with tomorrow's 64-bit software.
- Canon Develops New Digicams -
Canon USA introduced five digital cameras and two new accessories. The
cameras include the 7.1MP PowerShot S70, the 8.2MP EOS 20D SLR model, and the
PowerShot A400, A85, and A95. The new accessories include the Speedlite 580EX
flash and the Compact Battery Pack CP-E3. The EOS 20D, which will arrive in
September, offers resolution up to 3504 x 2336 pixels, five frames per second
burst shooting, a DIGIC II image processor, a nine-point auto-focus system, a
shutter speed that tops out at 1/8000 of a second, six preset white balance
settings with the option to create a custom one, and more.
- Nforce 4 details leak -
Acccording
to TheInquirer, the first, Nforce 4 will be an entry level chipset and it
won't feature high end features but should be a good performer.. The Nforce 4
Ultra will add some additional functionality such as a S-ATA II and will add 3
Gbit/s transfer. Hard drives that support this option should be ready around
them. Nforce 4 Ultra will have firewall options - something that Nvidia is
pushing hard. The third chipset, Nforce 4 SLI, will, as the name suggests have
SLI support and will finally offer a dual slot PCI Express motherboard where
you can potentially use two graphic cards. Two Nvidia cards, as SLI is Nvidia
only at this time, or should we say ex-3DFX. The last, the Nforce 4 Pro, will
have support for two Opteron CPUs and will be used for workstation and server
market and AMD is definitely picking up on this market segment.
- Socet 754 MB shootout -
All three boards have design flaws with Albatron again scoring the best by
a small margin. The K8X800 Pro II had the greatest amount of room for large
heatsinks out of the three and while a small clearance between the AGP slot
and the RAM is an inconvienience, it's definetely not enough to take much away
from a great board.
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express review - The NV45 chip that the
PCI Express GeForce 6800 GT is based upon is also said to bring some
enhancements over the NV40 chip, that the AGP GeForce 6800's used, however
given the game and shaders tests here it would appear that none of these
enhancements relate to the 3D core as
there is no performance difference between the NV40 GeForce 6800 GT and
the NV45 6800 GT.
- OCZ DDR Booster Diagnostic Device -
The OCZ DDR Booster is definitely one amazing product. It does what it was
made to do. It allows users to increase voltage to memory without the need to
do any voltage modifications. It is easy and simple to use. The best part of
the device is that it draws power from the 5v rail rather than the 3.3v rail.
- Samsung SyncMaster 213T 21.3" LCD Monitor review -
The
performance of the 213T is superb. There are zero dead pixels, the image
quality is excellent, and there is an extremely small amount of ghosting when
gaming. I had the pleasure of playing Doom 3 on this display and it was a
truly beautiful experience. The colors displayed were vibrant and alive; never
a point where the image seemed fuzzy or distorted. Due to the slow frame rate
caused by the demanding visuals of Doom 3, there was no noticeable ghosting
during game play.
- NVIDIA&ATI DOOM 3 Performance Test - By now it is clear that
the move to make the Radeon X800 Pro a 12 pipeline product could have been a
mistake given the competitions product. From a marketing stance, the
Radeon X800 Pro makes sense. It's cheaper than the Radeon X800XT and the
reasons for this are obvious. The GeForce 6800 GT on the other hand is a
typical NVIDIA product. It is cheaper than the GeForce 6800 Ultra, yet there
is really no difference in products here. Yes of course the GeForce 6800 Ultra
carries higher clock speeds, but as we have seen in the past, GeForce 6800 GT
cards are able to overclock to meet Ultra specifications. Therefore, NVIDIA's
flagship product is not as easily justified and they are not really protecting
their loyal high-end buyers.
- Aerocool VM-101 VGA Heatpipe Cooler review - 3DXtreme has posted
a review of silent cooling system for VGA cards, the VM-101.
- LCD Screen Burn - A Warning -
Ever hear of screen burn on a LCD monitor? Chances are that you haven't.
Most people believe that LCD screens can't get screen burn. Do a search of the
Internet and you'll see hundreds of articles comparing LCD to CRT (cathode ray
tubes) monitors and you'll find that one of the advantages of LCD monitors is
that they don't suffer from screen burn like CRT monitors do. Well, I also
believed that LCD's couldn't get screen burn until about 2 months ago when I
made a horrifying finding. There was a afterimage on my Dell 2001FP LCD
monitor in the exact shape of my Windows wallpaper. Did my LCD just get screen
burned? Noooo!!!!! It can't be!!!!
- CPU Cheatsheet - Seven Years of Covert CPU Operations -
For this first installment, AnandTech have attempted to gather details on
clock frequencies, bus speeds, cache sizes, transistor counts, and a few other
items, as well as the code names for the processors..
- NV40 Technology explained - The folks at 3DCenter have posted
the first installment of their look at the NV40 pipeline.
- Jarad's Guide to Overclocking - EB's Forum member uberl33tjarad
(aka Jarad) has created
a rather nifty beginners guide to overclocking. The guide is packed full
of useful hints and tips, so is well worth a read for anyone wanting to take a
plunge into the world of overclocking.
- A Windows XP Optimization Guide v1.7.1 -
Optimize Windows XP to improve both work and gaming performance safely.
Windows XP's default configuration is far from optimized. This guide will help
you improve your overall system performance.
- The Complete BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.0 Final - Adrian
Rojak has updated his premier
BIOS
optimization guide to 8.0 Final.
- ATI Catalyst 4.8 and 4.9 BETA Doom 3 Performance Analysis -
The only reason you would upgrade to the latest 4.8 drivers from ATI is if
you are playing a lot of Doom 3 at the moment - at 1024 X 768 there is
definitely a performance increase and while the 4 or 5 FPS might not seem like
much, when working out the percentage it can be as high as a 10% performance
increase in the new shooter.
- Matroska Pack Full, Lite and MPEG4 1.0.3 -
The famous full pack, not only for playing matroska media files, but it
will also allow playback of most modern video formats on any DirectShow
player, even with WMP 6.4/7/8/9 ( Windows Mediaplayer.
- IrfanView 3.92 -
IrfanView (download)
is a very fast freeware (for non-commercial use) 32-Bit graphic viewer for
Windoze 9x/ME, WinNT, Win2000 and Windows XP.
- KlipFolio 2.6 -
Serence KlipFolio (download)
is a free information delivery and notification application that lets you view
and manage Klip information services right on your desktop.
- Hmonitor 4.1.4.4 -
Hmonitor has much
more functions than MotherBoard Monitor, for example, including thermocontrol
features and COM/PerfMon API support.
- DU Meter 3.06 Build 186 -
DU Meter (download)
is an utility from Hagel Technologies which provides an accurate account of
the data which is flowing through your computer's network connection at any
given moment.
- XP-AntiSpy 3.83 - A new version of
XP-AntiSpy is available for download.
- Forceware 66.00 WinXP/2000 (leaked drivers) -
The
files are dated on the 12 August 2004 and will work with the entire range
of Nvidia graphics cards and hey .. check out these entries:
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0140.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT", NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0141.1 =
"NVIDIA GeForce 6600", NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0145.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL"
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