Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 05:07 AM CEST - Oct,03 2002
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- Keys for deciphering code sent record distance - A team of
scientists said on Wednesday they had made a major leap towards developing
secure global communications.
Encryption breakthrough could secure 'leaky' satellite transmissions
- No credit to humans for smaller ozone hole - This year's Antarctic
ozone hole is the smallest since 1988, but this has
little to do with earthly activities and much to do with weird weather in
the stratosphere, say US government scientists.
- AMD HyperTransport: The New Era? -
AMD HyperTransport technology may be the new era of PC performance and
capability. HyperTransport technology isn't a radical new gadget but a new I/O
bus that increases the speed in device communication point to point. This may
be old news to some but the HyperTransport motherboard is coming...sooner than
you think.
- VIA KT333 and KT400 Chipsets Fully Support the Athlon XP processors
with 333MHz FSB - VIA Technologies announced that the VIA
Apollo KT400 and VIA Apollo KT333 chipsets support the new 333MHz FSB AMD
Athlon XP processors launched today. The 333MHz Front Side Bus at 2.7GB/s
will match the data transfer capacity of the VIA Apollo KT400 and KT333 memory
bus using PC2700 memory.
VIA KT400 core-logic product supports Socket A Athlon XP and Duron processors
with 200, 266 and 333MHz EV6 system bus, PC2100 and PC2700 DDR SDRAM memory,
AGP 8x, 8x V-Link connection between the North and the South Bridges
transferring data at 533MB/s. VIA VT8235 South Bridge features integrated
support for six USB 2.0 ports, 2 channels of ATA-66/100/133. Additional
features include integrated VIA MAC for 10/100Mbps Ethernet, integrated PCI
support, 6 Channel Surround Sound AC'97 audio and MC'97 modem.
- ASUS Does Hyper Threading - ASUS seems to inadvertently be debuting
Hyper Threading Technology. What do I mean? Well, looking at the latest BIOS
updates for Intel based motherboards on the
ASUS website you can see that the P4T533 now has support for Hyper
Threading through the latest BIOS update v.1005. That would mean that if you
own an ASUS P4T5333, and possibly other boards with Intel chipsets, you don't
have to wait fot the official launch of Hyper Thread enabled boards because
you already own one. (thanks
HardOCP).
- Sanyo Develops HD-Burn - 1.4GB On Normal CD-R -
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
has developed the high density recording technology HD (High Density) -BURN
which doubles the recording capacity and data density (1.4GB) of a
conventional CD-R media (700MB). This technology enables inexpensive large
volume data recording. A recorded disc by "HD-BURN" technology is
compatible with a DVD player, and allows, the player to read the disc with
some modification of firmware. SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. will disclose the
technology used to read the media recorded with "HD-BURN" technology by a DVD
player and will propose to other DVD drive makers that they adopt this
technology as an industry standard.
- Iomega Zip 750MB USB 2.0 Review - Positioned as a reliable backup
alternative to CD-RW drives,
the Zip 750MB USB 2.0 External now reaches a capacity sweet spot, putting
Zip back to the race with optical drive in the removable media market. At $15
apiece, the new 750MB Zip disks sell for the same price as the Zip 250MB
before the launch. Technically, the media cost has went down quite
substantially, but it's still sky high compared to an average $2 CD-RW disc.
It's unfortunate that the media cost hasn't gone down in all these years.
While Zip 750MB couldn't compete with its cost, the media hard plastic is less
vulnerable to scratches than optical disc.
- Athlon XP 2800+ CPU Review - AMD once again reminded of itself as
the developer of high-performance processors. Today the company launched two
new CPUs: Athlon XP 2700+ and
Athlon XP
2800+. We would like to offer you our review of the fastest AMD solution.
- ECS AG400 - Xabre 400 Review -
The Xabre
400 is looking at competing with the same market segment that the GeForce
4 MX440 occupies. Currently you can pick up an MX440 for about $60 give or
take a few bucks. I'm not sure what it would cost to pick up the ECS Xabre 400
card because I haven't found it in stock anywhere yet. I have found a few
other Xabre 400 cards that weigh in around $80 at the cheapest. Knowing this,
does the Xabre 400 have what it takes to ourperform the MX440? We'll find that
out, but first let's take a look at the specifications and the card itself.
- Windows XP Tweaking Guide For Nvidia/AMD Systems - For the sake of
helping the most people I have based it upon an Nvidia Video card and an AMD
processor, the most widely used combination in homebrewed gaming rigs today.
If your system does not have one or either of these then please make sure to
read any system requirements before installing any of the tweaking programs
listed below. If you try to install a tweaking program that is
incompatible with your system you may inadvertently cause damage to your
Operating System and have to reinstall it.
- Console Picture Guide - Some of you may be surprised to read that
the
PlayStation 2 and TV are not configured for an optimal picture and audio
quality straight out of the box. Neither is an Xbox or Gamecube. Some of you
may be familiar with upgraded cables, but be unsure about the advantages on a
"regular TV" as opposed to an exotic $15,000 plasma. Others may wonder if
ultra-high-end cables such as those from Monster Cable are actually better
than other cables. In this feature, we'll look at these questions and try to
explain some of the concepts behind video quality without being too technical.
We'll focus mostly on the PlayStation 2, as it is the most popular console,
but by the time you finish reading this, you'll know how to maximize your
console's picture and sound performance, whether you have an AV system that's
10 years old or 10 days old. This is a comprehensive article, so make sure
you're comfy before you start reading.
- Matrix/Xodus programmable mods for Xbox -
Check some
Matrix/Xodus programmable mods for Xbox.
- YahooPOPs! 0.3.7 -
YahooPOPs! (download)
is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 access to your Yahoo! Mail
account. YahooPOPs! is available on the Windows and Unix platforms.
- UltraEdit-32 v9.20 -
UltraEdit-32 is a Windows text editor with support for unlimited file
sizes, a spell checker, drag and drop, full HEX editing capabilities, user
configurable syntax highlighting (pre-configured for HTML, Java, C/C++, VB,
Perl), column editing, sorting, and a configurable toolbar.
- Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder 1.2.6 - download from
here.
- Asus Tweaking Utility 3.64b -
This utility is provided for fine tuning your ASUS display card to make
maximum stablility to your system.
- Fresh UI v4.30 -
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, this
software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you'll be glad
to know.
- phpMyAdmin 2.3.1 -
phpMyAdmin can manage
a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database. To
accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up MySQL-user who can
read/write only the desired database.
- MySQL 4.0.4 Beta -
MySQL
4.0.4-beta (changelog)
has been released today.
- Nero 5.5.9.14 - Nero
(mirror1 /
mirror2) is a flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to
write both data and CD audio to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660
images as well as ISO mode 1 and XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc
recording in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware). Nero also
supports multisession and mixed-mode recording, HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF, PSX,
OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO) and disc-at-once (DAO)
writing, digital audio extraction, and more.
- Nero ASPI Driver v2.0.1.50 -
This new version solves the problem in not finding any CD-drive after the
installation of Virtual CD.
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