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 Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:16 AM CET - Nov,28 2002
  • "Korean" Worm getting faster in spreading - Kaspersky Labs is warning all users against the new Internet worm "Winevar" (also known as "Korean Worm"). When the worm gets into a potential victim's e-mail box, it tries to penetrate the computer unnoticed, using the following vulnerabilities in the MS Internet Explorer security system: Microsoft VM ActiveX Component, IFRAME Vulnerability. Thus allowing an infection of the computer immediately upon reading the message. Having penetrated a system, the worm modifies Windows booting files to activate upon system restart and to initiate its spread. Therefore it scans all HTM and DBX files found on the computer and extracts e-mail addresses. To these addresses the worm sends its copies using a direct connection to the default SMTP e-mail server.
  • Danish anti pirates continue to target copyright theft  - The Danish Anti Pirat Gruppen (Anti Piracy Group) is to continue targeting Net users who swap copyright material illegally. Confirmation that the APG is to continue its hard line comes after it issued invoices totalling 1m Danish Crowns (L86,200) to around 150 users of KaZaA and eDonkey for allegedly illegally swapping copyright material. The biggest offenders face bills of around 100,000 Crowns (L8,600). According to Morten Lindegaard, a lawyer for APG, around 80 per cent of those who received the invoices have already agreed to pay up. Those that don't face being sued.
  •  AT&T Wireless Phones to Feature Sony Content  -  AT&T Wireless Services said on Wednesday that it would team up with a unit of Sony to deliver screensavers, ring tones, games and news to mobile phones. Sony Pictures Digital, run by Sony Pictures Entertainment, will offer its content on AT&T Wireless' mMode service that delivers multimedia content to mobile phones on screens no bigger than a business card. Sony Pictures Digital said it would offer content based on the movies "XXX" and "Stuart Little 2" as well as game shows such as "Wheel of Fortune" and "JEOPARDY!"
  • Future cell phones to see the light  - The University of California at Davis announced this week it has received a grant from the Defense Department to build a new generation of cell phones that transmit and receive optical signals. The researchers hope to build chip-sized devices that use a technology standard already in some cell phones. That technology, called Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), transmits and receives optical signals. CDMA, which runs about 20 percent of the world's wireless networks, is a proprietary standard. Qualcomm owns the patents.
  • "Hammer" to hold 100 million transistors - A chip with that many transistors is currently considered unusual. But when Hammer chips emerge in the first half of 2003, processors of that complexity will become increasingly common. That's because designers are increasing the size of caches, which are reservoirs of memory located on the processor for rapid data access, and adding other features. Details of AMD's forthcoming chip have been leaking out. The largest version of Hammer, for instance, will have 1MB of secondary cache, as well as an integrated memory controller for connecting the processor to a PC's memory, according to the company. Currently, memory controllers mostly sit on their own piece of silicon.
  • Intel: Next Itanium to run at 1.5GHz - The new chip, code-named Madison, is similar to its Itanium 2 "McKinley" predecessor but is built with smaller circuitry that permits faster processing and more built-in high-speed "cache" memory. Intel disclosed the 1.5GHz speed in an agenda for a February processor show, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
  • Lik-Sang changes hands, preps mod-chip court case - Lik-Sang, the Hong Kong based online retailer of videogames "accessories", is to hand over the running of its business to a company called Pacific Game Technology Limited, in a move designed to allow the current management of the company to focus on fighting its forthcoming court case against Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The move comes as something of a surprise, as most people had expected the company to capitulate to demands from the platform holders, who have won an injunction preventing the retailer from selling mod chips, flash linkers or any other devices which can be used to circumvent game copy protection.
  • First hackers sighted in high speed mobile phone arena  - T-Mobile has installed a firewall on its GPRS network in the States after a small number of users complained of receiving hacker probes when using its high-speed mobile service. The issue came to light after Mike Palmer, the technology director for the broadcast division of AP, spotted numerous probes against his PC while using T-Mobile's GPRS network, Computerworld reports. T-Mobile admitted to Computerworld that around 100 users were affected by the issue, prior to the recent introduction of a firewall on open segments of its GPRS network. Palmer told reporters that he's not spotted probes since then.
  • Visual & Game Programming Degree - The San Francisco chapter of the The Art Institute of California is now accepting applications for its new Bachelor of Science program in Visual & Game Programming. This course of study teaches the foundations of art and design, then moves on to more technical areas of programming for 3D animation. (thanks GameSpy)
  • ATI claims 174.6GB/s for Radeon 9700 Pro  - The Inquirer learned from ATI executive, that the firm claims it trounces Nvidia's up-and-coming Geforce FX (NV30) on bandwidth.  As far as we know, Nvidia uses either the 3 to 1, or 4 to 1 compression method which gives 48GB/s in the best case. So: 500MHz x 2 (DDR) x 128bit (16bytes) x 3X compression = 48 GB/s. ATI said it is using 8.8 to 1 compression method on the Radeon 9700 PRO cards that can deliver an astonishing 174.2GB per second in the best case. A rare bird in practice, we'd suggest. As in: 310MHz x 2 (DDR) x 256bit (32 bytes) x 8.8 compression rate = 174.2 GB per second.
  • Philips JackRabbit32  - Now that Firewire and USB 2.0 are frequently found on computers, external CD burners work almost as well as their internal brethren. Philips has found a way to improve on the external CD burner, with the JackRabbit32. This external drive lets you burn CDs, watch DVDs, and much more. When connected to your computer, the JackRabbit32 can act as either a CD Burner or a DVD Player. In the former, you can burn CD-Rs at 32x and CD-RWs at 10x, or read at 40x. Any software you might need is provided, including Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 (or Toast 5 for Mac OS X) and PowerDVD. Connection is via a USB 2.0/1.1 port.
  • USB Christmas Lights - My original plan was to run them from the power supply, but then I thought that wouldn't be practical at all. Why not USB?! I went to the save-a-lot and picked up a $5 USB cable and headed home. If you can find a $2 USB mouse or any piece of junk with a USB connecter on it then good, the cheaper the better.
  • Mozilla 1.2 - Mozilla 1.2 has just been released. New to this version are features like Type Ahead Find, basic toolbar customization (text/icons/both), support for GTK themes on Linux, multiple tabs as startpage, Link Prefetching, "filter after the fact" and filter logging in Mail, Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows, and more.
  • TVTool 6.8.4 - TVTool  (download) was developed to replace the poor support video card manufacturers had for TV_OUT. TVTool works with most NVIDIA based cards such as TNT, TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, GeForce cards with BT86x (e.g. Viper 550, Erazor 3, Xentor 32, 3D Prophet, etc.). The main problem is the black borders around the picture on the TV screen. These can be very annoying for most applications like DVD-playback or decoding. TVTool is a completely software based solution to this problem. TVTool has many features, such as dualview, which makes simultaneous output to the TV and monitor possible.
  • Speed 1.1.0.27  - Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. Realtime graphical display. (download / homepage).
  • Hardware Sensors Monitor 4.1.1.2 - This software is quite possibly the best hardware sensor monitoring program out there. It will allow you to check the temperature of any component on your computer with a sensor. It is fully customizable with alarms that can be set when the temperature goes too high, a CPU throttle, and it even has built in software cooling that kicks in when your CPU is idle.
  • Nvidia 41.09 BETA Leaked - DriverHeaven has posted a new set of Beta drivers (German mirror) which are dated November 18 and are labeled as version 41.09.

Comments from NOTHINGposted - 05:00 AM CET - Nov,28 2002
I say bullshit with the 80% agreed to pay up or be sued....but then again, I have no idea what the law is over across the Atlantic. Ha, if someone were to post really fat dummy files posing as movies or albums or whatever, I wonder if you could be sued?

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