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Nightly Tech Madness - tech

(hx) 01:24 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004

Microsoft prepares for mobile virus battle - Besides ring tones and wallpapers, you could soon be downloading virus definitions over the airwaves as part of Microsoft's defence against a possible mobile phone virus outbreak. To allay such fears, Microsoft has built multiple security features into its Smartphone OS, a Symbian rival which is also used in hybrid devices which blends the functions of a mobile phone with a personal digital assistant, claimed Mike Wehrs, director of technology and standards for Microsoft's Mobile Devices Division.
Syrian surfer jailed - Syrian who downloaded and distributed material from a website banned by Syrian authorities has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. Abdel Rahman al-Shaghouri, 32, who had been held since his arrest in February 2003 apparently without access to family or legal representation, was convicted of "publishing false news that saps the morale of the nation".
Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner - The Recording Industry Association of America announced today it would be expanding its crackdown on copyright infringement by suing family members, hitchhikers and carpoolers. Lawyers for the RIAA maintain that the radio in each car was never meant to be listened to by anyone else except the original owner of the vehicle. OMG
Wallpaper designed to protect Wi-Fi networks - Who wouldn't want to have wallpaper that could stop electronic eavesdropping? A British defense contractor BAE Systems has developed a panel that does just that. In addition to being only 50 to 100 microns thick. This panel can be applied to almost any surface. What's interesting about this is that it lets other traffic through. Such as radio and cell phone signals. This technology comes with a price tag of $265,000.
The Microsoft research site provides RSS feed - News and Headlines ~ Downloads ~ Publications
Off-topic: Private rocket ship breaks space barrier - With a triumphant thumbs-up and a broad grin, the pilot of the SpaceShipOne rocket plane celebrated becoming the first private-sector astronaut to steer his ship into space. Melvill's exultant comments capped SpaceShipOne's wildest ride since its rollout a year ago. On the way down from a top altitude of at least 62 miles (100 kilometers), the 63-year-old South Africa native experienced 5 G's of acceleration -- more than shuttle astronauts feel during their descent.
Off-topic: Bill Gates to sponsor F1 Toyota team? - According to report in German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Chairman Gates could be signing up as the Toyota F1 team's major sponsor, covering up to 10 per cent of the company's F1 sponsorship budget. The report also added the Japanese team was hoping to bag Sony as another sponsor - although that might not go down well with rival and current Toyota sponsor Panasonic. Should they sign on the dotted line, Sony and Microsoft would join Intel in Toyota's sponsorship starting line-up and the move could see tech not tobacco become the main driving force in F1.
Off-topic: Beastie Boys CD user protected, fans angry - The Beastie Boys, infamous for their loud brand of shouty shouty whiteboy rap, have finally released a new CD - much to the glee of their fans. Well, most of them, because the few who like to rip their music to their PC, or stick it onto their mp3 players aren't able to do so: the new CD's copy protected.
Off-topic: Spielberg Knocked Out by 'Dodgeball' at Box Office - According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the aptly titled "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" sold $30 million worth of tickets since opening on June 18. "The Terminal," director Spielberg's latest collaboration with Hanks, followed with a disappointing $18.7 million for the three-day period. Fortunately for Oscar-winners Spielberg and Hanks, a more expensive new arrival did even worse. The Jackie Chan remake "Around the World in 80 Days," reportedly budgeted at $110 million, opened at No. 9 with just $6.8 million for the weekend. The film was financed by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz as part of a plan to make family-friendly projects.
Off-topic: B5 Creator Pitches Trek - Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski told fans on a B5 Usenet group that he and Dark Skies creator Bryce Zabel have put together an idea for a new Star Trek series, which he said would revive the ailing franchise. "I got together [with Zabel] and wrote a treatment earlier this year that specified how to save [Star Trek] and develop a series that would restore the series in a big way," Straczynski wrote. "I actually think it could be a hell of a show. Whether that ever goes anywhere with Paramount, who knows?"
Earth Simulator still supercomputer champion - The Earth Simulator is still the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the latest "TOP500" list, which was announced Monday at the biannual International Supercomputer Conference held in Heidelberg, Germany.
Internet speed record smashed - The Swedish National Research and Education Network (Sunet), with carrier Sprint, claims to have broken the speed record for transferring large volumes of data across the internet. Without using special technology, the team sent nearly 840 gigabytes of data from a PC in San José, California, roughly halfway around the globe to associates at the University of Lulea in northern Sweden in under 27 minutes. The data was recorded as travelling 10,157 miles across Sprint's global SprintLink backbone and the GigaSunet IP backbone at 4.23Gbps.
Simpler fuel cell architecture being readied for portables - MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. unveiled patented direct-methanol fuel cell technology based on what the company says is a radically simplified architecture that will power handheld electronics with integrated, internal fuel cells. MTI Micro's DMFC can prolong the run-time of a portable device typically by three to 10 times, said CEO Acker. "If you have a cell phone whose battery runs out in three days, our micro fuel cells can let the cell phone run for 15 days before it requires fuel cell refills," he said. Micro fuel cells for the consumer market won't take off until 2007, Acker predicted, although some selected applica- tions may emerge in 2006.
10-Gigabit Ethernet for the masses - On Monday, Foundry Networks, a leader in the 10-gigabit-per-second Ethernet (10-GigE) market, rounded out its portfolio with 10-GigE interfaces on a new load balancing switch. Hewlett-Packard's ProCurve Networking division plans to build a low-cost 10-GigE core switch using technology it bought from Riverstone Networks. And earlier this month, 3Com announced a new stackable switch that has a 10-GigE uplink.
Production of 16x DVD+RW burners may be delayed - Volume production of 16x DVD+RW burners for Japanese optical drive manufacturers such as Pioneer and Sony and their Taiwanese competitors including BenQ, Lite-On IT and Accesstek may be behind schedule due to a tight supply of LDs (laser diodes), a key component, and a lag in the availability of 16x DVD+R discs, Taiwanese optical disc drive makers indicated.
Dell taps new Intel gear for new gaming system - Dell has launched a "Gen 3" revision of its high-end Dimension XPS desktop that can be configured with either a Pentium 4 560 3.6GHz or an Extreme Edition 3.4GHz. The system comes with all sorts of goodies, including a 925X-based motherboard, PCI Express Radeon x800 XT graphics card, and loads of Serial ATA RAID options.
Intel 915 chipsets and Celeron processors to help push motherboard sales - Taiwanese motherboard makers expect today's launch of Intel's new line of PCI-Express chipsets, the 915P, 915G and 925X, to boost sales starting from July.
Intel's new 775LGA CPUs and 925/915 chipsets review - With all of that said, there is still a very positive side to all of this. And while this comparison is not perfect, you have to look at this Intel launch being akin to AMD’s 64-bit computing. AMD64 and Intel’s LGA775 and 915/925 chipsets offer much of nothing to any computer user, right now. They do however put the building blocks in place for our industry to move forward to better things. The hardware has to be in place before the software and we all know that now and that this not likely to change any time soon.
Terratec's Aureon 7.1 FireWire Attempts Plug-and-Play with Pro Sound Card Performance - Terratec says its Aureon 7.1 FireWire offers a plug-and-play sound card setup via an external FireWire connection. So while you can forget about your screwdriver and worrying about whether or not you have the right PC slot, THG investigates Terratec's easy-setup and performance claims.
DDR versus DDR2 on i915 - In conclusion, it really depends on a few factors. Pricing, availability and performance. Do take note that the current DDR2 are only supported on Intel 915 and 925 boards. Unless you are really keen to upgrade, I would advise you to wait a while when prices drop and more platforms adopt DDR2 and latencies reduced.
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Voltage Mod - Look for the chip at the back of the card as shown. You can measure the voltage of your 6800 ultra from the point shown below. Without drivers loaded it should be around 1.13v with drivers loaded it should be 1.43v. To increase voltage, you can solder a 100K variable resistor to the point shown.
Unreal Tournament 2004 tweaking guide (updated) - This guide provides you everything you need to know to improve your UT2004 experience. As a compilation of detailed setting descriptions, recommendations, tweaks and links to important resources it guarantees something for every fan of this great game (thanks Alistair Russell)
OpenOffice1.1.2 Final - The latest stable release, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 (Win32 ~ Linux), is ready for download now. OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts; numerous bugs are also fixed. In addition to English, versions for Czech, Danish, French, German, Japanese and Slovak are ready now, with other localizations following shortly.
WinRAR 3.40 Beta - WinRAR (download) is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
CDBurnerXP 2.2.9 - CDBurnerXP Pro (download) is a freeware CD/DVD-Writer program. The program can write CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
SiSoftware Sandra 2004 SP2 2004.7.9.129 - SiSoftware Sandra is an information & diagnostic utility. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

last 10 comments:

madda

(01:42 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

"Music On Car Radios Meant Only For Original Vehicle Owner" = OMG, this is just getting ridiculous now!! I cant believe they are going to do this, its gotta be a wide-up!!

"Wallpaper designed to protect Wi-Fi networks" = I would love this stuff, if only the price was a tad less!! I still think my neighbour is nicking my wireless broadband connection!! :)

"Off-topic: Beastie Boys CD user protected, fans angry" = I wonder how long it will take unti lthis copy protection is cracked, or perhaps it already is!! The industry is wasting money on trying to secure CDs, because there are millions of intelligent coders out there that are just waiting for the challenge to crack yet another copy protection scheme!!

"Internet speed record smashed" = Running at 4.23Gbps!! I would love that connection here, but the max that anyone can get as a home connection is 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream :( That annoys me a hell of alot

"Production of 16x DVD+RW burners may be delayed" = This is blatently just a stalling tactic because the maximum burn speed is 16x for DVDs, they are just hoping that every lamen buys their current drives, then when they release the 16x ones they will think they have to upgrade and will buy a new one, and these companies will make more money! Or is that just me being sinicle?? :)

CoCaine	(02:27 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
its satire man...... be easy, its a joke... its pushing fun at the recent idiot moves the riaaiaa (whatever) has made...

little_bloke

(02:30 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

Among other things I am a sound Engineer, and I know the effort that is involved in the creation of ANY recording that is published.

I also know that the recording industry (at least in England) is seriously screwed..

That said, I also believe that the record industry is approaching the whole situation in completely the wrong way...

NO amount of protection will work.. I mean hell, if you want to copy some audio of any kind all you got to do is take the audio 'out' on your soundcard or system or whatever and route it directly to a recording medium... like your audio 'in'. sure it might not be as convenient as mp3 but it'll still works, and if you take the time you can end up with MP3's no problem.

for me the issues lies deep within the 'industry' its self, music is buy its very nature a diverse creative medium... and unfortunately the 'industry' seems to be pddling a great deal of PAP music. with no long term considerations.

(I'm taliking predominantly about the UK here)

I for one enjoy a variety of music and the bands I listen to and respect, I buy there albums (perhaps not the singles, but i have never brought them) out of respect for the band, and because there is something to be said for 'owning' the music that you love.

Instead of clamping down on potential customers and diluting the vast and diverse potential of creative musicians; ending up with banal pap. The music industry should do its best to grow and adapt to new technology and new culture or it will die.

To be honest if the music industry did completely go under, we would see a resurgence of diverse independent labels that no-doubt would offer much more variety than today’s monolithic entertainment giants do... so... ultimately it doesn't matter to me...

I can’t loose…!

People have ALWAYS copied music… it’s not the COPYING that is the problem… it’s the music.

tigermonk

(03:26 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

there's many ways to go about the whole issue.

for example, without being able to download music off the internet, i would never have found out about what is now my absolute favorite band, and would never have payed $25 to see them in concert when they came through.

so they did in fact make a profit.

and ever since then i've made every effort to catch up on buying all their albums. (they have alot so it'll take time and money that i don't have right now).

but the thing is, if i never downloaded their albums, i never would have payed to see them in concert and never would have bought any of their albums.

ironic i guess.

tigermonk	(04:39 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
BTW: Bill, you're sponsering an F1 team? that's so cool of you. :D

Anonymous	(10:08 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
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lucas

(11:46 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

madda> "Internet speed record smashed" = Running at 4.23Gbps!! I would love that connection here, but the max that anyone can get as a home connection is 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream :( That annoys me a hell of alot
wow, three consecutive threads and each one, you're the moron who stands out for flaming. if the fastest connection anyone can get at home is 1.5Mbps, why is my DSL modem rated for 8Mbps? or my friends cable RUNNING at 10Mbps? or loads of peoples VDSL connections in Japan running at 40+Mbps? you certainly are doing a nice job making yourself look like a jackass, stating the "facts"

madda

(11:56 AM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

quote:
wow, three consecutive threads and each one, you're the moron who stands out for flaming. if the fastest connection anyone can get at home is 1.5Mbps, why is my DSL modem rated for 8Mbps? or my friends cable RUNNING at 10Mbps? or loads of peoples VDSL connections in Japan running at 40+Mbps? you certainly are doing a nice job making yourself look like a jackass, stating the "facts"

where are my consecutive threads??

i realise that the fastest in other countries is prolly more than 1.5Mbps, but here in the UK that is the fastest that we can get!! I thought this was obvious.

I could slag you off for being such a sanctamonious arsehole, but instead I will just say that you shouldnt really slag people off all the time, you will just end up getting ur arse beaten to shit! :)

lucas

(04:22 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

madda>
where are my consecutive threads??
the previous three i posted in

madda>
i realise that the fastest in other countries is prolly more than 1.5Mbps, but here in the UK that is the fastest that we can get!! I thought this was obvious.
Bzzzt!!! wrong and wrong. firstly, http://www.bulldogdsl.com/residential/home.asp theres a UK ISP offering 6MB dsl, and secondly you said "I would love that connection here, but the max that anyone can get as a home connection is 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream". which part of that even implies UK? you've blatently said no on can get a home connection faster than 1.5MB which is so false its not funny.

madda>
I could slag you off for being such a sanctamonious arsehole, but instead I will just say that you shouldnt really slag people off all the time, you will just end up getting ur arse beaten to shit! :)
bite me

BLOODUK	(06:16 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
muahaha @ joke

madda	(06:40 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
i posted three times because you slagged me off in all 3, hence i had to reply! regarding broadband connections, those speeds are only available to central london home connections, i was saying 1.5MBps is the 'common' maximum available for home connections, which doesnt mean you have to live in london to receive it! these forums were great until you turned up!

lucas	(06:46 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
madda> these forums were great until you turned up! I see up the top it says: [color=red:12e78d7dd2][size=18:12e78d7dd2]Gameguru Mania[/size:12e78d7dd2][/color:12e78d7dd2] FlameWars If you cant handle the heat, fuck off :P

xxxx

(07:45 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

as i said, madda is a spammer. i was gonna characterize him like many do here as a 12 year old but "sanctamonious" is a big word to use. so he's just an older guy with no much more to do in his life but post a crap load, and he does know everything! guess it's a hobby for some to be #1 on the forum post count whatever that gets you. it's a little weird cuz would you hear a grownup say "you will just end up getting ur arse beaten to shit!". pretty strange, but lets give a round of applause for his post count. he doubles the ggmania news robot and nearly triples everyone in post count!! wooo for madda! man i wish i had your spare time in life. must be nice.

Samadama	(08:50 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
@little_bloke, I completly agree with you, I have been doing exactly that since I was 17 years old. It doesn't really take that much effort. I have converted many cassetts in to cds and Mp3. There is no may for them to stop this. In a sense I think it is good what they are doing, atleast they are losing money. Which is were it hurts them the most. :wink:

BLOODUK

(08:57 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )

xxxx> wooo for madda! man i wish i had your spare time in life. must be nice.

Meh i have alot of spare time, but believe me the spare time i have atm IS NOT NICE to be honest i havent had any problems with madda if he wants to reply to every thread let him.

He is wrong about the speed though take a look at blueyonder's speeds or as lucas said bullfrog's, still come on guys cut the abuse out please!

maga	(10:01 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
BLOODUK> ABIT NFS-7 1.0 i think that's NF-7 S ! haha, i love to pick on stuff like this :) ;)

madda	(10:21 PM CEST - Jun,22 2004 )
ah whatever guys, i just have spare time at work at the moment. slag me off if you want, but i cant help it if i like to reply to posts, just who i am. it seems that i was wrong about the speed issue, I was basing it on NTL and BT speeds which i guess is the wrong thing :)

BLOODUK	(12:42 AM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
maga> BLOODUK> ABIT NFS-7 1.0 i think that's NF-7 S ! haha, i love to pick on stuff like this :) ;) I couldnt give a toss , sorry :lol:

BLOODUK	(12:42 AM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
madda> ah whatever guys, i just have spare time at work at the moment. slag me off if you want, but i cant help it if i like to reply to posts, just who i am. Hey i didnt slag you off i resent that :cry:

madda	(01:29 AM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
BLOODUK> madda> ah whatever guys, i just have spare time at work at the moment. slag me off if you want, but i cant help it if i like to reply to posts, just who i am. Hey i didnt slag you off i resent that :cry: sorry blooduk, i didnt mean you at all! I meant lucas and xxxx!

Anonymous	(09:00 AM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
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tigermonk	(03:26 PM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
i think it's pretty cool that bill gates has enough spare time to post on ggmania!

	(05:11 PM CEST - Jun,23 2004 )
Hey Bill, since you are fucking rich send me ATI X800 pro or GF6800 Ultra O:)

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