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(hx) 04:05 AM CET - Mar,22 2002
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- PlayStation 3: The next generation - Sony moves ahead with
development of the
next version of its video game console. Right now, distributed computing is the name
of the game.
- Microsoft Outlook's so-so security - An Internet privacy
researcher releases a list
of four yet-to-be-fixed security problems with the software giant's mail program.
- MS E-Mail Trojan Harvests New Victims - Flaws in the W32/Gibe
mass-mailing worm have prevented it from becoming anything like the Internet epidemics of
Melissa and LoveBug. But the recent malicious code has introduced a new technique that
could help future worms spread fast and wide, experts said Tuesday.
- Excite in web mail hijack drama - According to the experts,
when a user logs in to their account through Excite's web interface, the session is
authenticated by a unique URL. By sending an HTML email which includes an image based on
another server to the victim, an attacker can easily get the unique URL from the referrer
field in the HTTP header. Simply pasting this into a web browser would drop the attacker
straight into the victim's mailbox with complete control of the account.
- GDC Coverage - Here's what's come out of the Game
Developers Conference: SoundMAX audio toolkit
released, Dolby
Introduces Pro Logic II For PS2, G.A.N.G.
Launches at GDC, RenderWare
Studio Announced, Epic
Reveals Unreal Performance Test 2002, Big
Ape choose Alchemy Engine, Sega
Chooses Alchemy Engine, Sony
Online Selects Fidelia's NetVigil.
- Yahoo charges for email services! - Yahoo! is to start charging
for its email forwarding and POP3 services. Users of the service have until April 24
to decided whether to cough up for the service. Yahoo! said it will offer existing users
the service for a special promo price of $19.99. The normal fee is $29.99 a year.
- Soviet Moon rocket secrets revealed - Previously unseen pictures of the giant rocket the Soviets hoped would
help them put a man on the Moon before the United States have been revealed on a Russian
website.
- Epic Games Releases The Unreal Performance Test 2002 - We
recieved a press release that Epic
Games today unveiled the Unreal Performance Test 2002, the first and only game
benchmark indicative of the future of gaming. The performance test was recently put to
task on leading hardware Web site Anandtech.com.
The site compared 15 of today's leading cards at five different resolution settings.
- Where, oh where is MS DirectX 9.0? - We can freely say that
DirectX 9 will make some big differences in future games programming since it will include
some interesting parts that programmers will love to use. Rather unbelievably, Eva Glass' friend tells us that
Microsoft will skip DirectX 9.0, expected by us all, and plump for DirectX 9.1
instead.
- DDR333 Roundup - The contenders are
Micron, Kingston, KingMax, Nanya, TwinMOS and Winbond. We have put these memories
through a series of high FSB overclocking tests. IWill XP333 was used to test the max FSB
these RAMs can go while EPoX 8K3A+ was used to test out the max FSB these RAMs can achieve
under most aggressive memory timings. Some of the DDR333 memories are able to attain over
210Mhz and some are able to run over 190Mhz at CAS2!
- HighSpeedPC Athlon XP Unlocking Kit Review - As most of you may
know, AMD has released a new line of processors which cannot be unlocked by the old way
which was called the, pencil trick. The new Athlon XP CPU's have a sunken bridge which
will need to be filled in. The dots will also need to be connected in parallel for the CPU
to be unlocked. I'm not sure why AMD chose to go this way but, enthusiats
will always find ways of getting around it.
- 5 Fan HDD Cooler Review - As you may
already know, IBM Deskstar GXP HDDs, well, suck. IBM has recently informed people that
their HDDs are not conditioned to run for more than eight hours straight. Unfortunately, I
found this out to be true. I think it's pretty sad and unfortunate to have a 7200RPM HDD
to "overheat," and I must tell you, these do run hot. The cooler kept my HDD
considerably well cooled.
- Gainward GF4 Ti4400 Review - Along with the Ti4600, nVidia also
announced the Ti4400, a clocked down version of the Ti4600 with a lower price-tag.
The Ti4400 seemed like a perfect choice for people with not-so-deep pockets, especially
considering the overclocking nature of graphics card. And we all know how good
overclocking is when it comes to Gainward. Thus, we were quite interested to check out the
performance of the Gainward Ti4400 and even more interested to see if it could reach
Ti4600 speeds without sacrificing stability. Say hello to Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack!
Ultra/700XP Golden Sample.
- Nero InCD Update 3.24.3 - Ahead has released a new InCD Update of their packet
CD reading/writing software.
This is version 3.24.3 and dated 20 March 2002. This version offers enhanced support for
Windows2000 SP1 and Windows XP.
- WinAmp 2.79 - Nullsoft have released a new
version of the famous audio player WinAmp.
- Sonique v2.0 alpha 2 - Sonique 2
is a Media Player application that is currently in production by Team Sonique. Sonique 2
expands on many design ideas from Sonique 1.x but is built on entirely new technology.
- Netscape 6.2.2 - Netscape 6.2.2 has been released.
- RAM Idle Pro v1.2 - RAM
Idle Pro is a smart memory management program that will keep your computer running
better, faster, and longer. RAM Idle works by freeing up physical RAM wasted by Windows
and other applications.
- VIA 4-in-1 4.28 - VIA released the 4.38 version (1.07MB) of
their 4-in-1 drivers for VIA-based motherboards. This new version added ATA133 feature
under WinXP, updated AGP driver (4.10b), Fixed Memory dump issue under WinNT
(dual-p) and fixed AGP driver uninstall issue.
- IDE Bus Master Version 1.43s Driver - AMD has released new IDE Bus Master drivers.
- NVIDIA Detonators XP 28.32 - Nvidia has released a new official
Detonators XP drivers: Win 9x/Me, Win XP/2k, and WinNT. What is new? Well, Full Acceleration and support for the
GeForce4 and Quadro4 families nView, Multi-Display Support (User's Guide available at
left), NVIDIA's patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) - supports all products in
single a driver binary Highly optimized DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 with NVIDIA extensions
pipelines...
- Asus Detonators 27.20 - Download these Asus babies for W9x/Me,
W2k/XP
and NT4.0.
- Asus Final BIOSes - Download: A7V133
1008.A Final, A7V133-C
1008.A Final, A7V
1010.A Final, A7pro
1010.A Final.
- NVIDIA Detonator 28.32 Tested - NVIDIA has updated their 28.32
drivers with Control Panel key so it is back to normal now. I have done some quick testing on the official
Detonator 28.32 drivers and tried it with a GeForce3 Ti200 and a GeForce4 MX440. (another
test is here)
- Yamaha CRW3200 Firmware - Yamaha has released new
Firmware for the Yamaha CRW3200 CD-RW series.
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