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| (hx) 03:51 PM CEST - Sep,15 2002 |
- Keanu Tapped for Superman's New 'Excellent Adventure'? - According
to
FoxNews.com, Keanu Reeves, star of Warner Bros.'s very successful The
Matrix has been tapped by director Brett Ratner, to play the Man of Steel in
Superman: Last Son of Krypton. Jeffrey Abrams, who wrote the feature Regarding
Henry and invented TV's "Felicity" series, wrote the final, accepted script.
- The "Slapper" worm successfully uses the 14-year old technology -
Kaspersky Labs warns about the detection of a new dangerous "Slapper"
Internet-worm that infects computers running Linux operating system and uses
the source code spreading technology, which was used in the notorious Morris
Worm in 1988.
- Massive credit card heist suspected - A Los Angeles-based Internet
company said
that 140,000 fake credit card charges, worth $5.07 each, were processed
through its transaction system Thursday, in a computer scam that may have
affected as many as 25 companies. The apparent fraud suggests that a computer
criminal may have obtained a sizable list of stolen credit card numbers and
was testing them for validity, credit card fraud expert Dan Clements said.
- Security vulnerabilities persist after IE 6 patch - The
patch release, known as "Service Pack 1" was posted Monday on Microsoft's Web
site and contains fixes for more than 300 issues with Internet Explorer 6,
which was first released with the Windows XP operating system in October of
2001. Despite the fixes, however,
security experts warn that significant vulnerabilities remain even after
applying the patch.
- USC to Students: No Sharing Files - Napster started in a college
kid's dorm room. Now, students at USC
face the prospect of campus life without Net access if they're caught
swapping MP3s and other files on the school's network.
- Nevada May Legalize Marijuana - A measure on the ballot November 5
would make Nevada
the first state to allow adults to possess marijuana -- up to 3 ounces,
enough for maybe 100 joints. People over 21 would be allowed to smoke it
in their homes but not in cars or public places. Pot would be sold in
state-licensed smoke shops and taxed like cigarettes.
- Motherboard Round-Up -
MSI KT3
ULTRA Non RAID (MS-6380E) /
AOpen AX4B-533 Tube Motherboard /
533MHz FSB P4 Chipset Shootout
- Video HW Round-Up -
ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro /
Hercules Prophet 9000 PRO 128Mb /
Abit's 64MB
Siluro GeForce 4 Ti 4200 /
Albatron GeForce4 MX440 64MB /
GeForce4 4200TI 128MB DDR /
GeForce4 based TV-Out chips +
comparison /
Matrox Parhelia-512 /
3DForce Xabre400Q 128MB (videoreview) /
- Miscelanous HW Round-Up -
Vantec 520W Stealth Power Supply (videoreview) /
Plextor External USB 2.0 PlexWriter /
Highpoint RocketRAID 404 /
Samsung SP8004H 80G and SP4002H 40G HD /
Yamaha CRW-F1 44/24/44 CDRW
- ATI Shop - Trade-up Program - ATI's trade-up program
allows you to upgrade your existing graphic card, no matter who made it,
to a new ATI product at an awesome discounted price. ATI will provide a
substantial cash credit to your purchase, when you turn-in your current
graphics card. ATI eliminates the down-time involved in online graphic card
purchasing by sending you your new board in advance to install and try out.
Once you're satisfied with it, return your old card for a substantial trade-in
cash credit (applied to your credit card purchase).
- W2K SP3 Fix For Windows Update -
Warp2Search has posted solution on the W2K SP3/Windows Update issue.
- UT 2003 Demo Benchmarking Information - Here are all the ways I
have found out
to benchmark in UT2003 Demo.
- UT 2003 Voodoo FIX ASAP -
They're fixing it and there will be a patch that addresses that plus a few
other major bugs they discovered. Keep watching the Official
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Site for news of its release.
- Norton LiveUpdate v1.80.19.0 - Norton have released a new version
of
LiveUpdate v1.80.19.0.
- Return Recycle Bin back to normal after installing NAV2003 Pro -
This article shows you how to return the Recycle Bin back to normal after
installing Norton AntiVirus 2003 Professional Edition with
Win2k/Win XP and
Win9x.
- Problems with 40.41 drivers and UT2003 demo
- The NVIDIA 40.41 drivers are known to have
visual flaws and performance problems (hitching) with the Unreal
Tournament 2003 Demo which are not present in the 30.82 drivers. The issue has
been addressed by NVIDIA and future drivers released by NVIDIA will contain
the appropriate fixes.If you are currently running the 40.41 drivers please
either downgrade to 30.82 or install newer drivers when available.
- DAEMON TOOLS MDS File - In the latest ProtectCD 5c version our
vendor name 'V386' has been blacklisted (e.g. Port Royale Patch 1.20). Please
change it to another value by right-clicking the DAEMON Tools tray icon and
selecting 'Virtual CD-/DVDROM' -> 'Set device parameters'. We also added the
MDS-File for
Industry Giant 2c (english version).
- Morpheus v2.0.1.8 -
Morpheus (freeware) provides a full-featured and easy-to-use P2P
application that allows users to share content across the Morpheus Users
Network.
- WinDVD Tweaker 4.02 -
WinDVD Tweaker is designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software
to enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure. Now
the tweaker supports WinDVD v4.0.
- MagicTweak 1.93 -
MagicTweak (download)
is a special program designed to optimize and personalize Microsoft Windows.
This unique software makes it easy to tweak hundreds of hidden settings in
Windows, so there is no need to dig through the registry looking for that
specific setting (from Start Menu,Desktop,IE skin,System Icon to System
Security) that just doesn't seem to be there.
- Tweak-XP v2.0.1 -
Tweak-XP
bundles more than 22 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine
both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows XP
system.
- Disable Windows Messenger In XP -
A
freeware, small file to prevent Windows Messenger from running on Windows
XP. This file should save you the trouble of manually tinkering with your
registry to disable Messenger. We have tested and verified this file, but do
suggest you backup your registry before applying.
- Easy CD-DA Extractor 5.02 -
Easy CD-DA Extractor is a powerful and easy digital audio extraction
utility that makes digital copies from audio CDs and saves as audio files such
as MP3, Windows Media Audio and Windows Wave. You may use built-in encoders,
get plug-ins for other free encoders, or use any Windows audio compression
codec.
- Real7ime Converter (R7C) v1.1 -
Real7ime Converter
(R7C) is a converter of any RealPlayer(tm) streaming medias (video and
sound) to AVI/WAV/MP3 format. This new
version 1.1
adds "Add Audio" compression in AVI with DirectShow filters, fixes
VideoSurface problem (crash), and more.
- Fujitsu-Siemens Detonators 31.00 WHQL - Fujitsu Siemens Computers
have released Nvidia Detonator 31.00 WHQL for
WinXP/2k /
Win9x/ME.
- Realtek AC97 Audio Driver v3.29 - There are new
Realtek AC97 Audio drivers version 2.39 for ALC 1xx 2xx and 6xx Audio
chipsets.
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