Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:37 AM CEST - May,28 2002
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- Is Microsoft losing the console game - Xbox may be able to do
more than PS2, but Sony's huge lead in the game console market enables it to offer more
exclusive titles--leaving
Microsoft in the cold.
- Face recognition kit fails in Fla airport - Palm Beach
International Airport security workers would be racking up heaps of overtime pay dealing with more than fifty
false positives daily if their bosses were to install Visionics' terror-busting face
recognition gear, the airport administrators have concluded.
- Terabit-Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive Areal Densities - Terabit-per-square-inch
hard drive areal densities, the goal for present magnetic recording research, will
probably not be achieved with giant magnetoresistance (GMR) or with tunneling
magnetoresistance (TMR) technology.
- Klez variant crowned virus king - a variant of the Klez virus has taken the crown
as the biggest virus of all time, usurping last year's SirCam outbreak and even the
infamous Melissa and I Love You viruses. Statistics from antivirus firm MessageLabs
found that the Klez.H variant overtook SirCam on Sunday, clocking up 775,000 copies.
Around 20,000 instances of Klez.H are now being logged on average everyday, working out at
one infection every 300 emails.
- Opera vuln gives up local files - A vulnerability in
Opera 6.01 and 6.02 for Windows allows a malicious Web site to grab any file off a
client's local drive with ease, GreyMagic Software has discovered. That's the bad news.
The good news is that affects only Windows, and it's fixed in version 6.03 which is now
available for download. Version 6.0 is not affected.
- Old hardware fools CD protection - Attempts to copy the recently
released Star Wars: Attack of the Clones soundtrack in a HP8100 CD-Writer Plus proved
futile, as did attempts to locate the corrupt data track on the CD. But a chance attempt
on a "crappy old LiteOn LTN382 32X", which is about two years old, copied the CD "without a
hiccup".
- Athlon XP 2200+ Already Selling! New Athlon MP to Have 166MHz FSB?
- The prices
usually get reduced when the new fastest models are announced. This time is also not
an exception. In this
and this
online stores you can see Athlon XP 2200+ selling for $249 and $215
respectively. $249 seems to me to be a bit too high, because on Monday the No.1
competitor, Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz will cost $241 In this
case we dare suppose that Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz actual core clock) will drop down to
around $200-$215.
- PC1066 RDRAM vs. DDR SDRAM - RDRAM is considerably more
expensive that DDR SDRAM, and up until now the 100MHz PC800 specification didn't do well
in comparison. Just recently 133MHz PC1066 was launched, but is still unofficially
supported by the new Intel P4 and the Intel 850E core logic chipset, but still promises to
bring memory performance to the next level. Lets
find out.
- Sun's StarOffice no longer free - Anyone interested in a free
office productivity suite has until midnight May 29 to download StarOffice 5.2. At $10 for the
stripped version, it'll still be a bargain.
- DirectX 9.0 Benchmarks - Check benchmarks at Konsolturk.net / mikemth.de.
- Sniper Tech 2.3 - Sniper Tech has
been designed with computer users in mind, with an intuitive interface that makes finding
what you want easier than ever before! If you would like to learn a new computer skill,
(look up a computing term, find software update, OS, Driver, Application, and Utility -
Features soon to appear), then this is REALLY the place to be.
- CPUCooL 7.1.1 - CPUCooL is a
program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It works
with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD, and SIS 5595 motherboards.
- DVDDecrypter 3.1.0.0 - DVD
Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC's hard
disk.
- BSPlayer 0.58b468 - This new
version fixes a subtitle problem when using multiple files and is DivX5.02 compatible.
- CloneCD 4 Profiles - This
Profile can be used for SafeDisc 2 and above (2.51) for writers that do need Amplify
Weak Sectors. (Read Speed: Max/ Fast Error Skip: On /Write Speed: Max /Always Close Last
Session).
- BlindWrite Suite 4.0.3 - BlindWrite suite is a tool
designed to perfectly reproduce most CD. RAW mode is needed to produce perfect backups of
some protected CDs! DAO mode is even better. Almost all protected CD can be perfectly
backed up using with DAO.
- FlashGet 1.3 - FlashGet Version 1.3 (2002.5.27) is out. (mirror#1, mirror#2)
- Opera v6.03 - There's a new version of Opera for Windows. I didn't check this new version yet,
but it probably fixes the local file reading vulnerability.
- Free FreeCraft game - FreeCraft is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine.
It is possible to play against human opponents over LAN, internet, or against the
computer. The engine can be used to build C&C, WC2, SC and AOE-like real-time strategy
(RTS) games. It successfully runs under Linux, BSD, BeOS, MacOS/X, MacOS/Darwin and MS
Windows (Windows XP is not supported).
- Ranish Partition Manager v2.43beta - Freeware Ranish
Partition Manager will help you to install and dualboot Linux and multiple copies of
Windows. For example, it will let you to run Win ME, Win 2k, and Linux on a single box.
Also, using Partition Manager you can copy, move, and resize disk partitions.
- AMD overclockers Tool - Guru3D has a new Amd overclockers Tool, check it
out!
- WinDVD4 v4.05.43 - Intervideo has released WinDVD v4 4.05.43.
- Maxtor POWERMAX v3.04 - It's Maxtor's hard drive diagnostic program. It can quickly test integrity of your
ATA drive, 500 MB and over.
- Dell Nvidia Beta Detonators v28.35 - Dell have released their
own version of Nvidia's Detonator 28.35 driver for Win2K/XP.
- 3DFX v1.09 Beta 2 Drivers - A few bugs have been
ironed out in the Windows 2000 and Windows XP beta drivers, so we're releasing the 1.09 Beta 2 drivers for these
OS's. Expect a Windows 9x/Me 1.09 beta by late tomorrow or early on the 27th, and the
final 1.09.00 drivers by Wednessday, May 29.
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