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 Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 04:24 AM CEST - Sep,28 2004
  • [!] jpeg virus in the wild?! - To check to see if you have been infected by this virus, look for a directory named "c:windowssystem32system" that has nvsvc.exe and winrun.exe in it.
  • Is Organized Crime Controlling Your PC? - A rise in attacks for financial gain, as opposed to attacks motivated by the creator's desire to gain notoriety, is a disturbing trend noted in Symantec's latest report on Internet security.  The people behind these types of attacks, says Symantec Africa regional manager Patrick Evans, are well-funded, organized crime groups that use networks of bots to obtain financial information for their own gain.
  • Microsoft pirates "cleverer" - Microsoft has again warned the channel to steer clear of illegal software after two members of Europe's largest software counterfeiting ring were sent to jail. A German court recently sentenced the father of notorious software pirate Ralph Blasek, himself jailed for five years in July 2003, to 16 months' imprisonment for selling counterfeit software and infringing Microsoft copyright. Another member of the gang received a three-year sentence.
  • Russia gets budget version of Windows - Windows XP Starter Edition is Microsoft's attempt to gain more customers in the developing nations, the fastest growing markets in the world. The OS differs from regular Windows in a number of respects. Users can run only three programs on the operating system at once, for instance, and home networking has been deleted. It also comes preloaded only on authorized PCs. Microsoft does not sell the software separately in stores. On the other hand, it costs far less than regular Windows. Starter Edition costs about $36, according to sources, less than the $70 or more PC makers pay for Windows XP. Here are screenshots and photos ~ desktop#1, desktop#2, boxcover, security center.
  • Microsoft Adds New Hotmail Fee - Microsoft will start charging for a Hotmail feature that allows users of the Web-based e-mail service to access their e-mail using the Outlook e-mail client. Microsoft is making the move not to increase the number of paying Hotmail users but because the feature is being abused by senders of spam, says Brooke Richardson, lead product manager for MSN at Microsoft.
  • Off-topic: Branson to launch space tourism - Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world's first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds. Branson, whose Virgin empire stretches from planes and trains to vodka, music and personal finance, is teaming up with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to build five, fish-shaped capsules for the two-to-three hour flights. The flights will climb to about 130 kilometres roughly six times higher than regular commercial planes, and include 4 minutes of weightlessness, views of the horizon from 1,200 miles away, and possibly a gin and tonic if granted a liquor license.
  • Off-topic: Asteroid Toutatis Makes Closest Pass in 651 Years - An asteroid named for a Celtic god of war will come as close to Earth this week as it has since 1353. The space rock known as Toutatis will come on Wednesday within 960,000 miles of Earth, relatively close by cosmic standards, Astronomy Magazine said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. Toutatis poses no danger to Earth. However, if it did hit our planet, it would create a blast with the energy equivalent to 1 million ton of TNT. Measuring about 3 miles by 1.5 miles, Toutatis will speed by Earth at 22,000 miles per hour.
  • Off-topic: Spy imagery agency watching inside U.S. -  In the name of homeland security, America's spy imagery agency is keeping a close eye, close to home. It's watching America. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about 100 employees of a little-known branch of the Defense Department called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - and some of the country's most sophisticated aerial imaging equipment - have focused on observing what's going on in the United States. Their work brushes up against the fine line between protecting the public and performing illegal government spying on Americans.
  • Microsoft develops robot language - Microsoft has lifted the lid on new technology it is currently developing, including a graphical programming language that allows people to control robots with a smartphone. At a technology fair in Brussels, researchers from the Berlin University of Technology and Microsoft Research Cambridge demonstrated the Visual Robot Development Kit (VRDK), a graphical programming language that makes the development of robotic applications easy enough to teach in school. It features a simple graphical editor that can be used with a mouse and keyboard or Tablet PC to program robots to perform simple tasks, and control them using a PC or Windows Mobile-based smartphone. /It sounds like an improved Karel The Robot language developed 25 years ago ;)/
  • Adobe proposes new format for images - Adobe Systems Inc. plans to introduce a new format for digital photos tomorrow in an attempt to create an industry public standard to make the archiving and editing process compatible across all types of cameras and software.
  • Toshiba presses play on 60GB audio player - The HDD Audio Player Gigabeat line will top out at 60 gigabytes and will be available before the end of the year in the country, along with 10GB and 20GB versions. The devices will come with a high-resolution 2.2-inch color display and a navigation system based on a plus-sign sensor on the front of the device.
  • Intel drops Wi-Fi from chipset plans - Intel is phasing out its Wi-Fi-enabled ICH6RW south bridge chip. Intel will continue to offer the Wi-Fi-less ICH6R, though
  • Next generation DirectX - WGF almost finished - Microsoft graphic group is very close to finally releasing the long awaited next generation DirectX. You can forget the name DirectX as Microsoft has decided to call this one WGF (Windows Graphic Foundation). The interface will, for the first time, reunite Direct Draw part that was mainly used for drawing 2D windows and Direct 3D part of DirectX used to draw 3D scene.
  • Nvidia is making .NET driver  - ATI was criticised for its new Catalyst Control Center since apart from nice looking features its new driver brought slower execution. But TheInquirer has learned that Nvidia is doing the same at the moment.
  • Athlon 64 3700+ review - The 200 MHz difference between the 3400+ and the 3700+ does not seem like much, but when the user considers the overall efficiency of the Athlon 64 architecture, this 200 MHz should make a large difference in overall performance. The 400 MHz jump from a 3000+ or 3200+ to the 3700+ should make a world of difference. Users that find their Athlon 64 2800+ to be a bit pokey should take a very long look at the 3700+.
  • AMD's Opteron 250 vs. Intel's Xeon 3.6 GHz - AMD Opteron 250 continues to gain respect and share in the enterprise workstation sector. But now, Intel's new Xeon processor, packed with a 3.6 GHz clock speed and the retreaded E7525/Tumwater platform, is available in the channels. Will Intel's new Xeon steal some of the AMD Opteron 250's lunch?
  • OCZ PC-3200 Platinum Rev.2 review - PCUnleash has posted a review of OCZ's PC-3200 Platinum Rev.2 memory.
  • TwinMOS Twister PC3200 DDR 1 gig Dual channel kit review - Xtreme Computing has posted a review of the TwinMOS Twister PC3200 DDR 1 gig Dual channel kit.
  • Abit's AG8 motherboard review - While the Athlon 64 world waits on PCI Express, a wide range of motherboards based on Intel's 900 series chipsets have flooded the market, and they're more affordable than you think. For only $132, you can get your hands on Abit's 915P-based AG8, which serves up PCI Express graphics, all the integrated goodies in Intel's ICH6R south bridge, and support for DDR400 memory so you don't have to resort to high-latency DDR2. With recent price cuts making LGA775 processors like the Pentium 4 520 2.8GHz available for as little as $160, boards like the AG8 could be perfect for video editing enthusiasts, Hyper-Threading fetishists, and those with a deep longing for PCI Express
  • Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/2100 Geforce 6800 Golden Sample 128MB review - If you have a 5800, 5800 Ultra, 5900XT/SE, NU, Ultra or 5950, an upgrade to a 6800 would definitely be noticeable, and would cause goose bumps of gaming joy. Of course, those goose bumps might not be quite as prominent as those you would get from a 6800GT or 6800 Ultra, but with the $100 or $200 you save by getting the non-Ultra, you could buy an extra air conditioner, which would bring you right back up to GT/Ultra level goose bumps.
  • ATI Radeon X700 XT review - As with the X800, ATI has employed GDDR3 memory for the X700 XT and Pro; in differing quantities and speeds. The type of memory used for the standard X700 hasn’t been decided yet, but considering the clock speeds employed, it’s likely to be standard DDR memory. The X700 XT will sport 128MB of memory running at 525MHz (1.05GHz effective), while the X700 Pro will employ 256MB of memory clocked at 432MHz (864MHz effective).
  • Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra TDH review - Bjorn3D has posted a review on the Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra TDH video card.
  • SoundBlaster Audigy 2-ZS Internal review  - Xtreme Computing has posted a review on the SoundBlaster Audigy 2-ZS internal sound card.
  • BenQ FP992 review  -Bytesector has posted a review of the BenQ FP992 monitor (19" FP992 LCD  25ms)
  • Windows XP Performance Tweaking Guide (Updated) - I am not a Geek has updated their Windows XP Performance Tweaking Guide. However, the SP2 didn't really bring any big changes to this guide.
  • Troubleshooting Network Connections - This article covers a number of typical scenarios of a PC connected to a network and offers a list of logical and straight forward troubleshooting steps for each specific scenario to make the troubleshooting process easier and take some of the scariness out of it.
  • Microsoft Picture It! Premium 10 review -  Hardware Pacers has posted a review of Microsoft's Picture It! Premium 10. "This tool allows to edit images, sort them by preference, assign ratings and keywords to photos, great 'Autofix' feature for quick color and exposure fixing and ultimately, it allows sharing of photos via e-mail or ordering prints online. Compared to some other products with similar features, it might be a bit pricey but it certainly delivers on a high level."
  • phpMyAdmin 2.6.0 - phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
  • Cryptainer LE 5.0.1.0 - Cryptainer LE, a free disk encryption software, creates multiple 20 MB of encrypted and password protected drives/containers. The Cryptainer drive can be loaded and unloaded as per your need.
  • Gmail Notifier 1.0.21.0 - The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.
  • The GIMP 2.05 - The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
  • CATALYST Beta 8.07 Driver -  ATI has released a beta driver (v8.07) that  fixes a random hang issue with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic when loading / switching levels.

last 10 comments:
Anonymous(07:47 AM CEST - Sep,28 2004 )
Those screenshots are of Malaysia and so is the language on the desktop, not Russian

Anonymous(03:46 PM CEST - Sep,28 2004 )
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v1m(08:36 AM CEST - Sep,29 2004 )
RE: Microsoft to start charging to use Outlook Express for Hotmail. ...Heh: one born every minute, eh, Bill Gates? ;-)

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