Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 09:53 PM CEST - Jul,28 2002
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- Gamers get into 'The Zone' - "Flow State is an optimal
psychological experience. It's when you're functioning on auto-pilot, when everything
clicks into place and goes right," said Dr Costas Karageorghis, lecturer in sports
psychology at Brunel University. It's a deeply pleasurable experience and it's something
that's not very often experienced by people, rather it's something that often represents
people's peak experiences in a particular area." Recent research has suggested that
it could be
possible for a person immersed in a computer game to achieve the same level of
meditative concentration.
- Tiny flying robots: Future masters of espionage - Biologists and
technologists at the University of California, Berkeley have spent the past four years
developing a tiny robot, called the Micromechanical Flying Insect, that they say will one day fly like a
fly. The Berkeley project is among a handful aiming to engineer devices that can soar,
dart and hover on gossamer wings that flap with a rhythm and precision otherwise found
only in nature.
- Linux poised to plug in USB 2 - Support for a faster version of USB in
Linux is imminent, and will become a permanent part of the Linux landscape when the next
version of the operating system rolls around. The upcoming 2.4.19 version of the Linux
kernel-the core part of the Unix-like operating system-for the first time will include support for many
USB(Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 features and devices. USB lets people easily plug
devices such as digital cameras, mice or printers into a computer.
- Voice Activated Wearable Computer - JPL engineer Ann Devereaux is hard
at work developing the Wearable Augmented Reality Prototype (Warp), a personal communication
device. The voice- activated wearable computer allows easy, real-time access to voice
communication, pictures, video, people and technical reports.
- Robonaut - Robonaut
is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at NASA's Johnson
Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA. The Robonaut project seeks to develop
and demonstrate a robotic system that can function as an EVA astronaut equivalent.
Robonaut jumps generations ahead by eliminating the robotic scars (e.g., special robotic
grapples and targets) and specialized robotic tools of traditional on-orbit robotics.
However, it still keeps the human operator in the control loop through its telepresence
control system. Robonaut is designed to be used for "EVA" tasks, i.e., those
which were not specifically designed for robots.
- Palestinian first person shooter - Under Ash is a first person
shooting game that puts you in the battle in the middle east... as a Palestinian. The game
makers say there are no civilian targets in this game that the player can only fight the
Isreali Defense Forces (thanks GeekNews).
- Hardware Round-up (Video) - Gainward Golden Sample GeForce4 Ti4200 / Leadtek
Winfast A250 TD Geforce 4 Ti4400 128MB / ABIT
Siluro GF4 Ti4200 / Asus V8460 Deluxe (in German) / Gainward GeForce4 PowerPack 650 / GF4 4200 Comparison / OCSystem
Enhanced GeForce4 4200TI 64MB DDR / GeForce4 Cooler
- Hardware Round-up (Miscelanous) - EPoX
4SDA+ Pentium4 / ABIT
IT7-MAX i845E (video-review) / Abit BD7-II
RAID i845E / AGP
4X vs. 8X / Swiftech
MCW462-UT Water Cooling Kit / SunBeam Dual Cold Cathode Kit / Plextor
Plexwriter 40x12x40 CDRW / LITE-ON External USB 2.0 LX24101A / Samsung
SpinPoint SP8004H 80GB HDD
- Early screenshots taken on NV30 - check it out :)
- ATI speaks on Windows 98 and NT4 drivers for RADEON 9700/9000 - We have
read on several web-sites, that ATI Technologies does not provide the drivers for Windows
98 and Windows NT4 operational systems for its recently announced RADEON 9000 and RADEON
9700 graphics processors.
ATI has clarified these statements and it seems that the problem is not in ATI but in the
developer of the operational systems. Apparently, beginning the first of July 2002, WHQL
will no longer accept submissions for all hardware devices and systems for Win98 SE, WinNT
4.0. Although Microsoft no longer certifies devices under the mentioned operating systems,
ATI still supports them.Users
of Win98 just simply need to use the WHQL certified WinME driver provided both on our
shipping CD's and on our web-site. ATI also has an NT4 driver available for the RADEON
9000 and RADEON 9000 Pro which will be made available shortly.
- Detonator Driver Database Updated - The Tweaker's Asylum updated their Detonator Driver Database with scores from the new NVIDIA 30.00
Detonators, and the Omega 1042a, 1042b, 1080 drivers.
- WinXP Tweaking: From Reformat to Relax - This
guide is designed primarily for gamers and those who want the fastest performance from
graphics and CPU-intensive applications on their machine. At the same time, I've tried to
maintain almost all the niceties of WinXP so it doesn't have a "stripped down"
Win2000 feel.
- Remote Desktop Connection Client For Mac OS X - Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac allows you to connect to a
Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your
Macintosh computer. To use Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, you need network
access and permissions to connect to a Windows-based computer running Terminal Services or
Remote Desktop Services.
- Windows 2000 Patch - DeadLock Occurs Between Two Threads of System GDI
in Windows 2000" issue in Windows 2000 and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base
(KB) Article Q322842. Download now to prevent your computer from not responding if you
utilize user-defined fonts or characters.
- Windows XP Dynamic Update 1.3 Package - This update provides a solution for corporate administrators who
download Dynamic Update, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q322069.
- Only Kittens Screen Saver v1.01 - Only Kittens Screen Saver
contains images of pretty kittens. Big size high quality pictures (10 pictures in Demo
version, 80 in Ultra version). Amazing transition effects (22 effects. Special
"Random" mode.) Slide show starts with any picture.
- Antivirus Database Feeding - Don't forget to feed your antivirus
scanners with new virus samples: Kaspersky Antivirus
/ The
Cleaner Database v3319 / AVG (English) / Norton
Antivirus /
- MP3Gain 0.8.1 Beta - MP3Gain
analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak
normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to
determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes it makes
are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program
adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding..
- CoolMon 0.98 - CoolMon is a FREE application which displays system information (such
as Processor usage (up to four CPU's), Number of Processes , Number of Threads , Process
using the most CPU time , Processor type, Used/Free/Total page file, Used/Free/Total RAM,
Free/Total/Grand Total Disk space (up to sixteen disks, also mapped network drives),
Computer Uptime, Date & Time , Computer name , User name, All IP addresses etc), in a
small configurable window.
- Monitor Asset Manager v1.0 - Monitor Asset Manager
- an NT and multimonitor enabled update to DDCtest - is a freeware Plug and Play monitor
information utility that works under all 32-bit versions of Windows.
- jv16 PowerTools v1.1.0.141 Beta - jv16 PowerTools is the next generation of RegCleaner. A full set of
tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running. jv16 PowerTools is basicly the
Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in
charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control.
- PowerStrip 3.21 Beta Build 308 - PowerStrip 3.21 provides
advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards -
from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600.
This new version added timing support for RAGE 128 cards.
- WhereIsIt? 3.26 - WhereIsIt
is an application written for 32-bit Windows operating systems, designed to help you
maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs,
audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, DVDs, or any other
media that Windows can access as a drive.
- Matrox Parhelia Win2K/XP Drivers - Matrox has released the second
driver set version 1.00.04.231
(5.66 MB) for their brand new video card with the name Parhelia 512. This new version
features general bug fixes including DVI issue and problem with Neverwinter Nights.
- EPoX BIOSes - EP-4SDM,
EP-4SDM+, EP-4SDM2, EP-4SDM2+ / EP-4BEA,
EP-4BEAR.
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