Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:19 AM CEST - May,07 2002
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- Midwest Express Airlines hacked - The Deceptive Duo" hacked into the Midwest
Express server that is used to test new features for the airline's Web site and then
posted evidence of their break-in on their own Web site and the Web site of the U. S.
Space & Naval War Systems Command.
- 'Spidey' Already Being Swapped By Online Pirates - While
Columbia Picture's new "Spider-Man" movie was breaking box-office records over
the weekend, Internet movie pirates were busily downloading free copies of the film on
file-trading networks. By Saturday, pirated versions of the comic book inspired movie were
showing up in "screener" format on the EDonkey, Kazaa, and Morpheus Internet
file-swapping systems.
- Journey to the Farthest Planet - Scientists are finally
preparing to send
a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary
system.
- Domain owners could face the slammer - People who provide false data
when registering a domain name on the Web could be thrown into jail for up to five
years, if a recently introduced bill becomes law.
- Dell's incredible shrinking notebook - The Latitude
mini-notebook, Dell's
X200, features a 12.1-inch screen, but weighs only 2.8 pounds and is just under an
inch thick. The X200 will sell for $1,899. Dell includes the 12.1-inch screen and 800MHz
ultra-low voltage Pentium III-M processor from Intel, 128MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive.
- Intel 2.53GHz CPU! - Intel today unveiled
the 2.53GHz P4 chip running at an insane 533mhz bus speed on the new i850E chipset.
Read coverage at Tom's Hardware / Tech-Report / AnandTech / HardOCP
/ HotHardware
/SimHQ
/ Extreme Tech / Tweak3D / Hardware
Analysis / Tweak Town / OC WB.
- AMD "Thoroughbred" AthlonXP Preview- The long awaited
Athlon CPU based on the Thoroughbred core, or Tbred to its mates, has finally
arrived (preview). Well, at least some 1900+ Engineering samples have, and yours truly
had the opportunity to play with them.
- Asynchronous Bus - Currently the most popular chipset for a
single CPU Athlon system is the KT333. It supports things like ATA 133 and DDR333 that
have quickly become standards. Most KT333 board manufacturers have opted to use an
asynchronous bus to support DDR333 instead of adding in a 1/5 divider and supporting a
true 166Mhz bus. I'm not a big fan of this at all. The gains of running an asynchronous
bus aren't as big as you'd expect.
- Official MS Guide To Multibooting With Windows 2k/XP - A
computer can be configured to let you choose between two or more operating systems each time you restart the computer. For
example, you could set up a server to run Windowsr 2000 Server most of the time but allow
it to sometimes run Windows NT Server 4.0 in order to support an older application. With
multibooting, you can choose which operating system to run or specify a default OS if no
selection is made during the restart process.
- Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Linux 7.3 - Red Hat today released Red
Hat Linux version 7.3., a highly configurable operating system (OS) designed for
deployments ranging from games and personal productivity to file, print and web serving.
Red Hat Linux 7.3 adds new productivity tools, personal firewall configuration at
installation, and video conferencing software to deliver everything individual users,
educational institutions and small businesses need for flexible Internet-based computing.
- XBConnect 1.1 - XBConnect is "Next Generation" Software for Win32 that
allows you to play Microsoft XboxT system link games over the internet. No more Single
Player Campaign/Career modes. With XBConnect finding players to play against is a breeze
and an essential part of the XBox experience. Supported games to date are Halo, Tony Hawk
Pro Skater 2x, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 and Nascar Heat 2002. And all with no ads.....no
hidden fees. FREEWARE.
- NetCaptor v7.0 Final - The small IE based browser NetCaptor has
been updated to version 7.0 Final.
- Swat It 1.0 - SwatIT is a free
Trojan scanner to detect and remove Tojans, Worms & IRC DDOS & GT Bots (scripts).
All software and signature updates for this program are ulutely free. The most effective
solution to Trojan and Bot removal and for free.
- BootXP updated to v2.1 - This update fixes some bugs
found in the new release and add some new features requested by the users.
- Exclusive Windows based overclocking utility - EasyTuneT 4
a stylish exclusive Windows based overclocking utility, which totally changes the
traditional way for "Overclocking". It provides 2 modes, "Easy Mode"
for the novice users and "Advance Mode" to fulfill the power-users. Want to
reach the highest performance for your computer? EasyTuneT 4 will be your best partner.
Download beta.
- Beta nForce Drivers WinXP/2k - download
here.
- ATI Omega/Plutonium X1.0.71 Co-Developed Driver - Omegadrive
(Angel) and Cyborg (Jeff) have released their first co developed driver set for the community.
- Gainward GeForce4 Power Pack BIOSes - Gainward have
released new BIOS files for their GeForce4 Power Pack series of cards (see links bellow)
and ExperTool
v2.85. Download: PowerPack!
Ultra/750 XP 128MB Golden Sample BIOS V4.25.00.26 Ti4600 / PowerPack!
Ultra/700 XP 128MB Golden Sample BIOS V4.25.00.26 Ti4400 / PowerPack!
Ultra/650 TV 64MB Golden Sample BIOS V4.25.00.30 Ti4200 / Nvidia
Drivers V28.32 3D glasses for Win9x/ME/2000/XP english version only.
- ATI Mega CD - Uriel has whipped
together a CD (300MB) containing: The latest drivers for all OS's, Latest MMC + DVD,
Latest Hydravision, Latest WDM, All ATI-specific demos, Most of the tweakers, Fixes
and other stuff, ATI screensavers+more.
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