Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:52 AM CET - Dec,22 2003
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- Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust -
A
Cincinnati man who plead guilty Thursday to cracking and cloning giant
consumer databases was only caught because he helped out a friend in the
hacker community. Daniel Baas, 25, plead guilty Thursday to a single federal
felony count of "exceeding authorized access" to a protected computer for
using a cracked password to penetrate the systems of Arkansas-based Acxiom
Corporation -- a company known among privacy advocates for its massive
collection and sale of consumer data. The company also analyzes in-house
consumer databases for a variety of companies.
- Software shares out spare processing power - Software to be
launched in January
will let PC users run as many "distributed computing" projects as they
like. The program will let PC users search for aliens, help predict climate
change and perform advanced biological research - all at the same time.
- Secret of "strained silicon" chips revealed - Intel has taken the
wraps off a secret technique it is using to increase the speed of its
Pentium and Centrino chips. The technique boosts the rate at which transistors
switch, without having to make them smaller.
- Borland Delphi 8 for the MS .NET Framework Ships - Borland
announced the
immediate availability of Borland Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET
Framework. This latest edition of Delphi development environment
outlines a clear path for the future of Delphi, enabling Delphi developers to
use their existing Delphi language and Framework skills to create .NET
Framework-based applications and migrate existing Win32® Delphi applications
to the .NET Framework.
- USB Powered Miniature Christmas Tree with Oscillating LED Light -
Addlogix (formerly CompuCable) is introducing a new way of celebrating this
holiday season, with
the USB Christmas Tree (USB X-MAS Tree) for your computer. What better way
to brighten the holiday spirit in the office and home by plugging in a
stand-alone mini X-MAS tree with LED cycling through 6 different colors.
- AMD opteron 146 review - At this time I can’t fault the
Opteron
146, it is a great chip for the gamer and home user especially if you need
that bit of extra power and considering that performance can only improve when
64bit support is added to Windows things can only get better for the Opteron.
- Intel 3.2GHz 800FSB review -
The Intel Pentium 4 "C" revision processor offers excellent overclocking
potential along with incredible out of the box performance. Compatiblity is
not an issue and the Pentium 4 has never been known as a bad apple when it
comes to heat and durability, an issue that has plagued AMD in the past. Look
for the Pentium 4 "C" to continue its popularity trend until AMD lowers the
price of the Athlon 64 FX.
- NVIDIA 5950 vs 9800 XT - Looking at the speed of the 2 cards
they are both very fast. In all DriverHeaven tests, other than Call Of
Duty, the XT is faster than the 5950 Ultra.
- Soyo KT600 Dragon Ultra Platinum Motherboard review -
Soyo’s performance and optimisations was top notch, with a resounding
victory in all the benchmarks it is hard to put a damper on this product. All
the features like Firewire, additional Serial ATA RAID controllers and Gigabit
Ethernet with hardware 6 channel sound makes this motherboard one for those
who want to overclock without paying for a simple name that doesn’t guarantee
the fastest or most feature-packed product of its kind.
- Thermaltake Aquarius III Water Cooling System review - If you’re
after
a quiet cooler and don't really care about overclocking and hardcore
gaming, then get one of these water coolers today. But if you're looking for
better than air cooling for aggressive clock speeds, then you'll want to
either look elsewhere or build your own water cooling rig.
- Samsung 957MB 19-inch CRT Monitor review - Like almost all
Samsung monitors, the 957MB does come with Magic Bright. This is a nice,
handy tool that you can quickly hit a button to set the screen brightness to
preset levels for what you are doing. Also Samsung includes a button called
Highlight. This feature allows you to make one area of the screen brighter
than the rest. You can adjust the size of this area if you wish. The benefit
is that you can open a window that you are working on and highlight that
window so it stands out more. I myself have never found a use for it, but some
of you might have one.-
- BrookGPU 0.2 -
Brook for GPU
is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream program language
for modern graphics hardware. The goals for this project are: Demonstrate
general purpose programing on GPUs, Provide a useful tool for developers who
want to run applications on GPUs and Research the stream language programing
model, streaming applications, and system implementations.
- Adobe Reader Speed-Up 1.09 -
Adobe Reader
Speed-Up (download)
significantly decreases the amount of time required for Adobe Reader 6.0 to
start by disabling most of the least used plugins. Plugins can be freely
enabled and disabled, if required.
- FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP Gold Edition driver - 3dfxzone.it has
posted
FastVoodoo2 4.0 XP Gold Edition driver (download)
that supports 3dfx Voodoo2 video cards with Win2k/XP.
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