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 Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 11:56 AM CEST - May,25 2003
  • AMD ingnots, sliced "TBread" with the crusts cut off - Recently AMD enthusiasts (overclockers) have had a smile across their faces the length of which must have wifes and girlfriends wondering. Their new-found mistress; "lower-speed" Thoroughbred-B's, and their "double overclock" potential. Almost mythical in overclocking circles (prior to phase-change cooling) doubling a processor's default speed is the apotheosis for the enthusiast. So where did these sweethearts come from? And why have I chose the title "AMD ingots sliced "TBread" with the crusts cut off"? Buckle up, it's going to a bumpy ride!
  • Sci: Britain boosts nuclear bomb research - Hundreds of extra scientists are being sought to work on Britain's nuclear bomb programme. Their job will be to maintain Britain¹s Trident warheads, to help ensure that new weapons can be designed in the future and to conduct joint research with the US. But the recruitment drive has raised fears that Britain risks being sucked into fresh US research on low-yield nuclear weapons ­ so-called "mini-nukes" ­ for use as bunker busters on the battlefield.
  • Postal 2 protection (SafeDisc/SecuROM) imcompatible with CD readers - According to CDFreaks.com, Postal 2 is protected by SafeDisc 2.9 in the UK and by SecuROM 4.8 outside the UK. The protection seems to be so heavy that even some CD-ROM drives have difficulties reading the original CD, users are adviced to upgrade CD-ROM drive drivers or return the discs to the store.
  • Epic's Tim Sweeney on cheating vs optimizations Optimization techniques  - Dave Baumann and the Reverend at Beyond3D have asked Tim Sweeney, the man behind the Unreal engine, and ATI's Director of PR, Chris Evenden about cheating and optimizations brought up by Nvidia's Detonator FX 44.03. Chris Evenden has issued the following statement: "The 1.9% performance gain comes from optimization of the two DX9 shaders (water and sky) in Game Test 4 . We render the scene exactly as intended by Futuremark, in full-precision floating point. Our shaders are mathematically and functionally identical to Futuremark's and there are no visual artifacts; we simply shuffle instructions to take advantage of our architecture. These are exactly the sort of optimizations that work in games to improve frame rates without reducing image quality and as such, are a realistic approach to a benchmark intended to measure in-game performance. However, we recognize that these can be used by some people to call into question the legitimacy of benchmark results, and so we are removing them from our driver as soon as is physically possible. We expect them to be gone by the next release of CATALYST."
  • NVIDIA DAWN Demo playable on ATI Cards -  If you own an ATI card, check it out!
  • OpenOffice 1.1 Beta 2 - OpenOffice.org (Windows ~ Linux) is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. This new beta includes PDF and Macromedia Flash export; DocBook, PDA office-file formats, flat XML and XHTML.
  • MAME v0.69  - MAME (download) stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and currently runs 1800+ classic (and even some not so classic) arcade games.
  • Y'z Dock 0.8.0 - A new version 0.8.0 of Y'z Dock (download) has been released. Y'z Dock is an application style launcher for WinXP only.
  • Messenger Plus! 2.10.36 -  A new patch (what's new ~ download) has been released for Messenger Plus! Messenger Plus! is an add-on for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. Some of the added features are logging, personalized Away Messages, transparency effects, and a feature to minimize all MSN Messenger windows to the system tray.
  • MSN Messenger 6.0.0250 Ad Removal Patch Version 2 - This new version of the patch (direct link) also removes an ad from the "Make a Phone Call" feature as well as Removes the (BETA) tag from the title. If you have already patched your MSN Messenger to remove ads, run the "msnadpatch(patched).exe" If you have not already patched your MSN Messenger to remove ads, run the "msnadpatch.exe".
  • ISO Commander 1.1.010 Beta - ISO Commander (download) is a CD-ROM image file utility that can extract/edit/create ISO files directly, make bootable CDs and may also be used as a BIN/ISO/DAO/TAO/NRG etc. converter/extractor/editor.
  • PlexWriter Premium Firmware v1.01 - Plextor Europe has released a new firmware version 1.01 for the PlexWriter Premium drive. This latest firmware fixes bugs - Compatibility with Ahead InCD 4, Compatibility with Direct CD-formatted discs under Windows XP, Compatibility with Digital Audio Playback of Windows Media Player and improves Read performance for eccentric discs and Write performance for several NS & US CD-RW.
  • Nvidia withdraws nForce 2.41 / 2.42 Driver - Nvidia has withdrawn it's 2.41/2.42 nForce chipset unified driver packages released only some days ago. The FTP folders (2.41/2.42) are empty and the official website directs to the rather old 2.03 drivers. (thanks Warp2Search). ...what a truly suck-ass weekend to be nVidia :P  If you got a problems with 2.4x then read the Recovery instructions from Nvidia.
  • Modded Detonator FX 44.10 Win2k/XP *BETA* - Station-Drivers have modded the latest Dell Nvidia Detonator FX 44.10 drivers (download) for Windows 2000/XP to work on all cards. Try only at your own risk.

Comments from Zorroposted - 11:08 PM CEST - May,26 2003
Now, those Securom and SafeDisk crap has started bugging me that much, that I gave up on buying originals, I now use warez just for getting rid of this trash.

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