Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:30 AM CEST - Aug,21 2002
- Post a comment
- Mammoth hopes rest on icy DNA - Japanese scientists
hope to use parts of a mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost to
impregnate an Indian elephant with its sperm and clone the extinct animal for
display at an Ice Age wildlife park. Organisers of the planned park are
now populating it with species from that time in preparation for the much
hoped-for return of the mammoth. Several hundred wild horses have been sent to
graze in land set aside for the park in the far North East of Siberia on the
River Kolyma. Musk ox from another part of Siberia have also been imported,
and discussions on buying bison have started with Canada.
- Tables turned on superhacker group - It would seem that the god of
hackers has something of a sense of humour. While one of the most prevalent
groups on the scene celebrated its 1,000th hacked website by going on a mass
defacement spree,
someone else vandalised its own homepage.
- TransGaming and TimeGate Partner to Port KOHAN - TransGaming
Technologies and TimeGate StudioTM
announced today the launch of the award-winning PC game series, KOHAN, on
Linux. Linux gamers can now purchase and download individual titles or the
entire KOHAN series from TransGaming's Web Store at
http://www.transgaming.com/webstore.php that include: "KOHAN: Immortal
Sovereigns", "KOHAN: Ahriman's Gift" and "KOHAN: Immortal Sovereigns - Special
Awards Edition."
- 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Before Xmas - On Monday, Intel will announce
its Pentium 4 chip running at a speed of 2.8Ghz. (Pre-order
- $542.80).
- VisionTek Update - Visiontek have send
nvmax.com the following email regarding HardOCP's statement which has led
to further, untrue, rumours all over the net: "An Assignee /
Trustee as been appointed, and will attempt to maximize the value of the
company's assets. His belief is that the assets have a higher value as a
"turn-key" operation rather than in a liquidation. The Trustee is continuing
to operate the company to determine if a sale is a viable alternative to a
liquidation, and he is currently talking to interested parties. The company is
continuing to take orders, ship products, and honor rebates."
- 40x CD-Burner Shootout - Several months ago, 40x burning became a
reality when Plextor got the jump on all of the other optical storage
companies with the PX-W4012TA CD-RW. Since then, many companies have been
coming out with versions of their own. As with any genre of products, a few
stood out above the rest. Namely, the original tried and true Plexwriter; the
wallet-friendly Lite-On, and the speed-daemon Teac. Today Techware Labs will
be
comparing the three drives on their relative merits.
- AMD Athlon XP1800+ CPU & The VIA KT133A Chipset - In the second of
our budget
upgrading features we answer another question many people pose to us
looking for cheap extra performance, Is it worth running an XP1*00 in my older
mainboard?"
- GeForce4 Ti 4200 Shootout - Digit-Life has
compiled a round-up of sorts of the latest GeForce4 Ti 4200 offerings from
Albatron, ProLink, and Gainward.
- Radeon 8500 & GeForce4 Ti Benchmarks - Radeon 8500+, Radeon 8500,
Radeon 8500LE, GeForce4 Ti4600, GeForce4 Ti4400, GeForce4 Ti4200 (64MB),
GeForce4 Ti4200 (128MB) on Athlon XP & Pentium IV running under Win98, Win2K
and Win XP - that
enough
benchmarks for you.
- How to defang Win2k SP3's auto updating -
Go to
Start, then run services.msc. You can also do this via Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, Services. Find Automatic Updates, and change startup
type to disabled. Then run gpedit.msc, the group policy editor. Go to User
Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows Update.
On a fresh installation with SP3 applied this will show up as not configured,
and somewhat counter-intuitively, in order to remove access to Windows Update,
you enable it. Notice in passing that it's tagged Remove access to use all
Windows Update "featues," which we presume is one they can fix in SP4.
- Guide to Windows Security -
This guide will cover some of such tips and tricks for different
applications which should make your system more secure as well as less prone
to viruses. Although the guide is mostly aimed at Windows 2000/XP users,
people using older version of Windows should also take note as much of the
content here applies to those earlier versions in addition to the Internet
Explorer and Outlook Express tips.
- Office XP SP2 English - The
English version of SP-2 is scheduled for release on Wednesday and is
focused on delivering enhanced security, performance and stability to Office
XP applications. SP-2 will include new security updates that enhance the
protection of Office Web components from hackers, and an Excel 2002 update
that prevents the loss of digital signatures when auto-saving spreadsheets.
Download:
Office XP SP2 Standard /
Office XP SP2 Administrative.
- Customizer XP v. 1.8.4 RC-1 -
TweakNow has released
Customizer XP v. 1.8.4 RC-1, a comprehensive and easy-to-use Windows NT,
2000 and XP utility that lets you fine-tune Windows and Internet Explorer.
Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, clean up your hard drive, or
increase your multimedia and game performance, Customizer XP's integrated
suite of programs can get your system running at peak performance levels.
- Official Intel Application Accelerator v2.2.2.2150 -
The Intel Application Accelerator is a performance software package for
Intel desktop and mobile PCs. version 2.2.2.2150 release date 8/16/2002
- SB Live & Audigy Drivers v5.12.2.252 -
This package (155MB) contains the Windows XP driver for Creative Labs
Audio Cards. Also Compaq FTP
has new drivers for the Sound Blaster 5.1 and Audigy sound cards under
Windows XP. I recommend you to leech both packages and compare :]
- EPoX 8K3A/+/P BIOS 2815 -
The official EPoX UK site
has been updated (select the board and download 8K3A2815.BIN) with new
official BIOS for EP-8K3A, 8K3A+, 8K3AP BIOS : 8K3A2815.BIN (7900).
- Conexant HSF/HSFi V.92 56K PCI Modem Drivers - Compaq has re;eased
Windows 2000/XP drivers for the Conexant HSF/HSFi V.92 56K PCI Modem.
|
Updated:09:48 AM CEST Jun,21
(new)
