Wednesday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 11:08 AM CEST - Aug,20 2003
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- File-Sharing Sites Head Back to Court - Three entertainment
groups
are appealing an April U.S. District Court ruling saying operators of two
file-sharing services are not liable for any copyright infringement that may
occur on their networks. Late Monday, the Recording Industry Association of
America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and the National Music
Publishers' Association filed an appeal to a Los Angeles district court
judge's decision. The court had ruled on April 25 that the operators of the
Grokster and Morpheus peer-to-peer services couldn't know when users were
trading copyrighted works.
- Navy's New $6.9 billion Intranet crippled ...errmmm disrupted.. by worm
outbreak - The Navy confirmed today that
its multibillion-dollar Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (N/MCI) has been taken
off-line by what could be a combined onslaught of the Blaster worm variant and
Sobig.F Internet worms, which are spreading fast. A U.S. Navy spokesman said
the details of the network's problems are still coming in and that it is
unclear whether one or both worms were responsible for the failure. Another
story can be found
here.
- SoBig spam hits millions of mailboxes -
A new variant of
the SoBig worm has been filling inboxes worldwide, after it was
mass-mailed to millions of email addresses. The worm arrives as a .Pif
(Program Information file) attachment in emails with the headers: Re: That
movie, Re: Wicked screensaver, Re: Your application, Re: Approved, Re: Re: My
details, Re: Details, Your details, Thank you!, The worm is 72,000 bytes. Once
activated it copies itself to Windows as 'winppr32.exe' and edits the registry
to ensure that it starts whenever the computer boots.
- Halo, Vice City Removed From Two W. Va. Wal-Mart Stores - According
to this
Yahoo story, two Wal-Mart stores in Kanawha County, West Virginia have
removed the games Halo and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City from their store
shelves. The county is currently dealing with a mysterious sniper that has
killed three people in the county last week outside of convenience stores.
- Nokia snaps up Sega.com - Nokia on Tuesday extended its bet on
mobile video games,
agreeing to acquire multiplayer technology from Sega for its upcoming
N-Gage game deck. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Finnish cell
phone maker said it will acquire Sega.com and use Sega's Network Application
Package in its mobile phone and online games products. Nokia has said its
N-Gage combination cell phone and game deck will be available in stores Oct.
7, priced at $299.
- Microsoft Office debut delayed - Microsoft Corp. said the latest
version of its Office family of programs
will be widely available on Oct. 21, marking a delayed launch for one of
its top money-making products. Microsoft, which had previously said it would
launch the newest version of Office this summer, has been testing the software
for a more than a year. Office and its related programs accounted for more
than $9 billion (U.S.) in revenue in Microsoft's fiscal year ended in June.
Microsoft said Office would be pre-installed on some manufacturers' computers
by the end of September.
- Microsoft Project Linked to Outlook - Microsoft this week will
release its Microsoft Office Project 2003 software to manufacturing, the first
component of Office 2003 to reach that stage. The project management software
will reach customers when the rest of Office 2003 ships, which is expected in
October.
Integration with Outlook 2003 will allow Project users to update progress
on Outlook Calendar entries and report their status to Microsoft Project
Server from Outlook, according to Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash.
- PCFX Launches Opteron-Based Gaming Computer - PCFX announced
the immediate availability of
the new Leviathan III, based on AMD's Opteron 64-bit high performance CPU.
The Leviathan III will be available with Opteron models 240, 242, 244, and
will be paired with nVidia's new nForce3 system platform processor, bringing
AGP 8X, dual channel DDR, Serial ATA, and more to the already impressive
feature list of the Leviathan III.
- IBM crafts Power5 chip with threading - IBM will bring
multithreading--a technology that lets one processor act like two or
more--to its Power5 server chip, the company said Tuesday, as a revolution in
microprocessor design continues. The chip is scheduled to come out
commercially in 2004.
- HP Photosmart 850 & 935 Review - HardAvenue has posted
a
review of two multi-purpose digital camera's from HP, the Photosmart 850
and the Photosmart 935. Both have great and less desirable qualities, and both
are designed to fulfill your every needs when it comes to digital photography.
- GeForce FX 5900 Shoot-Out: Leadtek vs. Abit - HotHardware.Com
compared the features and performance of Leadtek's WinFast A350 TDH MyViVo to
Abit's Siluro FX 5900 OTES. Both of these cards are powered by NVIDIA's
GeForce FX 5900 GPU, coupled with 128MB of fast RAM. We've got benchmarks,
screen-shots and even compare the performance of the new v45.23 Detonator FX
drivers versus the older WHQL certified v44.67s.
- Memory Conflicts among three 875/865 motherboards - MadShrimps.be
let us know that Liquid3D has written an extensive editorial on the memory
conflicts that keep haunting the Overclockers using motherboards with an I875
or I865 chipset.
- ATI RV360 Specifications Unveiled - Mass production of
RV360 is scheduled to start in September, while samples of graphics cards
and chips are available for AIB partners now. Code-name of RV360 primary
reference board is Thunderhead, a little bit more powerful solution is named
Thunder Storm and a little bit slower product's code-name is Rainbow. Later
there may be some additional reference designs developed in order to address
specific needs of certain partners, but initially there will be three types of
RV360-based graphics cards only.
- The Matrix Revolutions Trailer - Here's a new
Matrix Revolutions film trailer (req.QuickTime), where biomechanical
machines terrorise Zion.
- SecureCRT 4.0.8 -
SecureCRT
(download)
gives you an encrypted SSH session with both SSH1 and SSH2 servers. SSH
security goes far beyond the basic secure logon, rerouting data or local
applications using TCP/IP ports through an encrypted channel. The VCP utility
secures file transfers using SFTP.
- Fresh UI 6.30 -
Fresh UI (download)
is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with
hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and
optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User
Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings,
Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with
policies.
- SpeedFan 4.09 -
SpeedFan (download)
is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in
computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T.
info for those hard disks that support this feature (almost all :-)) and show
hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on
some motherboards. At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitoring
software, but its main feature is that it can control the speed of the fans
(depending on your sensor chip) according to the temperatures inside your pc,
thus reducing noise and power consumption.
- Central Brain Identifier -
This is an
AMD processor identification utility.What's new: AMD-K6 processor
identification database has been enhanced with mobile AMD K6-2-P/K6-III-P
processors, capability to calculate the Clock Ratio and the Host Clock for old
K6 CPUs, capability to determine the Clock Devisor and the Bus Clock frequency
for AMD Athlon64, added ECC Checking for L1 Data Cache and L1 Instruction
Cache, possibility to change the processor name of AMD Athlon/Opteron
processors, possibility to enable/disable L1 ECC Checking.
- AC3Filter 0.70b -
It's DirectShow
filter (download)
for AC3 decoding to play .AVI with AC3 audio tracks and MPEG2 (DVD).
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