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(hx) 03:47 AM CEST - Oct,16 2002
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- Deep Fritz Won Today -
Deep Fritz won another one today, and the famous chess series is now 3-3.
The second win in a row for Deep Fritz brought the eight-match series to 3-3
in what has been billed the "Brains in Bahrain" challenge. "It had the
potential to be the best game I have ever played in my life," the 27-year-old
Russian said after the match. "I'm not depressed. When you play such a
wonderful game you can't be. It could have gone either way. Fritz played such
great defense. I think I can still win the match," Kramnik said.
- Online CD/DVD pirate busted in UK -
A
so-called warez CD/DVD dealer in Burwell, United Kingdom, is currently
being quizzed after an undercover operation to clamp down on CD piracy. The
30-year-old man sold pirated CDs and DVDs on the internet. His computers and
discs were seized during a raid in his house.
- Intel Banias To Have 1MB Cache - The chip, a completely new mobile
processor
coming from Intel in the first quarter of next year, will include a 1MB
secondary cache, said Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's Israel Design
Center, where the chip was developed. That's twice as big as the cache found
on the Pentium 4 and the same size found on the company's Xeon chip for
servers.
- Intel touts security on a chip - Intel today claimed the industry's
first
network processor for secure content processing. The Intel IXP2850 network
processor features high-performance packet processing with security features
in a single chip and is designed for applications such as Virtual Private
Networks, Web services and Storage Area Networks. Hardware mechanisms within
the chip enable popular encryption standards, such as 3DES and the recently
introduced Advanced Encryption Standard, to be implemented at speeds up to
10Gbps, Intel says. The company is positioning the chip as an alternative to
customised ASICs commonly found in current high-speed firewall/VPN appliances
from the likes of NetScreen.
- Intel describes billion-transistor four-core Itanium processor -
Intel Corp. described at Microprocessor Forum 2002 how it could combine four
Itanium 2 cores with a large, shared cache memory to create a processor with
more than
1
billion transistors, and said it could build a processor of that size in
65-nanometer technology by 2007.
- Commercial graphics processors define next-gen military systems -
ATI Technologies Inc., Nvidia Corp., and 3DLabs Inc. are
selling their commercial PC graphics parts to the military, although
volumes are relatively small. Even so, graphics designers say the use of their
products in such high-profile, demanding applications provides a hidden
benefit by showcasing the processors and cards for other new markets.
- Toshiba speeds up low-cost PDA - Toshiba has announced
a new low-cost
personal digital assistant (PDA), the Pocket PC e330.
The device is based on an Intel XScale PXA250 300MHz processor with 64 MB Ram,
compared to the StrongArm 206 processor and 32 MB Ram used in its predecessor,
the Pocket PC e310.
- Hard drives taking over from VHS tapes - In this vision, consumers
would slide
drives
containing music, digital photos, or recorded TV programs into an empty
bay, similar to the bay on PCs that holds CD drives. Drives could also be
linked to consumer-electronics devices by way of a USB 2.0 or FireWire
connector.
- Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz PDF - According to this
leaked PDF, this baby will have a 533MHz FSB!
- Akasa PaxMate Sound Dampening Mats - I already mentioned it in
hardware reviews article, but anyway - according to
this review on BurnoutPC, it does help reducing the sound, not
really that much but it does quiet down the vibrations of your HDD, pump etc.
- SwiftTech Peltier Cooler For AMD Processors -
The MCX462+T is a fully assembled air-cooled thermoelectric (Peltier)
solution designed to manage thermal loads of up to 100 Watts. The product is
intended for applications where liquid cooling is not an option.
- SiSoftware SANDRA 2003 in November - SiSoftware today announced
that SANDRA 2003 will be released in November 2002.
- UnitedLinux developing a desktop - Attending last week's Linux Expo
UK in London, Blepp also said that the group was considering bringing in new
members once version 1.0 of its main server software is out the door.
Blepp, who acts as spokesman for UnitedLinux on top of his role as vice
president of international business for member company SuSE, said that the
introduction of a version of UnitedLinux aimed at desktop computers such as
workstations was more dependent on organizing the UnitedLinux members than on
producing the technology.
"We have a desktop plan almost ready. The products are ready. We have the
technology, but the question is how to put it on the street, and to make sure
everybody is thinking the same way," Blepp said.
- Memorex 48/24/48 overclocked to 52/24/52 - Well we've wondered if
the version 6 chipset could do it and indeed it can. My Memorex 48Maxx (which
I had flashed to a Lite-On LTR-48246S) is
now a
52Maxx (52/24/52) with firmware 6WS2. Nero reports 7,800 maximum speed and
tests have shown about a 14-15 second jump in writing an 80 minute disc. No
problems so far.
- VGA Card Benchmarks With UT2003 -
This article is in Korean, but still worth checking :)
- MSIE 7.0 beta screenshots - There's is
screenshot taken from a beta version of IE 7 from a half finished
version of Windows XP Service Pack 2.
- OpenOffice 643: Developer Release - Leech it from the
mirrors...
- Gens v2.11 -
Gens is an
excellent Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator which works on Windows 9x. You
need Directx 7.0 or higher to run this emulator.
- Virtual CD 4.5 -
Virtual CD copies your favourite audio-, data- or video-CD/DVDs as
compressed image files on the hard disk and emulates up to 22 CD drives to
access and to run the CD applications.
- IfoEdit 0.94 -
IfoEdit 0.94 has one major new feature: It can Author DVDs. Specifically
it can multiplex DVD compliant MPEG-2 video streams and audio streams (AC3,
MPA, WAV/LPCM).
- mp3DirectCut v1.26 -
Freeware
mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing MPEG audio directly. You can
remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new
files. All without the need to decompress your MP3 into a PCM format.
- Blindwrite Suite 4.1 -
Blindwrite
Suite is a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD even protected ones.
Blindwrite Suite is the more powerfull tool to create a perfect copy from your
original CD for personal backup purpose.
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