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(hx) 03:44 AM CEST - Jul,23 2002
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- Microsoft's Canary phone - the first pics - It's based on Texas
Instruments OMAP 720, weighs 95g and is a triband GSM/GPRS device. Delays in getting
Microsoft's GPRS stack to stay up long enough to salute have contributed to delays in
shipping Stinkers so far, as Microsoft itself has acknowledged. HTC claims the device
allows 3 hours talktime or 100 hours of standby. There's USB and MMC support. The Canary
boasts a 176x220 64,000 colour display.
- Intel pushes faster for new Pentium 4 -The chipmaker is advancing its
release schedule of new 2.8GHz and 3GHz Pentium 4 chips in an effort to speed ahead of
rival AMD.
- AMD Answers the 64-Bit Question - AMD, on the other hand, has a 64-bit
chip called Opteron, due early next year, and it will be completely backwards
compatible with the Athlon line, which is x86-compatible to begin with. Opteron will be in
servers, desktops and laptops. The panel, which included an AMD engineer, felt this was
the way to go. "You wouldn't buy a DVD player that wouldn't play your CDs, would
you?" said Jerry Huck, chief architect at Hewlett-Packard.
- Motorola unveils chattier chip - The company asserts that its PowerQUICC III is
the first in a new family of communications chips that can process data more quickly and
thus speed up networking equipment.
- College gets 1GB/s speed demon Net hookup - In all, 16,000 computers, including machines in every dorm room, will be
linked over the coming year to a fiber-optic network that delivers data at up to one
gigabit per second. That is about a thousand times faster than the typical home broadband
connection -- so fast that the research university's computer experts still do not know
exactly what they will do with so much capacity.
- Hard Disk Will Have Hackers Seeing Double - Hackers
will be unable to attack Web sites protected by a new security system unless they can
change the laws of physics, according to Naoto Takano, chief executive officer of Scarabs,
a Japanese company. The company claims that it has developed a hard disk with two heads
that prevents disk files published on the Web from being altered by hackers. Scarabs put
two heads on the hard disk, a read-only head that is connected via one cable to a Web
server for people to browse content on the disk file and a read/write head that is
connected by another cable to a PC for administrators who renew the data. Internet users
have access to the disk file only through the read-only head and so there is no physical
way they can go into the system and rewrite the data.
- Serious PHP vuln reported - The PHP form-data POST handler is
susceptible to a malicious POST request that can trigger an error condition which,
depending on your hardware, can crash the machine or provide for remote exploitation. On an Intel
x86 machine an attacker has no control over memory allocation/recovery and can only cause
a denial of service; on a Sparc/Solaris machine an attacker would be able to free chunks
of memory and overwrite them arbitrarily to run code.
- PHP 4.2.2 out - The PHP Group today announced the details of a serious
vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. A security update, PHP 4.2.2 (changelog), fixes the issue.
Everyone running affected versions of PHP is encouraged to upgrade immediately. The new
4.2.2 release doesn't include other changes, so upgrading from 4.2.1 is safe and painless.
- NV30 Specs - In a new CineFX architecture whitepaper
(PDF) on the NVidia Developer site, some specs of the upcoming NV3X architecture are
mentioned.
- SIS 648/963 Chipset Review - Compared to the other chipsets, the SIS648 looks to be
in competition with the i845G and P4X400 in terms of features. Like the other
chipsets, the 648 provides support for both 400 and 533 MHz FSB P4's. Unlike the 645DX,
the new 648 uses a 1 GB/s MultIOL interconnecting link between the north and south bridge.
This makes the SIS 648 compatible with SIS's new 963 south bridge that integrates USB 2.0
and ATA133 support.
- Anti-Aliasing by Contemporary Graphics Cards - This article is
devoted to the matters of picture quality provided by the contemporary gaming graphics
cards. Namely, we will discuss in great detail a method of improving quality known as
Anti-Aliasing. The implementation, the efficiency and bottlenecks - any question you might
have on anti-aliasing will be answered in our article!
- HW Round-up - VINIX VX-3340 Xabre 400 / ECS AG400 SiS
Xabre 400 / ATI Radeon 9000 & 9700 (preview) / Hercules XPS 210 Speakers / Cooler comparison (updated)
/ BlueCooling's
BTMS Water Cooling System / Innoventions
Ramcheck Advanced Memory Tester / Abit KX7-333 vs.
Shuttle AK35GT2R
- Windows 2000 SP3 Build 3.154.2 Sent To Testers - The W2K SP3 contains:
Security issues, including all fixes from Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package 1,
Operating system reliability, Application compatibility, Windows 2000 Setup, SP3 also
includes the updates contained in the previous service packs.
- Sim OS Shootout - One
system, sixteen sims, three operating systems (plus one hybrid), and several weeks of
testing time later, we have data which OS works best for sims.
- GLExcess v1.2 - This release fixes some minor bugs and should prevent lamers from
uploading cheated scores once for all.
- 3DNA Desktop - So just what is this 3DNA Desktop everyone
has been talking about? 3DNA is a 3D user interface that enhances and improves the way you
work with Windows and the Web. 3DNA is not a replacement for Windows - it works seamlessly
with your current set up, while giving you a whole new way to use your computer.
- Movie DB v1.17 (build 41) - This is the fixed version of Movie DB, now the
package contain also the base
blank images for the covers gallery. Movie DB is a freeware DB program for divx, dvd and
vhs.
- Virtual Game Station patch XP v1.1 - This patch for
the Connectix Virtual Game Station (All Windows Versions) enables it to run at resolutions
of 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024, maintaining the game graphics at 640x480,
resulting in a visually less pixelated graphics. In addition, it applies other useful
patches like: daNIL's fix that makes VGS playable on Pentium 4 and SaPu's fix that makes
VGS playable under Windows 2000 and XP. Other available patches include: Final Fantasy 9
fix and ModChip patch to allow CD-R backups.
- Tweaking Toolbox XP 1.0 - You can change Windows XP system performance,
by selecting to keep the Windows XP core system in memory, and not paged to disk
(advisable only if you have 512MB RAM or more). You can also optimize the CPU and memory
usage for Programs, System cache or background services.
- SOYO SiS IDE Drivers - Soyo has released new SiS IDE
Drivers for Win9x, ME, 2000, XP.
- Nvidia Omega Drivers 1.0.80 WinAll - I know there are some reviews out
there that don't talk too good about the drivers, but I never forced anyone to use them,
they are just an alternative set of drivers, it's your choice, so please don't flame my
FREE work, I'm just trying to help people enjoy what they paid for - download.
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox 3 v1.01.02 - This is the latest certified
Windows XP drivers v1.01.02 for NOMAD Jukebox 3.
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