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 Morning Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:00 PM CET - Jan,16 2003
  • 2003 CES Mobile Tour - Just like last year's CES, the most amazing demo car belongs to Alpine. I was wondering if it would be possible for Steve Brown of Alpine to be able top his RSX installation from CES 2002. For CES 2003, Steve unveiled a Honda Civic that simply blew everybody away. What's so amazing about it? Steve transformed the mild manner Civic into a single seater with the driver sitting in the center for perfect sound reproduction. Make sure you check out the pics!
  • Man Dies While Playing Diablo II - A Hong Kong computer game enthusiast has been found slumped dead at a terminal in a game centre after playing non-stop for hours, police said today. The 28-year-old was found slumped at his screen early yesterday after he apparently had played the online game Diablo II since early Friday evening.  A policeman found him in the game centre shortly after 1 am, five hours after he began playing the popular game, according to reports today. His death at a game centre in Hong Kong's Yuen Long district came eight months after a 17-year-old game centre employee was found dead after playing Diablo II through the night.
  • Microsoft to share secret code - Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new program to make the underlying code for its Windows operating system available to several governments and governmental agencies for viewing. The software company has already signed agreements with the Russian government and NATO to allow them to review for free the underlying programming instructions that Microsoft has long guarded as secret intellectual property.
  • Discarded computer hard drives prove a trove of personal info - Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information" -- medical correspondence, love letters, pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. One even had a year's worth of transactions with account numbers from a cash machine in Illinois.
  • Friendly fire - Product Activation zaps new XP Plus! pack - Microsoft latest add-on for Windows XP, Plus! Digital Media Edition, has fallen foul of Windows Product Activation. Numerous purchasers are finding it impossible to install (also check this thread), and are being confronted by the comforting message "Plus! Digital Media Edition uses Microsoft Product Activation to help prevent software piracy. Please have an administrator run Plus! Digital Media Edition on this machine and go through the Microsoft Plus! Product Activation Wizard. Once that is complete, you will be able to run Plus! Digital Media Edition normally."
  • Battle of the Gaming Audio Titans: Creative Labs vs. NVIDIA - The $150 Audigy 2 Platinum is the flagship product from Creative Labs. Sporting 24/192 DACs on all six channels and true 24/96 analog playback and recording, the Audigy 2 is the gaming sound card that comes closest to the prosumer sound cards. The equivalently priced $150 nForce2 platform represents NVIDIA's flagship platform processor. It also promises 64 hardware accelerated 3D audio streams, but claims to support 256 2D audio streams. Behind this processing power is Sensaura's HRTF algorithms for positional 3D audio, considered by many to be the reference standard. In a departure from our typical article format, we're going to throw up all the numbers first and then talk.
  • Dates arrive for Barton, MP chips - People at AMD Taiwan have given the Inquirer details of when we may expect new 32-bit chips from the firm, off the record of course. The long awaited MP2600+, a chip intended for dual multiprocessing systems, will be introduced on the fourth of February next. Bartons - which come as the 2500+, the 2700+ and the 3000+ and which will have a fabulous 512K of cache but won't use silicon on insulator nor Super Silicon 28, as far as we can tell, are set to be introduced on February 7th.
  • eVGA.com: Case Mod Contest - eVGA.com is hosting it's first Case Mod Contest, giving case modders an opportunity to highlight their own case designs and place them upon a pedestal of distinction. This is a no-holds barred competition where values will be placed on aesthetics as well as functionality. The contest will run from January 15th, 2003 until February 28th, 2003. Contestants will have a chance to win one of the following fabulous prizes from eVGA: a e-GeForce4 TI 4600 8x, a e-GeForce4 TI 4200 8x or a e-GeForce4 MX 440SE.
  • EPoX 8RDA+ Voltage Modding Guide - The most important factor determining overclockability is the VDD (voltage to the nForce2 chipset) and next important factor is the VDDR (voltage to the memories). As 8RDA+ BIOS allows VCore up to 2.2V already therefore there is not a need to perform any mod for that. In this article, we will show you how to mod the VDD and VDDR in order to get amazing FSB out of this board.
  • Koepi's XviD Codec build 15012003-1 (win32) - XviD (download) is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD. This new version features Fresh CVS checkout, Fixed I/P/B-decision - crash problem solved, iframes should be set correctly now, Added simple idct, QPel smearing bug will resolve with the next ffdshow/lavc version, Gruel's new 2-warppoint-GMC code (rc4) - doesn't work with chroma ME yet.
  • HyperSnap-DX 5.03.00 - HyperSnap-DX 5 (download) 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. HyperSnap-DX 5 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.
  • Intel Chipset Identification Utility 2.70 - The Intel Chipset Identification Utility provides an easy way to identify the specific Intel chipset that is located on your motherboard.
  • Realtek ALC650 Drivers v3.38 (2003/01/15) - The ALC650 CODEC supports host/soft audio from Intel 810/815/820/845 chipsets as well as audio controller based VIA/SIS/ALI chipsets.
  • WinAmp 3 Build #495 (int.beta) - This version has been posted on the official download http of Nullsoft, but is internal beta. (thanks SavageNews).
  • Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 PCI Device Driver & BIOS - Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 PCI device, driver and BIOS updated to version 2.34s.
  • Asus Detonator Drivers 42.01 For Win98/ME - Asus has released a new set of Nvidia Detonator Drivers version 42.01 For Windows 98/ME.
  • Lite-On IT XJ-HD163 firmware - Lite-On IT has released a new firmware version, GH5S, for their XJ-HD163 (16X/48X) DVD-ROM drive.

Comments from Peteposted - 03:18 PM CET - Jan,16 2003
Its becoming too often reading about people dying due to excessive gaming.

Comments from zeusposted - 03:22 PM CET - Jan,16 2003
well the huge lobby of the gaming industry cant hide the truth anymore, we know the truth is out there! - now to another not so serious thought, could there be a connection between teh death and poor gameplay quality of the games today? just think about it

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