Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 08:44 PM CEST - Oct,19 2002
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- Microsoft chief puts on gloves to defend Xbox - Microsoft would be
forced to
reconsider selling the Xbox video game system in Australia, or seek
changes to the law, following the acquittal in July of a Sydney man alleged to
have sold chips that modify a Sony PlayStation 2 to play imported games,
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said yesterday. After the launch
of a Telstra mobile computing device, Mr Ballmer said the decision affected
Xbox's business model, which relies on subsidising the hardware console in
return for a royalty on every game sold.
WiFi software tracks you down - Ekahau has released an updated version of
its software, which
allows
devices to be physically tracked when they are connected to an 802.11 WLAN
network.
- Hundreds of Navy PCs missing - The U.S. Pacific Fleet's
warships and submarines were
missing nearly 600 computers as of late July, including at least 14 known
to have handled classified data.
- Don't Bother with AGP 8X? - Based on our initial testing, AGP
8X on today's architectures and with current applications doesn't appear to
deliver any appreciable performance improvement for nVidia boards. The Radeon
9700's potential benefit from AGP 8X is still something of a question mark.
This story may change down the road,
it will take some time for game developers to architect game engines that use
AGP 8X to produce significant performance improvements.
- The First Hammer Board Hits the THG Lab - Tom's Hardware brings a
first look at details
of the board with Socket 754 for ClawHammer. Top secret: new info for
manufacturers from VIA, NVIDIA and AMD, as well as an overview of roadmaps.
- RealPlayer vs. Windows Media Player - PC Magazine has posted
a
comparison review between RealPlayer and Windows Media Player.
- How to install NVIDIA drivers in Mandrake 9.0 - Since there are no
Mandrake 9.0 RPMs I will show you
how to make your own.
- UT 2003 Beta Patch 2122 - A new
beta patch 2122 for Unreal Tournament 2003 is out.
- FlashFXP v2.0 Final Build 902 -
FlashFXP is the most
powerful and popular FTP & FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP
on the market today. It is loaded with features for the power user, but has an
intuitive user interface that takes only minutes to master. It's already
second minor
update since the final release, but seems I have missed what's new :]
- WinDriversBackup 1.0 -
WinDriversBackup
is a free utility provided by JerMar Software Corp. specifically for
backing up your Windows system driver files. WinDriversBackup can identify all
of your Windows driver files and save them to a secure location in two simple
mouse clicks. Backing up your Windows driver files means they will be
available to you the next time you need to reinstall the driver or the whole
operating system. WinDriversBackup places the driver files in one organized
location of your choosing.
- Diskeeper Lite 7.0 Build 418 -
Diskeeper Lite is a short version introduction to full-featured Diskeeper.
Diskeeper Lite can only analyze fragmentation levels and run manual
defragmentation on one disk volume at a time.
- CuteFTP Pro 3.0 Beta 2 -
CuteFTP Pro (download)
integrates state-of-the-art security standards including SSL via FTP and HTTP,
SSH2 and advanced S/KEY password encryption to ensure that confidential
business data stays that way.
- WinDVD Tweaker 4.06 -
WinDVD Tweaker is designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software
to enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure.
- Opera 6.10 Beta 1 for Linux and FreeBSD - Opera Software has
released a new version of their excellent browser for
Linux and
FreeBSD.
- kX Project Drivers 5.00.3526 (beta) -
The kX Audio
Driver is an independent WDM (Windows Driver Model) driver for all EMU10K1
and EMU10K2-based soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or
E-mu Sytems Inc., including the SoundBlaster Live! series, the E-mu Audio
Production Studio (APS) card, and the Audigy series of cards.
- Hercules 3D Tweaker LE 3.0 build 21 - Hercules' FTP has offers a
new version of tweaking utility for ATi RADEON video cards.
- Hercules KYRO Driver v16.055 - These drivers (Win9x/ME
~
Win2k ~
WinXP)
are compatible with 3D Prophet 4000, 4500 and 4800.
- KYRO Linux Drivers - PowerVR has released
a new beta
(build 2.00.20.0427) of their Linux drivers for the KYRO/KYRO II.
- Award 4.51PG BIOS Can Support Big HDDs - The 32GB bug in
Award BIOS that prevents many users from using HDD larger than 32GB (BIOS
hangs at detection) can be easily fixed in existing BIOSes. This means that if
there's no BIOS for your board that supports HDDs over 32GB but supports up to
32GB, it can be fixed. The 64GB bug that causes hang at configuration table
can be also fixed. Fixed and tested BIOSes
will be on this page.
(thanks
Warp2News)
- Lite-On CD-RW Firmware - LiteOn have released a new
CD-RW firmware updates for Lite-On LTR-48125S ( 48X/12X/48X ) CD-RW and
Lite-On LXR-40122 ( 40X/12X/40X ) CD-RW.
- VIA integrated VGA drivers - VIA has released some
new integrated
VGA drivers for the CLE266 chipset and VT8361 - KL133, KLE133; VT8601 -
PLE133, Apollo MVP4.
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