Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:54 AM CET - Dec,11 2002
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- No Gas in 'Grand Theft' Sequel - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City -- the
virtual thug's tale that's inspired record sales, drooling reviews and waves
of finger-wagging in the press -- is, in fact,
not much more than an uninspired sequel. Sure, you can now drive a
motorcycle, as well as a car. And there are those cool '80s tunes playing on
the stereo. But the game is pretty much the same as its PlayStation 2
predecessor, the groundbreaking Grand Theft Auto 3.
- Gibson to appear in new "Mad Max" film - Mel Gibson, who starred in
the 1979 cult hit "Mad Max,"
is returning to the franchise for a fourth time, according to the
entertainment trade paper Daily Variety. He will be paid a salary
approaching $25 million to star in "Fury Road" for original "Mad Max" director
George Miller, who has been crafting the script for the last three years. Once
again, Mad Max will roam the lawless, post-apocalpytic Australian outback. The
project is set up at Twentieth Century Fox. Studio insiders say the $104
million project will begin shooting in Australia next May as the targeted
start date.
- Psst! 'Two Towers,' cheap -- from pirates - Wanna catch the new
"Lord of the Rings" movie before it opens in cinemas later this month? That's
easily done if you live in, or visit, China and some other Asian markets --
and you're not worried about copyright laws, Variety reports. DVDs of "The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" were
available in Shanghai two weeks ago for about $1 a pop, according to one
Western film industry executive who visited that city. The film opens in North
America on December 18.
- Wanted: Successor to flash memory - Current flash technology will
likely survive until 2006, when it will be replaced by flash technology
manufactured using a 65-nanometer process. The nanometer figure refers to the
distance between transistors on a chip. Chipmakers are currently selling
so-called 130 nanometer chips and
will soon make the move to 90 nanometers. One replacement AMD is exploring
is Quantum Well technology, which uses tiny wires, of approximately 5
nanometers, to store data. AMD will discuss this approach in a paper presented
at the San Francisco conference, Sander said.
- DALnet debilitated by DoS attacks - DALnet, one of the world's
biggest IRC service providers, has apologized to its users for disruptions
caused by an unusually fierce
DDoS attack over the weekend, whose effects are continuing to be felt.
"There are several reasons for this, including ongoing attacks and a loss of
servers. "This weekend, these problems have increased. DALnet has been under
an unusually strong, unusually persistent attack. These attacks are directed
at all DALnet client servers, rather than just a few." DALnet's
volunteer administrators is working with service providers and with police to
stop these attacks, which are far from easy to block.
- Enjoy WindowsXP.nu while it lasts -WindowsXP.nu site has been
updated with information:
"Monday I received a FAX from a Dutch law firm here in Amsterdam representing
Microsoft Redmond, USA. Microsoft wants me to handover the domain WindowsXP.nu
before December 19th!" .....well, no comment :(
- GeForce FX and more from AGDC 2002 - Tweak Town has posted
some
coverage of the Australian Game Developers Conference 2002. There you will
find information on Sony's PS2 online gaming plans and videos and pictures of
nVidia's GeForce FX in action as well as shots of the graphics card.
- AMD's multiprocessing chips to support 333MHz system buses -
Sources close to AMD said that the firm will likely soon release
multiprocessing "MP" processors that support the faster 333MHz front side
buses that the Athlon XP supports. Those faster MP chips could be
introduced early next year, and possibly with the release of the MP 2600+.
Although the firm will not comment on unannounced products, we understand that
the move to a 333MHz system bus is a comparatively trivial matter.
- PC Hardware Gift Guide 2003 - Whether you're looking for that
perfect gift for the "Techie" in the family or just shopping for yourself here
are some
ideas and suggestions from us to you.
- PC DVD Writers FAQ - CDFreaks.com has posted
a new FAQ about PC DVD recorders. The FAQ gives a little basic information
about DVD recording on the PC, but has a lot of information about issues with
Pioneer related DVD-RW drives.
- Part 5 of the Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 7 - Adrian's
Rojak Pot posted
Part 5 of the Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 7.
- Sonic foundry v5.0 -
Sonic Foundry has
released its professional CD mastering and burning application,
CD Architect. Version 5.0 has been re-engineered as a stand-alone
application and provides comprehensive audio CD production tools available for
creating Red Book CD pre-masters suitable for professional replication.
- America's Army Forward Observer v0.3.15 Browser -
This add-on is a custom server-browser that will soon replace GameSpy or
the All-Seeing Eye or even the in-game browser as your favorite tool for
finding games and player and server information. That tool is only meant for
America's army game, nothing else.
- MetaProducts Download Express 1.3 -
MetaProducts Download Express (DE) is a FREE Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
program that allows you to download individual files from Web and FTP sites at
the maximum available speed. Multiple downloading channels technology
significantly decreases the time necessary to download files. (thanks hoe)
* it's quite old program, but really pretty useful :)
- Official VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 drivers v4.45
- VIA Tech has released an updated set of
VIA 4-in-1 set of chipset drivers v4.45. (what's
new). / Mirror:
TechConnect. + Ghazi has updated his original
VIA Driver Guide in TweakTown's forums to come in line with this release.
- Netscape 7.01 - A new version of the popular browser
Netscape - v7.01 (Windows
/
Linux) has been released.
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