Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:03 PM CET - Jan,05 2003
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- Moonlike asteroid on close approach - An asteroid that behaves
something like a second moon to Earth will make
its
closest approach to our planet next week before shuttling back into deep
space for nearly a century. The space rock is about 200 feet (60 meters)
across and never gets as close as the real moon. Scientists say there is no
chance it will hit Earth anytime in the foreseeable future.
- Chinese spacecraft 'ready to land' - China's fourth unmanned
spacecraft,
Shenzhou IV is due to return to Earth on Sunday. If all goes to
schedule the craft should land in central Mongolia. The craft has been in
orbit since Monday and is reported to be functioning normally. It is thought
that this will be the last test flight before a manned mission planned to for
later in the year.
- Spam costs businesses $13 billion - All those junk e-mail messages
may promise instant wealth, but they can be quite painful to the bottom line.
A study to be released this week attempts to quantify
the annual cost of spam: $8.9 billion for U.S. corporations, $2.5 billion for
European businesses and another $500 million for U.S. and European service
providers.
- First Nvidia Geforce FX benchmarks appear - According to
TheInquirer,
the first benchmarks of the one card have made an appearance at
Ace's Hardware general forum. This posting is drawn from
the Maximum PC site, where you can find the whole shooting match.
- Monster Unveils the XG SSGS-500 - To celebrate the new year,
Monster Game, a division of Monster Cable, has announced the
XG SSGS-500
5.1 surround sound gaming speaker system for Xbox and PS2. This Dolby
Digital-ready 5.1 speaker set features five satellites with two drivers each
and an 80-watt max subwoofer (40 watts RMS) boasting a 6.5-inch long-throw
driver housed in a bass-enhancing ported wood cabinet. The total power of the
speaker set is 130 watts(65 watts RMS).
- AMD Mobile Athlon XP Review - Tom's Hardware gang has posted
a review of AMD Mobile Athlon XP.
- How to turn a RADEON 9500 to RADEON 9700 - iXBT Russia has posted
an article about a "hacked" Radeon 9500 performing close to the level of a
Radeon 9700 Pro. You can use
BabelFish or check
this translated version of this article at X-Bi Labs.
- Unofficial Windows XP SP2 Fixlist - There's an unofficial
fix list for Windows
XP SP2.
- Clone CD Profiles - Its been a while since Clone CD had new
features. Now that it does have new features I thought that its only logical
to have new profiles to incorperate them.
- UT2K3 Benchmark v1.3 -
A new version 1.3 of UT2K3Bench (download)
has been released. This version can be used across all Windows platforms, and
it works with both the demo and the full version of UT2003.
- PC Zylix 2003 -
PC Zylix Deluxe
2003 is for the WindowsXP, it is used a system "enhancing" utility. This
utility helps improve your systems performance and optimizes disk utilization.
- ObjectDock 0.85 -
ObjectDock (download)
is a program that combines a task manager and program launcher together -- but
with a
lot of style
- ZMatrix 1.4.5 -
ZMatrix is an animated desktop background which displays streaming
characters in a style similar to what was used in the movie 'The Matrix'.
- jv16 PowerTools 1.2 build 173 RC2 (Beta) -
jv16 PowerTools is basically 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. The program contains all the tools needed
for monitoring, cleaning and controlling the registry, the file system and
your Local Area Network.
- Messenger Helper 2.00 Build 30103 -
Messenger Helper (free) (download)
is designed to add functionalities to the Instant Chat program from Microsoft
called MSN Messenger.
- Sound Blaster Audigy Win2k/XP Driver Pack (date (12/31/02) - I
already mentioned this driver a couple days ago, but for those who missed it,
there is
download link.
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