Saturday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 05:21 PM CET - Nov,30 2002
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- Next Microsoft operating system will be radical change from XP -
The next version of the world's most popular desktop operating system,
code-named "Longhorn," is due out in test form next year and in final form in
2004. It will have
a new look and feel, very different from Windows XP's. Its guts will also
be radically different from Windows XP's, because they're based on XML --
extensible markup language, the emerging lingua franca of the Internet. And it
will be the first version that won't function fully without new hardware.
- Face transplants not just science fiction - Although it sounds like
a plot from a science-fiction movie,
surgeons in Britain say they will be able to carry out the first full facial
transplant within a year. New microsurgical devices and better
anti-rejection drugs have made possible the transplanting of skin, muscle and
bone from a dead person to another -- in particular, those who suffer facial
deformities.
- RIAA forces CDCovers.cc to take down its audio section - The money
hungry people at the RIAA / IFPI have made it very clear that they
don't want us to host audio
covers anymore. It's all about money folks and although we are a profit
free organization that runs on voluntary basis those scumbags don't give up
and want to shut us down through threatening our host. It's been a great
adventure but we cannot afford this anymore. Therefore we have decided to take
the audio section offline for good. Thank you all for your support for the
past 3 years.
- You Cannot Create a Network Connection After You Restore WinXP - If
you install
SP1 for
WinXP and then use the System Restore feature to restore Windows to a
state before the installation of the service pack, you may experience the
following symptoms: 1) You cannot create a remote access or Dial-Up Networking
connection. All items on the "Network Connection" page of the New Connection
Wizard are unavailable (dimmed); 2) The Network Connections folder is empty;
3) The Internet Connection Sharing and Internet Connection Firewall services
do not start because of a dependency failure...download
patch.
- PHP 4.3.0RC2 - PHP 4.3.0 (Linux
/ Windows)
incorporates a very large number of changes, new features, and bugfixes and
thus requires extensive testing. This preliminary release is meant to
kick-start this testing while the fixes are still being performed. Please join
in and help
us make this a high-quality release.
- IsoBuster v1.2 - With
IsoBuster it's
possible to extract several image files and besides that you can use it to
explore a CD's or DVD's File System while by-passing Windows and thus achieve
better error handling. This latest version has a couple of new features Full
Surface scanning function to find missing and/or deleted files on UDF written
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW, and more.
- Linux Kernel 2.4.20 - The latest stable version of the Linux kernel
is:
2.4.20 (changelog),
the latest prepatch (beta) version appears to be:
2.5.8-pre3 (changelog)
and the latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernel series is:
2.4.20-rc4-ac1 (changelog).
- Fraps 1.9A -
Fraps is a tool
that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for
programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology. It also allows you to easily take
screenshots of games, make movies of gameplay, and manually determine the
average framerate between two points.
- DX 9.0 uninstaller -
This little application lets you uninstall DX 9 or any bogus Directx
installations .. what it does is ask you for your winXP cd and restores DX 8.1
files from the disc it worked great for me so hope its usefull for you.
- Avant Browser 7.0.1.2 - Never surf with a MDI browser?
Try Avant
Browser, an upgrade for your Internet Explorer. Avant Browser is a fast,
stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser.
- VirtualDub 1.4.13 (Build 14328) -
VirtualDub (download
/
downloadP4version) is a video capture and processing program. It features
fast capturing, process files larger than the 2 gigabyte limit, optimized for
linear editing, support for Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 video and layer 3 audio,
real-time and near-realtime video processing, video job queues, and much more.
- ClonyXXL v2.0.1.0 -
ClonyXXL v2.0.1.0
(mirror)
now also available in English. In addition, here is
CloneCD Profiler
English (mirror).
Thanks
CDFreaks.
- DVD2SVCD 1.1.0 Build 1b -
Freeware DVD2SVCD is
a completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA and AVI files to SVCD.
- nVHardPage NVIDIA Tweaker v1.10.6b - Do you seek an easy way to
en/disable overclocking options or vsync option in your detonator drivers
without the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that
registry yourself ? Basically CoolBits and more within your fingertips.
This program
serves on enabling/disabling hidden features in NVIDIA control panel and
tweaking NVIDIA Direct3D & OpenGL settings.
- Detonator 41.04 WHQL Win2K/XP - Seems that NVIDIA has released
a new detonators, this one, time stamped from October 25th, for
Windows 2000 and XP is WHQL certified and comes in a multilanguage flavor.
- Matrox Parhelia Drivers v1.01.02.090 - Matrox have released
new official WHQL certified drivers for the Matrox Parhelia version
1.01.02.090 for Windows 2000 and XP.
- nVidia Detonator Driver Database - Are you looking for
some old or maybe the newest Detonator drivers for all Windows versions?
Well, over at Techconnect we have been building up a nice database of
Detonator drivers and it is almost complete.
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