Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:43 AM CEST - Sep,14 2002
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- Chip implants--game plan for Sony? - Sony ads predict
a
surgically-implanted game controller by 2075--and what about other
devices, too? Will medical experts replace hardware engineers in product
development?
- Robotic Indiana Jones to penetrate pyramid - The National
Geographic Society, using the same
kind of robot used to search for survivors in the ruins of the World Trade
Center, is trying to solve a mystery that lies deep in the bowels of the
4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. A mini-robot, dubbed the pyramid rover,
has been called in. This modern marvel is about 5.5 inches wide and 1 foot
long. Its four sets of treads, two above and two below, engage the bottom and
the top of the tunnel to give it traction.
- PlayStation 2 gamers claim foul play - While Sony's online gaming
experiment is only a few weeks old, PlayStation 2 gamers are already finding
some
people don't play fair.
- Radeon 9700 AGP 8x Problem -
According to ATI, they are now receiving and testing these 8X AGP boards.
They are ALSO finding the 9700 does not work at all or works intermittently at
best on these boards. Engineering indicated most of the boards already shipped
have this problem. Solution: A new BIOS and some board revisions are now
available that fix this problem. Call ATI Customer Service for help with the
issue. At present, they will ship a replacement board that WILL work in SiS
and VIA 8X, but they are also considering a BIOS flash solution for problem
boards. Customer Service and Engineering deserve a 10-1/2 for their wonderful
handling of this issue. They are very concerned that it be corrected quickly.
They also shared that most of their 8X validation testing was done with
Intel's unreleased 8X chipset and that they are just now receiving shipping
versions of the SiS and VIA 8X chipsets.
- Fujitsu May Replace 300,000 Faulty Disk Drives - Fujitsu Ltd.,
Japan's biggest business computer maker, said it
may replace as many as 300,000 hard disk drives after discovering a fault.
Its shares declined 4.9 percent, their biggest one-day decline in almost two
months. The flaw may affect between 2 percent to 3 percent of the 10 million
hard disk drives it produced between September 2000 and September 2001,
spokeswoman Emi Watanabe said. The disk drives are found in Fujitsu's own
computers, as well as those of Fujitsu customers NEC Corp. and International
Business Machines Corp.
- Akasa ShinEtsu Thermal Interface Pads - Akasa has been
manufacturing coolers and PC Cooling related products for a while now. But
recently they have introduced a new heat exchange material called
Thermal
Interface Material or for short T.I.M. Akasa put their thinking caps on
for this product and ease of use must have been high on their list because
this stuff is as easy to apply as applying tape to paper. No more messy
guessing games with T.I.M. s. Akasa developed the perfect chemical balance for
excellent heat exchange and solid material for a more precise and easy
application.
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NOLF 2 Lithtech Movie -
Watch the charming secret agent, Kate Archer, get ambushed and take a
sword to the sholder by an assassin.
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PGP Corporate Desktop Version 7.1.x for Windows Fix -
While PGP supports long file names, it encounters problems when it tries to
encrypt or decrypt files that have names longer than 200 characters. When PGP
tries to encrypt or decrypt these files,
it suffers an overflow and crashes. An attacker could theoretically take
advantage of this vulnerability to temporarily disable PGP, obtain a user's
passphrase, or run malicious code on the user's computer! The bug affects PGP
Corporate Desktop, PGP Personal Security, and PGP Freeware. Network
Associates.
Download FIX.
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Plextor PX Info v1.16 & CDR Info v1.16 - Plextor PX
Info is a program to display all information about your Plextor drive and CDR
Info will tell you information about the manufacturer of your CDR media. ~
download
- Freshui 4.20 -
Fresh UI
is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with
hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/NT/ 98/95/Me (thanks
Bob).
- Movie DB v1.22 build 58 - A new version of
Movie DB
is out! Movie DB is a catalog software for DivX, DVD, VCD and VHS.
- Official VIA 4-in-1 v4.43 - VIA Tech
has posted new, updated set of
VIA 4-in-1 set of chipset drivers.
- kX Project Drivers 5.10.0.3523 -
The kX Audio
Driver is an independent WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver for all EMU10K1
and EMU10K2-based soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or
E-mu Sytems Inc., including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio
Production Studio (APS) card, and the Audigy series of cards.
- Matrox Parhelia drivers & technical support utility - Matrox has
released new Parhelia drivers for
Win2K/XP (v1.01.00.080) /
WinNT4 (v1.01.00.080) /
BETA Linux Driver (v0.1.8) and also new version of their
Technical Support Tweak Utility v 5.01.008.
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