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 Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:16 AM CET - Nov,03 2003
  • Physical perils of gaming - A sofa, a console, and a joypad do not really sound too dangerous. But from the frenetic manhandling of your controller in a fighting game, to the similarly intense activity of playing a super-fast racer, there is a definite physical element to some gaming. Those finger tendons and neck muscles can suffer when your game of choice involves efforts to overtake a craft travelling at 1,400kph.
  • French gamers get a helping hand - Ten years ago games cost about $200,000 to produce, but now they cost between $3m and $7m.  "It is expensive because you have about 24 months of production and the production team is about 20 and it can go up to about 40 in the peak," Stephane Baudet, head of Eden Studios, told ClickOnline. "So it requires a lot of time and a lot of people." With budgets mounting, production money is targeted rather than spread around, which is great if you have a proven track record as a developer and a winning formula. It is not so good if you are a struggling independent looking to make your mark, explains Mr Baudet.
  • New switching rules may trash millions of cell phones - The new rule that takes effect November 24 allowing users to change wireless companies without losing their phone numbers is expected to motivate as many as 30 million people to switch within the first year. Those who do will need to buy new phones. That's because even carriers that use the same network technologies employ different encryption. So what will become of all those old phones?
  • World drowning in oceans of data - US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet. Their study found that information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical disks has doubled since 1999.
  • Sun more active than for a millennium - The Sun is more active now than it has been for a millennium. The realisation, which comes from a reconstruction of sunspots stretching back 1150 years, comes just as the Sun has thrown a tantrum. Over the last week, giant plumes of have material burst out from our star's surface and streamed into space, causing geomagnetic storms on Earth.
  • Metal Heads - Scientists in Iowa have developed a magic metal that can turn walls into speakers and remove the smell from manure. Last August, Etrema-an innovative technology firm nestled in the cornfields of Ames, Iowa-started selling those chrome discs for $1,500 a pair. Called Whispering Windows, they can turn any wall, window, or drab conference table into a speaker. When Conley lifts the discs from the table, Freddie falls silent.
  • Chinese to issue EVD standard soon as a replacement for DVD - China could shake up the works with a technology that we have been hearing about. Just in time for HDTV and the accompaning hardware. This non-user recordable format is capable of 5 times the resolution of current DVD technology. Couple that with the fact that this proprietary item skirts the DVD royalty and you have a serious contender in the marketplace. Not to mention China has the capability to efficiently mass produce and distribute their own products.
  • Athlon 64 Notebooks - While AMD stock is flying to the moon, AMDboard's slaves are quietly collecting the smallest pieces of the huge Athlon 64 jigsaw. After tons of motherboards, wonderful barebones, smart chipsets and thousand of useful links they are now back with a compilation of anything comestible on Athlon 64 laptops, notebooks and desktop replacements (sorry but that's AMD official terminology). This fascinating stuff, and all the pictures that go with, are all in one gorgeous page, waiting for you in a the wild wild web at the following address.
  • Sony NW-MS70D Digital Player Review  - Spending that little bit extra on a Sony product usually means the purchase offers a high minimum standard of quality. This is the case for Sony's new NW-MS70D, part of Sony's "Network Walkman" line. While it will not take out the iPod, the NW-MS70D is certainly not just an expensive paperweight, either.
  • Klipsch GMX D-5.1 Speakers - The GMX D-5.1 sound system is one of Klipsch's newer creations and is unique in the fact that it is geared towards console gaming. That's right, Klipsch made the GMX D-5.1 with the console gaming industry- more specifically the Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube users- in mind. They have observed the huge advancement console gaming and decided it was time to act. They thought, why not give users the chance to complete their gaming experience by adding 5.1 surround sound to complement the stellar graphics of these new video game consoles.
  • Gigabyte 8IPE1000 Pro 2 GT2004 - Springdale at Full Speed  - Gigabyte is the second company to bring optimization control to the desktop board, with MSI being the first with Core Cell. We see the GT technology as a step forward that most motherboard manufacturers will start to adopt as a selling point to the lesser informed PC users. This is one of Gigabyte's best value motherboards that has been released for quite some time. Overclocking features were a mixed bag - great FSB selections and CPU voltage options were only soured by the low DIMM voltages. Overall Gigabyte has put out a good motherboard for its starting line in the GT 2004 family that is due to come.
  • GeForceFX 5600 Ultra - It looks like the buys at XFX have done it again with a fantastic solution for people looking to upgrade to the nVidia GeForceFX line of product. This 5600 Ultra card performed well against card priced $150+ more and is a sleek and useful tool in gaming performance. This card comes highly recommended for purchase.
  • PowerVR Series 5 Is A PixelShader 3.0 VPU - If still another proof was required that the in-development PowerVR Series 5 (Series 3 = KYRO I/II/SE, Series 4 = finished, but never hit store shelves because of STMicro's omission as a chip manufacturer) VPU actually equals a Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0 capable hardware piece then PowerVR Technologies - a division of Imagination Technologies Ltd. - has revealed that fact alone by some new developer relations 3D demo examples.
  • Will "brilinear" filtering persist? - There is an alarming development for a while: Newer Cards and/or newer drivers lower the image quality without being asked to do so. On a GeForce4Ti 4200 a better texture image quality (via anisotropic filtering) can be produced with current drivers (compared to a GeForceFX 5900 Ultra). On the other side the following is correct: The 4x-FSAA-Quality of the GeForce256 is by default better as with GeForce3 (and also as with GeForce 5900 Ultra). Because here stands 4x ordered grid supersampling vs. 4x ordered grid multisampling. But here it's not called "a step back".
  • Windows Xp and Longhorn Installation Differences and Guide - Wondered how Windows XP and Windows Codename Longhorn Install? Not a lot of people know that and are very much confused. See the installer in Windows Codename Longhorn is not like the one in Windows XP yet similar. Windows XP just copies the files to the hard drive and did a install where has Longhorn copies the full backup compressed to the hard drive and then does a restore, so basically for the installer it bypasses any pre-registry (preg) files, but the preg files are there but then they are merged back into the backup file and reburnt and that makes them work.
  • Make Windows XP Self-Maintaining  - Fred Langa explains how to automate Windows XP tools and tasks that normally require manual intervention.
  • Behind Windows XP SP2 - XP SP2 will also include new features that will let developers write applications that more safely handle email attachments, and Microsoft will release new versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Messenger that take advantage of this technology. IE will be locked down in a manner similar to, but not as restrictive as, the IE version in Windows Server 2003. The company is also reducing XP's susceptibility to buffer-overrun errors, which worms and viruses commonly exploit, by adding support for new code execution features available on newer Intel and AMD processors.
  • WinXP - Wireless Update Rollup Package -  This update provides support for Wireless Protected Access, a new standards-based wireless security solution developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance. The following problems are resolved by this update: You Experience a Long Delay When You Connect to a Wireless Network; An Incorrect Media Status Appears for the Wireless Interface; User Interface Items Are Incorrectly Translated in Other Languages, etc.
  • Outlook 2003 Add-in: Video Email - Use a Web camera to easily send and reply with a video email to your friends and family with just two clicks on the Video Email for Outlook 2003.
  • Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup - Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2000 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up. With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.
  • OpenMEX version 0.2 ALPHA 2 - This weekend sees the release of the second Alpha installment of XeNTaX' open source project OpenMultiEX (OpenMEX), version 0.2. The new and fresh offspring of the original MultiEx Commander now increases functionality and game resource archive (GRA) support! The total of supported GRAs for resource extraction is now 142. The new GRAs supported are those for : HALO (*.MAP), Lock On (*.CDDS) and Sacrifice (*.WAD). Plus, it now also supports zip archives, for those games that use standard zip for their GRAs.
  • CPUCool 7.2.9 Beta - CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed and voltages for many motherboards. It works with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD and SiS 5595 motherboards.
  • PowerVR Kyro Drivers - PowerVR released a new generic drivers for their Kyro-1 and Kyro-2 VGA cards. Tagged as driver 2.1 (Build 2.01.21.0007) it is available for Win9x/W2K/XP and Linux. (thanks Warp2Search)

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