Nightly Tech Mania - tech
(hx) 03:08 AM CET - Nov,09 2002
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- E-mail virus alert carries own worm - Kaspersky Labs informs users
that on the night the November 7th there was a massive attack against the
company's Web server. The attack resulted in a group of hackers sending the
subscribers of the Kaspersky Labs e-mail newsletter a message containing the
recently
discovered "Bridex" worm.
- Qualcomm finally mixes network cocktail - Sanjay Jha, a Qualcomm
senior vice president, said
the trial will test the operation of the technology, known as GSM1x, and
not whether there is a market for it. The tests will involve a few hundred
customers and begins early next year. GSM1x was created as a way for GSM
carriers to add Qualcomm's 1x cell phone technology to their networks. Short
for CDMA20001xrtt, 1x is built on the CDMA standard and promises to double
voice calling capacity and create a wireless Web with download speeds of
40kbps to 60kbps.
- Forum sets course for blue-laser DVD standard - The DVD Forum
will use the 0.6-mm bonded disk proposed by NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. as the
basis of its next-generation DVD standard utilizing a blue laser. The
Forum will not consider the rival blue-laser technology backed by the Blu-ray
Consortium, which was not formally submitted to the DVD Forum for
consideration. The standards-setting body had formed two groups earlier
this year to study the two optical disk systems. The approach advocated by NEC
and Toshiba uses the same 0.6-mm disk substrate employed in current DVDs,
while the Blu-ray approach uses a disk with a 0.1-mm cover layer.
- Panama cracks down on Net telephony - The Oct. 25 decision requires
ISPs to begin
blocking 24 UDP ports, including the gateways most commonly used to shuffle
so-called VoIP telephone calls. VoIP is currently banned in the country,
whose phone services are provided under an exclusive contract through January
2003 with Cable & Wireless Panama, a joint venture between the government and
the U.K.-based phone giant Cable & Wireless.
- Wireless USB underways - Sampling of the first product in Cypress
Semiconductor's WirelessUSB family of products is now underways, with the
Cypress
CY694X being the first solution that enables manufacturers of human-interface
devices (HID) including PC mice, keyboards and gaming consoles to eliminate
cords whilst maintaining compatibility with existing USB accessories.
Operating at 2.4 GHz, the same frequency Bluetooth and 802.11b wireless
networks use, the CY694X can connect as many as seven devices up to 10 meters
(30 feet) apart, making WirelessUSB a low-cost wireless RF solution - and
possibly an alternative to Bluetooth. With an average latency of less than 8
milliseconds with four concurrent devices connected and less than 20
milliseconds with the maximum number of devices connected, WirelessUSB is also
capable of serving the high-demand gaming market where a latency of 30
milliseconds is generally the maximum allowed.
- Amiga Hardware Finally Shipping - EyeTech Group Ltd., which
announced the commercial availability of the AmigaOne in March, announced the
rerelease and update of the AmigaOne after the company's developers
discovered problems in the company's custom chipset. EyeTech is currently
offering three boards: the AmigaOne G3-SE, and two versions of the AmigaOne
XE, which contain either a 700-MHz 750FX, or an 800-MHz PowerPC 7451, or G4
chip. The hardware doesn't ship as a finished box; instead, customers must
build chasses and add peripherals to the boards.
- CDL Paron "secure PDA" - IBM and Consumer Direct Link, Inc. have
co-developed the
Paron MPC, a unique handheld PC which combines the functions of a PDA,
Bluetooth wireless access, cellular telephone, and biometric fingerprint
recognition, along with a security-oriented hardware/software architecture. In
particular, IBM and CDL claim that the Paron represents the world's first
handheld wireless device with built-in biometric user authentication.
- TDK announces 4x +RW and 4x +RW DVD recorders - TDK today
introduced its first-ever Indi DVD writers - a versatile multi-DVD format
burner, and a single format 4x +R unit. The industry's first DVD burner
capable of 4x writing for the +R format and 2.4x for -R, the new MultiFormat
Indi DVD (Model AID+040212N) internal DVD writer is designed to give PC users
the broadest range of flexibility in creative video/audio applications,
including the ability to create, edit and share customized DVDs and CDs using
video, still digital images, music and data, regardless of format.
- Dolby Virtual Speaker -
Dolby Virtual Speaker technology is a proprietary process that can be
included in a wide variety of products (such as DVD players, TV sets, PCs,
personal speaker systems, and home theater systems) to provide a true-to-life
5.1 surround-sound experience with just two speakers. Working in conjunction
with Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, it enhances the playback
of any program material, from 5.1-channel DVDs and satellite programming to
stereo music CDs and MP3 files.
- AOpen introduces SilentTek - With years of research, involving
Electronic, Air Dynamic Thermal, Mechanical Engineering and BIOS, AOpen
proudly
introduces "SilentTek", the Silent PC Technology, on our new generation of
AOpen motherboards. There are a total of 4 fan noise reduction algorithms, and
one CDROM noise control function: Smart Fan, Fixed Fan, Multiple Level, and
AOpen Recommended Setting. Among all, the Smart Fan algorithm is the
innovative algorithm developed by AOpen. If you are not running too many
applications with heavy loading, you may find your CPU fan is almost always
running at zero RPM.
- NV30 To Ship In '03 - While listening to NVIDIA's earnings
conference call, CEO and President Jen-Hsun Huang stated that "we expect to
begin production shipments (of NV30) in our January quarter." (thanks
NVNews) +
check this link -
"Are you ready?" (a NVIDIA Windows desktop theme is now available
for download)
- Pitou = Matrox Parhelia 2 -
Pitou is the codename for Parhelia 2. Not the revised Parhelia (Parhelia
8X). Parhelia 8X can be launched at the God's Of Matrox's discretion any time
but I would not be wagering on it because they are sitting on a large
inventory of Parhelia already. Parhelia 2 does not have a completion date set
in stone, but it is taped out and it does not look like the G450 in the line
of Parhelia generation of chips. It is looking like it exceeds what the G400
did for the G series of chips.
- XBox 2 Specification - According to
C&VG' sources, Xbox 2 games about to go into development are looking at
the following specs as a guide: 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 central processor, 512MB of
RAM, NV30 graphics chip.
- Silent Radeon 9700 Pro - Sapphire announced the new Ultimate
Edition version of their Radeon 9700 PRO card Atlantis Pro. It comes with a
special
passive cooling that is combined with a heat-pump. The biggest advantage
of that solution: No noise at all. The card will be available at end November.
The price is still unknown yet.
Sony Vaio PCV-W10 Review -
The VAIO W Series (1.6Ghz Intel Celeron processor, 512Mbyte DDR 2100 RAM,
SiS650 integrated graphics chipset, 60Gbyte ATA100 HDD, CD-RW/DVD drives and
15.3'' WXGA wide aspect ration LCD) is arguably the nicest all-in-one system
we've ever seen-even when compared with Apple iMacs. It has a 15.3-inch LCD
with the wide aspect ratio (16:9) of 35-mm film and a PC riding piggyback. The
monitor can tilt, and the attached rear-hinge keyboard can flip up to cover
most of the display (the top two inches remain uncovered). The speakers that
flank the LCD stick out farther than the computer module and emphasize the
extreme width of the display.
How to find the best quality media ? - Some users report that very
cheap media will not read back anymore after a couple of months, so if you
have important data on them, this is certainly
something
to look at.
UT2003 Direct3D Driver -
The Unreal Technology
website has posted an updated
D3DDrv.dll which "contains workarounds for S3 Savage 4 cards, fixes a bug
in conjunction with z- pixel fog and works around a driver bug with vertex
range fog on ATI cards which should fix the "brownout bug" in e.g. CTF-Face3."
Gimp 1.2.4 "Pre Release" For Windows -
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed
piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. This site contains information about
downloading, installing, using, and enhancing GIMP. This site also serves as a
distribution point for the latest releases, patches, plugins, and scripts. We
also try to provide as much information about the GIMP community and related
projects as possible. You can find the installer for the latest build of
The Gimp for
Windows here
BurnQuick v2.10b - Once installed,
BurnQuick becomes part
of Windows and it can be used to burn a file or a complete directory to CD-R
or CD-RW directly from the Windows Explorer. BurnQuick's simplified interface
sets the new standard for ease of use in CD burning software. As one customer
put it, "BurnQuick reduces the task of writing CD-ROM's from 'moon launch'
hard to ZipDisk easy."
GameJack v2.00.164 - A new version of
GameJack can now be
downloaded and has the following features: Incl. RAW COPY Mode, Copies and /
or emulates all major copy protection methods, plus it does cope with the more
tricky ones, such as VOB Protect CD, Starforce, the latest SafeDisc and
Securom!, Hide ATIP Function, Fast skipping of defect sectors, EFM
optimisation, Image splitting, Two virtual drives included, DPM Modec, Image
Archiving on DVD (up to 6 Games), Copies all not CSS-protected single-layer
DVD's, even PS2 and Video-DVD's.
Radeonator LE v1.2 -
Radeonator LE 1.2 (download)
is a small application that is made as a sort spin off from Radeonator. The
only thing this piece of software does is overclocking, besides that it also
features startup overclocking (but that is limited to Windows XP and 2000).
Radeonator v2.0 Final (leaked) -
Radeonator (download)
is a tweaker designed for the ATi Radeon videocards. Like most videocard
manufacturers ATi hides alot of settings for the average user. This is mainly
because most of these settings are used by the driver developers. Some of
these settings can also be very usefull for us.... the customer, some settings
can boost performance, unlock hidden abilities or just increase compatibility
with certain games.
DVD2SVCD v1.1.0 Build 1 -
Freeware DVD2SVCD is
a completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA and AVI files to SVCD.
Fresh UI 4.60 -
Fresh UI - your FREE
Windows tweaking tool - just got better with the release of version 4.6.
This new version features MS Hearts cheat, Windows Media Player and Outlook
Express hidden settings...enjoy :)
RegScrubXP 3.21 - Safely cleans junk out of the Windows 2000/XP
system registry. All changes made to the registry are fully restorable to it's
original condition. You can make an exclusion list of registry entries that
RegScrubXP will not display as problems.
Sound Blaster Audigy Driver Pack (08/11/2002) -
This Driver Pack Update pack (readme)
is available for Sound Blaster Audigy owners operating on Windows 2000 or
Windows XP operating systems only. The driver contains optimized support
for these two operating systems and is designed for use with all current
models of Sound Blaster Audigy audio cards. (all existing SB Audigy Audio card
to SB023x) This update includes supports to the Korean, Japanese,
German, French and English languages in addition to the first release of the
Audigy Driver Pack. Note: This update requires the installation CD to be
installed before running the update.
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