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| (hx) 03:27 PM CEST - Aug,05 2004 |
- Windows XP update delayed again - The company had planned to wrap
up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft
representative said late Wednesday that the software giant had
decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be
released to manufacturing. On the contrary,
Microsoft Watch claimed that the long-awaited XP Service Pack 2 going gold
in the next 24 hours.
Todays' article on Canada.com says that the company is expected to release
the Windows XP Service Pack 2, in the coming days. Service Pack 2 for Windows
XP Home Edition will be about 70 megabytes and the update for
Windows XP Professional will be about 92 megabytes.
- P2P content crack down ordered - According to the Washington Post,
the state
law enforcement authorities are worried about the trading of child
pornography and the trading of ripped off movies and music. The group of state
attorneys have written to Kazaa, Grokster, BearShare, Blubster, eDonkey2000,
LimeWire and Streamcast Networks to complain that their networks have been too
many times been hijacked by those who use them for illegal purposes.
- 57 cuffed in UK anti-piracy crackdown -
UK anti-piracy investigators arrested 57 people last weekend in a
nationwide crackdown targeting music, film and computer game piracy. Many of
those arrested as part of Operation Zouk could face benefit fraud charges
along with copyright offences - 45 of those collared were on benefits.
- T-Mobile Sidekick II -
The Sidekick II's most unique feature is its huge, 3.3-inch, color flip-up
screen. If you flick the closed screen with your thumb, it swivels out of the
way to reveal a very usable QWERTY keyboard. Buttons let you power the device
on and off as well as adjust the volume with the screen closed, so you don't
have to fiddle with settings.
- Low-cost Mobile Sempron notebooks to hit market in mid-August -
Notebook vendors, including Hewlett Packard (HP), Acer, Asustek Computer and
eMachines,
are expected to start marketing low-cost, entry-level notebooks, running
AMD's K8-core Mobile Sempron processors in the middle of the third quarter,
according to sources at the makers.
- Asus explains BIOS-level graphics overclocking - Asus has responded
to charges
that its 925X- and 915P-based motherboards are surreptitiously overclocking
PCI Express graphics cards to achieve better performance. According to Asus,
there's
nothing sneaky about its PCI Express Graphics link BIOS option.
- Shader model 2.0b improves ATI performance - Computerbase.de
pointed that
if you use Far Cry 1.2, the patch that has been withdrawn, you will notice
a significant speed up. This patch has Shader Model 2.0b.
- Sapphire Toxic X800 Pro review -
This oversized video card sports some major cooling, ships with a utility
to dynamically overclock the on-board RAM, and has one of the best bundles
we've seen in quite a while.
- Wacom Graphire3 Classic Pen Tablet review - Once you've been
re-educated,
the Wacom Graphire3 Classic pen tablet can certainly prove to be a
fabulous tool for the graphic artist and photo editor, and for those where
mouse related RSI might be an issue, it could well be a valid alternative.
- Logitech Z-5300 Speakers review - Sudhian Media
take a
look at the Logitech Z-5300 Speakers.
- Sony Clie PEG-UX50 review - DesignTechnica has posted
a
review of Sony Clie PEG-UX50.
- Power Supply Unit: Architecture Explained - CoolTechZone
explains the architecture of the Power Supply Unit.
- AMD frags Intel in Doom 3 - The chaps at
Anadtech proved that the Athlon 64 marchitecture beats the hell out of
Intel's Pentium 4. It was shocking to see that
3000+ 512
KB cache AMD chip is actually just one frame slower then 3.4 Exscream Edition
CPU. The price difference is $830 as EE costs $988 while a 3000+ costs
$158, according to Pricewatch. All other Athlon socket 754 3400+, socket 939
3500+, 3800+, FX51 and FX53 all 939 are faster than EE 3.4.
- Doom 3 benchmarking - After installing the game
you have
one demo for benchmarking, it takes around one minute and 30 seconds to
run on A64 3000+, 1GB RAM with 5900U. The demo contains some action where you
are just killing few monsters. And if you have already played the game for a
while you probably noticed that its has more than just what you see in this
demo.
- 3DMark04 preview - The Chinese site D-Cross.com has published
the first full preview of 3DMark04 (translation through
Babelfish ~
WorldLingo) Another article can be found on
Xtremesystems.org.
- Photoshop SpeedUp 1.00 -
Adobe Photoshop SpeedUp
significantly decreases the time it takes to load Adobe Photoshop by disabling
the plug-ins that you may not need. There are several options such as whether
to load the Adobe fonts, load the presets, and set the memory usage. You may
restore to the original settings at any time. Adobe Photoshop SpeedUp is
freeware, works with Adobe Photoshop versions 4 through 8.
- Opera 7.54 -
The Opera browser
(download
version
w/o Java ~
with
Java) has received international recognition from end-users and the
industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than
other browsers, and it has gathered a cult following on the net.
- Mozilla 1.7.2, Firefox 0.9.3 and Thunderbird 0.7.3 - Mozilla has
officially released
Mozilla 1.7.2,
Firefox 0.9.3 and
Thunderbird 0.7.3.
- YMPEG 1.4 -
YMPEG
offers you the most simplest way to encode or convert your favorite videos.
YMPEG is a first Freeware MPEG Codec which can integrate itself with Windows
and offers seamless encoding from your favorite application (VFW).
- PuTTY 0.55 Beta -
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix
platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
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last 10 comments: | xxxx | (06:17 PM CEST - Aug,06 2004 ) | | grrr i wish you could sue people for false information/news. funny a guy i know still a beta tester with FC, says 1.2 patch and shader 2.0b did ZERO. quite the reverse statement. i can't wait to see it in it's final release. but i can't stand the MP and there are like 50 servers and everyone lags. the sprinting turns me off as it reminds me of Steve Osten from Six Million Dollar man.. god, if they removed the running and just left it in default run mode, the mp would be better just for that. it's funny how this game is on top seller list yet, servers don't increase. guess peeps are buying it for sp only.. | |
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