Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:18 AM CET - Dec,03 2002
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- Egghead making "rain machine" - A professor at Scotland's Edinburgh
University has been awarded a government grant to develop the world's first
rainmaking machine, the Times reported. Professor Stephen Salter will create a
60-metre high turbine to suck water out of the sea and turn it into water
vapour through nozzles, spraying it out into the atmosphere, the newspaper
said.
- Does your local pub have WiFi? It's free... - This report was
written in Barneys in St Albans.
It's a pub/wine bar/restaurant, and all I had to do was walk in, sit down,
and open up my laptop. Instantly, I had free Internet. Who pays? Well,
the simple answer, according to Brian Parker, marketing director of Wialess,
is - I do. I bought a meal and a drink which Barneys wouldn't otherwise have
sold.
- AMD Places Chips on 64 - Like just about every other company in IT,
AMD is burdened with the challenges of an economic slowdown and drop in IT
spending. But unlike anyone else, to turn itself around, the Sunnyvale,
Calif., semiconductor manufacturer must win over end users and computer makers
thoroughly aligned with chief rival Intel Corp. But AMD has a plan. And as it
licks the wounds from its third consecutive quarterly loss for the third
quarter, the tenacious chip maker is focusing on the future--the first half of
2003, to be exact. That's when the company releases its first 64-bit
processors based on the Hammer architecture. The chips, which will be priced
comparable to 32-bit chips and backward compatible with 32-bit apps, are the
keys to AMD's turnaround and future,
according to President and CEO Hector de Ruiz. (interview)
- GeForce FX to the World's Top Gamers At the CPL Winter Event -
NVIDIA and PNY Technologies, today
announced that they have teamed up as key sponsors of the Cyberathlete
Professional League's (CPL) P4 Processor Winter Event. The annual
competition pits the world's greatest professional computer gamers against
each other for the chance to win $140,000 in cash prizes. The event will be
held from December 18-22 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas.
- AGP errata found in new Intel workstation chipsets - Two new
chipsets which have just been released in motherboards for the workstation
market have
AGP 3.0 errata in them which Intel appears to have no intention fixing.
The first of the chipsets is the long awaited "Placer" (7505) chipset. In a
note on the Intel website, the firm describes two errata for the chipset - the
first is that AGP signals do not meet the AGP 3.0 specification, while the
second is that the AGP Prefetch Cache has to be disabled.
- Creative Introduces New 2.1 Speaker System - The system is called
I-Trigue 2.1 3300. This unique subwoofer speaker system features two
premium speakers, each with three Titanium drivers to deliver better sonic
accuracy and clarity than other speakers designed with Aluminum drivers. Its
powerful wood subwoofer incorporates a 6.5" long-throw driver with a dual
flared port tube for clean and natural sound. What's more, its wired remote
control comes with an output jack for personal listening with your headphones.
- Linux: Benchmarking 2.4 vs 2.5, UP vs SMP - The good doctor
Con Kolivas recently posted
some
interesting kernel benchmarks generated with his contest benchmarking
tool. Using resources provided by the OSDL, Con compared 2.4.19, 2.4.20,
2.5.49 and 2.5.50, each with a single processor enabled and with dual
processors enabled.
- System Optimization Guide for Gamers - If you're already thinking
"Why should I bother going through this guide, I just want my game to run
faster man!" then you've missed the point. A lot of gaming problems are
actually nothing to do with the game itself. In most cases it's a general
system optimization issue of some sort. Do yourself a favour, take a few
minutes of your life and
read the following and I promise you'll find something of use which should
have you gaming at full speed ASAP.
- CD Covers and Labels for Longhorn - There are some really
nice-looking
CD Covers and Labels for Longhorn.
- phpMyAdmin 2.3.3 -
phpMyAdmin can manage
a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database. This new
version allows Upload of compressed dumps, iInform the user who does not have
privileges to create a db and many more.
- Zoom Player 3.0 Beta 2 -
Zoom Player (changelog
/ mirror1
~ mirror2) is a
robust Media and DVD Front-End Player. It was designed to be simple at first
glance while being remarkably dynamic and flexible when used to its full
potential. Zoom Player works in two modes. A Media mode which can play any
file supported by DirectShow (any file which plays in MediaPlayer) and a DVD
mode which uses pre-installed DirectShow DVD filters to play DVD content.
- DVD2SVCD 1.1.0 Build 1c- Freeware
DVD2SVCD is a
completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA and AVI files to SVCD..
- CloneCD v4.2.0.1 -
CloneCD 4 (download)
by Elaborate Bytes is the ideal CD copy program to make backups of your Music
and Data CDs. It writes in RAW mode, allowing full control of the written
data. CloneCD 4 produces real 1:1 copies of your CDs. CloneCD 4 works with
almost all CD Writers, is rock-solid and very fast. CloneCD 4 does not need an
ASPI driver. This new version added
tons of new features.
- DVDXCopy v1.2 (for registered users only) - Now you can backup your
favorite DVD movies with nothing more than a DVD burner and your home computer
with DVDXCOPY software. Within minutes, using the easy One-Click technology,
you can COPY and BURN your own DVD Movies using nothing more than the
software, a DVD-ROM and any DVD Burner including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or
DVD+RW. If you are registered user - download
this new update.
- PlexTools v1.17 - Plextor Europe is proud to announce
a new release of the PlexTools software. You can use PlexTools for
instance to get more information on your drive, tweak its settings and besides
that you can use it to play audio discs (with support for CD-Text) and of
course you can use PlexTools to copy CD's or to make your own audio
compilations with.
- ATV2000 v2.0.17.0 -
Freeware ATV2000 is new generation of TV viewing and capture application
based on old ATV, but with reworked core. All is build around new control
panel, witch provides tuning video and audio controls.
- Intel 845G/830M Integrated VGA Drivers - Intel released
new drivers v11.4 .1 build 3317 for their Pentium4 i845G / i830M
integrated VGA.
- EpoX USDM 1.06v -
This nice program from EPOX tells you the temperature of your case, CPU
and how fast your fans are going.
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