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Nightly Tech Reading - tech

(hx) 03:07 AM CEST - Oct,11 2002

Astronomers say we may not be alone - A British-led team of astronomers claim they have found a planet similar to earth orbiting a star similar to the sun. Researchers say they have found their best evidence yet that planets which could harbour life are circling other stars in distant space. An international team of astronomers has discovered a huge distorted disc of cold dust surrounding one of the brightest stars in the sky, Fomalhaut, indicating that a planet is orbiting it
Borders opens a chapter on wireless - T-Mobile USA plans to bring wireless Internet access to about 400 Borders bookstores and cafes across the country early next year, the companies announced Thursday.
"Fleming" steals registration information - The Fleming Internet worm is a 32-bit Windows application (.exe file) with a size of 53,248 bytes and written in Visual Basic. The worm spreads via the Windows (.NET) Messenger Internet chat program that is built into Windows XP.
China Says Viruses Infect 80 Percent of Computers - Viruses have infected at least 80 percent of China's computers, the official China Daily newspaper said on Thursday, highlighting the vulnerability of one of the world's biggest PC and Internet markets. The findings were the result of a six-week survey conducted by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, the newspaper said. "Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper quoted the center's chief engineer, Zhang Jian, as saying. Half of the infected machines had suffered data losses, problems browsing the Web, or other damage, the newspaper said.
Divx vets look to beat movie pirates - Herndon, Va.-based Cinea, the company Schumann co-founded after Divx folded in 1999, is close to unveiling a beta for its Cosmos digital cinema security system that will help movie distributors keep track of how their products are used while protecting them from piracy. The company "will modify the timing and modulation of the light used to create the displayed image such that frame-based capture by recording devices is distorted," according to an abstract for the winning NIST grant application. "Any copies made from these devices will show the disruptive pattern."
An icebox with your white box - Korea's LG Electronics is selling a 26-cubic-foot Multi-Media Refrigerator, with a built-in 15-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) screen for watching TV, surfing the Internet or looking at digital pictures. But with a price tag of $8,000, the "first refrigerator of the Internet Age" costs well more than an upscale fridge and a top-of-the-line PC combined. In addition to surfing the Web while searching for a midnight snack, people using LG's kitchen convergence device can store recipes and messages from family members. The LG model also purports to be able to diagnose its own problems, letting an owner know if a part is not working properly. That's good, said one appliance store employee, as there are few technicians with the expertise to fix an Internet fridge.
Maxtor works to simplify data backup - The Milpitas, Calif.-based company has developed a new feature designed to let computer users back up files, folders and drives with the touch of a button. The feature, OneTouch, is built in to a new line of external hard drives, the Personal Storage 5000 family. Backup starts when a user presses a button on one of the drives. The units come with built-in USB 2.0/1.1 and FireWire interfaces, along with 3.5-inch hard drives, the same type used in desktop PCs.
To dual or not to dual - This has been one topic that has plagued me since the development of the AMD dual athlon machine. An inexpensive (compared to Xeon) dual setup seems powerful on paper to us consumers, but what is it worth to an everyday person. What I have done in this review is to try and see what is it really worth upgrading to the latest and greatest.
A Way to Revolutionize x86 CPU Performance -This article describes how multimedia and non-multimedia applications can benefit from MMX, SSE, and SSE-2.
FreeBSD 4.7 - FreeBSD 4.7 is the the latest release of the FreeBSD -STABLE development branch. This new version updates GCC and sendmail, adds several new drivers for USB devices and disk controllers. FreeBSD 4.7 also incorporates all of the security and bug fixes from 4.6.2 (released in August 2002), including several ATA-related bugfixes, updates for OpenSSL and OpenSSH, and fixes to address several security advisories.
NetCaptor v7.0.2 beta 3 - NetCaptor is the a powerful web browser enhancements. Unlike other browsers which only view one site at a time or crowd multiple windows together, NetCaptor opens sites on separate browser tabs.
VisualRoute 7.0b - VisualRoute (download) delivers the functionality of key Internet "ping," "whois," and "traceroute" tools, in a high-speed visually integrated package. VisualRoute automatically analyzes Internet connectivity and performance problems, displaying the results in an easy to understand table and on a world map.
DrvImagerXP 2.1 - Freeware DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows2000/XP operating systems. It makes backups of your partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about files.
SiS USB 2.0 driver - The USB2.0 driver for Windows XP and Windows 2000 is released by Microsoft and supported by SiS. For Windows 98 and Windows Me systems, the USB2.0 driver is co-worked and supported by the thirdparty, such as OrangeWare.
Radeon 9700 Pro 7.78 (6193) from DELL - DELL's FTP has offers an OEM release of the latest known Radeon 9700 Pro drivers. It is said to fix issues with Battlefield 1942, NHL 2003 and FIFA 2003.

Comments from Jamie Kirby	posted - 11:11 AM CEST - Oct,11 2002
This new planet is probably full of shite. Since if it could be home to an alien race, the American Government would cover it up like they always do. If the whole planet was being attacked by an alien race, the american government would say that we are imagining everything and no aliens exist. It would be make think they are masters of the universe.

Comments from n/a	posted - 06:01 PM CEST - Oct,11 2002
why just the american government?

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