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(hx) 03:41 AM CEST - Aug,10 2002
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- Sony's PlayStation 3 Chip Details - The new multimedia processor
called "Cell," touted as a "supercomputer on a chip," is well on
the way to completion, IBM says. As previously reported, the chip could end up inside the
PlayStation 3, and elements of its design are expected in future server chips from IBM,
commercial production of Cell could come as soon as the end of 2004. The processor's
design is still under wraps, but the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to
deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point
calculations. With integer math, it will have the ability to do more than 1 teraflop,
roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz.
- Amiga revs OS, wins more phone blessings - AmigaOS4 - it's
alloneword, you see - is being developed on old 68000-based Commodore Amiga 4000s (running
PPC cards), but it's a transitional release that already runs on the nominated platform of
the future: PowerPC. The shell, the GUI and the TCP/IP stack are already native PPC code.
The new OS has the latest whizzy eye candy, as you can see from the screenshots here.
- Crypto scientists crack prime problem - Computer scientists in India crack an age-old math
problem to help quickly prove whether a figure is a prime number--a vital step in
computer cryptography.
- Lawmakers sic Ashcroft on file swappers - U.S. lawmakers have asked
Attorney General John Ashcroft to go after
Internet users who download unauthorized songs and other copyrighted material, raising
the possibility of jail time for digital-music fans.
- US military laptops stolen - Two laptops have disappeared
from the headquarters of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces in Tampa, Florida, one
of which contained top secret information. Russian daily Pravda reported that General
Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, had to acknowledge that the
computers vanished from the office despite high-level security.
- Pornographer says he hacked al Qaeda - A self-proclaimed Web warrior
says he enlisted in the United States' war on terror by mounting an
incursion into an Internet site said to be run by al Qaeda. Messner, using the
aggressive tactics he's employed to run his adult site, said he "hijacked" Al
Neda for five days and recorded a "virtual who's-who of every hostile message board
and site on the Internet."
- eDimensional Wireless 3D Glasses (video review) - The eDimensional Wireless 3D Glasses add a true 3D realism to your CRT
monitor and are one of the coolest products I've seen. When gaming with these glasses it's
an experience you will never forget. Needless to say this product is very impressive and
once you try them it's hard to go back. Simply incredible!
- DFI KT400 Motherboard Launched - The AD77 series motherboard
comes with four DDR400 memory sockets that are also capable of supporting the current
DDR333 and DDR266 memory modules
- Corsair XMS3200 CAS-2 DDR Review - Tech-PC have just posted a review of Corsair XMS3200
CAS-2 DDR Memory.
- ATI's Radeon 9700 Versus NVIDIA's NV30 - Chaps at Tech-Report.com
have posted pretty interesting
editorial called ATI's Radeon 9700 versus NVIDIA's NV30 - Understanding the next
generation of graphics chips.
- Abit KX7/AT-7/KR7A/KG7 Volt Mod Guide - These volt mods became necessary for the Abit enthusiast as Abit
boards, tho the highest performance on the market for an AMD based system, don't offer the
necessary voltage for the overclocker who wishes to push the memory to high MHZ and also
sustain aggressive timings, or voltage enough to push a CPU to its limits. The current
KX7-333(R), AT-7 and KR7A have Vcore maxed at 1.85V, and memory topping out at 2.85V in
the bios. The KG7 will go as high as 3V on the memory and 1.85Vcore.
- Ultimate Windows XP Tweak Guide - Guys at Subzerotech have went
through a whole lot of tweaks found throughout the web and compiled The Ultimate Windows XP Tweak Guide which contain tweaks they have
found to work, they did not add tweaks that did not work or are just myth's. From Booting
up to Shutting Down they got it all.
- NVIDIA Detonators v29.42 vs 30.82 - check
it out!
- DirectX 9 Beta 2 Sent To Beta Testers - We are pleased to announce
that DirectX 9.0 Beta 2 has been released to BetaPlace. You may download the DirectX 9.0
beta 2 SDK at Betaplace.com .
Additional downloads will be available in a few days. Try dowload it from here (leaked).
- Macromedia Flash Player Updated - Download&Install Flash Player v6.0.47.0.
- Antivirus Feeding - Kaspersky AVP, Norton
Antivirus, McAfee
VirusScan 4.x / 5.x DAT file v4217 / McAfee
VirusScan SuperDAT File v4217 (engine v4160)
- Promise Ultra 100 TX2 BIOS & Driver - Promise have released a new
Ultra 100 TX2 BIOS and driver
update version 2.20.0.14.
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