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 Thursday/Friday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:51 AM CEST - Aug,27 2004
Wedding (not mine): My wife and I are leaving for two days. This means that news are not going to be posted probably until Sunday, 29th of August. See ya soon :)
  • Valve take action against piracy - As reported in this thread on the Steampowered forums, Valve have started shutting down Steam accounts that have used a CD key exploit or an a fraudulent credit card number to illegally obtain Valve's games (thanks HalfLife2.net)
  • US Agents raid p2p homes - US Attorney General John Ashcroft reported that US agents had raided the homes of 5 people suspected of illegally trading copyrighted material. Agents raided homes in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, and seized computers involved. The targets of the raids were users of popular file sharing program, Direct Connect. The 5 people were acting as hubs; hubs are the Kazaa equivalent of "super-nodes" - users sharing massive quantities of files. Another articles can be found at CNET and CNN.
  • FBI raids Waukesha apartment -  A dozen law enforcement officers descended on a Waukesha apartment building early Wednesday, looking for evidence of a computer network in which people illegally shared movies, music and computer games. The raid was part of the first federal criminal investigation targeting an allegedly illegal peer-to-peer, or P2P, network, through which people can access files from each other's hard drives, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The warrants, one of which was served at an Internet service provider, targeted the operators of five of the network's hubs, rather than the individual users. The hubs act as a central point for people to exchange files, with some hubs containing data each day equivalent to 60,000 feature films, according to the FBI.
  • Internet to see major strike today? - Yevgeny Kaspersky, chief of the Russian major anti-virus company, has warned about a large-scale virus attack on the Internet that might be delivered by the Islamic terrorists on August 26. "The hackers who have proclaimed 'electronic jihad' have enough experience and resources to paralyze the Internet for several hours at least," Mr. Kaspersky said at a press conference in RIA Novosti. In the expert's opinion, "the main strike will most probably be directed against political and financial sites of the United States, Israel and West-European countries. Most probably, various versions of harmful programs will be introduced into the computer network.
  • Windows XP SP2 a tad borked on AMD64 chips - Microsoft has issued a Knowledge Base article which says that if you install Windows XP SP2 on a machine with an AMD 64-bit chip your computer may repeatedly re-start. The workaround, said Microsoft, is to remove Windows XP SP2 from your computer. The problem happens if you install hardware that uses the mpegport.sys, you've got an AMD 64 bit chip, and you've enforced the NX flag, also known as no execute protection, on a machine.
  • IE Flaw Affects Windows XP SP2 Systems - Microsoft denied that Windows Security Center has a vulnerability. "In order for an attacker to spoof the Windows Security Center, he or she would have to have local administrator rights on the computer," Microsoft said in an e-mailed statement.  True, but that may not be much of a defense, since home users in particular often run Windows in Administrator Mode. Enterprises, wary of the total control that mode gives end users, typically sets up PCs to run in Limited Mode.
  • Digital attacks on Winamp use "skins" for camouflage - The flaw is being used by some spyware makers to infect people's computers with their illicit programs, according to another group of researchers, at French company K-Otik Security. The attack had been used to spread spyware among Internet relay chat users, infecting a computer after the victim clicked on a Web address that appeared in the chat window.
  • RealVNC 4.0 DoS - Allan Zhang is reporting that RealVNC server die if there are more than 60 connections.
  • UK Civil Servants download 2 Million+ Porn Images - An internet porn storm engulfed a government department last night. A shock probe found staff called up TWO MILLION pages of filth on work PCs in just eight months. More than 18,000 of the images and sites involved CHILD ABUSE. The investigation at the Department for Work and Pensions has led to one conviction, 16 sackings and over 200 disciplinary cases. Two other penpushers are under police investigation. It is claimed that one official alone accessed 103,000 hardcore images.
  • Google Launch AdSense for Bloggers - Google's popular AdSense advertising service is now being opened up to Bloggers, as well as main stream websites. Announced via Blogger (a Google subsidiary), Bloggers will now be able to gain revenue from their online web logs.
  • Off-topic: Gamers prefer cyberbabes to real women - An exhibition company claims that after conducting a poll of 3450 gamers, 2109 would rather have a date with pixellated Lara Croft than Jordan. It's not clear how many of these 3450 people were male.
  • Off-topic: A Flying Leap for Cars - Businessweek has a story about flying cars and how they could be an actual viable thing in less than 10 years.

  • Off-topic: Biggest bets in the universe unveiled - Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking. From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010

  • Off-topic: Unused back muscles switch themselves off - Slumping in front of the television or computer could deactivate muscles that support and protect your spine, triggering many otherwise inexplicable cases of lower back pain.

  • Casio Shows Off Slim, Trim Digicams - At the head of the new cameras announced this week is the latest version of Casio's credit-card size Exilim Zoom family of cameras. The EX-S100 camera retains the same height and width as other cameras in the Exilim range--similar to a credit card at 3.5 inches by 2.2 inches--but is thinner than previous models at .6 inches, Casio says in a statement.
  • OEM prices for 16x DVD burners drop below US$80 for Taiwan makers - Taiwan OEM quotations for 16x DVD burners have slipped by over 10% to less than US$80 amid decreased component costs and competition from Japanese OEM makers, according to Taiwan producers of optical disc drives.
  • ATI's "Fudo" to have Shader 3.0 - According to TheInquirer, the "Fudo" chip  (codename for the R520) will have Shader model 3.0. It's too early for Shader 4.0 as this nice shader model won't show up till 2006 or even later. (thanks nitrox)
  • Dual-core chips bring dual caches - The dual-core chips that AMD and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have separate caches, pools of memory integrated into the chip for rapid data access, according to company presentations at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. Each core of Montecito, for instance, will come with a 1MB level two cache and a 12MB level three cache, according to Cameron McNairy, a researcher at Intel. To date, Intel has mostly said that Montecito's level 3 cache will contain 24MB of memory.
  • Via Tunes Open-Source Media Player - Via Technologies has released a version of the open-source Xine media player that is designed to take advantage of hardware digital video acceleration capabilities in two of the company's PC chipsets, the CN400 and CLE266.  The Via-enhanced Xine Player version 3.0 (VeXP 3.0) was developed for Linux-based personal electronics devices that rely on the MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 acceleration functions of the Via chipsets, company representatives say.
  • Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for WinXP SP2 (Updated) - This guidance discusses the security technologies, an application testing process, incompatibility symptoms, mitigation techniques, and deployment scenarios. It makes no assumption about the size or complexity of the network, and is as relevant to peer-to-peer environments as it is to Active Directory environments.
  • DDR vs. DDR2 - What it means to you - When you get right down to it, for today's performance the differences between using DDR and DDR2 at 533MHz, there is little to no difference. Where DDR2 will shine, is in it's overclocking potential and the promise of future applications making use of it's enhanced speed and bandwidth. As when DDR was first introduced over SDRAM, it will be a while before these advantages are fully realized, but DDR2 will be sure to come into it's own sooner rather than later. Right now, there is no reason to upgrade your existing system based solely on DDR2.
  • MSI MEGA 516BT - Bluetooth MP3 Player - MSI has recently launched a whole range of new MEGA products. The latest product to enter the MEGA family is the MEGA Player 516BT, yet another MP3 player from MSI. Compared to the MEGA Player 515, you’ll notice that the 516BT is quite a lot larger in size.
  • iRiver's iFP 790 and 890 MP3 Players Are High On Sound, Low on Software  - iRiver's iFP-790 and iFP-890 MP3 players get the formula right for audio file play and storage. Software glitches unfortunately get in the way of the fun.
  • The Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 6.2 - Currently covering over 180 desktop graphics cards, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 14 different specifications for each and every card.
  • BFGTech GeForce 6800 OC review - BFGTech has stepped in with a very appealing product having the core clock speed clocked higher than a regular GeForce 6800 offering a greater performance advantage out of the box. Add to this the beefed up heatsink fan unit and the overclockability of this video card and the potential for further speed increases with Shader Model 3.0 and you have a very appealing bundle
  • Volari V3 XT review - VolariGames has posted a review of the XGI Volari V3 XT, a mainstream graphics card
  • Two Optical Writers With Serial ATA/150 - GamePC take a look at Plextor PX-712SA Serial ATA/150 DVD Rewritable drive and MSI's new X5AD2, a surprisingly low-priced but impressively feature packed CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive based on a Serial ATA/150 interface.
  • Logitech launches MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse - Logitech has silently launched a new cordless MX-series mouse, the MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse. This will probably be the successor of the MX700 mouse. The main difference between the MX700 and the MX1000 is that newer one doesn't use an optical sensor, but a new laser which is according to Logitech 20 times more accurate than an optical sensor.  The Logitech MX1000 has a Tilt Wheel and it uses a lithium-ion battery. The status of this battery can be read out directly from the mouse. Just like the MX700 this one uses the FastRF technology to transfer data from the mouse to the cradle.
  • Choosing the Best CPU for Doom 3 - Having tested the graphics cards in the new Doom III X-bit Labs thought it would also be interesting to measure the performance of the contemporary CPUs in this game. They used a preliminarily recorded demo as well as the actual gameplay. The results turned out very unexpected.  However, they recommend you to use Pentium 4 models with frequencies from 3GHz up and Athlon 64 models with ratings from 3200+ up, if you want to be absolutely warranted against any accidental slowdowns.
  • Advanced Guide: Flashing a Video Card BIOS - PCStats has published a new advanced guide which is focused on flashing your video card BIOS.
  • Windows XP Security Guide - This guide includes settings for Windows XP clients deployed in a Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain. The document also includes guidance for an environment requiring an extremely high level of security in which application compatibility or usability may be constrained. Finally, this guide discusses procedures for implementing Windows XP security settings in stand-alone clients.
  • BITS 2.0 and WinHTTP 5.1 (KB842773) Update - This software updates the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to v2.0 and updates WinHTTP. These updates help ensure an optimal download experience with future versions of Automatic Updates, Windows Update, and other programs that rely on BITS to transfer files using idle network bandwidth.
  • Pagedefrag 2.3  - PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them.
  • Gaim 0.82 - Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
  • Kazaa Lite Resurrection 0.0.7.6E - Kazaa Lite Resurrection is a P2P file sharing program based on the client that is developed by the Kazaa Corporation. Kazaa Lite Resurrection has been edited so that it does not include spyware, malware or ad-aware.
  • Advanced X Video Converter 3.8.4 - Advanced X VideoConverter is a comprehensive Windows video tool that makes it easy to convert, join, and split movies among AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, VCD (DAT), SVCD, DVD formats.
  • CDBurnerXP Pro 3.0.113 Beta - CDBurnerXP Pro is an easy to use CD burning software, that can write CD-R and CD-RW discs. The program can also write disks directly from an ISO image file, and save image as an ISO image file (*.iso).
  • DVDInfoPro 3.16 - DVDInfoPro (download) is a freeware DVD information program written in Visual C++. The program provides information & tools for DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW burners, DVD-ROM players. It also provides limited information on CD players & burners.
  • DVD Region+CSS Free 5.16 - DVD Region+CSS Free enables you to watch and copy any region code CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive.
  • SeaTools Desktop Edition 3.00.07 - SeaTools Suite is Seagate's exclusive disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most Seagate hard drive issues. It consists of 3 versions: Online, Desktop and Enterprise.

last 10 comments:
Kawolski(02:09 AM CEST - Aug,27 2004 )
Have fun! 8)

slayer(11:38 AM CEST - Aug,27 2004 )
yup! have fun :D

djRom(04:15 PM CEST - Aug,27 2004 )
Enjoy your vacation. 8)

BLOODUK(04:20 PM CEST - Aug,27 2004 )
Hey HX want me to run the gaming news while your gone? :)

xxxx(04:45 PM CEST - Aug,27 2004 )
Is Bush the one driving all these BS terrorist attacks? God man... Yes, they are gonna paralyse the internet, whatever. :roll:

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