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Wednesday Tech Reading - tech

(hx) 04:55 PM CEST - Aug,11 2004

Mosquito Trojan set to infect mobiles - Mobile phone users should beware of being bitten by Mosquito, a Trojan masquerading as a game but designed to send out premium-rate SMS messages without the user's consent. One of the first examples of malicious software aimed at mobile phone users, the Trojan has been hidden in a pirated game that describes itself as Mosquito v2.0.
Top 10 Security Modifications in Windows XP Service Pack 2 - There are plenty of security updates with Service Pack 2, with some more important than others. Here are the top 10 security features and modifications that you can expect.
The problem with Windows XP SP2 - The DivX problem is going to be repeated on quite a few applications. Anything that generates machine code into a memory buffer and then calls it will be hit, until the authors modify their software to tell Windows what they're doing. The calls for this have existed since the introduction of the Win32 API - it's just that until now, nothing went wrong if you didn't use them.
Security Update for Exchange 5.5 (KB842436) - A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to run programs and access data on a computer running Microsoft® Exchange Server 5.5. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.
Data Execution Prevention (DEP) Test - Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows supports a new security enhancement called Data Execution Prevention (DEP). NXTEST is an application which allows you to check if Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is active on your computer by attempting to execute program code from a data segment, the process heap and the program stack, and reports whether all attempts were prevented by the operating system or not.
DVD X Copy Sales Will Fund Piracy Foes - 321 Studios will make a "substantial" financial payment to the motion picture studios it had been battling in court, according to the MPAA. Those funds will be donated to the motion picture industry's antipiracy campaign.
Korea has over 30 million Internet users - Over 30 million Koreans are now regularly using the internet, according to a survey by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication and the National Internet Development Agency. The country has a population of 45 million. Korea is the fifth country in the world to have topped the 30 million mark, following after the United States, Japan, China and Germany. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Information and Communication announced that there were 30.67 million internet users at the end of June - up from 29.22 million six months ago.
Portable Internet to Be 10 Times Faster - South Koreans will be able to access the Internet on the go at 10 times faster than they are currently, starting next year thanks to the homegrown WiBro service. The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) on Wednesday said it would issue 2-3 WiBro licenses next February and spectrum usage fees would be set at 3 percent of service providers' annual sales. With the announcement, the outline of the WiBro services was fixed and the mobility-specific Internet will be launched in a full-fledged manner in 2006. WiBro, formerly known as 2.3GHz Internet, promises a downstream speed of around 1 Mbps and seamless mobile connectivity at up to 60 kilometers per hour.
AMD64 was "The Force" behind Star Wars 3 - AMD announced that AMD Opteron processor-based servers and workstations are providing the digital backbone for the final Star Wars prequel, Episode III: "Revenge of the Sith." The AMD64 digital processing pipeline at JAK Films, the production company for Star Wars: Episode III, includes pre-visualization and pre-postproduction, which involves 3-D match moving, 3-D modeling, lighting, shading, texturing, compositing and rendering techniques.
Inkjet Printers Offer Biology Breakthrough - If you think injecting ink into a printer cartridge might damage your printer, try filling it with animal cells. That's what they're doing at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, these days. In the name of science, researchers have developed a way to print sheets of solid animal tissue by filling Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet cartridges with animal cells, or "bio-ink."
Sony to use PlayStation 2 chip in flat-panel TVs - Sony Corp plans to install its high-performance Playstation 2 game console chips in flat-panel TVs due for release this fall, in an apparent effort to catch up with Sharp Corp and other firms in the flat-panel TV market, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported, citing unidentified company sources. The new TVs will be equipped with the same chips used in PlayStation 2 home-use game consoles and PSX DVD recorder/game consoles. Sony fabricates these chips at a group plant in Nagasaki Prefecture.
Kingston Hyper-X KHX3200ULK2/1G Ultra Low Latency Memory Kit review - MODTHEBOX.COM has posted a review of the Kingston Hyper-X KHX3200ULK2/1G Ultra Low Latency Memory Kit
Ultra Products Dual Channel 1GB PC4000 Kit review - PimpRig has posted a new review up on a budget friendly pair of PC4000 RAM that performs good to boot.
AOpen Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT 256MB - There's no doubt in this reviewer's mind that a GeForce 6800 GT represents a better price-to-performance ratio than the Ultra model. To AOpen's credit, we've seen its GT and Ultra cards available at the lower end of the pricing scale, with the reviewed GT version available, albeit in limited quantities, at just under L300 mark. That represents good value when most respected partners' GTs cost up to L30 more.
GeForce 6800 GT BFGTech vs Leadtek - LeadTeks' approach is a bit more straight-forward with regards to clock rate, however, their massive cooler does scream "overclock me! - it does make the card use up two available slots in the PC and prevents it from fitting into Small Form Factor PCs. It's largely a reference design with regards to the PCB and layout, but LeadTek put its midas touch on it by implanting a huge copper heatsink that wraps around the card cooing both sides.
GeCube Radeon X800 Pro review - ATIs vertex shaders have always been a cut above the rest, and the X800 Pro is no exception. Despite losing out in the legacy fixed function processing stakes, it shows better performance at all the other shader levels of which it is capable. Despite the addition of Pixel Shader 2.0b for the X800 series, the vertex shaders have remained untouched when it comes to their ability to handle certain VS 2.0a and 3.0 features such as dynamic branching, and thus these tests cannot be run. However, ATIs vertex shader performance is powerful enough to eclipse even the use of dynamic branching under Vertex Shader 3.0 as a performance enhancing feature.
Connect3D Radeon X800 XT - The clock speeds are pretty standard with the core running at 520MHz and the memory ticking along at 560MHz (1.12GHz effective). Although there's 256MB of memory on board, ATI has foreseen that even this amount of memory may not be enough for future games. As such 3Dc was developed which can compress normal map textures to a ratio of 4:1. This means that larger and more complex normal maps can be used, without running out of texture memory.
Sapphire Radeon Toxic X800 Pro VIVO - The MSRP for the Toxic X800 Pro VIVO is $469, and that was the price listed at Newegg at the time of this writing. If you aren't interested in VIVO or the other Toxic features, then you might as well save $30-50 and get the regular X800 Pro. Otherwise, if you value all the extra features and nice bundle, then the Toxic X800 Pro VIVO might just be the card for you.
ABIT RX600XT-PCIE review - Daily-Digital has posted a review of the ABIT RX600XT-PCIE video card.
Zalman Reserator 1 Fanless Water Cooler review - hardCOREware.net has posted a review on the Zalman Reserator 1 Fanless Water Cooler
AOpen COM5232 Combo CD-RW/DVD review - CDRLabs have posted a review on the AOpen COM5232/AAH 52/32/52/16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM.
Selecting a TFT LCD Monitor for Gaming - D-Silence has posted a new article about selecting a TFT LCD Monitor for Gaming.
Logitech Pocket Digital 130 Camera review - TechIMO has posted a review of Logitech Pocket Digital 130 Camera.
OpenGL 2.0 launched with built-in shader language - OpenGL 2.0 was formally launched yesterday and with it the completion of the graphics API's Shading Language specification for vertex- and pixel-shader programming.
lftp 3.0.7 (linux) - lftp (download) is a sophisticated command line based file transfer program. Supported protocols include FTP, HTTP, SFTP, and FISH. It has a multithreaded design allowing you to issue and execute multiple commands simultaneously or in the background. It also features mirroring capabilities and will reconnect and continue transfers in the event of a disconnection. Also, if you quit the program while transfers are still in progress, it will switch to nohup mode and finish the transfers in the background.
Style XP 2.12 - Style XP (male ~ female ~ update) is not a skinning engine. It uses Microsoft's built-in visual style engine, but enhances it by providing many useful tools. Style XP can import, select, rotate, and manage Themes, Visual Styles, Wallpaper, Logons, BootScreens, Icons, and Explorer Bar. This new version add support for WinXP SP2.
Complete Process Manager 1.0 - Complete Process Manager (download trial) helps you detect the invisible applications which are running in the background and identify them. Furthermore Complete Process Manager helps you detect the startup programs which start automatically whenever you turn on your computer.

last 10 comments:

FX5900	(06:13 PM CEST - Aug,11 2004 )
1ST POST!!! but then owning an nvidia card, i'm used to coming first. :lol:

xxxx	(06:44 PM CEST - Aug,11 2004 )
installed SP2, tested the firewall. other than port 139 that appeared closed anyhow, i have since de-installed ZoneAlarm which I was using recently due to attacks on my provider. so far in the hour i used it, pretty impressive and windows actually seems faster. doom3 and other games ran fine too. no noticable problems thus far.

xxxx	(04:44 PM CEST - Aug,12 2004 )
also, for anyone curious, i don't know what the divx blah blah is about, but I have sp2 installed and i have yet to have a problem with ANYTHING including divx.

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