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| (hx) 01:03 AM CEST - May,30 2003 |
- CIA Behind the Times in IT - The unclassified report, titled
"Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution," offers a withering
assessment of the CIA's use of IT for intelligence analysis, calling the
agency's networking and information-searching capabilities "primitive" and
saying that the CIA's emphasis on secrecy fundamentally discourages IT use and
adoption by CIA analysts. The study was conducted by a scholar working with
the CIA's Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, a think tank attached
to the analyst training center in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence.
(thanks
PCWorld)
- Computex 2003 set for September 22-26 -
The Computex 2003 exhibition will be held from September 22-26, the Taipei
Computer Association (TCA) and China External Trade Development Council
(CETRA) announced today. It had been postponed from June 2-6 due to the SARS
outbreak. The co-sponsors originally said they expected 30,000 visitors from
over 150 countries to attend.
- API expert claims Windows Explorer app breakthrough - Whirling
Dervishes Software, the company founded by Windows API expert Henk Devos,
claims to have broken Microsoft's monopoly on applications that reside in
Windows Explorer. Devos claims that Whirling Dervishes has
discovered hidden Windows interfaces that are crucial for the development
of such applications, but whose existence is denied by Microsoft.
- Shadowbane Servers Hacked - According
to this post in official Ubisoft forums, there was a major hacking
incident last night (2 days ago) on the servers of Shadowbane, a newly
released online role playing game by UbiSoft/Wolfpack. The attackers wreaked
havoc on at least one game server, with apparent god-like capabilities
in-game.
- EU extends Safer Internet scheme - A European scheme to tackle
illegal and harmful digital content is
to
be extended for another two years.
The Safer Internet
Action Plan - which supports a network of hotlines in Europe where people
can report illegal content - has now been given the go-ahead by the European
Parliament to run until the end of 2004.
- A cell phone wristwatch for sale - The 3.9-ounce Wristomo
silver-bodied watch-phone looks like a thick digital watch. The matching thick
padded strap unclips from the wrist when two buttons are pressed. Then the
gadget can be held to the face and used as a traditional cell phone -- the
earphone on one end of the strap and the microphone at the other. The
waterproof watch, which sells for $318, proved so popular when
it was offered for sale May 7 on the company's Web site, DoCoMo reported
that it had sold the first batch of 1,000 in less than 20 minutes.
- Neuros MP3 Digital Audio Computer review - Linux and Ogg Vorbis
users can rejoice as they have in the Neuros a portable that caters to their
needs.
Though not perfect, it's a good all around player for all. The
groundbreaking features of the Neuros, including its HiSi technology and
upcoming Ogg Vorbis support, earned it some consideration for milestone
jukebox portable status. Unfortunately, it's held back from gaining that
designation by its unfavorable size-to-capacity ratio, a clunky box design,
and a transfer application that is still rough (though shows promise). The
unit performed like a new generation portable, but felt like it was trapped in
the body of a first generation jukebox portable. The flash version of the
Neuros sheds the weight and bulk of the 20GB version, but it come at the cost
of limiting users to only 128MB of memory.
- Sony-Ericsson P800 smartphone review -
The P800 is a combined mobile phone, electronic organiser, MP3 player and
camera in a package that's advertised as the "office in your pocket". As
the owner of an aging mobile phone, an ancient Palm, a Rio 600 MP3 player and
no digital camera, the P800 had the appeal of combining all these functions in
a single unit that could edit documents on the move and maybe even surf the
Web in extremis.
- ABIT NF7-S V2.0 OC review -
This article is basically going to cover overclocking the NF7-S with the
new Crush18D chipset.
- Triplex Eye Bomb R9500 Pro 128MB review - Overclockers New Zealand
has posted
a review on Triplex Eye Bomb R9500 Pro 128MB VGA. The Triplex R9500Pro is
around 5~10% faster than your average Ti-4800SE(Ti-4400 8X). The lead could go
up to around 40% when FSAA is enabled. This shows that the R9500Pro has a more
efficient FSAA than the one-year-old GF4 Ti. If you were not too concerned
with the image quality, then you may want to look for an ultra cheap GF4
Ti-4200 to save some cash.
- Eluminx Illuminated review - Now that you have your optical
mouse with that nice shining light in it, your case gleaming with color, the
monitor beaming with color from the images you pull up; it seems like
everything is lit up. Wait, what about that keyboard? Sure, you could change
some LEDs, but how much light will that emit? Sure, you can throw an EL Strip
some how into the keyboard, but is it worth the effort? Why do all that when
you can simply purchase one of these nifty boards. The eluminX keyboard has
patented technology which actually lights up every key, and is ideal for late
night computing. The technology was first developed for the military where
they normally would work at night or in very low lit environments.
For $100, is it all worth it for just a keyboard?
- Audigy2 Platinum eX review - Last year Creative Labs introduced a
new generation sound card called Audigy2, promising to roll out Audigy2
Platinum eX, a model with an external communication module, in the first
quarter of 2003. The new year has come and we have got what we were waiting
for. Company claims that this model sounds much better than the standard
Audigy2. Let’s check it out. First,
let’s browse through the main features of Audigy2 Platinum eX.
- Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra KT400A Motherboard review - HotHardware has
posted
s of Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra KT400A Motherboard.
- Epox 4PCA3+ (Intel 875P Canterwood) Motherboard review -
Epox 4PCA3+ is a high-end product offering high performance, powerful
expansivity options (2 channels of SerialATA, Gigabit Ethernet, 4-channel
RAID, ICH5R). Its price ($166) is comparable to that of some i865PE-based
motherboards, so some scarcity of the package bundle is forgivable.
However, with all the benefits the board offers, there is a dark spot in that
the board is somehow incompatible to various video cards. We'll try to find
this situation out in more detail and then publish the results in a roundup of
i875P motherboards. For now I would recommend buying the Epox 4PCA3+ board
from shops that give firm guarantees and offer proven money-back service.
- REVISED: Buffer Overrun in Windows Kernel Message Handling could Lead
to Elevated Privileges (811493) - Microsoft
re-issued this bulletin on May 28, 2003 to advise on the availability of
an updated Windows XP Service Pack 1 patch. This revised patch corrects the
performance issues that some customers experienced with the original Windows
XP Service Pack 1 patch.
- Which video card? - FSAA and AF both
burn off graphics card power very effectively. If you can live without either
of them, then you can make do with surprisingly cheap video cards,
and still get
OK 3D frame rates.
- IIS Cumulative patch - Microsoft has released
a cumulative patch for its IIS (Internet Information Services or Internet
Information Server) Web server software, a component of Windows NT 4.0, Window
2000, and Windows XP. The patch includes earlier patches for the Web server as
well as four new fixes, Microsoft said in Bulletin MS03-018. The bulletin and
patch can be found on Microsoft's Web site.
- Apache 2.0.46 released - The group, which coordinates development
and distribution of the open-source software, recommended that system
administrators
promptly upgrade to version 2.0.46 of Apache HTTP Server, available for
download from
the Apache Web site.
- PHP 4.3.2 Final - The PHP developers today
announced
the immediate availability of
PHP 4.3.2. This
release contains a huge number of bug fixes and is a strongly recommended
update for all users of PHP.
- Waste v1.0 beta released - Nullsoft (Winamp makers) released
today a secure, distributed mesh-like networking protocal and platform called
Waste. This
v1.0 beta release uses RSA (key based) and Blowfish (download
bin
~
source - thanks JSolo) encryption for security, and features Instant
Messanging and group chat, along with file browsing, searching, and transfer.
- ProxyPal 1.2 -
After
installing ProxyPal (download),
just add it to your IE toolbar and you have one click access to toggle your
proxy. This is very useful for corporate latptops that connect to the Internet
away from work. Install ProxyPal today to put an end to seven-clicking your
proxy on and off.
- SmartGesture Lite 1.0.1 -
SmartGesture Lite (download)
is easy and powerful system of gesture detection is made for fulfilling of
different commands as file opening, application opening, Web resources opening
and key pressing imitation.
- Fresh Diagnose 5.90 -
Fresh Diagnose (download)
is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can
analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard
disk performance, video system information, mainboard information and more.
- Jet-Audio 5.14 -
Jet-Audio (download
~
changelog) features an impressive home audio system interface, including
independent A/V components for Digital Signal Processor, Audio CD Player,
Digital Audio (MP3, RA, etc.), MIDI (MID, MOD etc.), and Digital Video (AVI,
MPG, MOV, etc.), along with a Mixer and a Remote Controller.
- VirtualDub 1.5.4 -
VirtualDub (download
~
download P4 version) is a video capture and processing program. It
features fast capturing, process files larger than the 2 gigabyte limit,
optimized for linear editing, support for Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 video and layer
3 audio, real-time and near-realtime video processing, video job queues, and
much more.
- KYRO Drivers v2.00.20.0516 - This is definitely good news for
all KYRO owners ~
KYRO/KYRO II/SE Win9x/ME Driver 2.00.20.0516
KYRO/KYRO II/SE Win2k Driver 2.00.20.0516 ~
KYRO/KYRO II/SE WinXP Driver 2.00.20.0516..
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| Comments from JSolo | posted - 01:42 AM CEST - May,30 2003 | | Regarding WASTE. Looks like AOL took it down (Nullsoft is owned by AOL). Mirrors for the Win32 binary: http://www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/waste-setup.exe
Source: http://www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/waste-source.zip |
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| Comments from JSolo | posted - 04:23 AM CEST - May,30 2003 | | http://slackerbitch.free.fr/waste/
That is another complete mirror of the WASTE web site that was up on Nullsoft previously. |
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