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 Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:30 PM CEST - Aug,03 2002
  • Italian police arrest 14 in hacker probe - Italian police have arrested 14 suspected hackers who are accused of thousands of computer intrusions, including attacks on the U.S. Army and Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Upon carrying out search warrants, police also said they discovered several hundred pirated DVDs, which were allegedly being distributed by the suspects. The individuals kept the illegally copied DVD content on university servers that they had cracked, alleges the Guardia di Finanza.
  • A mysterious shift in Earth's gravity - Something strange has been going on under our feet for the past four years. Earth's gravity field suddenly shifted gears and began getting flatter, reversing a course of centuries during which the planet and its gravity field grew rounder each year.
  • Ohio Governor Signs Anti-Spam Law - Ohio's Governor Bob Taft signed into law the Ohio Senate Bill 8, which allows Internet subscribers to sue spammers for up to $50,000 plus costs, and allows ISPs to sue for up to $500,000.
  • Star Wars Episode II DVD on Nov. 12 - The DVD and home video of hit movie "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" will land on retail shelves on Nov. 12, the movie's backers at Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox said on Thursday.
  • Apple cuts iMac prices in U.K. - The low-end model now sells for 1,149 pounds ($1,792.53), a 100-pound price cut. The mid-range version, which comes with a combination drive that can burn CDs and play DVD movies, now sells for 1,349 pounds ($2,104.55), a 50-pound price cut
  • Bitboys Strike Back - Finish's Bitboys were showing their hardware (do you remember Glaze3D announcement in dec 2001?) - which may even be called Avalanche 3D - at Assembly 2002 a 3D demo scene party in Helsinki Finland. The pictures seem to show one, maybe two different chips from Bitboys. The cards are protected by plastic casings and are not in use. Some cables are indeed connected but the cards were not plugged in an AGP port. There is no heatsink on the chips. From what can be gathered it looks like their are some 7ns SRAM chips on the board.
  • Video Cards Round-up - ATI RADEON 8500LE 128MB (videoreview) / OcSystems 8500 / MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 / eVGA GeForce4 Ti 4600 / Asus V8170 GeForce4 MX440 DDR 64MB
  • Interview with Dr David Kirk of NVIDIA - VE has posted an interview with Dr. David Kirk of Nvidia as he talks about Nvidia's new Cg coding language as well as about current technology and where it's going in relation to graphics processing.
  • HW Round-up - Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz 533FS / EPoX EP-4G4A+ i845G / AOpen AX4B Pro 533 / VIA P4PB 400 P4X400 / Swiftech MCX4000 P4 Heatsink / Hercules Muse LT / Belkin Nostromo n50 SpeedPad / X-Trac Mouse Pad / DiskOnKey 512MB / Plextor Plexcombo IDE DVD/CDRW Drive / RICOH MP7400A 40x10x40x CD-RW
  • ATI Radeon Drivers Comparison - ATI Leaked Driver 6118 for DirectX 9 9354 3DMarks / ATI Catalyst V 02.2 9297 3DMarks / ATI Leaked Driver 6118 9267 3DMarks.
  • Antivirus database feeding - McAfee SuperDAT 4216 / McAfee DAT 4216 / Norton Antivirus 4.0/5.0/2000-2002 Definition Update / Kaspersky AVP.
  • Linux 2.4.19 Released - The latest stable Linux kernel (2.4.19) is out / changelog   /patch file /  full source /  mirror.
  • Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 2 - Mandrake Linux (CD1 / CD2 / CD3 )  is a powerful operating system that is available for many platforms: 32 bit processors such as Intel Pentiumr, AMD Athlonr, PowerPCr; and 64 bit processors such as Intel Itaniumr, SPARCr, AXPr. Mandrake Linux includes many graphical administration assistants & wizards that make it intuitive and fun to use while providing all the power and robustness of other Linux systems. Hundreds of included applications make it an ideal solution for both enterprises and individual users.
  • Mark Minasi's Expert Guide To Windows 98 for Free (PDF) - 98's less relevant now and so the book sales have dwindled, so Sybex agreed to let me put the book on my site and give it away free. These are PDF versions of the original book. (seems the site is temporary down due traffic).
  • Check Your XP Key - LabMice.net have posted a little self running tool to check what serial number was used to install XP on a particular machine + guide "How to change the Windows XP Professional Product Key Code".
  • Windows 2000 SP3 - Official Site Launches - Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest updates to the Windows 2000 family of operating systems. These updates are a collection of fixes in the following areas: application compatibility, operating system reliability, security, and setup. Windows 2000 SP3 includes the updates contained in Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package 1. Windows 2000 SP3 is a recommended upgrade. Windows 2000 SP3 includes Windows Installer 2.0 please see the Deployment Guide for more information. To determine whether to install Windows 2000 SP3, Microsoft recommends that customers review the Windows 2000 SP3 documentation found under Learn More.
  • WinXP Service Pack 1 1086 Beta leaked - This build will not work correctly with Style XP, which is currently updated to 1.0g that will support any beta SP1 up to 1081.(thanks NeoWin)
  • AOL Instant Messenger for Windows 5.0.2892 - No info what is new / download.
  • mp3DirectCut v1.24 - mp3DirectCut (free) is a small tool for editing MPEG audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new files.
  • NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0 - NTFS Reader for DOS is a freeware tool that provides read access to NTFS partitions within the MS-DOS environment. You can preview files on NTFS and copy files from NTFS to FAT volumes or network drives.
  • 2xExplorer Z1 Beta - Freeware 2xExplorer is an easy to use yet very potent and extremely efficient alternative to the standard windows Explorer. It combines the user-friendliness of the latter with the increased efficiency and advanced features of good-old dual-pane file managers like Norton Commander.
  • BigFix 1.7.6.0 - The Freeware BigFix system drastically improves your computer's performance and reduces the number of bugs and conflicts that affect your computer. As an application running on your computer, BigFix can automatically download and read technical support information provided by computer and software manufacturers and other technical support experts (published in the form of Fixletr Messages) and can automatically check your computer for bugs, configuration conflicts, and security holes.
  • FoxServ v3.0 Gold - FoxServ (download) is an Apache / mySQL / PHP installer package for Windows. Unlike NuShpere or PHPTriad, FoxServ features the latest version of all included pacakges, user defined configuration during installation, PHP as a module, PEAR, and the Zend Optimizer.
  • RefreshForce 1.10 - RefreshForce universally and permanently fixes the Windows 2000/XP refresh rate problem on ANY variation of graphics cards, monitors, or drivers.
  • A-tuner v1.1.7.0 - A-tuner is a small tool for changing the following four settings on your Nvidia card: Anti-Aliasing (including all unofficial modes), Anisotropic Filtering, Vsync and MipMap LOD (Level Of Detail) Bias.
  • Asus PCProbe 2.17.05 - Asus PCProbe is a convenient utility to monitor the computer's vital components: fan rotations, voltages and temperatures.
  • VIA AGP Driver 4.30B2 - VIA Tech has released a new version of their AGP Drivers - v4.30B2. What's new: AGP driver to support 8x AGP cards in VIA's 400 range of chipsets and beyond. This driver will be officially released with the next revision of the 4in1 drivers.

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