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 Wednesday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 12:28 PM CEST - Jul,23 2003
  • Cracking Windows passwords in seconds - Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13.6 seconds from 1 minute 41 seconds. The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a user, thus speeding the calculations required to break the codes. Called a time-memory trade-off, the situation means that an attacker with an abundance of computer memory can reduce the time it takes to break a secret code.
  • AOL launches teen Visa card  - America Online said Tuesday it will team up with Visa to offer cash cards targeting teens and young adults as part of the unveiling of its refurbished online service this summer. The AOL Visa Buxx Cash Card looks like a credit or debit card and can be used to withdraw money from ATMs or buy items where Visa is accepted. The difference is that the cash card is prepaid by a parent or guardian who has control over how much a teen can spend using the card. AOL will offer the card at no extra cost to its members in conjunction with its upcoming release of AOL 9.0 Optimized and AOL for Broadband.
  • Field Guide Reveals Spammers' Tricks - The new guide was conceived by ActiveState Antispam Research Director John Graham-Cumming to quantify spam techniques. The Field Guide provides a comprehensive listing and explanation of techniques that administrators can use to keep abreast of the ever-changing tricks used by spammers, according to ActiveState. More than 20 different spam techniques are documented. Each is named and rated for popularity and complexity. ActiveState researchers categorized the techniques as either "common" or "rare," and assigned complexity ratings that range from "dumb" to "dastardly."
  • Lindows unveils HDD-less $169 Linux appliance - Consumer Linux company Lindows.com is getting into the information appliance business, the company said today. It has begun offering the WebStation, a small office/home office-oriented PC, for a mere $169. Of course, that doesn't buy you a top-spec. system. You don't even get a monitor. The WebStation is based on a VIA C3 733MHz processor and comes with 256MB of PC133 memory (which Lindows mistakenly describes as "DDR"), a 24x CD-ROM drive, keyboard, mouse and a pair of speakers. Each unit sports a couple of USB ports.
  • DDR 400 prices up 14 per cent - Top-end DDR SDRAM prices are on the rise, Taiwanese online DRAM trader DRAMeXchange has reported. Contract prices for 400MHz DDR rose almost 14 per cent last week over the first two weeks of July, the trader's figures reveal.  According to DRAMeXchange, contract prices for 256Mb DDR 400 chips are now at between $4.90 and $5.40, while 256Mb DDR 333 chips are going for $4.40-4.80, up 13.95 per cent and 12.31 per cent, respectively.
  • Iomega inches closer to mini-storage  - Iomega has unveiled details of a small, detachable storage drive it is developing for portable electronics gadgets. The 1.5GB device, dubbed Digital Capture Technology, or DCT, uses a combination of hard drive technology created by Iomega and technology licensed from partner Fuji Photo Film, a digital camera maker.
  • Samsung unveils fastest handheld chip  - Korean electronics giant Samsung has beaten Intel to take the crown in handheld processor speed. The company said it has developed the world's fastest mobile CPU, the S3C2440, which runs at a core speed of 533MHz. The S3C2440 uses the ARM920T, a microprocessor based on a chip architecture devised by ARM Holdings of Cambridge, England, which has a low power requirement of only 1.3 volts. The new CPU features integrated flash memory and supports handheld features such as a came
  • ra interface, memory-card expansion and USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectivity.
  • Nikon Unveils High-End Digital Camera - The D2H can continuously shoot eight frames per second and buffers up to 40 JPEG images. It incorporates an 11-sensor autofocus system with nine cross-type sensors and Wi-Fi capabilities for 802.11b wireless transmission of images. The camera comes with Nikon Capture 4.0, NikonView 6.1, and three new lenses. The lenses include the extreme wide-angle AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED lens, the AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens, and the super-telephoto AF-S VR 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED lens with Nikon's advanced Vibration Reduction technology.
  • Hard-disk drive industry braces for technology changes - Most industry executives said the advent of perpendicular recording is still two to five years away. Although working prototypes have been developed, they were at less than desirable recording densities.  "Perpendicular recording holds promise for the future," said Chuck Nielson, chief technologist at Fujitsu America Ltd. "The difficulty is that it is an entirely different phenomenon. It requires a whole new approach to head and media designs. This adds to the uncertainty of when it can happen."
  • Gigabyte to release DVD-Dual drive - Although Gigabyte Technology was the last among first-tier motherboard makers to enter the optical storage arena, it will be the first to release a DVD-Dual drive, supporting 4x burning for both the DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats, according to the company.
  • Quadro FX 3000 Announced - NVIDIA has announced two professional graphics workstation-based products - the Quadro FX 3000 and Quadro FX 3000G.
  • Creative Expands Award-Winning I-Trigue Speaker Line - Creative Technology Ltd. today announced immediate shipment of the slender, cool-looking Creative I-Trigue(TM) L3500 and the August shipment of the Creative I-Trigue L3450 2.1 speaker systems at an ESP of only US$149.99.  With killer looks and an exceptional 100 watts of system power, the Creative I-Trigue L3500 and L3450 incorporate a winning combination of design and technology, building upon the acclaim for their award-winning Creative I-Trigue predecessors. Each new Creative I-Trigue speaker system features bi-amplification for optimum performance in specific frequency ranges and more accurate sound reproduction.
  • Dual Display capabilities on the ATI All In Wonder Video Cards - 3DGameMan has posted an article about Dual Display capabilities on the ATI All In Wonder Video Cards.
  • ASUS SK8N + AMD Opteron 144 - AMD Opteron based platforms become more and more popular. X-bit Labs tested a workstation featuring ASUS SK8N mainboard based on NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 chipset and one AMD Opteron processor working at 1.8GHz. The whole lot of benchmarks in comparison with AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 4 are included.
  • AMD Opteron 244 LN2 Cooling - Katsumi from Japan has overclocked his Opteron 244 (1.8Ghz) to over 2.2GHz on LN2 cooling using the ASUS SK8N nForce3 Pro board. Perhaps the 2.2Ghz CPU should be named Opteron 148 like the RedStorm supercomputer built by Cray comprises of 10368 Opteron 148.
  • Epox 4PCA3+ i875P Motherboard Review - Stock performance of the Epox 4PCA3+ was very good; it outperformed both the AOpen AX4C Max and MSI 875 Neo-FIS2R motherboards in almost all the benchmarks, sometimes by more than 5%! Unfortunately our overclocking adventures didn't go very well. The maximum FSB we could run was 216 MHz FSB. For those of you with more powerful cooling solutions, a 1.6V maximum CPU voltage may limit your overclocks as well. In general the layout of the board was good but there were a few quirks that we didn't like. The Northbridge is very close to the AGP slot, if you're using a larger third party videocard cooler you may have to modify the heatsink to make it fit properly. If you're looking for a new P4 motherboard for non-overclocking environments and require many IDE channels then the Epox 4PCA3+ is more than ideal.
  • PNY GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - As far as this PNY card goes, it is not very feature rich. It has VIVO and a DVI connector but there is no software or utilities that are provided besides some stuff for your desktop. It is nothing like what we have seen in the past from companies like MSI. For $500 dollars, one would expect to get a few extra features in the bundle but the one with the PNY card is somewhat weak. The card is backed by PNY's limited lifetime warranty. The wording on the warranty is tricky but basically if the card is not being made anymore, you are out of luck.
  • OCZ 2x256MB PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Memory Review - Keptech has posted an OCZ 2x256MB PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Memory review.
  • OCZ EL DDR PC3700 Gold Memory Sticks Review - The Canterwood and Springdale have radically changed the high end memory market. When the i845PE was king, even PC3500 was mostly overkill, as most boards had the proper 4:5 memory ratio for DDR 333, so even at 160mhz FSB, which is near limit for most P4B processors, memory speed would still be only hitting 400mhz. The new chipsets and the new 800mhz bus Pentium4s have changed all that. PC3500 went from overkill to necessary for serious overclocking, and even faster memory has been introduced. Today well be looking at one of the new PC3700 Gold series from OCZ.
  • Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 Sound Card Review - The Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 sound card based on the Envy24HT chip with the Wolfson 8-channel codec is a good solution for music listening and playback of DVD movies, as well as for professional applications for music composing in entry-level home studios. The NSP (Native Sound Processor) can apply VST plugins to the card's inputs and outputs, that makes up for a hardware effect processor. The sound quality in music corresponds to that of professional audio cards of the same category. Although there are not surprises, there are no disappointing angles as well. In gaming applications this card is superior to other identical Envy24HT based cards with the Sensaura 3D sound because of the updated algorithms.
  • Samsung SM-348 Combo Drive 48x24x48x16 - The SM-348 is currently the fastest combo drive available and at L65 offers amazing value for money. There is also a black version available for the same price for those who don't want to spoil the look of their black case. The fastest CD-ROM stand-alone drives hit 56x, the fastest CD-RW stand-alone drives hit 52x and the fastest DVD-ROM stand-alone drives hit 16x. The SM-348 is only marginally behind with CD performance and is right at the top for DVD performance.
  • Samsung Spinpoint SP1604N Review -  MonkeyReview has posted a review of Samsung Spinpoint SP1604N HDD. "I truly feel that the SP1604N is a great drive for just about any environment. I wish we had found the 8MB buffer but to be fair, it would have come at a higher price. Samsungs attempts to reduce audible noise has really come through for them and it's managed to impress me yet again. I feel the SP1604N is a great recipient for our Editors Choice award and we commend Samsung on a job well done. Check out our site over the next week to see this drive square off against the S-ATA interface".
  • Maxtor DiamondPlus 9 200GB SATA Review - Serial-ATA is far from the undisputed winner when it comes to performance, but its other advantages such as ease of installation of efficiency make it a worthy interface. If you decide SATA is for you, then you will have quite a few quality drives to chose from, and although the Western Digital Raptor drive offers the best performance, it isn't very practical for someone who requires a whole heap of storage capacity. The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA, on the other hand, offers great performance with loads of space, making it our favorite all round SATA drive to grace our labs to date.
  • Aopen HP-590 Headphones Review - AOpen has developed a very unique feature with their HP-590 headphones, dubbed "Vibration Bass." Basically, this pair of headphones features a second 30mm "vibration" driver that is specially designed to translate low frequency sounds into vibrations. This is designed to add to the overall audio sensation by accenting bass with a tactile response.
  • "nVidia, UT2003, and a mip-map mess..." - EliteBastards' Hanners has posted a little editorial on the nVidia & UT2003 thing. Nearly 100% informational, but gives you some food for thought.
  • Nvidia confirms PS 2.0 driver problems - Developers at the Meltdown Microsoft DirectX conference heard Nvidia make an interesting comment about its drivers. One of the developers using FX 5900 hardware for an upcoming title tested the new shaders 2.0 and made a comment that he'd had problems with them. Apparently, some shaders 2.0 simply do not work making Nvidia's claim that this card is DirectX 9 hardware puzzling, as Pixel Shader 2.0 is one of the essences of DX 9. Subsequently, Nvidia staff at the conference agreed the shaders are not feeling very well, and that the recent drivers are quite buggy. But hey! They run Quake, UT and 3Dmark just fine.
  • Mozilla 1.5 Alpha - An alpha version of Mozzila is available for download directly from the official FTP
  • XP Smoker 3.0 - XP Smoker 3.0 has been released. It's a tweaking utility for Windows XP. 
  • phpMyAdmin 2.5.2 Final - phpMyAdmin (changelog) can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database.
  • AtomTime Synchronizer 3.2.2.0 - AtomTime Synchronizer is a useful and handy utility to keep your PC clock accurate. It can periodically check and synchronize your computer time with a NIST atomic time server, synchronize time between computers and act as a time server.
  • ZoneAlarm Free 3.7.202 - ZoneAlarm makes it easy. Unlike other personal firewalls, ZoneAlarm protects automatically from the moment it's installed - no programming required. ZoneAlarm barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking.
  • Radeon Omega Drivers v3.6 based - Omega has released a new drivers for Radeon cards, based on the cat 3.6 drivers.

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