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(hx) 04:03 AM CEST - May,22 2002
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- China denies manned Moon mission plans - China will not be launching a manned mission to the Moon in the foreseeable
future, according to Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Moon exploration programme.
In an exclusive interview with BBC News Online he said he wanted to clarify news reports
in the Chinese media that Beijing would be putting a man on the Moon by 2010 with the
establishment of a Moonbase soon afterwards. "We will explore the Moon
certainly," he said from his office in Beijing, "but with unmanned
spacecraft." "One of our goals is to bring lunar samples back to China for
analysis. We are interested in the minerals on the Moon. We will prepare an unmanned
spacecraft to do this."
- 'SQLsnake' Worm Blamed For Spike In Port 1433 Scans -
Since Monday, a sharp spike in remote probes of TCP port
1433, which commonly is used by Microsoft's SQL database, has been reported by many
server administrators, according to SecurityFocus, which operates an incident-reporting
system called ARIS. Officials at the SANS Institute, a computer security education
and analysis organization, also reported today that they have received "exploit
code" that indicates the increase in port 1433 scans may be due to a self-propagating
worm rather than to manual probes by would-be attackers
- Launch of Intel 845G drags down prices of DRAM for graphics cards
- The recent launch of Intel's 845G integrated chipset has triggered a lowering in price of discrete 845D chipsets and 64Mbit DRAM
(configured as 4Mbitx16 and 2Mbitx32), Taiwanese DRAM distributors reported.
- AMD K8-based chipsets ready, related boards expected at Computex
- Although new processors from AMD based on the 8th generation (K8) core will not hit the
market until the fourth quarter, Taiwanese chipset designers VIA Technologies and Silicon
Integrated Systems (SiS) already have several products ready. Related motherboards will be showcased at
the Computex Taipei exhibition in early June.
- 56k modem + WLAN - With wireless networking capability becoming
a standard on notebook computers, international PC vendors are increasingly turning to
Taiwanese 56K modem makers to source WLAN modules.
Most notebooks now come equipped with internal Mini PCI cards, costing around US$55, or combo modules integrating 56K modem and WLAN functions, priced
around US$65.
- HW Round-up - Suma Platinum GF4 Ti
4400 / Gainward GF4 Ti 4600 / OCSystem
Enhanced Radeon 8500 64mb
- PC2700 DDR333 Roundup - Tweakers Australia has put 5
sticks of high quality DDR333 and DDR266 to the test in their latest article.
- Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Tweak Guide - For those
who have read this guide before, take note we have
updated it to catch up with latest released patch as well as added Multiplayer tweaks
and more information on console commands and Audio options.
- Monitor Tester 1.0.5.2 - This free program
can guide you in setting and adjusting the parameters and controls of your monitor. You
can test and adjust the picture size and position, color convergence and purity, white
balance, brightness and contrast, focus, interference, and high-voltage regulation.
- Dup-DVD 2.1.1 - DUP-DVD is a powerful tool to convert a DVD
movie to SVCD/VCD - easily, quickly, effortlessly. Don't bother to find other
tool,with DUP-DVD,you can make a DVD backup to SVCD with just a click! DUP-DVD is great
for backuping,converting DVD to VCD/SVC.
- WinDVD Tweaker 3.3 Beta 3 - WinDVD Tweaker is designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback
software to enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure.
- RAM Idle Pro 2.0 RC-1 - 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.
- NetCaptor 7.0.1 Final - The small IE based browser NetCaptor has
been updated to version 7.0.1 Final.
- 3DsoundSurge beta drivers PSC703/PCS705/PSC706 WinALL - The
latest Philips unsupported beta WDM drivers (v.187) available from the 3DsoundSurge beta
drivers download site.
- NOMAD Jukebox Firmware Version 2.96 - This is the latest release
of Creative NOMAD Jukebox Firmware (ver 2.96) meant for Windows 98/98SE, Windows
2000, Windows ME and Windows XP.
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