Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 09:18 AM CEST - Sep,30 2003
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- Hackers Exploit Internet Explorer Flaw -
New attacks using the vulnerability include a worm that spreads through
America Online's Instant Messenger, and a malicious Web site that silently
loads snooping software on victims' machines, according to independent
security expert Richard Smith. Microsoft did not immediately respond to
requests for comment.
- Ukraine hosts computer destruction championship - Over 300
self-confessed computer addicts have participated in a competition in the
central Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya to destroy their own hardware in a
spectacular fashion.
The
event, dubbed the "First Open Computer Destruction Championship", was
organised by a local FM radio station with the professed aim of raising young
people's awareness of the dangers of spending too much time in front of a
computer. The competition comprised three main events - throwing a keyboard,
kicking a computer mouse, and the most popular, the "creative destruction" of
computer monitors.
- Microsoft to reveal more Longhorn details - At its Professional
Developers Conference in Los Angeles, the Redmond, Wash.,
software maker will detail Longhorn's underlying graphics and user interface
technology, code-named Avalon. Microsoft describes Avalon as "a brand-new
client platform for building smart, connected, media-rich applications in
Longhorn." Avalon will introduce the ability to create applications with a new
style of user interface and greater resolution than Windows currently
supports, according to the company. Microsoft in May said Longhorn would
support a screen resolution of 120 dots per square inch or higher. With
Windows XP, typical 17-inch displays support a resolution of about 95 dots per
square inch.
- Samsung advances processes for 4-Gbit flash, 512-Mbit DRAM -
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Monday (Sept. 29)
it
has developed a 4-Gbit NAND-style flash memory and 512-Mbut DRAM using
advanced manufacturing process technologies. However, the company did not say
what memory interface the memories comply with, or when they would be mass
produced. The NAND-flash device was fabricated using a 70-nm process
technology. The DRAM was made using an 80-nm process, Samsung said. In
addition Samsung announced what it called Fusion memory, which includes the
monolithic integration of memory with logic.
- Triplex Wireless Ti4200 8X Review - Triplex gave us a possibility
to try out their rather special videocard.
A
Geforce 4 Ti4200 which has a Wireless TV-Out connection onboard! If you
have a PC in one room and a TV in the next and want to watch those BMW-movies
on your TV, then this video card might be for you!
- Turn Your GBA Into a Game Console -
This is a mod of all mods for the GameBoy Advance. Essentially converting
it into a game console with an ability to attach a joystick, output video to a
TV or an RGB monitor, and provide power management to get around wasting those
batteries. The result is amazing and breathes new life into your GBA, even if
you only decide to do the joystick mod.
- Athlon FX-51 2.2Ghz @ 3.05Ghz - A crazy guy from Japan has
overclocked his
Athlon FX-51 (2.2Ghz) to over 3Ghz! He uses ASUS SK8N with the new
1003.003 BIOS that allow you to change the multiplier. The multiplier is set
to 14x up from the default 11x but the current version of CPUZ cannot detect
the actual multiplier as yet.
- Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Review - First of all, should we
install Microsoft Office 2003? Does it run on our machine? Uses it even more
CPU, Memory and harddisk? Does it have improvements? All those questions are
answered in
this review.
- LOTR:Return Of The King Trailer - The Lord of the Rings: Return of
the King
trailer (9MB) is now available.
- Shadermark 2.0 -
ShaderMark 2.0
(download)
is a DirectX 9.0 pixel shader benchmark. All pixel and vertex shader code is
written in Microsoft's High Level Shading Language. ShaderMark provides the
possibility to use different compiler targets + advanced options.
- Recover4all Professional 2.23 - With the
Recover4all Software
(download) you can easily
recover (undelete) files that were accidently deleted under Windows.
- MultiEx Commander v3.9.68 -
MultiEx
Commander is a tool with a WinZip-like interface that can open more than
140 different game archive types, such as PK3 (e.g. Call of Duty), PAK (e.g.
Quake2), BIG (e.g. C&C : Generals). Not only can all the files in such
archives be extracted, MultiEx Commander also supports replacement of files in
the archives by user-files (file importation), creating a powerful
modification ability of existing games by MultiEx Commander.
- Browser 8.02 Build 105 -
Avant Browser (download)
is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a
multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up
Stopper, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and
Advanced Browsing Options.
- GAIM 0.70 -
Gaim (download)
is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and
Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN
Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
- Nvidia Linux AMD64 Drivers v1.0-4499 - Nvidia has released a new
set of
Linux AMD64 Drivers version 1.0-4499.
- nVidia Detonator Drivers 45.32 and 45.33 - Guru3D now offer
two "new"
sets of detonator drivers for download. Despite the upcoming Detonator
drivers 5x.xx release it seems that NVIDIA still is working on the 45.xx
build. They are Detonator drivers 45.32 for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows
2000/XP. The drivers are 100% NVIDIA reference releases. We don't know just
yet if they are WHQL certified though.
- Nforce driver v2.64 - AOpen FTP has been updated with the latest
Nforce driver version 2.64 (Dated 09/28/03). Download:
XP
Server #1 |
W2K/XP #2 |
W2K/XP #3 |
W2K/XP #4 |
W2K/XP #5 |
Win98/ME Server #1 |
Win98/ME #2 |
Win98/ME #3 |
Win98/ME #4 |
Win98/ME #5 (thanks
Warp2Search).
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