Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:39 AM CET - Jan,16 2002
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- Xbox may spawn entertainment hub - Some analysts
say the new "HomeStation" console will handle e-mail, video recording and
gaming. Yet others say the alleged plans aren't even close to becoming reality.
- Windows Media Player 'Super Cookies' Could Help Track Users -
According to Richard M. Smith, the unique identification number assigned by default to
every Windows Media Player user can be captured from the user's system registry using a simple script
in a Web page.
- Solaris hole opening way for hackers - The CERT
Coordination Center of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute in
Pittsburgh, Pa., said in a bulletin today that it had received "credible
reports" of Sun
Solaris systems being compromised by hackers with the help of a vulnerability in
unpatched versions of a CDE component known as the Subprocess Control Service.
- Server flaw leaves XP users at risk - A fault on a Microsoft
domain name server has prevented users from downloading a software patch for Windows XP leaving them open to
serious attacks. Microsoft engineers created the problem as they attempted to update
software on a server. Since then, the glitch has prevented users from downloading software
updates.
- F-Secure fixes scanner glitch - F-Secure has discovered a bug
that can cause system crashes on Windows machines loaded with its antivirus software. In
real life, the flaw is very rare - only three customer sightings in a year. Today the
company has issued a fix.
- AOL warns of ICQ attack risk - The buffer overflow vulnerability
affects versions of America Online's popular ICQ instant messaging software prior to
version 2001b, which was released October. Only versions for Microsoft's Windows operating
system are vulnerable.
- USB 2 arrives in Linux test version - Linus Torvalds, founder
and leader of the operating-system project, releases the newest
version of the core software.
- Thrustmaster Ferrari Force Feedback Racing Wheel Review - With
the recent rise in popularity of driving games, there has been great demand for a higher
level of realism. Titles that come to mind are the Need For Speed series, the Nascar
series and the Formula One series. While these games can be fun to play with a gamepad or
keyboard, let's face it, playing a racing game using the arrow keys on your keyboard is no
where near as fun as using a full sized racing wheel with pedals and a gear stick. Come
join TweakTown as they take a look at the latest edition to the Thrustmaster range, the
Ferrari Force Feedback racing wheel.
- Intel Pentium 4 DDR Chipset Roundup - Last week, Intel has
unleashed their new Pentium 4 processors based on the 0.13 micron Northwood cores with
512KB of L2 cache and towards end of this month, Intel is going to conduct a price cut on
their existing 0.18 micron Pentium 4 processors. We can expect the demand for Pentium 4
processors (Northwood and Willamette) to go up that in turn more people will
start searching for a board to go with it.
- Pentium 4 overclocked to 3.5GHz! - Some Japanese guys have overclocked a Pentium
IV 2.2GHz to a whopping 3.5GHz, using some nitrogen cooling.
- Ultra ATA/133 and 66 MHz PCI Comparison - While the eternal argument between SCSI and IDE users will never cease to be,
it's becoming quite clear by looking at today's market that IDE hard drives are gaining a
larger market share than ever before. While SCSI drives still continue to dominate the
server / workstation markets, IDE hard drives are continually drawing die-hard SCSI users
over to the IDE side. IDE hard drives are starting to achieve SCSI-like levels of
reliability and performance, and with the proliferation of onboard IDE RAID devices,
setting up a high-speed RAID-0 IDE RAID array has become a popular alternative to single
high-speed SCSI drives.
- ISA Server SP1 - ISA Server SP1 includes fixes to provide an even higher level of
reliability and stability. Microsoft strongly encourages ISA Server customers to install
SP1 on all computers running ISA Server.
- Visual FoxPro 7.0 SP - Microsoft have released Visual FoxPro 7.0 Service Pack.
- SSL Key Password Retrieval Tool - Administrators can now
retrieve that password that IIS 4.0 requires you to use to create a certificate signing
request, and then later to install the certificate. Not only is this password pointless,
but it is stored in plain text in the IIS 4.0 metabase. The program will display the
key common name and password tab delimited to STDOUT.
- Drive Rescue v1.8beta - Freeware Drive
Rescue can Find any lost and deleted data on your drive (e.g. hard disk) even if the
partition table is lost or the hard disk has been quick-formatted. Lost Data, that is the
result of a system crash can also be recovered.
- The Pocket PC 2002 SDK - The Pocket PC 2002 SDK (66MB), in conjunction with the Microsoft
eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0, deliver a complete development environment for creating
applications for Pocket PC 2002 mobile devices based on Microsoftr Windowsr CE.
- 7-Zip 2.30 Beta 11 - This new
version features archive testing feature for GUI version, now 7-Zip can use more than
256 MB of RAM in all Windows versions, new localizations: Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional,
Latvian, Slovak and some bugs were fixed.
- EasyDivx v0.782 - Easydivx is
a all in one rippack or graphical user interface program for vStrip, MPEG2AVI, AC3DEC
Normalize, VirtualDub and MicroDVD menu.
- GetRight v4.5c - GetRight is a program
to help you download files from the Internet. Most people have already experienced the
problem, when you're downloading a file suddenly the download interrupted because of some
problem. GetRight solves this problem by allowing you to resume a download. If you got
part of the file before the problem, GetRight will restart the download in the middle so
it only gets the rest of the file, without having to restart from the beginning. This new
version implements mostly bug fixes and other nice smaller improvements.
- Resource Hacker v3.3.4 - Resource Hacker
is a freeware utility (Win ALL) to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources
in 32bit Windows executables. It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and
decompiler.
- ICQ 2001b Beta v5.18 Build #3659.2 - This
latest version features as usually some bugfixes over the last version.
- Windows Messenger v4.6.0073 - Download: Messenger v4.6.0073 WinXP US/English, Messenger v4.6.0073 Win98/ME/NT/2K US/English.
- Radeon Refresh Rate Fix 0.90 - Leech this bastard here. (you can discuss
this tool in the forums)
- Realtek RTL-8139 WHQL v397 Drivers - Realtek has released new
WHQL drivers for the Realtek RTL-8139.
- Asus Detonators v23.12 - Asus has released nVidia detonator
drivers 23.12 for their nVidia based video cards:WinXP /
WinME/9x.
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