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(hx) 04:01 AM CEST - Jul,22 2003
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- Feds Settle With Young ID Thief - The Federal Trade Commission has
settled a civil action against a 17-year-old California boy who was
allegedly tricking Internet users into giving him their credit card numbers
and other personal information on a bogus Web site meant to look like America
Online's billing center. The settlement, announced Monday, will bar the
defendant from sending spam and force him to give up about $3500 in profits
from his venture, which ran from July to December 2002, before the FBI
confiscated his computer. A federal court in central California must formally
approve the settlement.
- French police break alleged Internet counterfeiting ring - French
police have
arrested 110 people and seized tens of thousands of illegally copied
movies as part of a probe into an alleged Internet-based counterfeiting ring.
The nationwide sweep, carried out over 11 days, came after authorities
identified a Web site offering movies copied from DVDs, police Lt. Jean-Luc
Sauvage said Saturday.
- Messenger 6.0 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability -
A
certain Bahaa Naamneh reported a bug in MSN Messenger 6.0.0501 and prior
builds that makes it possible to crash someone's MSN by sending bad,
incomplete pictures. If you send an image file to one of your contacts, MSN
shows a thumbnail even before the destination accepts the transfer. Now when u
send an incomplete file image the thumbnailer will lose the default size,
cause a buffer overflow and crash the client. To fix this problem, Microsoft
recommends to upgrade to latest build 6.0. (thanks
Neowin.net)
- Samsung Shows Feature-Packed PDA - Besides phone, camera, TV, and
camcorder capabilities, it also has an MP3 player, and serves as a two-way
radio and has wireless infrared links for exchanging data with other devices.
The MITs M400 will sell for one million won, or approximately $800, a
spokesperson for the company said. The handset has a 3.5 inch TFT-LCD that can
be adjusted for portrait or landscape viewing. The 300,000-pixel camera and
camcorder can also be swiveled 270 degrees for taking still shots or clips.
The device comes with 128MB of memory, expandable to 512 MB and is based
around Intel's PXA250 XScale processor running at 300 MHz.
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-U60 - Having fun at the beach with a
camera is as American as apple pie, but you sure can ruin your day if you
accidentally drop your camera in the sand or water. The nifty 2-megapixel
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-U60 ($250 list) is cleverly designed for maximum fun
and shooting on the beach or under the waves without worrying-and it even
takes great pictures. The U60 has only two resolutions, 1,632-by-1,224 and
640-by-480, and one compression level. You can set the camera's fixed focal
length, semi-wide-angle lens (which acts as a normal lens underwater) to auto-
or manual focus. The four-mode flash illuminated up to 6 feet out of water and
about 4 feet under the surface in our tests. The U60 can capture up to 15
seconds of video but doesn't have audio capability or a video-out port.
- FX5900 vs Radeon9800Pro Review - While FX5800 in due time was
unable to outrun Radeon9700Pro,
this time FX5900 in most tests lags behind Radeon9800Pro a little bit. But
nVidia has the Ultra option in stock and things may change about it. At least,
Gainward's FX5900 whose frequencies (440/900) strongly differ from the
canonical (425/800Mhz) already demonstrates some advantages and things are not
the way they seem. This is to say that frequencies in the Ultra version will
be much higher.
- ATI Radeon 9800 All In Wonder Pro Review - Gaming, TV Viewing and
Capture, TIVO Features, Remote Control the All In Wonder 9800 Pro certainly
lives up to its name. This card isn't for the casual computer user. It's the
ultimate enthusiast's card. Retailing at around $449 you will need to break
your piggy bank open to afford it but as we all know, quality comes at a cost
:) Overall I can highly recommend the Radeon 9800 All In Wonder Pro, the best
just got better. If I could give a double Editor's Choice award I would.
What will ATI have in store for us next?
- ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB -
The
major plus points of the Radeon 9800, being its all round high
performance, relatively high DX9 performance and great FSAA quality, are
relatively well known now. The 256MB board takes all these and makes some of
them that little more useable and adds a little more future proofing it, but
it all comes at a price.
- ATI All in Wonder 9800 PRO -
The
All In Wonder 9800 PRO is the best 9800 PRO on the market, even compared
against the limited edition 256MB version. It's versatility, features and
performance all add up to make it the most compelling video card we have seen
to date.
- Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 (Intel 865PE) - Priced attractively at
S$199,
the Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 is indeed a good buy for budget conscious users
who just want to have a no-frills ATX board. Backed by Gigabyte's quality
seal, you won't go very wrong if you're thinking of using this for your next
upgrade.
- Epox 4PCA3+ i875P Motherboard Review - Stock performance of the
Epox 4PCA3+ was very good; it outperformed both the AOpen AX4C Max and MSI
875 Neo-FIS2R motherboards in almost all the benchmarks, sometimes by more
than 5%! Unfortunately our overclocking adventures didn't go very well. The
maximum FSB we could run was 216 MHz FSB. For those of you with more powerful
cooling solutions, a 1.6V maximum CPU voltage may limit your overclocks as
well.
- InCoder Slim Metal Combo Drive -
INcoder's brand-new portable storage Combo drives (CD-Rewriters/ DVD-Rom)
right now are available. Burn your 650Mb/ 74min CDs faster and better with
buffer under run Botect technology (Just Link). Easy Plug and play function
while you connect these drives to Laptop (Notebook) and desktop PC.
- Corsair TWINX1024-3700 Review -
The Corsair XMS3700 modules are designed to take advantage of higher front
side bus speeds while using a relaxed timing that will allow for stability at
these higher frequencies. The XMS3700 series using a timing of 3-4-4-8 to
accomplish usage at DDR466 or a front side bus speed of 233 mhz. Something
that should be mentioned is that while this ram is designed for usage at a 233
mhz front side bus there aren't any P4 CPU's selling that run on a 233 mhz
fsb.
- 10 mobos with the nForce2 Ultra400 - The graphics specialist
nVIDIA still offers the fastest platform for the Athlon XP. With an FSB
clock rate of up to 200 MHz, the latest version, which goes by the name of
nForce2 Ultra 400, can serve even the fastest Athlon XP 3200+. THG ran a total
of ten motherboards through their tests. The Shuttle XPC Mini-PC was also
there at the starting.
- Ultimate Thermal Paste Round up -
So there you have it 3000+ hours of work, 20+ pastes and still no clear
winner. The Nanotherm PCM+ leads the pack with a slim margin, and it is great
for those that don't want to take the time to make sure that the paste is thin
and even. Arctic Silver's Ceramique also put up a great showing, keeping pace
with the PCM+ and Shin Etsu pastes. The Ceramique is probably a little easier
to find. Seems I see it at every online retail outlet. OCZ Ultra and Radio
Shack also deserve a mention. Both pastes are very inexpensive and perform
very, very well.
- Installing Windows Server 2003 Guide - If you're looking at
installing Windows 2003 Server you might want to check out
this article over on Informit.com. In this hour, the following topics are
covered:Planning Windows Server 2003 installations, Windows Server 2003
hardware requirements, How to check Windows Server 2003 hardware and software
compatibility on a serve to be upgraded, Working with server licensing,
Installing Windows Server 2003, Upgrading a server to Windows Server 2003.
(tnx WinOSCentral)
- Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 - A new
Red Hat Linux beta
(codename Severn) is now available. As shown on the schedule,
the beta 1
testing period will last from July 21 to mid-August.
- SlimBrowser 3.71 Build 002 -
SlimBrowser is a multiple-site browser based on tab-page interface. It
incorporates a large collection of wonderful features like recoverable popup
killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto
login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation,
script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering. It brings you
convenient and comfortable browsing.
- CPUCooL 7.2.6 -
CPUCooL (download)
has been updated. What is CPUCool? CPUCooL is a program that monitors
temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards.
- PHPEdit 0.7.1.131 -
PHPEdit
(download)
is one of the best IDE under Windows to work with PHP. It offer a bunch of
tools which allow you to work easier and faster on your eash day work.
- Desktop Sidebar v1.03 - The aim of
Desktop Sidebar
(download) is
provide you with instant access to some of your most important daily
information. It displays e-mails, appointments, task, notes, Messenger
contacts, stock quotes, weather forecasts and constantly updated news from
blogs, RSS newsfeeds and web pages. This new version includes a POP3
Mail Checker panel, Longhorn Clock, Network Monitor, support for RSS
Auto-discovery and automatic HTML to RSS conversion in Newsroom panel and many
more small enhancements and bug fixes.
- XMPEG v5.0 RC 3 -
This
program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the
possibillity to re-encode them in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes
Xmpeg faster, more stable, and offers more options.
- Windows XP BootVis.exe 1.3.37 -
BootVis.exe is a performance trace
visualization tool for use with Microsoft Windows XP systems.
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