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 Thursday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 05:40 PM CEST - Jul,10 2003
  • Microsoft Patches 'Critical' Windows Hole - Microsoft is warning of a critical security flaw (patch) that affects all supported versions of its Windows operating system and could enable a remote attacker to run malicious code on unpatched Windows systems. The security hole is due to a buffer overrun vulnerability in the Windows HTML converter. This Windows component enables the operating system to convert files from Rich Text Format to HyperText Markup Language, which is used to display documents on the Web.
  • FBI investigates cyberscam that lured 'winners' to fake site - Scam artists have spoofed the Web site of the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission in an attempt to steal personal and financial information from lottery players across the country. The fake lottery Web site, www.mass-lottery.org, which was hosted by Clifton, New York-based HostRocket.com, was taken down by Wednesday afternoon. But the site, which was registered on June 13, was nearly identical to the Massachusetts Lottery Commission's official site, www.masslottery.com, according to lottery spokesperson Amy Morris.
  • Police and FSB Listen In on Mobile Phone Calls - Mobile phone providers switched off their encryption systems for 24 hours on a government order, allowing the Federal Security Service and the police to eavesdrop on all calls. An alert notifying callers that their conversations could be listened in on popped up on cellphones around Moscow at 9 p.m. Tuesday and lasted until 9 p.m. Wednesday on an order by the Communications Ministry. The alert, depending on the model of cellphone, is usually either an exclamation point or an unlocked padlock.
  • Scientists unlock secrets of largest human chromosome - Scientists have finished unravelling the largest human chromosome to be studied in detail so far. Chromosome 7 has been linked to human diseases including cystic fibrosis, hereditary deafness and cancer. The new data, which is over 99% complete, shows the chromosome contains 153 million genetic code letters - the DNA component chemicals whose sequences dictate what we are. Among these are 1,150 genes, stretches of DNA that provide the instructions for making proteins. Scientists also found 940 pseudo-genes - pieces of DNA that look like genes but appear not to function.

  • New software allows you to log on by laughing  - Computer scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, wanted to make it easier for staff to log onto networked computers. So they came up with SoundHunters, a program that recognises someone's voice or laughter and works out which computer is nearest to them. It could then be used to automatically log them on to the computer. Microphones on each computer pick up a person's voice. The software recognises them and calculates where they are, using flocks of intelligent agents - pieces of discrete computer code that are programmed to move around a network from computer to computer. The agents close in on those computers where the person's voice is loudest, until they pinpoint the nearest one.

  • Fuji Unveils Mini-Digicam - A credit-card-size, 1.3-megapixel camera offering print-quality images is being released in Japan this month by Fuji Axia, a division of Fuji Photo Film. Fuji's Eyeplate Mega, measuring 8 millimeters in thickness, is based on the Ultra-Pocket reference camera design developed by Smal Camera Technologies. It is priced at $109 and is expected to become commercially available later in the U.S. and Europe, says Romney Williams, executive director of business development with Smal.
  • AMD to replace Duron with Athlon FX? - The Athlon FX will be based on the Thorton core, essentially a version of the top-end Athlon XP's Barton core with half the cache: 256KB instead of 512KB. Said sources claim AMD is already pumping the chips out, at 2000+ to 2600+ performance ratings. That's interesting, since the recently leaked AMD press schedule, which pinpointed upcoming Athlon 64 and faster Opteron chip launches appear not to have mentioned the FX.
  • Abit Launches The KV7 KT600 Motherboard - ABIT is announced their latest motherboard for the AMD platform, the KV7. The KV7 is powered by the long-awaited VIA KT600 chipset, which features both support for DDR 400 and a 400 MHz front side bus, making it ready for the latest games and applications. And of course the KV7 comes with serial ATA RAID 0/1 and is loaded with ABIT Engineered features for overclocking fanatics, like Softmenut MAX FID and TweakGuard
  • Ali chipset targets 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 - ALi has launched a North Bridge part that supports the Pentium 4's 800MHz effective bit rate frontside bus, courtesy of the company's ULi subsidiary. The chip, dubbed the M1683, provides support for up to 400MHz DDR SDRAM - installed on no more than three modules - in a single-channel configuration. It also provides an AGP 8x graphics bus. Aimed at mainstream to high-end systems, the chip will support PC133 SDRAM and Celeron processors with a 400MHz effective bit rate FSB.
  • Kingston targets gamers with 500MHz DDR - Memory specialist Kingston Technology yesterday began offering memory modules based on 466MHz and 500MHz DDR SDRAM. The latter, built to meet PC4000 specifications, is the first of its kind, Kingston claims. The lower-clocked part is a PC3700 module. DDR is typically clocked to 400MHz for inclusion in PC3200 modules. Kingston already offers 434MHz, PC3500 modules.
  • OCZ PC3200 EL DDR DUAL Channel Memory - First things first. The modules do exactly what they're specified to. The 2-2-3-6 timings caused no problems when tested in both AMD and Intel dual-channel motherboards. We're still not sure how valid certain manufacturers' claims are regarding optimisations for dual channel. All we can say is that the OCZ PC3200 EL DDR behaved impeccably through arduous testing.
  • XDR Memory Preview - Gamer PC has a preview of a technology that everyone's favourite company "Rambus" is now touting to the public.
  • Analysis: x86 Vs PPC - The x86 family of CPUs began life in 1978 as the 8086, an extension to the 8 bit 8080 CPU. It was a 16bit CISC (Complex instruction Set Computing) processor. In the following year the 8088 was introduced which was used in the original IBM PC. It is this computer which lead to todays PCs which are still compatible with the 8086 instruction set from 1978. The PowerPC family began life with the PowerPC 601 in 1993, the result of a collaboration started in 1991 between Apple, IBM and Motorola. The family was designed to be a low cost RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) CPU, it was based on the existing IBM POWER CPU used in the RS/6000 workstations so it would have an existing software base.
  • ATI Interview - HomeLAN has posted an interview with ATI's Patricia Mikula as she talks about their graphics products and their support of game development.
  • Falcon Northwest - Mach V Review - The Mach V is Falcon Northwest's flagship model. Each machine is hand-built and tuned, and represents the pinnacle of PC performance. The machine we looked at was absolutely stuffed with high-end gear, and we were very excited at the prospect of putting it through its paces.
  • The Springdale Showdown Which board should you "spring" for? - This is the kind of article that reviewers live for. Not a simple one-on-one comparison, but a full-blown, knock-em-down, street fight for bragging rights.
  • Abit IC7-G vs Gigabyte 8KNXP - Abit IC7-G lives up with its claim and this board is built for overclockers. The overclocking result is impressive with extensive BIOS tweaks. The performance is on par with other Canterwood motherboards but not as fast as Gigabyte's 8KNXP. Abit IC7-G somehow lacks of the features that 8KNXP could offer while competing at a similar price range. I think for the die-hard overlcockers, IC7 is probably a better choice than IC7-G which comes with the same Core overclocking power at a much lower price.
  • Corsair TWINX Platinum Series PC-3200 512MB DDR Memory Review - As you can see the ram when at 200MHz (400MHz DDR) did not reach 3000 MB/s. It did when at 203MHz FSB. It could be because of the motherboard because when I booted at 200MHz FSB the motherboard read it at 199MHz. Although WCPUID read it correctly at 200MHz. Another possible reason why it did not reach 3000 is because maybe it needs more conditioning. I don't really know yet. When I do I will put it in the forums...see below. The memory is fast anyhow and had no problems.
  • VIA PT800 Motherboards - Although one of VIA's goals for the PT800 chipset is to offer value to the consumer this is by no means a no frills solution. Supporting the new 800MHz front side bus processors and Intel Hyper-Threading technology the PT800 implements VIA's advanced FastStream64 DDR400 Memory Controller. The same memory controller will be found lurking on the KT400A chipset. This optimized memory controller offered excellent single channel performance for the Athlon XP processor. Supporting DDR266/333/400 you can expect the same impressive single channel performance for the Pentium 4 processor.
  • MSI NBox N5900 ULTRA - With the NBox N5900 ULTRA featuring so many goodies, you would think that you had to pay a premium for an already expensive gaming card. Fortunately, you need only top-up S$50 more than a normal MSI FX5900Ultra-VTD256 to enjoy all that the NBox had to offer. Think about it: the special packaging, three irresistibly good games and an optical mouse all worth a total of S$200 going at only S$50 more is actually a pretty fantastic deal. No doubt the NBox N5900 Ultra's price tag of S$1,059 is an expensive amount to set aside for a gaming card, if you had already set your sights for an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra graphics card, it is probably the wisest choice around as most others would be priced close to the S$1,000 mark. With even the normal MSI's FX5900Ultra-VTD256 set to retail for S$999, you would be hard pressed to find a better proposition than the tantalizing NBox package.
  • Fraps 2.0.0 Build 1787  - Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen for programs using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
  • MusicMatch Jukebox 8.0 Review - PCMag has posted a MusicMatch Jukebox 8.0 review.
  • Kingston PC3500 HyperX DDR Memory Review  - With a retail price of $230 CDN ($160 USD), the Kingston HyperX KHX3500/256 memory kit is decently priced. Two sticks of 256MB Corsair XMS3500 CAS2 would run you around the $260 range, and $255 for the OCZ PC3500EL DC DDR kit.
  • Beginners Guides: Internet Connection Sharing - PC Stats has posted a beginners guide about Internet Connection Sharing.
  • Hacking Your Nomad MP3 Player  - OK, call us curious. Call us dumb. Call us adventurous. Whatever, we decided to see if we could replace the hard drive in our Zen, and our Nomad Jukebox 3 to add more space for more music. And guess what? It worked. In this story we'll give you the details on what we learned, and pictures and instructions on how to do it yourself. This is not for the squeamish, but it is possible to add a bigger hard drive to your MP3 player.
  • Apache 2.0.47 - Apache 2.0 (download) offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase. The most visible and noteworthy addition is the ability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode on any platform that supports both threads and processes. This has shown to improve the scalability of the Apache HTTP Server significantly in our testing.
  • AntiVir Personal Edition 6.20.15.33 - The AntiVir Personal Edition (download) offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation.
  • PowerStrip beta 3.43 - PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards. This new beta fixes Wildact VP gamma correction, revises NV3X clock control, updates multilanguage support, sync'd MGA G-series support with latest drivers, changes Radeon PLL calculator, added desk/pointer hotkeys, revises timing refresh procedure,adds preliminary support for Radeon DVI interlacing, enables SiS6326 gamma correction and adds R350/RV350 support.
  • Visual Boy Advance v1.6 Beta 2 - Visual Boy Advance is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows systems. There are two versions available - DirectX and SDL.
  • Dr. DivX 1.0.2 - Dr.DivX is the first and only official DivX Encoding application. Just as DivX and DivX Pro have enabled anyone, anywhere to watch and distribute great looking digital video, this now makes the act of creating DivX video as easy as the act of watching it.
  • AC3Filter 0.69b - AC3Filter (download) is free DirectShow filter for AC3 decoding to play .AVI with AC3 audio tracks and MPEG2 (DVD).
  • DivX Subtitle Displayer 4.53 - DivX Subtitle Displayer (download) is a program that can display subtitles while playing DivX movies.
  • VCool 2.0 Alpha 6 - This little utility will cool your Athlon/Duron processor on any VIA KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363, VT8361, VT82C691/693A/694 or VT8371 +VT82C686x) chipsets during idle. (thanks Warp2Search)
  • Leaked nVidia Driver Doubles 3DMark03 Score  - ExtremeTech ran the GeForceFX 5900 through 3DMark03, first with the current 44.03 driver, and then with this new 44.67 driver. The performance increases seen in 3DMark03 were substantial, almost double on one of the tests. We also tested three of the games we usually use for 3D testing. They found essentially no performance difference between the two builds there.
    Detonators 44.71 *unofficial* - Station-drivers has posted Nvidia Detonator 44.71 (modified INF files) for Windows 2000/XP.
  • Omega Nvidia Drivers Cancelled - "Well, as most of you have heard by now, I will not be releasing any more Omega drivers for nvidia cards. I know this must come as a surprise for many since there are a lot of people who trust my work and know that I'm doing all of this to help people. This is what REALLY happened: I received an E-Mail from nvidia on June 17, it was from one of their attorneys, and he wanted to speak with me personally on the phone. The mail seemed friendly, but since it was coming from the nvidia law offices, I was worried of some kind of lawsuit because of my work."

Comments from tomposted - 06:57 PM CEST - Jul,10 2003
3dmark or futuremark or whatever that trash is called is crap. You want to know how good drivers are. Go to the site that you got them from, check forums or put them on your system and test em... As you know, 3dmark can be faked and nVidia has made their drivers now detect what you are loading. If you can feel comfortable knowing the drivers are sensing and adjusting to whatever you load.. then so be it. Only real benchmark is a game benchmark. PERIOD.

Comments from Erbozposted - 08:40 PM CEST - Jul,10 2003
3DMark is a joke. It has *1* purpose, and it ain't benchmarking, can you guess what ? ....... Exactly ! making the $$$ flow.

Comments from Meposted - 09:25 PM CEST - Jul,10 2003
Uhh.. just about every product in the world is created for cash flow except for GPL software.

Comments from Lard Assposted - 09:29 PM CEST - Jul,10 2003
im sick 2 fook about the amount of times i've seen these comments "Microsoft Patches 'Critical' Windows Hole" Bill Gates change the name of Windows to Critical Windows !

Comments from JSoloposted - 06:33 AM CEST - Jul,11 2003
You will always see tons of bugs in Windows mostly because of two things. 1. There are companies who's sole existence is to find security holes in software. 2. There is a ton of legacy code in Windows that probably no one at MS is completely familiar with. It's an unfortunate truth and probably one of the biggest reasons for holes in MS OSes. MS has to keep most of their OSes backwards compatible and sometimes that comes at the risk of security. With Longhorn and it's very evil DRM built into the OS, you will probably see a lot less (if theoretically ANY) security issues. At least, that is their hope.

Comments from Lard Assposted - 09:03 AM CEST - Jul,11 2003
actually me its lame ass bad programming ! look @ linux OS compiled by hardcore programming fans, the programmers employed by MS must be ensuring their future existence by knowingly making security flaws inthe MS system, no QC there i say ! Or maybe its the CIA contract deal with MS to provide loop holes inthe MS os as to target foreign industries/countries by hacking their systems due to these loop holes, no wonder china has moved 2 LINUX OS ;) ! Call me PARA aka PARANOID :)

Comments from DIEposted - 05:01 PM CEST - Jul,11 2003
Unix and its variants such as Linux are better then windows thats why china probabaly switched to it. For programmers when you call the WINDOWS API to do the something is hard to use cause WINDOWS API is designed poorly. I know cause ive used it. Linux is way better for programmers. Basically the only reason i keep windows is for running games. As for security holes every operating system has there fair share of security holes including unix operating systems.As for the CIA of course they trying to find security flaws in operating systems in would be irresponsible of them if they where not doing that. All the major countries are trying to hack each others networks to get data thats a fact of life. but install windows on your linux machine and run linux on top of windows. then you don't need the BS of windows running all the time and you can still play games. fuck i don't need the pathetic microsoft office thats makes you want to do things "THERE WAY" fuck you microsoft. Also windows does not give you enough control as a user. They fucking try to make you do things the way they want to be done. WELL LISTEN MUTHA FUCKERS IM RUNNING THE COMPUTER NOT YOU SO FUCK OFF WITH YOUR MOTHER FUCKING LAME ASS GAY INTERFACE AND GIVE ME CONTROL OR I NO USE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM. FUCK I CAN MAKE MY OWN OPERATING SYSTEM WHY THE FUCK WOULD I NEED TO USE YOUR PATHETIC BULLSHIT. yes i hate windows with a passion. Fuck you can't even do multiple things in windows simulatanously sometimes its SO FUCKING GAY. For example can't cancel 100 windows at the same time WITH ONE COMMAND fuck i got to click each mother fucking window one by one . over and over and over again.

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