Weekend Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:26 AM CET - Nov,09 2003
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- New Flaws Found in Wireless Security - A new paper by a
leading security expert says that
the new Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security standard may be less secure,
in certain scenarios, than WEP, the wireless standard it was designed to
replace. In the paper, "Weakness in Passphrase Choice in WPA Interface,"
Robert Moskowitz, a senior technical director at ICSA Labs, part of TruSecure,
describes a number of problems with the new WPA standard, including the
ability of attackers to "sniff" critical information from wireless traffic and
to discover the value of a wireless network's security key.
- Cisco to add SSL networking to products - The company confirmed
that it plans to announce that it will offer
an upgrade to the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator to add SSL network
functionality. The news appeared in a release posted briefly to the company's
Web site but has been removed. The WebVPN feature will be offered as part of
the basic configuration for the concentrator, network hardware that acts as a
central connection point for virtual private networks.
- NVIDIA nForce2 400 Squares up Against VIA KT600 - With its
dual-channel RAM interface,
NVIDIA's nForce2 Ultra 400 is still the performance champion. But not
everyone can afford to spring for a new processor, a motherboard and two DIMMs
in one fell swoop. We tell you how to cut costs by using a cheaper
single-channel platform.
- High-End P4: Better, Not Best - With the unexpected announcement of
the company's first gaming-oriented processor--the Pentium 4 Extreme
Edition--Intel obviously hoped to steal some thunder from AMD's Athlon 64
launch. But while PC World tests show that the new P4 EE outruns a standard
Pentium 4,
AMD's shipping Athlon 64 FX-51 outperforms both.
- Hercules 3D Prophet All-In-Wonder 9800SE review - Do you remember
the Celeron 300a? The 2.4C? The TwinMOS with Winbond BH5? all of these kicked
some serious ass because you could use them at a higher spec, or mod them -
B21 on the old Celerons for forced 100FSB loving.... Anyway we have found a
new one
the 9800SE which you can open up the 4 extra pipelines easily - get the
performance of a 500$ card for 230$... This is just crazy, and you have the
AIW features for free! So here is a weekend project for all of you - go grab
one from your local retailer and see how you get on, buy 2, 'cos for sure they
will sell fast.
- Leadtek A360TD review -
The A360TD did remarkably well in our benchmarks and if you look at the
numbers you'll see that it's very close to the FX5600Ultra as mentioned
earlier. It also manages to beat the Radeon 9600Pro and even the Radeon 9600XT
in some of the tests. This is indeed very impressive and in all honesty I
didn't expect the A360TD to perform quite this well.
- OCZ PC3200 Dual Channel DDR 512MB RAM Review - NextGen Electronics
has posted a
review of OCZ PC3200 Dual Channel DDR 512MB RAM.
- XGI Volari First Look - Should they be successful,
XGI's cards may well become serious alternatives to ATi's and NVIDIA's
offerings, especially considering their comparatively low prices. XGI is
aiming for a street price of about $300 (plus tax), which is rather
inexpensive. This makes XGI's top model a good $100-200 less expensive than
the flagship models of NVIDIA or ATi. As far as the other versions of the
cards are concerned, XGI has so far declined to comment.
- Zippy, the New Illuminated Keyboard review -
Electro-luminescent (EL) backlit keyboards continue to attract LAN Party goers
interest, but the cost until now has kept many away. Now, a new player enters
the backlit keyboard market that beats frontrunner EluminX's price: the
EL-715, which maker Zippy says puts a new twist on the EL keyboard concept.
THG put it through the test to see how it would stand up to the punishment
of a gamer's pounding.
- Networking X-Micro Style Cheap, Stylish and Simple - X-Micro is a
company we know for producing a whole range of graphics cards. TweakTown take
a look at their complete and
new range of networking products including 802.11b wireless gear.
- Overclocking the AMD Athlon64 3200+ - ASUS K8V Deluxe - After the
somewhat disappointing overclocking experience with the initial BIOS revision
of the ASUS K8V and the Athlon64 3200+, LostCircuits used the latest
production BIOS Rev. 1003 that, amongst other new features allows manual
changing of the frequency and voltage ID (FID and VID). Overall, the new BIOS
greatly increases stability as well as overclocking potential, after all,
they
were able to crank up the speed to 240 MHz and run 100% stable at 235 MHz.
- VisualBoy Advance 1.7 Beta 3 -
Visual Boy Advance is a
Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows systems.
- foobar2000 v0.7.3 Final -
Foobar2000 (changelog
~ download) is an advanced
audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include
ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several
popular audio formats.
- NetCaptor 7.3.0 Beta 4 -
NetCaptor (download)
is powerful web browser. "Other browsers only show one page at a time or
squish them together in an overlapping mess. NetCaptor gives each web site its
own tab."
- Nero Burning Rom 6.0.0.23 -
Nero (Nero
6.0.0.23 | Nero Vision
Express 2.0.1.19 | Nero Media
Player 1.4.0.11 | Nero
Mix 1.4.0.13) 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). Nero
also supports multisession and mixed-mode recording, HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF,
PSX, OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO) and disc-at-once
(DAO) writing, digital audio extraction, and more.
- Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 6.0 -
The Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility was developed by Intel
Corporation to enable consumers the ability to identify and, in some
circumstances, determine if their Intel processor is operating at the correct
and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation. Beginning with the Pentium
processor, this utility provides consumers with the ability to determine
standard CPU identification of Intel processors. This version of the Intel
Processor Frequency ID Utility has been updated to support the new Intel Xeon
Processor, Pentium 4 processors, Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processors, Pentium
III processors, Mobile Pentium III processors with Intel SpeedStep technology,
Pentium III Xeon processors and Intel Celeron processors with 66, 100, 133,
400, 533 , and 800 MHz system memory bus products, as well as adding new
processor identification functionality (CPUID).
- Radeon Omega Drivers 2.4.96c for Win2k/XP - Omegadrive has released
his new set of Radeon
Omega Drivers 2.4.96c for windows 2000/XP based on cat 3.9.
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