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(hx) 02:08 PM CEST - May,01 2003
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- 'Fluffi Bunni' busted? - British police have
arrested a man suspected of hacking into high-profile corporate Web sites
and defacing them with a distinct digital calling card: a "fluffy" pink bunny
rabbit. New Scotland Yard said Wednesday it arrested 24-year-old Lynn Htun at
a London convention center, the site of InfoSecurity Europe 2003, one of
Europe's largest trade fairs for Internet and computer network security.
- Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism - They were certainly
geniuses, but did Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton also have autism? According
to autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen,
they might both have shown many signs of Asperger syndrome, a form of the
condition that does not cause learning difficulties.
- SARS suspends key Taiwan trade show - Computex, one of Asia's
biggest computer shows and where all of Taiwan's mobo, chip and chipset
vendors come together,
has been postponed because of attendees' fears about the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus. The Taipei-based show was due to run from
2-6 June, though whether it would take place or not has been open to question
for some time.
- Vendors to release WEP replacement by late May -
The long-awaited replacement to Wi-Fi's weak built-in security algorithm
has finally arrived, with several major vendors at the Networld+Interop trade
show here announcing products or plans to support the upgrade in existing
products through software upgrades. The Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group
that certifies interoperability between Wi-Fi products from different vendors,
announced Tuesday that nine products from six vendors are the first to be
certified under a new program. Atheros, Broadcom, Cisco, Intel, Intersil, and
Symbol products meet specifications for the new security technology, called
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).
- AMD loads bus for speedy desktop chip - The chipmaker is set to
deliver
its new Athlon XP 3200+ chip during the first half of the month. The chip
will sport at least one new feature, a 400MHz system bus, according to sources
familiar with the company's plans. The move to the faster bus, a step up from
the company's current 333MHz bus, is intended to give the Athlon XP more
performance by accelerating data traveling between the processor and system
components such as memory.
- Creative launches L40 USB Sound Blaster module - Creative has
launched
Sound Blaster MP3+, a USB-powered audio playback and recording system. The
L39.99 unit is the size of a pack of cards and is essentially an alternative
to a Sound Blaster add-in card. Suitable for notebook and desktop use, it
packs in digital and analogue audio in and out, and can handle 16-bit sound
sampled at up to 48kHz. Its headphone socket has its own volume control. A
removable clip allows notebook users to hook the unit onto the back of their
screens.
- Fujitsu LifeBook S2010 Review -
The new Fujitsu LifeBook S2010 features the Athlon XP-M 1700+. The Fujitsu
LifeBook S6120 houses either the 1.4- or 1.6-GHz Intel Pentium M and is a
full-fledged Centrino notebook (meaning it incorporates Intel's 802.11b
wireless networking solution). The 1.6-GHz Intel machine we received for
review won't be available until June; the 1.4-GHz system will be out by the
time you read this. Comparing the 1.6-GHz Intel chip with the 1700+ is fair,
since AMD's performance rating (the "1700+" in the chip's name) indicates that
AMD is expecting the pep of a 1.7-GHz chip, even though the actual clock speed
is 1.47 GHz.
- Sony Vaio GT3/K Notebook Review - As for you typical user,
the GT3/K might be a little "Over Kill" for your home camcorder usage.
This computer / video camcorder hybrid circuitry uses Transmeta's 600 MHz
Crusoe chip for fast performance and a battery life up to 17 hours with the
(LLL) cell. The GT3/K comes with a large HDD, 30 GB hard drive (obviously to
leave space for video recording). To enhance the video editing, it's also
comes standard with an ATI Rage Mobility-M1 with 8mb VRAM. Standard ram on
this is 128 but can be increased to 256 maximum.
- VIA EPIA M9000 Review -
The VIA
EPIA series is an incredibly cheap and versatile platform. They have
opened up a large modding opportunity that many people have leapt at to create
some weird and wacky designs ranging from In-car systems to making an x86 G4
Cube! The M9000 and V9000 are virtually identical, however there are a few
excellent additions in the M9000 inventory that make it even more appealing,
especially for the price. To name a few - FireWire, MPEG2 Decoding, 6-channel
sound, DDR Support.
- Albatron's Gigi FX5200P Review - Tech-Report are looking
at Albatron's Gigi FX5200P, which follows NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200
reference design.
- Powercolor Xabre 600 Pro Review - Techware Labs has finished up
a review of Powercolor's Xabre 600 Pro based card.
- Inno3D Tornado GeForceFX 5200 Review - HardCOREware has
posted
an Inno3D Tornado GeForceFX 5200 review.
- Zalman CNPS7000-CU and CNPS7000-ALCU Coolers Video Review - 3D Game
Man has posted a Zalman CNPS7000-CU and CNPS7000-ALCU Coolers
Video Review.
- Water Cooling Kit Review - The LITTLEWHITEDOG gets his paws wet
with
a water cooling kit for under a hundred bucks. Sound too good to be true?
Well in some ways it is, and in others it's not. Check out the review to find
out why...
- Water March: Gainward CoolFX - Gainward is one of the first
graphics card manufacturers
to offer a complete watercooling kit in their program - suitable for most
of the GeForce FX cards. In this article, we introduce you to the system and
find out how it performs in practice.
- Overclocking: 875 = 7205 + X - Tom's Hardware Guide has
tried the old Intel 7204 chipset with a new Pentium 4 processor. "Our
tests show that the old Intel 7204 chipset runs stably with a new P4 processor
at an FSB clock of 200 MHz. This brings up the question of what advantages the
new high-end 875 chipset really can offer over the old 7205."
- OpenBSD 3.3 Released -
OpenBSD 3.3 was
released yesterday, as usually with many
new features.
- FlashFXP 2.1 RC2 - FlashFXP is the most powerful and popular FTP &
FXP Client for Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP on the market today. What's
new
in this beta: 1) The toggle treeview option was reading the incorrect
value from the ini file causing the state not restored on startup. 2) When
clicking on a treeview item during an anti-idle LIST, FlashFXP will prevent
the selected item from changing. As changing during a listing is not possible.
3) When starting FlashFXP with the treeview active the file/folder status bar
wasn't properly updated. 4) RC2 now contains the SSL dlls, Many people
contacted me regarding the missing dlls. I guess we forgot to tell them they
need v2.0 installed before updating to the v2.1 .RC.
- DH 3D Tranquillity ScreenSaver -
The Tranquillity
ScreenSaver was written by OpenGL guru Paolo Martella, better known to
most as Bustard creator of GLEXCESS the renowned benchmark for OpenGL. The aim
of this screensaver is to create a relaxed atmosphere while showing off that
expensive hardware you may have!
- Jet-Audio 5.13 -
Jet-Audio (download
~
what's new) features an impressive home audio system interface, including
independent A/V components for Digital Signal Processor, Audio CD Player,
Digital Audio (MP3, RA, etc.), MIDI (MID, MOD etc.), and Digital Video (AVI,
MPG, MOV, etc.), along with a Mixer and a Remote Controller.
- ClonyXXL v2.0.1.5 - A new version of
ClonyXXL (download),
the copy-protection scanner, has been released a few days ago. This new
version adds SafeDisc 2.9 recognition.
- DVD Decrypter version 3.1.6.0 - A new version of
DVD Decrypter (download),
the easy-to-use tool to decrypt your DVD discs with, has been released.
- Nero 5.5.10.28 -
Nero (download ~
mirror1 ~
mirror2 ~
mirror3) is a flexible,
reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio
to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and
XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning
(if supported by hardware). This new version fixes: Improved detection of a
corrupted session during import; a problem when erasing a media containing
in-use multi-session compilation; a problem with some DVD-R drives which
occurred while continuing multi-session; Improvement of getting the correct
write speed in case of DVD+R/RW media for dual (+-) DVD drives.
- Nero EasyWriteReader v1.0 -
This tool (mirror)
was developed to enable you to add CD-MRW support to your system and includes
the UDF reader for Windows 95, 98 and ME.
- NeroVision Express 1.0.4.6d -
NeroVision Express (mirror)
guides you through the whole process of creating DVDs, VCDs and SVCDs in an
easy and innovative way.
- NeroMIX 1.3.1.11a -
NeroMIX (mirror)
creates or copies anything you throw at it, in the slickest possible way.
NeroMIX combines dynamic CD burning (data, audio, copying) with the newest
Internet audio technology, all in one customizable interface.
- VirtualDub 1.5.2 -
VirtualDub (download
~
download optimized P4 version) 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.
- WinDVD Tweaker 4.22 -
WinDVD Tweaker is
designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software to enable some hidden
settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure.
- TMPGEnc 2.511.51.160 -
TMPGEnc (download)
converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using
variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high
quality. TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure,
Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate
movie file depends on your purpose.
- Chipset Software Installation Utility 5.01.1015 BETA -
The
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system
the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset
components will be configured. This release adds Windows 2003 Server support.
It is unofficial so consider it beta, so try only at your own risk!
- PowerStrip 3.40.388 -
PowerStrip
(download: English
version ~
an
International version) provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable
hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox
Millennium I to the latest SiS Xabre. It's the only program of its type to
support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously,
under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP.
- PortsLock 1.3 -
PortsLock (download)
is a firewall with user-level access controls for Windows NT/2000/XP and
Windows Server 2003. Once PortsLock is installed, administrators can assign
permissions to TCP/IP connections, just as they would in managing permissions
on an NTFS partition of a hard disk.
- kX Project Drivers 5.00.3532 -
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.
- Nvidia Detonator 43.51 WHQL -
Guru3d sent word that they have just posted the
43.51 WHQL
Detonator drivers.
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