Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:43 AM CEST - Aug,06 2002
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- DefCon: Expert suggests hacking back - Striking back against a computer
that is attacking you may be illegal under United States law, but a security researcher says people should be allowed to neutralize one that is
unwittingly spreading destructive Internet worms like "Nimda."
- UK sees illegal CD boom - The report claimed that more
than four million counterfeit CDs were created in 2001.
And almost 152 million recordable CDs are expected to be used for home recording in the UK
this year.
- When brains meet computer brawn - People linking their
brains together to form a global collective intelligence. Humans living well beyond
100 years. Computers uploading aspects of our personalities to a network.
- Investigation Casts Light on the Mysterious Flying Black Triangle - A
just released study by the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), based in Las
Vegas, Nevada, sheds new light on the dark and mysterious craft. They offer a more
down-to-earth hypothesis.
- Gravity Shielding Still Science Fiction, Boeing Says - According to a
report by Nick Cook of Jane's Defense World, published this week in Europe, Boeing
Phantom Works scientists admitted they were working on experimental anti-gravity projects
that could change the way humanity moves around the planet. Jane's
quoted from a Boeing document entitled "Gravity Research for Advanced Space
Propulsion" (GRASP) it had obtained that said "If gravity modification is real,
it will alter the entire aerospace business. Almost true, Boeing told SPACE.com
Wednesday in a prepared statement. "We are aware of Podkletnov's work on
'anti-gravity' devices and would be interested in seeing further development work being
done. However, Boeing is not funding any activities in this area at this time,"
the statement said.
- NV30 Performance Estimates - ReactorCritical has
posted some juicy details and performance estimates of NV30: 1) In Quake III Arena in 1280x1024 with 4x FSAA enabled, NV30
is going to be 2.5 times faster than the GeForce4 Ti4600. 2) In
The Next Doom the board based on NV30 will be able to show 3.5 times or or even
more of the performance the current Nvidia`s flagman has to offer us there. 3) NV30 will score three times more than the GeForce4 Ti4600 in
3D Mark 2001. 4) Effective HQ Pixel Fillrate (2x
anisotropic filtering enabled) of the newcomer with will be about 2.7 times more than that
of the fastest NV25. 5) As for pixel-shading speed, it
will be 4 times of the NV25.
Nvidia claims that its upcoming GPU is capable of processing 200 millions triangles per
second
- Klipsch Promedia 5.1 THX Speaker System Review - The Klipsch
Promedia 5.1 includes 4 matched satellites for your front and rear, a center channel
that is designed to be used on its side, a tethered volume control module, and a large sub
that houses all the amplification.
- Trident XP4 Preview - A Cheap GeForce4? - It seems like almost every
day we hear about another graphics company coming back from the dead with a killer new
graphics chip set to put ATI and NVIDIA out of business. If there's anything the average
AnandTech reader has learned over the past few years it is that talk is cheap and over
promising but under delivering will grant you a one way ticket to exile. Thus it was no
big surprise that we didn't get too excited when we heard that Trident was going to be
making a grand return to the desktop graphics market with a GeForce4
competitor priced at less than $100 (USD).
- MSI Dragonwriter CDRW 40/12/48 Review - The first CD-RW from MSI was
released in early/mid 2001 and was the MS-8312, a 12X8X32 CD- RW. Since then MSI has
increased the speed of their CDRW's in an almost sequential sequence from 12X to
40X, for the CD-R writing speed.
- Soyo P4X400 DRAGON Ultra Review - VIA this time has released their new P4X400 chipset (see Soyo'
official site) that officially supports AGP8X, USB2.0 and comes with the new 8X
V-Link Hub architecture. Unlike SiS, VIA doesn't have a plain sailing for making chipsets
for Pentium 4 as the licensing issue still pops up in the motherboard manufacturers' minds
especially the first tier manufacturers like ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte.
- Apple iPod MP3 Player For Windows - PC users can now also enjoy the
iPod since Apple started developing a special edition of the iPod for Windows available in 5, 10 and 20 Gigabyte versions.
- Microsoft to Reveal Windows Code - Microsoft will reveal hundreds of pieces of proprietary computer code from its
monopoly Windows operating system in the next several weeks to comply with an antitrust
settlement it signed with the U.S. Justice Department last year, the company said on
Monday.
- Nero InfoTool v1.0.1-2 - Nero InfoTool is a utility which analyses and displays the most
important information about a drive, disc, configuration and software.
- DVD Decrypter 3.1.2.0 - DVD
Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC's hard
disk. From there you can choose to watch them with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you
can re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX. Advanced functionality can be found in the
context menus.
- RegScrubXP 2.1 - RegScrubXP is designed to delete unnecessary information from the
System Registry of XP/NT2000 operating systems.
- Hot CPU Tester v3.4 - Hot CPU Tester Pro is a system health and stability tester. It tests
CPU, and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs and defective parts.
- Rage3D Tweak v3.5 - It's finally out, and has a host of updates. New hotkeys for app/game
priority setting, new display tweaks for window management, additional tweaks useful to
multi-monitor configurations and more. The translations are starting to come in, with
Italian being the first I've gotten back. I'll be compiling the multi-language install
over the next week as they I receive them.
- PowerStrip v3.21 Beta Build 311 - PowerStrip 3.21 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
- Winamp 3 RC5 Build #486 - A new build of Winamp 3 RC5 is available.
- Creative Digital Audio Manager v1.23 - This is a standalone application
of the Digital Audio Manager v1.23 for use with Creative Digital MP3 Player
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