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 Thursday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:55 PM CEST - Aug,21 2003
  • Robot spy can survive battlefield damage  - A military reconnaissance robot being developed at a British lab can keep moving even if it gets damaged on the battlefield. When any of the snake-like robot's "muscle" segments are damaged, clever software "evolves" a different way for it to wriggle across any terrain.
  • CMSC readies launch of new 'Chopin' smartphone, possible secret weapon for Motorola? - Two weeks ago, a Motorola Taiwan executive made a mysterious comment on the company's upcoming handset launch schedule, saying Motorola would roll out two "secret weapons" in the second half of the year, without giving further details.
  • CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years - The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn't be read anymore: "The tests showed that a number of CD-Rs had become completely unreadable while others could only be read back partially. Data that was recorded 20 months ago had become unreadable. These included discs of well known and lesser known manufacturers."
  • Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws  - Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week. The software giant released a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer that fixes several vulnerabilities previously disclosed by the company, and it re-released an advisory for Microsoft's SQL Server software, warning that a flaw in that program actually affects most Windows users.  Users who don't patch their systems could leave the computers open to attack through a fake Web page or an HTML e-mail that contains the specific exploit code, said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft's security response center.
  • Microsoft considers making software updates automatic  - Microsoft executives, digging out from the aftermath of an unwelcome Internet worm that wriggled into 500,000 of its customers' computers last week, said it's time to consider making software updates automatic for home users of the Windows operating system. The company is "looking very seriously" at requiring future versions of Windows to accept automatic software fixes unless the user specifically refuses to receive them, said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsoft's security business unit. (see download below)
  • VIA unveils fastest embedded chip - VIA yesterday began shipping its fastest embedded x86 processor, the Eden ESP7000. Clocked at 733MHz, the chip is designed for fanless systems, including set-top boxes, point-of-sale terminals and thin clients. It consumes a maximum of 6W of power, but under typically usage situations just 1W.
  • Nintendo GameCube follow-up not due until 2006? - A report in a Japanese business magazine has suggested that Nintendo may release its next home console later than expected, although the company still plans to be first to market in the next-generation console race. Speaking to business publication Diamond Loop, a Nintendo executive is quoted as saying that it is "not an absolute" that the next Nintendo console (aka "N5") will arrive in 2005. That date emerged in response to widespread belief that Sony and Microsoft would release their next systems in late 2005, with Nintendo pledging at E3 this year that it would beat both of its rivals to market.
  • Kodak, Canon Show 4-Megapixel Digicams - Both Canon and Eastman Kodak have unveiled 4-megapixel digital cameras priced just under $500, each with technology the vendors say is new to digicams. Canon's new PowerShot A80 digital camera supports PictBridge, a new multi-vendor standard for direct printing. The camera is headed to retailers in October and carries a list price of $499. The EasyShare DX6490 from Eastman Kodak is also priced at $499 and due to ship in September. The company says this model is the first to unite a professional-quality Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 10X optical zoom lens (the equivalent of a 38mm to 380mm lens) with a f/2.8 to f/3.7 maximum aperture.
  • MCE Shows External FireWire Multi Drive - Peripheral maker MCE Technologies has announced the Lucid M2X Portable FireWire DVD-MULTI Drive, an external, bus-powered optical drive that can write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs. The new Lucid M2X Portable FireWire DVD-MULTI drive is scheduled to ship Thursday at a suggested retail price of $389.
  • NVIDIA Confirms PCI Express Support - NVIDIA has confirmed that it will support the PCI Express next-generation expansion bus at some point in the future. That's not entirely surprising, and was always on the cards - even if roadmaps listing NVIDIA's PCI Express-enabled chips hadn't leaked out of the company
  • Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (Q822925) - This cumulative patch fixes all old and some new vulnerabilities in IE (MSIE6.0 SP1,  MSIE6.0 WinXP, non-english downloads)
  • Windows Server 2003 SP1 Build 1039-2 - This build (123MB) was released yesterday to a few beta testers.
  • Unchecked Buffer in MDAC Function Could Enable System Compromise - Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) is a collection of components that are used to provide database connectivity on Windows platforms. MDAC is a ubiquitous technology, and it is likely to be present on most Windows systems.
  • 1by1 1.37 -  1by1 (including IRAssistant + mpglib.dll 0.92 + Compressor & Wider 1.1 bonuses) is a very small sized player which is not only small: It plays whole directories without any playlist. Navigating through your tracks has never been so easy.
  • Windows Media Player 9 Build 3054 - Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Media Player 9 - 9.0.0.3054.
  • WinDVD Platinum 5.1 (non-free) - WinDVD Platinum 5 (download) is the ultimate DVD software player, providing you with the finest quality video and audio playback.
  • DVD Region-Free 3.01 (shareware) - DVD Region-Free is an unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking too that allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive(especially RPC2) even if it has been locked.
  • IsoBuster Pro 1.5 Beta5 - IsoBuster (download) is a CD/DVD and (Disk)Image File data recovery tool, that can read and extract files, tracks and sessions from CD-i, VCD, SVCD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, DVD, DVCD and others. It also supports the following image file formats: *.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD (Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD), *.CUE (CDRWin), *.CIF (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage) and *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD). The program uses several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data, even if Windows is not able to do so. Additional features include Mpg (*.dat) Extraction, support for file system properties, CDText support and much more..
  • WinAmp Plug-In File Writer 1.17c - Version 1.17c of the File Writer Plug-In for Nullsoft's WinAmp is released. Here is a desc: "I created this plugin to make it possible to give files date and time stamps in their filenames, now I have made a file writer plugin with multiple file format support that is quite powerfull and extensible."
  • VIA Hyperion 4in1 v4.49 - VIA have uploaded another Hyperion 4in1 drivers this time version 4.49vp2 to their drivers page (Dated 20 August 2003). As usually, no word on what's new :) VIA Hyperion drivers are suitable for any VIA chipset and all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Hyperion driver sets include INF, AGP, IDE and IRQ related drivers.

Comments from 144floppydriveposted - 09:13 PM CEST - Aug,21 2003
Reply: Microsoft considers making software updates automatic It's not like their patches are perfect. They had release patches that fixes problem and causing other failure at the same time. it's not really a good idea? and for 56k user. downloading the patch while surfing is a pain in the ass as it lags your connection a lot

Comments from v1mposted - 12:18 AM CEST - Aug,22 2003
Good point. Something's got to be done to improve Windows security, but maybe Microsoft isn't the best one to do it, LOL.

Comments from posted - 06:50 PM CEST - Aug,24 2003
i disagree the use of 56k modems will decrease as time progresses. Yeah sure SOME patch's MIGHT cause other errors but realistically most will not. They are lots of problems. Some of which are: 1. Most software probabaly has security flaws in it. This is to be expected. People are not perfect. Microsoft is no different. 2. Most people in the world don't take security seriously. They don't look after there software. And the bottom line is its your own dam fault if you don't patch your system. You can blame microsoft all you want FOR THE SECURITY FLAWS but it does not change the fact that your at fault for not patching. These are people who just want to blame other people for something thats their fault. Too many people in this world don't want to accept responsibility for there own dumbass mistakes and just blame other people to cover there own ass. 3. People seem to have this idea that i can install the "right" software them im safe. For those people i just laugh at you. Your totally clueless. Anti-virus software can't protect you agaisnt unknown viruses only known viruses. As a side note some people claim that microsoft software contains too many bugs and needs better quality. Im not sure if this is true so im not saying it is true or is not true. I have not conduct an analysis so i can't make a determination. However it can't hurt to improve the security of microsoft products. What im really sick of seing in this world is companies making shit products so that the consumer will have to buy a replacement more often. Like my fucking toaster. Its all about $$$$ these days a lot of people don't care about quality these days. Thats sad. Fuck i know you can make light bulbs that last a whole 1-2 years but do they umm no. umm why well $$$$$$ thats why.

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