Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:07 AM CEST - Oct,11 2002
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- Astronomers say we may not be alone - A British-led team of
astronomers claim
they have found a planet similar to earth orbiting a star similar to the
sun. Researchers say they have found their best evidence yet that planets
which could harbour life are circling other stars in distant space. An
international team of astronomers has discovered a huge distorted disc of cold
dust surrounding one of the brightest stars in the sky, Fomalhaut, indicating
that a planet is orbiting it
- Borders opens a chapter on wireless - T-Mobile USA plans to
bring
wireless Internet access to about 400 Borders bookstores and cafes across
the country early next year, the companies announced Thursday.
- "Fleming" steals registration information
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The
Fleming Internet worm is a 32-bit Windows application (.exe file) with a
size of 53,248 bytes and written in Visual Basic. The worm spreads via the
Windows (.NET) Messenger Internet chat program that is built into Windows
XP.
- China Says Viruses Infect 80 Percent of Computers - Viruses have
infected
at least 80 percent of China's computers, the official China Daily
newspaper said on Thursday, highlighting the vulnerability of one of the
world's biggest PC and Internet markets. The findings were the result of
a six-week survey conducted by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response
Center, the newspaper said. "Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this
year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one
in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper
quoted the center's chief engineer, Zhang Jian, as saying. Half of the
infected machines had suffered data losses, problems browsing the Web, or
other damage, the newspaper said.
- Divx vets look to beat movie pirates - Herndon, Va.-based Cinea,
the company Schumann co-founded after Divx folded in 1999, is close to
unveiling
a beta for its Cosmos digital cinema security system that will help movie
distributors keep track of how their products are used while protecting them
from piracy. The company "will modify the timing and modulation of the light
used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by recording
devices is distorted," according to an abstract for the winning NIST grant
application. "Any copies made from these devices will show the disruptive
pattern."
- An icebox with your white box - Korea's LG Electronics is selling a
26-cubic-foot Multi-Media Refrigerator, with a built-in 15-inch LCD
(liquid crystal display) screen for watching TV, surfing the Internet or
looking at digital pictures. But with a price tag of $8,000, the "first
refrigerator of the Internet Age" costs well more than an upscale fridge and a
top-of-the-line PC combined. In addition to surfing the Web while searching
for a midnight snack, people using LG's kitchen convergence device can store
recipes and messages from family members. The LG model also purports to be
able to diagnose its own problems, letting an owner know if a part is not
working properly. That's good, said one appliance store employee, as there are
few technicians with the expertise to fix an Internet fridge.
- Maxtor works to simplify data backup - The Milpitas, Calif.-based
company has developed a new feature designed to let computer users back up
files, folders and drives with the touch of a button.
The feature, OneTouch, is built in to a new line of external hard drives,
the Personal Storage 5000 family. Backup starts when a user presses a button
on one of the drives. The units come with built-in USB 2.0/1.1 and FireWire
interfaces, along with 3.5-inch hard drives, the same type used in desktop
PCs.
- To dual or not to dual - This has been one topic that has plagued
me since the development of the AMD dual athlon machine. An inexpensive
(compared to Xeon) dual setup seems powerful on paper to us consumers, but
what is it worth to an everyday person. What I have done in
this review is to try and see what is it really worth upgrading to the
latest and greatest.
- A Way to Revolutionize x86 CPU Performance -This
article describes how multimedia and non-multimedia applications can
benefit from MMX, SSE, and SSE-2.
- FreeBSD 4.7 -
FreeBSD 4.7 is the the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development
branch. This new version updates GCC and sendmail, adds several new drivers
for USB devices and disk controllers. FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the
security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several
ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address
several security advisories.
- NetCaptor v7.0.2 beta 3 -
NetCaptor is the
a powerful web browser enhancements. Unlike other browsers which only view one
site at a time or crowd multiple windows together, NetCaptor opens sites on
separate browser tabs.
- VisualRoute 7.0b -
VisualRoute (download)
delivers the functionality of key Internet "ping," "whois," and "traceroute"
tools, in a high-speed visually integrated package. VisualRoute automatically
analyzes Internet connectivity and performance problems, displaying the
results in an easy to understand table and on a world map.
- DrvImagerXP 2.1 -
Freeware DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS
partitions for the Windows2000/XP operating systems. It makes backups of your
partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about
files.
- SiS USB 2.0 driver -
The
USB2.0 driver for Windows XP and Windows 2000 is released by Microsoft and
supported by SiS. For Windows 98 and Windows Me systems, the USB2.0 driver is
co-worked and supported by the thirdparty, such as OrangeWare.
- Radeon 9700 Pro 7.78 (6193) from DELL - DELL's FTP has offers an
OEM release
of the latest known Radeon 9700 Pro drivers. It is said to fix issues with
Battlefield 1942, NHL 2003 and FIFA 2003.
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