Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:15 AM CEST - May,23 2003
- Post a comment
- California Senate OKs antispam bill - The California State
Senate
approves a bill that would make it illegal to send unsolicited e-mail
advertising and allows people to sue so-called spammers for $500 per unwanted
message. If the bill, which now goes to the California Assembly, becomes law,
it would be one of the strictest antispam measures in the country. Gov. Gray
Davis has taken no position on the measure.
- Real and Playboy launch video subscription service - RealNetworks
has extended its streaming video reach by adding bunch of new contect
providers in its roster. The biggest name definately is
Playboy, which has signed up as OpenPass content provider.
- University of Calgary to teach secrets of cybercrime - Developing
malicious software - viruses, worms and Trojan horses - will soon be part of
the
program for 16 students at the University of Calgary. The aim is to delve
into the cybercrime mind to understand a problem that causes billions of
dollars in damage annually worldwide, says Dan Seneker, with the university's
department of computer science.
- Scientists discover how the monarch butterfly navigates 2,000-mile
migration without a map - Monarch butterflies migrate between their
wintering roosts in central Mexico to their summer breeding grounds as far
north as the US-Canadian border. Scientists have now discovered that
they employ an internal biological clock that enables them to use the sun as a
reliable compass no matter what time of day it is. This form of navigation
is so accurate that it allows some monarch butterflies to return to the same
trees in the Mexican mountains that were used by their great, great
grandparents as roosting sites the previous winter.
- i865 Springdale Chipset review roundup - There's a batch of reviews for
Intel's i865 Springdale chipset:
Anandtech |
HardOCP
| Hexus
|
Lost Circuits |
MBReview |
OCAddiction |
Sudhian
Media |
Tech-Report |
Tom's Hardware |
UKGamer
- AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Review - The Athlon XP line has recently
undergone some changes, with AMD adding an extra 256k of level 2 cache to the
Athlon XP's and naming the core Barton. The extra cache should give a nice
boost to performance, which is why the XP3000 boasts a higher PR rating than
the XP2700 although they run at the same clockspeed of 2.167GHz. So, lets take
a closer
look at the XP3000 to see if it is worth the upgrade.
- Spire Coolers AMD Heat sink Comparison - This comparison says the
winner of the three is the Micro Flow II. Despite being the loudest,
although it still wasn't that loud, it performed the best.
- OCZ Ultra 2 Thermal Paste -
OCZ Ultra 2 is a high-quality polysynthetic thermal compound designed to
provide maximum thermal transfer between the CPU surface and the heatsink. OCZ
Ultra 2 uses a blend of polysynthetic oils that ensure that the compound will
not solidify or lose its thermal transfer properties over time. Ultra 2
thermal compound is not electrically conductive, meaning that it is completely
safe for use on any surface that requires maximum thermal transfer. Each 3
gram syringe contains enough OCZ Ultra 2 to properly cool twenty to thirty
CPU's, depending on the surface area.
- ABIT IS7 Springdale Motherboard Review - The Springdale chipset
sports a pretty hefty feature list. The first thing that comes to mind as
monumental for an Intel chipset is Dual Channel DDR. For those of you
unfamiliar with DCDDR it is actually pretty simple. In the past Intel chipsets
have all been single channel. This means that no matter how many sticks of
memory and regardless of size, the memory was combined to share the same
bandwidth and path (or channel) to the CPU. With Dual Channel what this
basically means is that there are two separate banks, each with it's own
pipeline, theoretically doubling your memory speed. As benchmarks
will show later in this review, this claim is very close to accurate.
- Liteon XJ-HD166S 16x DVD Drive - As you can see from the above
results,
the drive performs slower than the manufacturer's specifications. None the
less the DVD play back is very good and the price can't be beat.
- SONY DRU-500A Monstrous Combo-Drive -
SONY developed a really interesting product. The main and evident
advantage of this drive is the support of both competing writable and
re-writable DVD standards. The owner of DRU-500A can work with both types of
disks, without worrying which of them to choose and without waiting for the
two developer groups to find the winner. The main problem for every DVD-RW
drive buyer is to pick up the right model, which would continue living if one
of the two standards dies. Here this problem is eliminated completely.
- NETGEAR WAG511 Dual-Band Wireless PC Card Review - Tom's Hardware
Guide has published
a review of the NETGEAR WAG511 Dual-Band Wireless PC Card.
- Altec Lansing 251 5.1 Desktop Theater Review - Looking to
improve your computer sound into a complete surround sound system, but don't
know which one to go with? Well,
Altec Lansing's 251 5.1 PC Gaming and Desktop theater could be a solution
or it could be the one your can be warned not to get.
- Zippy EL-610 Keyboard - As you can see next to a full size kb,
the Zippy is a small keyboard. Being small, now you have more room in your
work space for other things. It's also very slim. Less than an inch thick at
the thickest part. And while it is very light, it feels well made and sturdy.
- PHP 4.3.2RC4 - This is the fourth release candidate (Win32
~ Linux ~
buildtracker)
and should have no critical problems/bugs. Nevertheless, please download and
test it as much as possible on real-life applications to uncover any remaining
issues.
- Fresh UI v6.00 -
Fresh UI (download)
is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with
hundreds of useful hidden settings this software covers the customizing and
optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know.
- Tweak-XP Professional 2.0.10a -
Tweak-XP was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to
increase the speed of your Windows XP system. All settings can be done without
having any former knowledge, since Tweak-XP informs the user in detail about
each option. Tweak-XP, all you need for Windows XP.
- StyleXP v1.01p -TGTSoft today released
a new
version of its theme software for Windows. This new version adds support
for Win2k3 server.
- Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0 Beta 2 -
Kerio Personal
Firewall (download)
represents smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects
personal computers against hackers. It is built on ICSA-certified security
technology. It is free for home and personal use.
- NVDVD 2.55 - NVIDIA has updated the trial version of their
DVD Player to 2.55.
- Leadtek Winfox Tool Updated - A couple days ago, Leadtek have
released
an updated version for their Winfox Tool v30513 (2003/5/13).
- Nvidia nForce Drivers 2.42 WHQL - Nvidia has released a new nForce2
Drivers 2.42 WHQL for
WinXP ~
Win2k. The changes that have been made are the 43.51 graphics driver
included being WHQL certified, and the IDE drivers were removed. So no need to
download 2.42 if you already have 2.41.
|
Updated:12:40 AM CEST Jun,21
(new)
