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 Saturday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 03:28 PM CEST - Jun,19 2004
  • Raid on pirate DVD factory - Trading Standards officials have raided a secret DVD factory which was supplying pirate films to scores of illegal outlets across East Anglia. Among some of the counterfeit DVDs recovered in the raid were copies of Hollywood blockbusters like Day After Tomorrow, Harry Potter:Prisoner Of Azkaban and Troy. Officials even found copies of Shrek 2 - which hasn't even been theatrically released in the UK yet. It's suspected that the counterfeits were made from illicit master discs smuggled in from the Far East..
  • Attack of the zombies - Almost summertime, and the living is easy--unless you happen to be an IT worker employed in any kind of security-related capacity. In that case, it was just new kinds of trouble this week, as worms, hacker attacks and other threats made life miserable.The biggest of the headaches was Tuesday's attack against Web infrastructure company Akamai, which knocked Yahoo, Google, and various Microsoft and Apple Computer sites offline for at least part of the day.
  • Mobile phone virus emerges in Moscow - The world's first mobile phone virus, capable of sending itself between handsets, has been discovered by an internet security company in Moscow. The Cabir virus is designed to attack the top-of-the-range models of brands such as Nokia which use the common operating system Symbian. It is disguised as part of the phone's own security software. Onceinside, it activates the wireless information transfer system known asBluetooth. Each time the phone is turned on it searches for other phones nearbywith Bluetooth and then sends itself to the first of them. While it isactive the phone's screen displays the name of its security software,Caribe, and is inoperable. Experts say it is the first virus that can spread between mobile phoneswithout the help of a computer. Although it does not have any malicious effect, experts say it is only amatter of time before programmers adapt it to damage phones or have themcall premium rate numbers or send nuisance text messages.
  • Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals - The box-like units, called C-Guard, were developed by experts from the military and defense industries for Netline Communications Technologies. They jam signals in a 262-foot radius in enclosed spaces. They could eventually be installed across Italy to prevent cheating during university exams.
  • Report Online Thieves Empty Bank Accounts - Checking-account theft is the fastest-growing financial consumer fraud in the country, according to a survey from Gartner Inc. Based on a poll of 5,000 online U.S. adults, the study shows that some 1.98 million consumers have been victimized by checking-account fraud, resulting in $2.4 billion in losses.
  • Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer - The argument is simple: the benefits of using IE are too few - and the faults too great!
  • Antipiracy bill targets technology - The proposal, called the Induce Act, says "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright law would be legally liable for those violations, a prohibition that would effectively ban file-swapping networks like Kazaa and Morpheus. The bill represents the latest legislative attempt by influential copyright holders to address what they view as the growing threat of peer-to-peer networks rife with pirated music, movies and software. As file-swapping networks grow in popularity, copyright lobbyists are becoming increasingly creative in their legal responses, which include proposals for Justice Department lawsuits against infringers and action at the state level.
  • Survey Finds File-Sharing Networks Boost CD Buys - File-sharing appears to boost music CD buying, according to survey results released by Warez.com, a maker of file-sharing software. The online survey, which reportedly has been taken by some 150,000 people, shows that the purchasing of music increases slightly for some consumers after they discover peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Light buyers of music appear to buy more discs after they discover online file-sharing, the survey indicates. The survey showed 47.12 percent of the respondents indicated that they bought fewer than 10 CDs a year before they became file-traders, but that number dropped to 41.4 percent after they discovered P2P.
  • Copy-protected CD hits #1 - Velvet Revolver's debut CD has reached a milestone of sorts. "Contraband" is the first copy-protected album to hit #1 in the US.
  • Off-topic: GPS cellphones blank out during 911 calls - Some emergency calls made from GPS-enabled Verizon Wireless cellphones in the US are being disrupted because of a glitch in the way the phones divide their processor time between GPS-location calculations and voice transmission. Verizon Wireless, based in New York City, first announced on Wednesday that the emergency stations that receive 911 calls had noticed disruptions. The company, the largest cell phone service provider in the US, says the glitch causes a series of two second "blank outs" at the beginning of a 911 call. Theoretically a caller could experience up to 16 of these, says Verizon Wireless spokesperson Jeff Nelson.
  • Off-topic: Challenge to U.S. Might? - At first, the system was supposed to be a GPS competitor. But now, after years of wrangling, the United States and Europe have agreed to cooperate. That could mean more widely available tracking systems -- ones that work in just about every urban canyon, office park and hiking trail across the globe.
  • Off-topic: Firm trials cancer-zapping nanobots - A nanoscale drug-delivery system is being tested at Singapore General Hospital. The technology is being used to help treat cancer by carrying the treatment directly to the tumour site. The device, developed by biotech company pSivida, is based on a material they call BioSilicon. This is cheap, safe and biodegradable, the firm says.
  • Off-topic:  X-ray replacement - UK company Teraview and US security leaders Smiths Detection announced a new partnership. Together, the companies will work to develop and build new airport and building security scanners, using Terahertz for the first time ever. Terahertz is apparently far more effective at showing up smuggled weapons and drugs than x-rays, and also, according to the companies, carries none of the health risks. The companies claim that serious terrorists no longer carry knives and guns that can be detected by regular metal detectors, rendering them obsolete.
  • Steve Ballmer Interview - Activewin has conducted an interview with Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.
  • Hiding Behind Certification - In his article Hiding Behind Certification, MIT's Michael Schrage argues that CIOs who rely too heavily on certifications as a measure of an employee or sub-contractor's abilities are wasting their companies' money (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • MS Outlines Xbox Video Chat - Microsoft recently outlined their Video Chat plans which where introduced at their press conference during the week of E3. Yoshihiro Maruyama, general manager of Microsoft Japan's Xbox division,was on hand at a Microsoft event in Japan to present the hardware, software, and business model involving the Xbox Live video communications for the Japanese market.
  • Gmail – It’s more than the gig - Gmail is currently in its beta testing phase. In this case, the term “beta” belies how robust the system already is. Surely there are features to be added and tweaks to be made, but the system works and very efficiently at that. After a few minutes with my account, I had no qualms switching the e-mail address on my various accounts (E-bay, PayPal, forums, etc.) to Gmail. Here are several reasons why.
  • New livecam can handle 70 megapixels - Swiss based Roundshot has released an interesting new item, the 360° internet Livecam capable of 70 megapixels
  • BenQ: LCD TV prices will fall 15-20% in 2H - BenQ expects prices of mainstream LCD TVs to fall 15-20% in the second half of this year, said Peter Chen, general manager of BenQ's digital media division.
  • Is PCI-Express Necessary? - In August of 2002 VIA launched their KT400 with AGP 8x support. In five years, available AGP bandwidth had quadrupled from 533 MB/s on the 440LX to 2.1 GB/s using VIA’s KT400. In a few weeks, Intel will launch the first PCI-Express motherboards whose x16 PCI-E links will offer 4.1 GB/s of memory bandwidth. In seven years we’ve nearly octupled total video card bandwidth—but how necessary is the gain? Is PCI-Express needed in the video card industry?
  • DDR2 Memory: Near or Distant Future? - It is a new memory standard promoted by Intel. Potentially, it enables to reach higher frequencies and higher bandwidth. But apart from that, DDR2 has a number of inattractive features that mostly affect time latencies. At this particular moment, its concrete implementations (DIMMs) can't show us the strongs of DDR2, on the contrary, they underline its weaks. The reasons for that are quite material and objective: insufficient (even for DDR2-533) CPU bus bandwidth in today's Pentium 4 and absence of low-timing DIMMs from mass production.
  • AMD is betting on low-priced chip - While Athlon XPs can be found in Hewlett-Packard desktops priced as low as $399 and in HP notebooks priced as low as $849 before rebates, AMD plans to market Sempron for those PCs. It will aim to place the chip in desktops that cost less than $549 and in notebooks that sell for under $999. But Sempron notebooks could hit prices even lower than that. The machines could start at $650 or $700, Mahony said, but still deliver features, such as 15-inch screens and CD burners, that meet the needs of most buyers.
  • Intel intros 775-pin Pentium 4s - Intel has announced six new 775-pin Pentium 4 processors, to accompany it latest chipsets, also announced today. The CPU line-up comprises 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.6GHz Pentium 4s and a 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. The first five of these will ship with model numbers 520, 530, 540, 550 and 560, respectively. Given Intel's intention to dub the P4EE the 7xx series, the 3.4GHz part has not been given a model number, so the chip maker clearly wants to retain the model numbering for 90nm parts - the 3.4GHz P4EE is fabbed at 130nm. The 700 series P4EE - ie. a 90nm part - will not appear until Q4 2004, Intel confirmed today.
  • Intel unveils Grantsdale and Alderwood chipsets - Intel has previewed its 915 and 925x chipsets, formerly known by their codenames Grantsdale and Alderwood. The new chipsets will be launched officially on 21 June, which is also when the first systems using the chipset will be for sale. Both models offer roughly the same features, with the main difference being that the 925x has a higher performance. More details on the chipsets can be found here.
  • Verto GeForce 6800 GT announced - PNY announces the Verto GeForce 6800 GT, a great value performance graphics card based on advanced NVIDIA GPU technology. Supercharged by a 16-pipe superscalar graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture from NVIDIA with full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0. The Verto GeForce 6800 GT contains a quick-start installation guide, driver CD, 1 DVI to VGA adapters, an S-Video Cable, a TVOUT adapter and the full version Far Cry game. PNY Technologies' Verto GeForce 6800 GT will be available in July 2004 with a suggested retail price of L299 Inc vat.
  • Seagate Attacks With 12 New Disk Drive Products - Seagate will unleash a barrage of new hard drives next quarter as it further expands its product lineup. On the menu are drives with capacities of 400-GB for desktops, 100 GB for notebooks and 300 GB for servers; a USB2 pocket hard drive with a 5-GB capacity and more.
  • LG GSA-4120B: High Speed Multi-format Champion - As 5X DVD-RAM and 12X DVD+R media catch on, the GSA-4120B will become a more attractive option for end users. Unfortunately, the only real media ready for 12X (Ricoh and Yuden) has not found its way into the mainstream retail markets yet - we are even having trouble finding some with which to test our drives. As with the Plextor 712A, we were disappointed that the LG burner did not burn 12X on the 8X rated MCC 003 discs. Fortunately, the GSA-4120B does make an excellent 8X burner. More options for burning 12X would have been welcomed, but until we see larger media saturation, we are more or less stuck with our options for now.
  • OCZ Powerstream 520ADJ review - This power supply will be the favorite with many overclockers, the strong rails and adjustability of the 3.3v and 5v lines will ensure the success of this power supply
  • Dlink DI-624/S & DWL-G650/s Adaptors review - The DI-624 is at first glance identical to the DI-624+, quite why Dlink chose to put a '+' symbol on a lower specification product is beyond me, it has confused many-a-customer. The fact remains however that on the exterior the two are identical. The DI-624/s is a four port, 10/100BaseT wireless broadband router that offers 108Mbps wireless connectivity within the 2.4Ghz range using a single dipole antenna.
  • Samsung ML-1740 printer review - The Samsung ML-1740 is a lot of printer for the price. The 17-page-per-minute (ppm) engine cranks out pages at high speed and at 600 dots per inch - a higher resolution than most personal lasers. Output quality could be better, but it's among the best we've seen at this price.
  • Acer Aspire 1714SMi review - For a start let's look under the hood. Though the 1714SMi is no lighter than the 1705SCi it has certainly been working out. Gone is the P4 3.06GHz CPU, having been beefed up to a P4 3.4GHz. Likewise, the DDR SDRAM has been doubled to 1GB and Acer has finally thrown in a decent graphics chipset, replacing the SiS M650 integrated graphics with nVidia’s 128MB GeForce FX Go5700. The original 1705SCi’s stunning 1,280 x 1,024 17in TFT screen and lightening fast Seagate Barracuda 120GB, 7,200rpm Ultra ATA-100 hard drive have wisely been kept.
  • Notebook round-up - PCWorld tested the four notebooks configured with 1GB of RAM and Windows XP Professional. They came with different Pentium M processors: Dell's Inspiron 8600C ($2899) and HP's Compaq Business Notebook Nc6000 ($2499) ran the 2-GHz Pentium M 755; Gateway's 450XL ($2440) relied on the 1.8-GHz Pentium M 745; and IBM's ThinkPad T42 ($1994) carried the 1.7-GHz Pentium M 735.
  • MSI MEGA Player 515 review - TrustedReviews has posted a review of the MSI MEGA Player 515 - MP3 Player which has 256MB memory, OLED display and comes in at a bargain price.
  • Yepp YP-T5 vs MuVo Slim - It's hard to favor one over the other, so it will all come down to a matter of taste and priorities. We'd say it's really up to you. But: the Creative is faster (USB 2.0), includes a battery, restitutes sound a bit better and has a better tuner. The Samsung player has the better screen, doesn't need a PC for recharging, records and encodes in MP3.
  • Ten Steps to a Secure PC - PCStats have published a new beginners guide to securing your PC againist viruses, Trojan horses and more.
  • ATI Radeon To ATI FireGL Mod Guide - Adrian's Rojak Pot has published his new guide for turning you're ATI Radeon into a FireGL.
  • Overclocking the Athlon64 3000+ - With expensive 939-pin CPUs dousing many enthusiast dreams, the 754-pin CPUs are coming back into focus with the help of ABIT and VIA's new K8T800Pro chipset.
  • MotherBoard Monitor 5.3.7.0 - Motherboard Monitor (download) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chip on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations. MBM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and .NET. It can sense temps from Cpu, HDD, GFx and Mobo.
  • SpeedFan 4.13 - SpeedFan  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.
  • Fresh UI 7.13 - 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.
  • Mozilla 1.7 Final - Mozilla 1.7 (download win32 ~ linux) is for everyone. And we mean everyone. Mozilla is open source, which means it is made possible by a large community of developers, supporters, and users like you.
  • FileZilla 2.2.7a - The FileZilla client offers similar features and capability to its commercial alternatives. This is a minor update to the 2.2.7 release where new features such as MODE Z file transfer compression was introduced.
  • FTPRush 1.0.0440 - FTPRush (download ~ screenshot) is a fast, reliable, powerful and easy-to-use FTP/FXP client for Microsoft Windows. It allows you to transfer files from local to server, server to local or server to server.
  • Intel INF Update Utility 6.0.1.1002 - The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (readme) installs Windows* INF files to the target system.
  • Matrox drivers v1.07.00.089 - Matrox has released a new drivers for Parhelia, Millennium P750 and P650.
  • ForceWare 61.21 WHQL(?) drivers - Station-Drivers have posted a new set of Forceware Drivers.  They claim the drivers are WHQL, but I would recommend to install it only at your own risk!

last 10 comments:
sow(01:51 AM CEST - Jun,20 2004 )
In the article "Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer"

After reading all his so-called "reasons", I could only come to a conclusion consists of two words - anti microsoft.

I doubt where his target audiences lie.

Not a convincing article to me at all. (shrugs)

madda(04:49 PM CEST - Jun,20 2004 )
sow> In the article "Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer"

After reading all his so-called "reasons", I could only come to a conclusion consists of two words - anti microsoft.

I doubt where his target audiences lie.

Not a convincing article to me at all. (shrugs)

I agree, it says that using Firefox will display all websites, and would not require a big shift in browsing habits! But it doesnt display Exchange webmail sites, so its pretty darn pointless for my work browsing habits!

xxxx(02:17 AM CEST - Jun,21 2004 )
im sticking with ie and if a site dont work cuz im using ie, oh well.

lucas(11:41 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
madda> I agree, it says that using Firefox will display all websites, and would not require a big shift in browsing habits! But it doesnt display Exchange webmail sites, so its pretty darn pointless for my work browsing habits!
wow, from one extreme to the other. so pro-ms that you havent even tried the competition. you're full of shit, html exchange works just fine in firefox, I use it to check my mail from home sometimes. god only knows why you'd be using the web interface over outlook or some other client via IMAP at work though.

madda(11:51 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
im not pro-ms or anything, i have used firefox on countless websites with no problem at all, except when trying to use exchange webmail, which sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. i use webmail at work, because we have multiple exchange servers, and as you can only have one exchange account in Outlook, this is the only way to view all my mail!

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