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 Monday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 12:22 AM CET - Nov,18 2003
  • Attack code surfaces for latest Windows holes - Two examples of "exploit" code for a buffer overrun in the Windows Workstation Service were posted to security-related Internet discussion groups on Friday and Saturday. Both exploits have been tested and work, according to Dan Ingevaldson, director of X-Force at Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS). The Workstation Service vulnerability was disclosed by Microsoft Corp. in Security Bulletin MS03-049, which was released on November 11. The service is turned "on" by default in Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and allows computers on a network to connect to file servers and network printers, Microsoft said.
  • Gates gets serious about spam, security -  For the 20th year, Gates, chairman and chief software architect of the Seattle-based software company, presented the keynote address at Comdex.  He told an audience of about 7,000 in Las Vegas that development has started on the next generation of Windows, code named "Longhorn."  "We're not even giving you a time-frame. In fact, a lot of people who got the prototype code said, 'Hey this looks pretty good. Gee, you must be close to getting this done.' Because of all the integration and the extreme high level of quality, there's still quite a bit to be done." Gates also said both technology and legal efforts may help curb spam, the unsolicited e-mails that clog inboxes and create headaches for Information Technology departments.  He said Microsoft is using a tool called Smart Screen to determine the difference between legitimate mail and spam.
  • Australia To Ban Project Gotham Racing 2? - Road safety authorities are trying to pull the plug on a new computer game that encourages players to hoon through the streets of Sydney. "Burn up a storm past famous landmarks such as the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge," says the promotional material for Project Gotham Racing 2, by Xbox. The game is "the ultimate test of racing skill, style and daring, rewarding drivers not only for how fast they drive but for how they drive fast," it says. "Drivers will earn kudos and gain recognition for cornering on two wheels around the Sears Tower in Chicago, or power sliding through the ancient streets of Florence, Italy." State Labor MP Paul Gibson, chairman of the Staysafe Committee, intends to take the matter up with the Office of Film and Literature Classification, which approves such games for sale in Australia, and which issued a G rating to Project Gotham Racing 2.
  • Kasparov Wins Game 3 Against X3D Fritz - Garry Kasparov was in a must-win situation and he pulled it off with a dominating victory. X3D Fritz was confused in a closed position and the world number one squeezed it convincingly. The match is now tied 1.5-1.5 with the final game coming Tuesday. Honestly I admire this guy!
  • Sprint PCS Launches Walkie-Talkie Service - Sprint PCS on Monday launched walkie-talkie services, its latest effort to lure new customers and challenge rivals for market share.  Sprint PCS said it will offer its PCS Ready Link "push-to-talk" service so customers can connect with colleagues or friends across the country at the push of a button, instead of dialing a number and waiting for the call to be completed.
  • Microsoft Spot watches delayed  - Microsoft's information-by-radio Spot watch technology will now not hit the market until early next year rather than this week. And some of the software giant's hardware partners may not even ship product then. Citizen, for one, may decided not to offer a Spot-compatible watch after all, ExtremeTech reports, citing company executives.  Spot (Smart Personal Object Technology) was announced by Microsoft last January, backed by watchmakers Citizen and Fossil. The MSN-branded system uses FM radio signals to broadcast weather, traffic and other information to $10-a-month subscribers' watches. The signals are broadcast from sites in 100 US and Canadian cities and can reach 80 per cent of the North America, Microsoft has said.
  • Off-topic: Keep Your Brain From Going to Pot - When the brain is injured in a fall or car accident, the damage does not stop after the impact. When cells in the brain die, they send signals to nearby cells to die also, causing continued, uncontrollable injury. Researchers have been trying to find a way to stop this domino effect for decades, but nothing has worked well yet. Researchers at Pharmos, a pharmaceutical company in Iselin, New Jersey, are seeing promising results with their injectable synthetic cannabis drug. While pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Bayer have failed at developing emergency treatments for head trauma, Pharmos scientists say theirs will be the one to succeed.
  • Off-topic: - new particle is double trouble for physicists - A mysterious sub-atomic particle has been revealed that does not to fit any of the models currently used by physicists. The discovery either suggests that a new family of molecule-like sub-atomic particles exists, or that theorists must substantially re-think their theory of the masses of sub-atomic particles.
  • Watch TV Anywhere and Anytime On Home PCs With ATI's EAZYSHARE - EAZYSHARE software from ATI Technologies Inc. enables users to share TV - live or recorded - from a PC equipped with ATI's ALL-IN-WONDER card with any other PC on their home network, as long as it has a "Built By ATI" RADEON graphics card.
  • AMD Introduces New Opteront Processors: 148, 248 and 848 - AMD today announced new additions to the AMD Opteron processor family  - Models 148, 248 and 848 - enabling servers and workstations to simultaneously provide cutting-edge 32-bit performance and 64-bit capability.
  • Intel sets prices for delayed Dothan, to debut new processors in February - Sources at Taiwan’s notebook makers have confirmed that Intel will debut three models of its next-generation Pentium M processor, codenamed Dothan, on February 4. To accelerate the transition to the new processors, Intel has decided to launch a 1.6GHz model. Originally, Intel had planned to start the Dothan processors, manufactured on a 90nm process, at 1.8GHz and later add a 1.7GHz model, the sources said. The introduction of the relatively low-priced 1.6GHz model will help increase the proportion of Dothan processors in overall Centrino CPU sales, said the sources.
  • Diamond Multimedia Ships Stealth Graphics Cards - The list of parts shipping includes Diamond Stealth S90, Diamond Stealth S80, Diamond Stealth S70 and Diamond Stealth S60 graphics cards. The family includes products for entry-level market priced from $49.99 to $99.99.
  • Pentax *ist D  First Look - The Pentax *ist D ($1,599 list), the smallest and lightest digital SLR prosumer camera, is also one of the easiest to use. The *ist D incorporates Sony's 6.3-megapixel CCD (6.1 effective megapixels), yielding resolutions of 3,008-by-2,008, 2,400-by-1,600, and 1,536-by-1,024 pixels. By using Custom Functions in the menu rather than the Analog Quality button, you can also select 1,152-by-768 and 960-by-640. There are three JPEG compression levels plus TIFF and RAW.
  • Four boards for AMD's Athlon 64 FX Comparison - THG tested Athlon 64-bit boards from the big three that have taken the plunge: Asus, Gigabyte and MSI.
  • Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 review - The performance of the 3D Blaster 5 FX 5900 is mostly good, showing healthy frame rates in situations where the pixel pipelines are not weighed down by shaders. Synthetic testing and Tomb Raider benchmarks though suggest that the use of PS2.0 and/or complex effects do the card no favours, particularly when AF or AA is enabled. Given that this is to be the future of 3D games, it does raise some questions over the longevity of the product.
  • ASUS Radeon 9800 XT review - You can't take ASUS Radeon 9800XT for anything else ... but for ASUS FX5900Ultra :-) The light beige PCB with a copper two-fanned cooling system looks fantastic and takes up only one slot, although this fact can't be noticed at once. One more thing - an ATI Rage Theater chip installed. Normally, low-end video cards are equipped with it. It's not much of a gameable stuff, but lets you handle home digital video. This practice was unnerving for the nervous, but the trend seems to have been overcome.
  • Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 XT 256MB review - The Hercules RADEON 9800 XT graphics card is the fastest accelerator today provided that all such cards have the clock speed of 445 MHz (i.e. not only this sample). If you are ready to pay $500 for a 3D accelerator the Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 XT can become the best choice (provided that the price is not too higher compared to other 9800 XT based cards). 
  • Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro Video Card review - Techjuice has posted a review of Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro video card.
  • GeForce FX Go5700 preview - It is inevitable that in the near future notebooks will be replacing our high-end desktop PCs. It's only a matter of time, since this particular sector does not slow down. NVIDIA's flagship Go5700 GPU is definitely a good competitor for ATI's M10 part -- feature wise and performance wise. However, it will be interesting to see which will be chosen by the majority. Will customers go for longer battery life or 3D performance? In the end, any GeForce FX Go solution is perfect, it all depends on preferences and tastes.
  • Samsung SyncMaster 173T review - Of the listed specs the main points of interest lay within its 270 cd/m2 brightness, 450:1 contrast, and 25ms response time. All of these results tie in within this monitors price range, about $490 ~ $550 USD. Though the brightness level and contrast ratio are acceptable, the 25ms response time wouldn’t be my first choice when it comes to high speed FPS gaming.
  • Philips DVDR824P DVD+RW review - The Philips DVDR824P price is not currently available in the market., The upcoming 8x writers from Pioneer, NEC, Memorex and Sanyo are expected to rise the competition and drop prices to even lower levels. We are sure that Philips will resolve some minor issues that the drive has. Ending DVDR824P is very good recorder and will cover most of the needs of the majority of the users.
  • Crucial Hi-Speed USB 7-in-1 Card Reader - The biggest strength of the Crucial Hi-Speed USB 7-in-1 Card Reader is the convenience of having one card reader, rather than up to seven. Compared to the USB1.1 reader, this one is a heck of a lot faster.
  • Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space Surround Souncard - The Aureon series sound cards from Terratec are based off of VIA's ICEnsemble chipset bringing stunning surround sound in both 5.1 and 7.1 format. The card we are taking a look at today is Terratec's first shot at 7.1 technology, coming in the form of The Aureon 7.1 Space. The 7.1 space is the ideal surround solution for a gamer/audiophile who is looking for an upper mid-range soundcard. It doesn't quite compare to the newest SoundBlaster Audigy cards, but it's up there.
  • Thermaltake Xaser III Lanfire (VM2000A) - The Lanfire does come packed with features, and for barely over $100 at newegg.com, it seems like pretty good deal. The Lanfire is almost all aluminum, with the most notable exception being the ABS plastic front panel. I am sure Thermaltake did this to help keep the price down on this case, since the mid-tower case market has become highly competitive as of late. The Lanfire also features the Hardcano fan controller, the EL Fireball, front USB 2.0 and FireWire, an X-shaped side panel window, and four fans.
  • Antec True Blue 480 - This power supply not only delivers 480 Watt (duh) but also uses a blue led on the fan to make it a bit 'cooler'. Antec was kind enough to not only supply me with a review unit but also throw in a few Blue 80mm fans to make the case even nicer.
  • Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse review - Hardware Extreme has posted a review of Logitech MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse.
  • Logitech's Kindler and Gentler Xbox Controller  review - Logitech's latest Xbox controller is small, wired and affordable. The device is a welcome addition to the Xbox peripheral product line, which is not exactly awash in quality controllers.
  • Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published - On Monday the 17th November the xml schemas for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (WordprocessingML) along with documentation, was uploaded to the Infostructurebase (ISB).
  • 3D Performance with Call of Duty  - Benchmarking with Call of Duty is similar to Quake 3; in fact many of the same console commands are present in both games (timedemo 1 is used to invoke CoD’s benchmarking mode).
  • First Annual Parents' Game Guide - Happy Puppy let us know they have launched their "First Annual Game Guide for Mom and Dad" ( ~10secs delay) The guide gives parents recommendations of this year's best-suited holiday season games for children ages 9 -16 in terms of gameplay and quality.
  • Problems With Microsoft's Latest Patches  - The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer, which addresses numerous security flaws in Internet Explorer 6, introduces bugs involving the scrollbar. After the patch is applied, the page scrolls up or down twice when the user clicks once in the empty areas of the scrollbar. Clicking on the scrollbar arrows or dragging the scrollbar thumb works correctly. (thanks Bink.nu)
  • Software Mod For Turning Your Radeon 9500 Non-Pro Into A 9700 - The Software Mod For Turning Your Radeon 9500 Non-Pro Into A 9700 , 9800SE and 9800 PRO guide has been updated for combination with the Catalyst 3.9 drivers.
  • AntiVir Personal Edition 6.22.08.08 - The AntiVir Personal Edition (download) offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. In order to make possible an easy operation, the AntiVir Personal Edition is developed to the essential points.
  • DVDIdentifier 3.2  - DVD Identifier retrieves and interprets the pre-recorded information that is present on all DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW media. This information contains a variety of parameters such as disc manufacturing information and supported write speeds. Even though this information is usually printed on the packaging, the brand name may differ from the actual manufacturer or there may even be no label at all. 'DVD Identifier' offers a reliable method to identify the disc, regardless of the label information.
  • Avant Browser 8.02 Build 117  - Avant Browser (download) is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and Advanced Browsing Options.
  • WinRAR 3.30 beta 1 - WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. This beta 1 adds new "Scan archive for viruses", "Generate report","Benchmark and hardware test", "Print file" commands
  • AMD Athlon 64 Processor Driver For WinXP v1.1.0.0 - This driver (download) supports processor performance control via the processor objects defined in the ACPI 2.0 specification.

Comments from cheeky willyposted - 04:05 AM CET - Nov,18 2003
so what if they ban gotham project 2 .... us hoons don't need a video game to encourage us to drive thru the streets of sydney like a bat outta hell!!! Thank goodness for eDonkey so we can still get it . :D

Comments from Bill Gates Cloneposted - 04:09 AM CET - Nov,18 2003
Gates is cut about spam coz i used his email to register some porn sites... and he got all the spam feedback! ROFL... =D

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