Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:30 AM CEST - Jul,02 2002
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- Two Planes Collide Over Southern Germany - Two large aircraft collided in mid-air late on Monday over Lake
Constance on the German-Swiss border, a spokesman for the regional government said. The
planes hit the ground on a road close to the lake, the spokesman for the
Baden-Wuerttemberg state government said. Police said the planes were a Russian-made
Tupolev 154 and a Boeing 757 cargo plane. (CNN)
- FBI computers are still far from wired - The Federal Bureau of
Investigation remains
plagued by a lack of basic technology the average office worker takes for granted --
the ability to search text using more than one term or the ability to run even the
7-year-old computer operating system Windows 95.
- Carmack backs OpenGL in shader wars - Game god John Carmack has given OpenGL his
blessing in the ever-thickening shader wars. Carmack says that given the 3Dlabs P10
card, he opted to use the OpenGL 2.0 extensions for the shader path, even though the
Nvidia Cg extensions offered "the most expedient choice". And the port went so
well, he writes in the latest addition to his .plan file, he's committed to using OpenGL
as the back end for all implementations of Doom 3.0
- Anonymous donor will award US$ 200,000 for Linux on the Xbox - An
anonymous donor, whose identity is known to the Xbox Linux project leaders, has announced
to award at total of US$ 200,000 for the completion of various tasks on the
Xbox Linux Project until December 31st 2002. The basic goal of the project is to find a simple
and completely legal way to run Linux on the Microsoft Xbox.
- LOTR : Two Towers Trailer - Apple has put a trailer online - watch it now!
- Win an Atari Star Wars arcade console - So, if all you Jedi Knights out
there fancy having something to stand next to your life-size promotional cut-out of
Obi-Wan Kenobi, simply click here.
You'll be asked to complete a survey and then enter some details - simple enough.(thanks TheRegister).
- Infineon Announces New High-Performance, Low-Power Graphics Memory -
Infineon Technologies today introduced a new 128 Mbit
Double Data Rate (DDR) Graphics RAM component for 3D Graphics applications in portable
and desktop computers. Designed to operate at clock speeds up to 450 MHz, Infineon's
newest Graphics RAM can handle data bandwidths up to 3.6 Gigabytes per second, making it
an ideal device to support advanced graphics acceleration processors used in both
professional graphics and computer gaming applications.
- Creative NOMAD JukeBox 3 Review - If anyone can claim market dominance
on the digital audio jukebox, it's Creative Labs. With the successful NOMAD line, Creative
fixed themselves a nice seat at the top. While plenty of competitors are biting at their
heels, Creative's recently released NOMAD 3 offers 20GB of storage and may help hold their position at the
top of the food chain.
- The Third THG Video: Silent and Ice Cold - All users can equip their PC
system with highly efficient water cooling system in just a few steps, and with a
little extra pocket money.
- Difference in anisotropic filtering between drivers on a GeForce4 Ti ? -
I used a VisionTek GeForce4 Ti4600 for this article. The only drivers I have that are prior to the two
previous official drivers (28.32 and 29.42) are the 27.51s which is what I used for this
article, comparing it to the latest official 29.42s. Medal Of Honor Allied Assault was
used, with com_maxfps set to 500 and everything else set to maximum with the exception of
shadow quality set to Simple.
- UT 2003 GPU ShootOut - AnandTech have
tested at five resolutions, each under two different detail settings. They chose the
highest detail setting offered by the game, with everything set to the maximum level to
provide the best possible image quality. They also chose a medium detail setting, which
turned off detailed textures, turned on 16-bit color, lowered the texture detail and
turned off deco layers. The reason for the medium detail setting was to compare those
cards that weren't playable at the higher settings.
- How to install Direct X8.1b on Windows XP - Warp2Search has posted a DirectX8.1b install
guide for Windows XP
- Audiotools v4.10 - Audiotools
is a direct-to-disk recording tool with the facility to automatically split a recording
into tracks to the hard disk without having to use much memory.
- AutoDivX5 v1.09 - Mpegx.com freware AutoDivX5
is a tool that automatically generates script file for VirtualDub encoding using DivX
Pro5.xx VBR 2-pass mode.
- CursorXP 1.2 - CursorXP
is a FREE program that takes advantage of the new visual effects features of Windows 2000
and Windows XP. With it, users can create and use cursors that look and feel far superior
to anything you've ever seen before.
- IconWorkshop 5.0 XP - Axialis IconWorkshop is a powerful tool designed to Create, Extract,
Convert, Manage and Redistribute Windowsr XP Icons. It has a fully integrated workspace
that permits you to work efficiently and create professional icons in minutes.
- PowerStrip 3.20 Beta Build 296 -PowerStrip 3.18 provides
advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards -
from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600
- FlashFXP v2.0 RC2 - A new release
candidate for FlashFXP has been released. Here is a changelog.
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