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| (hx) 01:36 AM CEST - Aug,28 2002 |
- Net traffic mimics earthquakes -
Earthquakes and the Internet may seem very different, but they do have one
thing in common. They're both complex systems whose behavior is currently very
difficult to predict.
- Expert demonstrates Microsoft hack -
The expert showed how to crack the security systems for Internet banking,
breaking into three of Sweden's big four banks in quick succession. He was
then able to show how to conceal his tracks, making detection difficult
afterward.
- Sony Takes Axe to Betamax - Sony said on Tuesday it would only make
2,000 more Betamax machines
before discontinuing the product altogether, ending its 27-year history --
spent mostly in the shadow of the Matsushita group's rival VHS format.
- Pre-Order DOOM 3 - Place your order at
Amazon for March 31, 2003 release date.
- "Turok" maker plays the name game - Acclaim hypes
"Turok: Evolution" by offering $10,000 to parents who name their newborn
after the game's hero. It's just one of many over-the-top ploys being tried by
the industry.
- Final Fantasy XI Intro Movie - Fileplanet.com have posted
a full length, high-res version of the Final Fantasy XI intro movie (in
English).
- Microsoft: WinXP Update Could 'Bomb' Some Computers - In an attempt
to reduce piracy of its software, Microsoft has announced protective
changes to its Windows Product Activation (WPA) service, beginning with
WinXP Service Pack 1. As veteran Microsoft watchers have expected, SP1 will
not install if either of what the company calls "two well-known pirated
product keys" has ever been used to activate the system. Such systems will
also be denied access to Microsoft's Windows Update feature. According to
Microsoft, "the product IDs generated from these product keys are (where X may
be any numeric value): XXXXX-640-0000356-23XXX and XXXXX-640-2001765-23XXX.
- Pentium 4 microcode updated for Intel "errata" - The update release
applies to the
Pentium 4
512K family with 256K cache using the .13 micron process, Family F, Model
2, Step 7 -- C1. Intel is providing an executable file called PER_P_17.EXE
which updates the microcode. Details of the bugs that this microcode update
addresses are, however, in a July NDA supplement to the P4 specification.
- Ahanix Ice Berg 1 Water Cooling Kit - TweakTown tested
this water cooling kit from
www.exoticpc.com Let's
move on to the specifications.
- CPU Upgrade: Do you really need it? - I'll admit, when I saw the
benchmarks, I wanted the chips, but in truth, economics are a factor. Contrary
to popular belief, not all webmasters get everything for free. Yessir, I'm a
commoner, just like most people, and if I want something, it's going to come
out of my pocket. Don't get me wrong,
if I could, I'd buy every new thing that gets released everyday, but when
you got a family to care for and bills to pay, I could probably do without the
$500 Butt Massager Chair.
- Creative Audigy Installation on Windows XP Pro - Okay, start your
system and boot into Windows XP. XP will detect the new hardware; and as the
installation blurb from Creative states click 'Cancel' for each device and
then insert the drivers and program installation disk. The disk should auto
run, if it doesn't double click the icon on your CD-ROM drive entitled SB
Audigy. Select your language and then select 'Audigy install'.-
Read more
- UltraEdit-32 v9.10b -
UltraEdit-32 is a Windows text editor with support for unlimited file
sizes, a spell checker, drag and drop, full HEX editing capabilities, user
configurable syntax highlighting (pre-configured for HTML, Java, C/C++, VB,
Perl), column editing, sorting, and a configurable toolbar.
- OpenOffice 1.0.1 -
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems
is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It
is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and
provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs
and an XML-based file format. Download:
OpenOffice 1.0.1 for Windows /
OpenOffice 1.0.1 for Linux /
OpenOffice 1.0.1 for Solaris-Sparc /
OpenOffice 1.0.1 for Solaris-Intel.
- Mozilla 1.1 Final - A new
Mozilla
v1.1 is out (download).
- Windows XP Service Pack 1 Beta Build 1105 -
Download it from FileConnect.
- DVD Region-Free 1.02 - You don't need to flash any firmware which
is dangerous or unavailable.
DVD Region-Free
also disables region check for popular software-based DVD players such as
PowerDVD, WinDVD and CinePlayer. Other features include Region-Free for RCE
DVDs, Macrovision-Free, Operation-Free and run self at DVD players startup
automatically.
- EPOX unified system diagnostic manager 3.10 beta -
EPOX's system monitoring software that displays the temperatures, voltages
and FAN RPMs. For Windows 98, ME, XP, 2000. I tried this beta and seems it
working fine :)
- Asus PC Probe 2.17.09 -
Asus PCProbe is a convenient utility to monitor the computer's vital
components: fan rotations, voltages and temperatures.
- MotherBoard Monitor 5.2.0.0 - Although there are not many changes
since I did not have much free time I still wanted
you to have this release,
it has full ASB100 support and SCSI & IDE HDD temps.
- Creative NOMAD Jukebox 3 drivers for Win2K SP3 -
This new drivers fixes a problem with 1394 file transfer with Windows 2000
Service Pack 3, fixes text capitalization when setting title, album, artist
and genre attributes in PlayCenter and fixed "Invalid Page Fault" error
message when accessing an empty playlist.
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| Comments from Jasmingo Durante | posted - 02:03 AM CEST - Aug,28 2002 | | Re: The death of Betamax
I think it's important for people to remember that while it did fail against the VHS recording systems (what a battle THAT was), it was the first home tv recording unit available and the MPAA fought against its existance all the way to the US Supreme Court. Just like they're doing now with DVD recorders.
R.I.P. Betamax
(Yeah I had one ;))
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| Comments from Jasmingo Durante | posted - 07:49 AM CEST - Aug,28 2002 | | "Contrary to popular belief, not all webmasters get everything for free."
Only the popular ones ;)
Hell we know HX gets shitloads for free *evil smile*
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