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(hx) 02:34 AM CEST - Jun,10 2003
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- Game Boy Advance SP Sells 1.1 Million in U.S. - According to
this PR,
over 1 million Game Boy Advance SP portable consoles have been sold in about
10 weeks in the US. To build upon its success, Nintendo is launching new color
casings. On Sept. 8, Onyx (black) and Flame (red) will join the current
Platinum (silver) and Cobalt (dark blue) systems.
- Microsoft cables new TV technology - Microsoft Chairman Bill
Gates, speaking at the opening session of the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association's annual trade show, outlined his
company's new software for bridging cable television and interactive digital
technology. Microsoft TV Foundation Edition, for use by cable operators
with their existing hardware and network systems, is designed to offer cable
TV viewers features like video on demand and advanced parental screening.
- Nokia GGSN (IP650 Based) DoS -
There exists a vulnerability in the TCP stack that allows an attacker to
cause the GGSN to kernel panic and shutdown. This potentially allows an
attacker to crash all data connectivity within a GPRS based network. This
vulnerability is exploited by sending a malformed IP packet with a TCP option
of 0xFF over a cellphone to the affected network.
- Microsoft messes about with logos in ICMP packets - A report
suggested that
Microsoft
is tunnelling its own logo in the form of a JPG file across networks and
inside an ICMP echo request. But why would it be doing this? Seth Stein, at
his web site
here,
has set something to sniff away at ICMP traffic to see what it's come up. He
discovered a total of 2000 ICMP echo request packets sent from his machine,
even though he hadn't even pinged or ponged once. But capturing the ICMP
packets revealed one set which oddly contained the Microsoft logo. How
peculiar. He asks whether Microsoft programmers were just bored. Well, that
could be the answer...
- Eight security holes found in Debian Linux - DEBIAN issued a note
yesterday saying that there were
eight
security holes associated with the kernel on machines running IA32 (Intel)
architecture.
- FlashFXP - Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities - FlashFXP has
following
two
buffer overflow vulnerabilities: 1. The buffer overflow vulnerability in
"PASV" command ~ 2. The buffer overflow vulnerability in the long host
name. Fix: Upgrade to version 2.1 build 923 or later version.
- Benchmarking - How and Why? - When you buy a 3D video card, you buy
it knowing that you want to play games with it, and not programs that just
spit out a number at you.
The benchmarks used in video card reviews haven't really changed in the
past while, which is saddening. Many people still rely on programs such as
Quake III and 3D Mark 2001SE to test video cards. But with Quake III we can
see that the video card is no longer really a limiter, even at 1600*1200.
- NVIDIA NV40 to Come This Year - Since the NV35 is nearly in retail
now and we know almost everything about the part, it is time to start
reporting unofficial information about NVIDIA's next-generation graphics
processor, the code-named
NV40 GPU.
- Samsung LTM295W 29" LCD Monitor/TV review -
The contrast ratio of 600:1 is amazing, and takes the cake for being the
highest I ve seen to date here with the site. I was pleased to see a more than
acceptable brightness level of 450cd/m2. The response time isn t anything to
snuff at, standing at 22ms. For viewing angles everyone should be pleased with
170/170 (W&H). The last mention is the pixel pitch which sits at .4935(h) X
.4935(w). The optimal resolution while in PC use is 1024 x 768 @ 75Hz although
the maximum is 1280 x 768 @ 75Hz.
- Dell Ultrasharp 1800FP LCD review - ExtremeMhz has
reviewed the Dell Ultrasharp 1800FP LCD.
- All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro review -
The new All-in-Wonder card uses the same version of ATI's latest GPU, the
Radeon 9800 Pro, used on the 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. The
processor has a 380-MHz engine clock, a 340-MHz memory clock, eight pixel
pipes, four vertex pipes, and support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shaders 2.0. In
the recent showdown that sister site Extreme Tech had between the 256MB ATI
Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card (which has a 350-MHz memory clock) and nVidia's
new GeForceFX 5900 Ultra, the ATI GPU held its own.
- Samsung sm352b Combo Drive Review -
The 352b
is the 'older' brother to our previous 252b review, in addition to the 52X
write, 24X re-write, 52X read, the 352b also adds the 16X DVD read option to
the mix. For users who are building a cheap and compact system, these combo
drives are a god send. The ability to read DVDs and perform all CD-R/RW
writing functions is a perfect match.
- Creative SoundBlaster Cards SoftMods Guide Updated Again -
Three different ways to make your SBLive or Audigy utilize the applications
and the new features (if hardware supports them) that Audigy2 offers, or
unlock features of your SBLive, Audigy or Audigy2 card that official drivers
neither enable nor usel
- Kill Bill Trailer - Nitrox sent me another link for
a trailer of the upcoming Tarantino's movie called KILL BILL. Tarantino
rocks!
- Crucial Gizmo! 128MB - Envy News has published
a review
of Gizmo! USB Flash drive.
- FreeBSD 5.1 Released -
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE supports the i386, pc98, alpha, sparc64, and ia64
architectures and can be installed directly over the net using the boot
floppies or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for all
architectures are available now.
- Ad-aware reference file R144 08.06.2003 -
Included are
newly added signatures for StopPop(Vx2) Malware, EPSystems
DialerMaker(Generic Dialer), ZyncosMark, WinPup32 Hijacker,
PeopeOnPage(POP)-Plugin and PowerStrip Toolbar. Updated signatures for
VirtualBouncer, VitaTrade ltd. (Dialer), Whazit Hijacker, i-Won CoPilot,
XupiterOrbitExplorer, WhenuClockSync, WhenuSave!, WhenuWeatherCast,
SearchBarCash, E-Group (Dialer), ColoumbDialler (Dialer), FreeScratchCards
Malware and Internet-Billing-Solutions (Dialer).
- AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 488 -
A
free registration is required to run AVG. You will be emailed a
registration code and can not install it without it.
- Visual Boy Advance v1.5.1 -
Visual Boy Advance is a
Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows systems. There
are two versions available: DirectX and SDL. SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia
Layer. It is a cross platform library for graphics, input, audio, threading,
etc... that can be used for games, emulators, etc the SDL version on Windows
may be faster than the DirectX version.
- CuteFTP XP 5.0.2.2 beta -
CuteFTP is
absolutely the easiest way to transfer files across the Internet. Its built-in
Connection Wizard will walk you through connecting to an FTP site in seconds
and its user-friendly interface will have you transferring files in no time,
even if you are a beginner.
- NetCaptor 7.2.0 Final - The small IE based browser
NetCaptor has been
updated to version
7.2.0 Final (changelog).
- Xplorer2 alpha 0.0.0.31 -
2xExplorer & Xplorer2
are lightweight and powerful, fully shell integrated and extremely usable for
increased everyday productivity, the ideal dual-pane replacement for explorer,
compatible with all 32-bit windows platforms. 2xExplorer & Xplorer2 are easy
to use yet very potent and extremely efficient alternative to the standard
Windows Explorer. It combines the user-friendliness of the latter with the
increased efficiency and advanced features of good-old dual-pane file managers
like Norton Commander. It is a package that will appeal to the power user, yet
its similarity with Explorer will ensure that less experienced users will not
be driven away either.
- BSPlayer 0.86.496 -
BSplayer (download)
is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files ( avi / mpg / asf
/ wmv / wav / mp3...) and shines in video and divx playback.
- ZoomPlayer 3.10 RC2 -
Zoom Player
is a robust media and DVD front-end player
- XMPEG v5.0 RC 1 (free) -
This
program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the
possibilty to reencode them in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes
Xmpeg faster, more stable, and with more options.
- PowerStrip 3.41 Beta Build 395 -
PowerStrip (download)
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide
range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest
Radeon 9700DV and Matrox Parhelia.
- Motherboard Monitor 5.3.3.0 -
Motherboard Monitor
(MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chip on your
motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets
& Sensor Chip combinations. MBM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT,
2000, XP and .NET.
- Alcoholer 3.2 -
Alcoholer (download)
is one of the best 1:1 burning programs. Alcoholer v3.2 Changelog:
Implemented ASS, fixed some bugs, added some new Profiles and ClonyXXL
numbers.
- CPUInfo 2.00 Beta 4 -
CPUInfo shows detailed informations about the processors on the mainboard.
It detects the processor type and manufacturer, the clock ratio, level 1 and
level 2 cache and the processor instruction set extensions.
- Maxtor PowerMax v4.06 -
PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write
verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives.
- NEC ND-1100A Firmware - Firmware Forum have obtained
a new firmware update for owners of the NEC ND-1100A DVD+R/RW writer.
Version 1.A1 should only be used on drives that have the 1.A0 firmware.
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TechSeekers)
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