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 Friday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:04 PM CEST - Jun,20 2003
  • Ballmer sets date for next Xbox  - Microsoft will deliver the next version of its Xbox game console in 2006, CEO Steve Ballmer said.
    According to reports by Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Ballmer made the remark during a press conference in Japan. Many had expected the new Xbox to arrive a year earlier. Microsoft representatives refused to confirm the 2006 date. "No date has been announced for future Xbox products or services," the company said in a statement. " Another story can be found here.
  • Wearable Videocam Records Your Life - Shown by DejaView, the product is a thimble-size video camera that mounts on your glasses or baseball cap. It videotapes everything in your view.  If you see something worth saving, just press a button on a corresponding device attached to your belt, and bingo--you've recorded the last 30 seconds of your life for playback on your PC. Obtaining a photographic memory with the help of DejaView Camwear 100 comes with a price tag of $350 and will become available in mid-September, according to company representatives. Although DejaView did not show its wares on the CeBIT show floor, the company pitched its product at an affiliated offsite event, ShowStoppers.
  • Fortnight F worm has porn payload - Worm variant uses three-year-old security hole to add 'Nude Nurses' to browser Reports are coming in of a new variant on the Fortnight worm spreading via Outlook email. An alert for Fortnight F has been released by Sophos and firms are starting to come across infections, even though Microsoft released a security patch three years ago to fix the hole that the worm uses. The new variant uses JavaScript and Java applets to spread via Outlook emails that are set to carry and read HTML.
  • Tiny computers will bend to browse  -  Sony envisages a future where people will carry flexible credit-card-sized devices, far smaller than today's PDAs, in their pocket or handbag. "I think we have proved its feasibility with the creation of a working prototype," says Sony researcher Ivan Poupyrev. The simple prototype is nicknamed Gummi, which means "rubber" in the native German of its inventor Carsten Schwesig. Gummi has all the important features, albeit in crude versions, that future devices will need, says Poupyrev, who worked with Schwesig and designer Eijiro Mori to construct it. It has no stylus, buttons, switches or mouse: information has to be literally twisted out of it. (You can view a movie of Gummi in action here (8Mb Quicktime file).
  • Mini-ITX PC in an Atari 800 - Musician and geek Andy Hutson slipped a Mini-ITX motherboard into an Atari 800 case... and used an old cartridge as the mouse! Too bad the original keyboard's not functional." (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • AMD to ship Athlon 64 3400+ in August - AMD will ship the Athlon 64 in August, well ahead of its September launch, Taiwanese motherboard-maker sources claim. Of course, these pre-launch chips often go on sale early in Japan and the Far East in any case, and it will be interesting to see when Athlon 64s appear in Tokyo shop windows. According to DigiTimes, the chips AMD is shipping ahead of time are the 3100+ and 3400+ Athlon 64s.
  • VIA ships KT600 chipset for Athlon XP 3200+ - VIA has begun shipping its Apollo KT600 chipset for 400MHz frontside bus (PR)Athlon XP processors, and has signed 20-odd mobo makers to use the product. The KT600 north bridge chip provides AGP 4x/8x, 266-400MHz FSB support and incorporates VIA's FastStream64 400MHz DDR SDRAM controller which, according to VIA, "uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to reduce latency in the memory controller, extending performance at a lower transistor cost than dual channel implementations". The chip can cope with up to 4GB of DDR memory.
  • ATI R420: Two Times Faster Than The RADEON 9800 PRO - Sources with knowledge of the matter revealed that the graphics chip known under the code-name R420 and developed under project-name Loki will be two times faster than the original RADEON 9800 PRO. As X-bit Labs revealed earlier, it will incorporate 110 to 150 million of transistors and will support Pixel and Vertex Shaders 3.0.
  • ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 PRO 128MB Review - Whether you are looking something for a multimedia hub / PC powered home entertainment centre, or just looking for the most complete all in one graphics product currently available, the All-In-Wonder 9800 PRO is the best offering currently available.
  • Geil 512MB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR Kit Review  - BigBruin.Com has posted a new review of the Geil 512MB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR Kit.
  • MSI Hermes 845GV Barebones Review - Hexus.net let us know they have done a review of the MSI Hermes 845GV Barebones.
  • Hyperthreading Hotfix Q815227 Performance - The Tech-Report has taken a closer look at the Windows XP kernel update from June 15th. "The benchmarks were run through first with a standard Windows XP Service Pack 1 installation. Then, the Microsoft's Q815227 hot fix was applied to the system and the benchmarks were run again. To be thorough, I rounded up a total of five different Winstone tests dating back to the 2001 Winstones and ran all tests with Hyper-Threading enabled and disabled."
  • DFI LAN PARTY KT400A Review - This motherboard is based on the VIA KT400A chipset comprised of the VIAR KT400A and VT8235. However, DFI is using the VIAR KT400A and VT8235CD. As you can see the only difference between the VT8235 and VT8237 is the addition of support for Serial ATA and two more USB 2.0 ports. DFI's version of the southbridge doesn't quite meet the specs of the VT8237 because it only has one Serial ATA port on the motherboard.
  • Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 147GB Ultra 320 SCSI Review  - The Atlas 10k IV leaves our Maxtor D740X (ATA133) and Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 (ATA150) drives behind in the ZD WinBench 99 Version 2 benchmarks. In general, this makes the Atlas 10K IV ideally suited for all types of data retrieval or storage which require high minimal transfer rates. It also means that you can work on your computer with no delays resulting from today's high performance operating systems, like the Windows XP Professional.
  • 3-Way i875P "Canterwood" Shoot-Out -  In this article HotHardware take look at three full-featured "Canterwood" boards, the 875P Neo-FIS2R from MSI, the LANPARTY Pro875 from DFI and Chaintech's 9CJS. All three of these products offer some intriguing, relatively unique features.
  • Jasc Paintshop Pro 8.01 Update - The update (direct link) includes a number of changes to the program to improve overall performance and addresses known issues reported by customers.
  • HyperSnap-DX 5.11.02 - 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.
  • MyIE2 v0.7.1350 Beta - MyIE2 is a multi-tabbed browser based on the IE core (IE5.x or above required). It can open multiple web pages within one browser window, and uses little system resources. MyIE2 has a greatly integrated & customizable interface which supports Skins, Plug-Ins, IE Extensions, & specific toolbars (example: GOOGLE Toolbar). The beta is also available from local mirror at SavageNews.
  • CloneDVD by Elby Software - CloneDVD extracts, transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like, to a single recordable DVD. Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy.
  • PlexTools Pro 2.04 -  Plextor Europe have released a new updated version of PlexTools. They also offer a new firmware for PX-40TS V1.14.

  • Zoom Player 3.10 RC3 - Zoom Player is a robust media and DVD front-end player. It was designed to be simple at first glance while being remarkably dynamic and flexible when used to its full potential. This release contains important VMR9 fixes, noticably the VMR9 Windowed DVD Mode (under Customized Playback) and the VMR9 Fix (under Filter Control). Between these two fixes, VMR9 should give you the best possible image quality.

  • BootXP 2.50 Final  - BootXP is an easy to use startup logo changer designed for Windows 2000 and XP that uses bitmap files or kernel files as sources.

  • AVG Free Edition 6.0 Build 491 -  AVG is a reliable tool for your computer protection against computer viruses. A free registration is required to run AVG. You will be emailed a registration code and can not install it without it.

  • SecureCRT 4.0.7 - SecureCRT (download) gives you an encrypted SSH session with both SSH1 and SSH2t servers. SSH security goes far beyond the basic secure logon, rerouting data or local applications using TCP/IP ports through an encrypted channel.

  • Matrox Parhelia Drivers 1.04.02.007 - Matrox has released a new driver set (Win2k/XP) for their Parhelia series including budget P650 and P750 cards.

  • ATI Radeon Drivers v6.14.10.6351 Leaked - If you feel you don't want to mess with these beta leaks and want to wait until the official then by all means do so. Otherwise the folks who want to mess with their hardware. The choice is yours. You can download the drivers from 3DChipset (6.14.10.6351 WinXP & Win2k Driver  || 6.14.10.5011 Control Panel).

Comments from 7777posted - 04:29 PM CEST - Jun,20 2003
with all cyber warefare,viruses,hostile programs,hostile websites, spam,trogans, security holes e.t.c. .. im totally surpised that nobody has SHUT DOWN the internet. or at least do severe damage and im not talking about just a wide spreading virus i mean like TOTAL SHUTDOWN. sooner or later its going to happen cause its a challenge that someone out there can't resist.

Comments from Erbozposted - 07:30 PM CEST - Jun,20 2003
It IS allready heading a shutdown. As of today, less than 1% of all traffic is valuable data, or website related. The other 99% of the cake is shared among spam, tracking data & kazaa kidies sharing sexmovies.

Comments from 7777posted - 08:26 PM CEST - Jun,20 2003
im sorry Erboz but you don't understand. shutdown means that the website is offline or does not process commands. it does not mean it has its bandwidth utilization is low or most of its bandwidth is being eaten up by spam. As for your numbers how did you get them? anybody can preach numbers! did you do a statistical survey? whats your source? did you test its credibility? give me a break. too many people just make up numbers then assume there correct. thats stupid. did you do that? well i don't know.

Comments from Formanposted - 03:43 PM CEST - Jun,21 2003
Erboz is being a DUMBASS

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