Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:25 AM CEST - Jun,18 2002
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- Better than Google? - Hoping to attract more mass appeal for an on-line
search engine with a cult following, AlltheWeb.com
on Monday declared that it indexes more Internet information than long-time pace-setter Google.
AlltheWeb, owned by Norway's Fast Search & Transfer, says its database spans 2.1
billion Web pages, just ahead of the 2.07 billion scanned by Google at the end of last
week. AlltheWeb has been quietly building upon its previous foundation of 800 million
pages over the past two months.
- Hackers cripple US news sites - Foxnews.com, theweatherchannel.com,
espn.com and ABCNEWS.com have suffered denial of service attacks which disrupted services to hundreds of
thousands of internet users. The attacks began on Thursday and caused intermittent outages
and slowdowns on the sites before normal service was restored on Friday night.
- Bomb.com for sale - The owners of bomb.com are selling
their domain to save their family from financial ruin. The bidding for bomb.com starts
at $15,000 although Bryan reckons it could be worth as much as $170,000. He's looking to
make at least $25,000 - with $15,000 clearing his debts and the rest being used to cover
any future medical bills.
- Apache Vulnerability Announced - Versions of the Apache web server up
to and including 1.3.24 and 2.0 up to
and including 2.0.36 and 2.0.36-dev versions contain
a bug in the routines which deal with invalid requests which are encoded using chunked
encoding. This bug can be triggered remotely by sending a carefully crafted invalid
request. This functionality is enabled by default.
- Scientists conquer laser beam teleportation - Scientists in Canberra
have successfully teleported
a laser beam for the first time in Australia. Dr Lam says the experiment involved
laser light which is made up of photons which are quite different from any solid material.
"At the moment physicists are still puzzling over how to actually do it with a solid
material, so we have to start with an atom," he said. The discovery has applications
for the development of quantum computers and telecommunications.
- Are copy-protected CDs flawed? - A new lawsuit charges that new CDs
designed to stop Napster-style piracy are defective and should
either be barred from sale or carry warning labels
- Motorola debuts memory chip - Motorola has developed a memory chip that extends
battery life and improves the performance of phones and PCs. A spokesman explained that
the processor uses the traditional magnetic materials found on a silicon semiconductor
chip.
- Microsoft tightens security for Wi-Fi - At the 802.11 West conference
in Seattle, Microsoft announces that it will enhance security
measures for Windows 2000 and handheld devices.
- Mysteries Of The CDRW and Back Ups Revealed - How easy
(or difficult) is it to make a backup copy of some of the more typical PC game or
audio titles that exist today? Theoretically, this should be possible using a typical CDRW
drive. However, while everything works in theory, it may not always work in reality.
- Liquid Cooling the Gainward Ultra 750XP Geforce 4 Powerpack - Part 1
- Watercooling the CPU is relatively common among performance users but
watercooling the graphics card is a little more tricky. This article can
show you how.
- Matrox set to launch Parthelia - According to The Inquirer sources
close to Matrox, the company should introduce its "TI 4600 killer" - Parthelia cards as soon as
tomorrow. As expected, the retail price tag continues to be an estimated $500.
- ATi Multimedia Center v7.7 - ATi has posted an update
version of their multimedia software called ATi Multimedia Center. It also
contains ATi
DVD Player upgrade to v.7.7. and ATi's REMOTE
WONDER Software v1.2 (requires version 1.1 installed),
and ATi's WDM Capture driver for Win2k v6.13.10.6125.
- Fraps 1.8 - Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner
of the screen for programs utilising DirectX or OpenGL technology.
- Xbox Media Player Build 4 - Xbox Media
Player b4 is the First Divx and Windows Media Player for the Xbox console.
- PowerStrip 3.19 Beta Build 289 - A new beta build is out.
- Hydravision 3.10.1010 - ATi has released newer
version of their multi-display software. This version version works with ALL-IN-WONDER
RADEON 8500DV, ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500, RADEON 8500, RADEON 7500, RADEON 7000 and RADEON
VE on WinALL.
- ATI Catalyst Radeon v7.72 Reference Drivers - ATI have released their Catalyst Radeon
v7.72 reference drivers for Windows XP / Windows 2000 / Windows 98/98SE / Windows ME
- MSI nForce System Drivers WHQL 2.29 - MSI have released new Nvidia
nForce system drivers WHQL 2.29 for Windows 98/ME and 2000/XP
- SUMA nVidia Detonator 29.42 WHQL - SUMA has released a detonator 29.42 whql driver for their nVidia based graphics cards.
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