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| (hx) 02:52 PM CEST - May,03 2002 |
- DrinkOrDie pirate sent to prison - A former security software
engineer convicted of providing technology to a piracy group known as DrinkOrDie was sentenced Thursday to
nearly three years in prison.
- University systems a haven for hackers - College is supposed to
be about learning. But many universities with insecure networks are unwittingly providing
a special kind of education: Hacking and
Piracy.
- Mobile reprogrammers face five years - Reprogramming a mobile
phone could result in five
years in prison under a new law being designed by the Home Office to clamp down on
mobile-phone crime. The government is expected to unveil the new measure on Friday, after
which a bill on mobile phone reprogramming will be published in the House of Lords.
- Chaos as 'Klez cocktails' begin to strike - One of the most
hazardous mixtures combines
Klez with a newer version of the old CIH virus. Costin Ionescu, a researcher at
antivirus firm BitDefender, said: "Older and even forgotten viruses like CIH or MTX
now have a modern means of transportation.
- Star Wars sick days will cost $300m - Star
Wars-related absenteeism could cost the US economy more than $300m in wages when Episode
II is released on May 16, according to employment experts. Chicago-based recruitment firm
Challenger, Gray and Christmas projects as many as 2.6m workers will take the day off work on May 16 to see the latest
instalment of George Lucas's sci-fi series.
- Adobe wins Flash patent lawsuit - Adobe filed the suit in August
2000, alleging that the user interface of Macromedia's Flash Web animation tool infringed
on Adobe's patent for "tabbed palettes," a feature that allows users of design
software to rearrange the work space on the PC screen. A jury in the U.S. District Court
of Delaware agreed with Adobe and awarded the company $2.8 million in damages. Adobe said in a statement
that it also expects a judicial injunction preventing Macromedia from selling the
infringing software.
- Paintable LCDs - photo-enforced stratification - Researchers
have devised a way of making them by just painting the raw materials onto almost any
kind of surface: walls, sheets of plastic -- or even clothing. The Philips
technique, called "photo-enforced stratification," involves painting a liquid
crystal and polymer mixture onto a surface, then exposing it to two doses of ultraviolet
radiation.
- Cellphone radiation "trapped" in train carriages -
Tsuyoshi Hondou, a physicist from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, who is currently
working at the Curie Institute in Paris, says Japanese commuter trains are
often packed with people surfing the web on their mobile phones. The trend spurred him
to find out what effect this had on the electromagnetic radiation in a train carriage.
- Nintendo hiring 50 people to play games - People who spend too
much time playing video games have new hope for gainful employment as Nintendo of America
announced plans Tuesday to pay 50 people about $100 a day to play computer games all summer
long. Candidates must be at least 18-years-old and must fill out an application and create
a two-minute video explaining why they deserve the job. Applications must be in between
May 13 and June 14, and can be found on the official Web site at www.nintendostreetteam.com.
- DivX-enabled TI DSC25 chips - DivXNetworks, Inc. has announced
the successful
integration of the DivX(TM) video codec to the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)
digital signal processor. DivX-enabled TI DSC25 chips will support DivX playback on
next-generation consumer electronics devices, including digital set-top boxes, handheld
video players, next-generation DVD players and digital video cameras. Over the next six to
eighteen months, we will see the roll-out of a variety of hardware devices capable of
playing back DivX video, from handheld players to digital set-top boxes.
- Hardware Roundup - Beyond3D GeForce4 Ti 4200, Asus GeForce 2 Pro / Inno3D GF4 Ti
4400 / Chaintech GeForce 4 Ti4600 VGA / HIS Excalibur Radeon 7500LE / Matrox
Millennium G550 / MSI
PC2PC Bluetooth / EPoX 8K3A / SOYO Dragon KT333 Ultra / EPoX 8K3A+ / Crucial 256MB PC2700 DDR
- Nvidia Detonator 29.11 Performance Comparison - NVchips-fr have
done a quick performance comparison using 3DMark2001 SE and the newly leaked
Nvidia Detonator 29.11.
- Yet Another Longhorn "Alpha" Video - I have another longhorn Video,
it is a 15 sec shot of logon and desktop and some clicks on the new taskbar. Later on
friday I hope to receive some screen shots which are more clear then the video's
This is obvously an alpha build, number 277 to be exact. (thanks
WindowsXP.nu)
- GammaLaunch - A profile is created for each application, and a
gamma value is set. When the profile is launched the gamma level of the monitor is set to
the stored value and the application is run.When the pplication ends, GammaLaunch
will automatically return the gamma level back to its previous setting.
- ACDSee PowerPack v4.0.1 - ACDSee
PowerPack combines three popular software products from ACD Systems: ACDSee,
FotoCanvas and FotoAngelo.
- Nero 5.5.8.1 (leaked) - Nero is a flexible,
reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio to CD-R and
CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and XA mode 2, and allows
for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware). No
changelog available yet.
- KaZaA Lite 1.6.1 final - KaZaA Lite will show you how to install KaZaA Lite without all the spyware that comes with
KaZaA
- BootXP v2 - A new version of Boot XP has been released.
- XP Antispy 3.5 - A new version of XP Antispy has been
released and it's v3.5. This tool allows you to disable most if not all suspicious home
call functions in Windows XP.
- ASCII Generator beta13 - The
ASCII Generator (ASCGEN) is a 32-bit Windows text editor that allows anyone to easily
convert images into artwork created from text characters.
- NVIDIA Detonators v29.20 (leaked) - Warp2Search offers a new leaked
(beta) NVIDIA Detonator drivers version 29.20 for both Win9x/ME and Win2K/XP.
- Dell Nvidia Detonator & Sound Blaster Live Drivers - Dell
have released some new Nvidia Detonators and Sound Blaster Live! driver updates for
Windows 2000 and XP - nVidia Quadro4 700XGL Precision 340, 530, v. 28.41, A05 / nVidia Quadro4 900XGL Multi Language, Precision 340, 530, v. 28.41, A03
/ Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 512V v. SBLV-DLPAT-1-LA, A03 / Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 512V, Patch
Dimension 2100, 4200, 8200, v. SBLV-DLPAT-2-LA, A04.
- Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Driver (Win2k/XP) - This is a full
driver installation and does not require any previous installation. This patch also
contains AudioHQ and Surround Mixer. PlayCenter 2 and MiniDisc Center will also be patched
if these applications are already installed on your system. This release is in English
only. The driver version from the "new" release: 3509.1.0.0, so it's older than driver
version from the Creative NA Revision 2 driver kit released last November: 3509.2.0.0.
- ATI Fire GL 8800/GL 8700 Drivers (Win2k/XP) - Download drivers:
ATi Fire GL 8800/GL 8700 (WinXP driver build 6.12.10.3030) / ATi Fire GL 8800/GL 8700 D (Win2k Driver build 5.12.2195.3030) / ATi Fire GL 8800/GL 8700 (WinNT 4.0 Driver build 4.00.1381.3030).
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