Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:11 AM CEST - May,18 2002
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- StarWars II: Attack Of The Clones Trailers - Watch: Yoda clip / Amidala clip / Mace/Obi Wan clip.
- DVD-cracking code ban upheld - Hacker magazine 2600 has lost its
bid for an
appeal of a ruling banning it from posting code that can be used to crack DVD copy
protections.
- DrinkOrDie Leader Gets Four Years - The ringleader of a software
piracy group known as DrinkOrDie today was sentenced to nearly four years in
prison for his role in a "warez" operation that caused millions of dollars
in damages, federal prosecutors said. In U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.,
John Sankus, Jr., 28, of Philadelphia, was handed a 46-month sentence on a single felony
count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
- Ford warns of identity fraud - Ford Motor's credit arm
notifies 13,000 people that their credit reports, full of information that could be used
for identity theft or fraud, were illegally
downloaded.
- Motorola to Offer Classic Games Like Pong on Phones - Chicago
area-based Motorola said it has signed a global distribution deal with Manchester, England-based iFone
to add such classic Atari games as Pong, Centipede and Asteroids to its cell phones.
- MS IE patch misses the mark - Microsoft's latest cumulative
patch for Internet Explorer fails to tackle at least one of the problems it is meant to
fix, and leaves a
dozen reported security bugs unpatched. Heh as usually, I don't think it's a surprise
:)
- Artifact Entertainment First to Offer Wireless - Artifact Entertainment
and Froghop intend to work together to make Horizons the first Massively
Multiplayer Online Game to combine online and wireless capabilities, bringing
community interaction to new heights.
- Spammers could face fines - A bill aimed at limiting unwanted
junk e-mail was approved and sent to the floor by the Senate Commerce Committee on Friday
with unanimous support from Democrats and Republicans. It would strengthen the Federal
Trade Commission's enforcement authority by allowing it to impose fines of up to $10 each on e-mails that
violate existing laws against spam, with a cap of $500,000.
- AMD To Launch Desktop Thoroughbred in June -
Advanced Micro Devices will launch the desktop version of its Thoroughbred
Athlon XP microprocessor on June 10, according to an email from the company forwarded
by an anonymous source.
- New Intel chipsets, Celerons cut PC prices - PC makers will
launch a slew of new
desktop PCs next week that will pair Intel's newest 1.7GHz Celeron chip, announced
Wednesday, with two new versions of its 845 chipset, dubbed the 845G and the 845GL, that
include built-in graphics and Universal Serial Bus 2.0, a high-speed connection for
digital cameras and other devices. The combination of the chip and chipset will allow
manufacturers to deliver new, low-priced PCs that offer greater performance than current
Celeron PCs, but will start at $650, about the same as current Celeron desktops or the
cheapest Pentium 4s. They also offer greater functionality: USB 2.0 supports faster data
transfer, speeding up file transfer for tasks such as downloading pictures from a digital
camera.
- VIA announces P4PB, world's first motherboard featuring VIA Apollo P4X333
chipset - VIA Technologies announced its new Pentium 4-supporting P4PB motherboard. The board
comes equipped with the company's Apollo P4X333 chipset and supports a 533/400MHz FSB
(front-side bus) as well as 2700MB/s DDR333 SDRAM with ECC.
Other features include RAID ATA/133 0,1, USB 2.0 and onboard six-channel surround sound
audio. The ATX form factor board also supports three DDR333/266 DIMMs and provides
expansion though five PCI, one AGP and one CNR slot. Smart Card and Memory Stick support
is also available.
- DDR Memory Performance Roundup - There are so many
different DDR modules available these days, it's hard to know which one will offer the
best performance. Tweakers Australia have tested
five sticks of high quality DDR333 and DDR266.
- Samsung SC-152L 52X CD-ROM - At first glance, the Samsung
SC-152L has all the standard features included with most CD-ROM drives: headphone
jack, volume control dial, emergency eject pin hole, and a LED eject button, which was one
of the few extras.
- Windows XP Pre-SP1 Hotfixes - This document is a cumulative list of the articles that have been written to discuss
hotfixes that have been released since the release of Windows XP. Click the Q# of the
Knowledge Base article below to view the article.
- Poor Video Performance After a Fast User Switching Operation -
After you perform a fast user switching operation to switch to another user's account, and
then switch back to the original user's account, you may experience severe degradation in
video performance. Fast user switching is basically a video mode change. This
is a known issue in the Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) in scenarios involving
compatible bitmaps and video mode changes.
- Express Assist 6.0 -- The Outlook Express Backup Problem Solver
- Express
Assist is an automated backup of every aspect of Outlook Express.
- Sound Forge v6.0 - Sonicfoundry have released a new version of
their excellent audio editor. Here is the list of features: Nondestructive Audio Editing,
Enhanced Time Zoom (24:1 ratio), Enhanced Preset Manager, DirectX Plug-In Manager,
Multitask Background Rendering, Modeless Audio Plug-In Chainer, Windows Media Video
Import,
QuickTimeT and MPEG-1 & 2 File Support, You can download the trial version from here
(registration required).
- DivX Video 5.0.2 - A new version of the DivX codec and The Playa are
available - this release includes codec 5.02 and The Playa version 2.0 alpha 4.
- WinDVD Tweaker 3.3 Beta 2 - WinDVD Tweaker is
designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software to enable some hidden settings and
allow for maximum playback pleasure.
- RadEdit v1.1 - This is the first universal BIOS editor for
Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for any
videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips
- Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 4.30.1002 - The
Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows INF
files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured.
- VIA 4-in-1 Driver 4.39 Beta 2 - This new beta
version (4.39 beta 2) installed as expected, without any problems at all. Just a small
note for cyberia: 4.39 isn't mentioned on Via's homepage because it's still a beta version
of comming 4.39.
- VIA USB 2.0 v2.24 - VIA has released a new Microsoft USB 2.0 Host
controller Driver (Version 5.1.2600.41 )
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