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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:06 AM CEST - Aug,31 2002
  • Online cheaters face games ban  - Gamers who cheat while playing the popular online game Counter-Strike could soon find themselves banned from official servers for 24 hours. An updated anti-cheating system put in place by the games makers can spot who is not playing fair, can throw them off a server and make sure they cannot log on to games being played on other machines. Initially bans will only last a day but Counter-Strike creator Valve said it would extend the penalty period in the future.
  • Microsoft Finished With XP SP1 - Microsoft has finished with Service Pack 1 for Windows XP. The new service pack has been shipped to manufacturers, and will be available to the general public on September 9th.
  • Intel's new 3D tools take flight on PDAs - The chipmaker on Thursday gave one of the first public demonstrations in Europe of its 3D graphics toolkit for its XScale chip, paving the way for sophisticated 3D games on handhelds and cell phones. The Graphics Performance Primitives (GPP) software went through its paces at the Game Developers Conference here at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
  • .Net Server's new name suggests delay - Microsoft has once again tweaked the name of the successor to Windows 2000 Server, in a move that suggests its official release won't come until next year.
  • Can Airbags Save the World, Scientist Asks - Giant airbags could one day save the world from the disaster of a cosmic collision with a giant comet, according to a scientist in the United States. Forget nuclear warheads to stop a crash with a comet that could have cataclysmic effects such as the one that is believed to have triggered the demise of the dinosaurs, Hermann Burchard of Oklahoma State University told New Scientist magazine. Far better to send up a space ship equipped with a massive airbag that could be inflated to several kilometers (miles) wide and used to gently buffet the invading solar body away from a collision course with earth.
  • Spyware Trojan sends Hotmail to your boss - Here's a piece of software that will make any decent human being vomit. Proudly marketed by spyware outfit SpectorSoft, it's a lowlife Trojan called eBlaster which you can e-mail to anyone in the world foolish enough to use Windows and log their keystrokes, and force their POP mail and Hotmail and Yahoo Web mail accounts to copy you in everything going on.
  • The Fifth ICFP Programming Contest - The contest will be held Friday, August 30, 2002 -- Monday, September 2, 2002. The problem will be posted right here on this web site, at 12:00 Noon (PDT) on August 30th and all entries must be received by 12:00 Noon (PDT) on the September 2nd..
  • Intuos 2 Graphics Tablet Review - Intuos2 is the professional graphics tablet that turns on the full power of Photoshop's 19 pressure-sensitive tools. With its comfortable Grip Pen and feature-packed mouse, you have the control and power you need to really get the most out of all your graphics applications. Intuos2 comes in five sizes, from the 4x5 ($199.99*) to the 12x18 ($749.99*).
  • Inno3D Xabre 400 Pro Video Card - The Xabre 400 is squarely designed to compete against the Geforce4MX in the mid-range market, a not so small feat if you ask me. One of the drawbacks of the Geforce4MX was the lack of proper DirectX 8.1 features as this card was only a souped up Geforce2.This is where the Xabre comes in, with Pixel Shader ver.1.3 support ,it allows games to look that much better.
  • AGP Aperture Size Examined  - Some people think that the more RAM you share with the graphics card, the larger the performance boost. In some cases, this might be true. In others, it might result in a performance drop. There are two common outcomes from setting the AAS too high: (1) If you share too much RAM with your graphics card and an application takes advantage of that, you will have less RAM for other functions of the software, and possibly for background applications. (2) If the graphics card does not utilize the memory, it is not taken from system memory. In this case, there are no problems with AAS sucking all of your system RAM, despite its setting in the BIOS configuration utility. The latter is the most common case, since most people have enough memory now to compensate for a high AAS, and most applications would not take all of the memory anyway. We decided to test the actual performance of the different AAS values to see if (other than available system memory), it affected performance and system stability.
  • On Hacking The New 40 Drivers - There's a nice hack which I noticed over at NVNews for the new 40 driver series. It allows some very neat options. Add the following registry values:                                                                                                            [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENVIDIA CorporationGlobalNVTweak] "Coolbits"=dword:ffffffff  "NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001                                                                           "NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
    This will enable coolbits overclocking, as well as some advanced "AGP Options" tabs that will allow you to set things like Fast Write and Side Band Addressing as well as AGP rates.
  • Apache 2.0.40 - Apache 2.0 (download) offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to improve the scalability of the Apache HTTP Server significantly in our testing. Apache 2.0 also includes support for filtered I/O. This allows modules to modify the output of other modules before it is sent to the client. We have also included support for IPv6 on any platform that supports IPv6.This version of Apache is known to work on many versions of Unix, BeOS, OS/2, Windows, and Netware. Because of many of the advancements in Apache 2.0, the initial release of Apache is expected to perform equally well on all supported platforms.

  • Quintessential Player 3.40 Build 34 Beta - Quinnware has released new version of their cool media player.

  • 2xExplorer v1.4.1.10 - 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.
  • Nero 5.5.9.9 - Nero (mirro1 / mirror2 / mirror3) 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). Nero also supports multisession and mixed-mode recording, HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF, PSX, OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO) and disc-at-once (DAO) writing, digital audio extraction, and more.
  • HyperSnap-DX 5.00 Beta 1 - HyperSnap-DX 5 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. This new beta adds new Tabbed multi-document interface , "Stamps" feature (Image/Stamps menu..), and many more.
  • SnagIt 6.1.1. - With this program (download) you can capture screenshots of games, regions, objects, texts, menus, shapes, and large web pages or documents.
  • DiVFix 1.08 - This program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies. It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file. There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.
  • NVIDIA DVD 1.71 update - This patch will update your installed version of NVDVD to version 1.71. This new version of NVDVD includes a number of improvements and updates that will make your DVD viewing experience better than ever.
  • Windows Commander 5.10 - Windows Commander is a file manager replacement that offers multiple language support, search, file comparison, directory synchronization, quick view panel with bitmap display, ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plus plugins, built-in FTP client with FXP, HTTP proxy support, and more. Changes in Current Version: -Fixed: When copying to removable NTFS volume, don't call "Flush" every xx seconds, -Fixed: Diskdir plugin: Extract file date/time with files, -Fixed: Crash on Alt+Enter if WinRAR 3 installed.
  • A-Tuner 1.1.9.4 (beta) -  A-tuner is a small Tool for changing the following 4 settings in your Nvidia card and should work with Nvidia Detonators 23.11 - 40.xx.

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