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 Friday Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:38 AM CET - Nov,29 2003
  • Cyber-pirate back to harass Hollywood -  A hacker famed for defeating Hollywood in a cyber-piracy trial has rejected allegations he has illegally unlocked a code that enables unauthorised copying of music files from the internet. Jon Johansen, a 20-year-old Norwegian computer programmer who was cleared of piracy charges in January, has developed a source code for copying music and posted it on the internet less than a week before he is due to appear in an Oslo appeals court. Johansen's code allows users of Apple Computer Inc's new iTunes online music store to break digital rights management (DRM) technology that prevents people copying files downloaded from the service. On an internet site named "So Sue Me", Johansen said critics had "failed to understand that by buying into DRM they have given the seller complete control over the product after it's been sold", calling them "clueless about copyright law".
  • Launch agreed for Euro tech-crime team  - The agency, dubbed the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), will co-ordinate information sharing between European member states on cyber-crime issues. ENISA, which will begin operations in January 2004, will work with business and the public to minimise the effects of viruses, hacking and online surveillance, and collaborate with industry to promote more constant security standards.
  • ABO aims to out-compress JPEG - A Singapore company claims to have developed a technique of compressing files far smaller than what conventional methods can achieve and what's more, to do it without losing information. The method, dubbed Adaptive Binary Optimization (ABO), can help hospitals compress and manage medical images, aid film distributors archive and transmit movies and even make faxes and scans smaller for faster travel across networks, claim its makers.
  • Windows 95, 98 get system restore - Waycam Technologies, a Lincolnshire-based security specialist, has launched a set of data recovery tools that protect PCs from accidental or malicious data loss by creating a "protected area" on the system hard drive and using it to record all changes made by the user. Waycam's Goldensoft’s Recovery Series is designed for small businesses and home users who want to add another layer of protection to their data. The system is similar to that provided by Windows XP's System Restore utility, which allows a PC's configuration to be "rolled back" in case a conflict arises, but Waycam's utility can be used with all versions of the Microsoft OS made after Windows 95.
  • Sony's all-in-one PSX console available on Dec 13 in Japan - Sony Corp confirmed that it would start selling the "PSX" - an all-in-one entertainment system that includes a hard disk drive (HDD) and DVD recorder plus a PlayStation 2 console - on December 13 in Japan.
  • China Gets Playstation 2 Soon - Earlier today, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that China will receive Playstation 2 units starting December 20th. The machine will sell for 1,988 Yuan ($240) in China, unlike the $179 price in the United States, the company stated in a report. Two games will be available at launch and have a price of 168 Yuan. The two launch titles were not revealed.
  • Xbox makes gains as Japanese price cut bites - Microsoft's Xbox has had its most successful week to date this year in Japan, capturing almost seven per cent market share following a price cut to the hardware and the launch of a Project Gotham Racing 2 bundle deal. Although that market share still represents well under 8000 units sold in total, it's still a massive gain for the console - which generally languishes at under one per cent market share in this territory. The price cut which caused the boost was a drop from €129 Euro to 113 Euro.
  • Casio using a-Si technology for OLED displays - Casio has used amorphous silicon (a-Si) technology to produce an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display at 30% lower production costs than required by LTPS (low-temperature poly-silicon) OLEDs, the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun reported yesterday. The company has conducted test production of a 2.1-inch, 260,000-color active-matrix (AM) OLED panel of 160×128-pixel resolution and only 1.2mm thickness. It plans to launch large-size OLED TVs in 2006 or 2007.
  • The Elta 8883 MP4 DivX player - The Elta 8883 MP4 supports advanced compression methods of the MPEG-4 Advanced Profile, which are partly used by DivX Pro and newer versions of Xvid: Global Motion Compensation (GMC), Motion compensation for quarterpixels (QPel), B-Frame support, Post-processing, Data Partition (DP), Error Resync Marker (RM), Due to the fact that the chips from Sigma and ESS do not support all these features, Elta is using a different, but currently unknown chip for their drives. It supports media of type CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R and DVD+RW and among support for playback of DivX and Xvid, it is capable of playing the usual formats like Audio-CD, MP3, OGG, DVD, VCD, SVCD and even DVD-Audio. The only thing missing is SACD.
  • Coolermaster Premium Thermal Compound - Bryan at Overclockers Club has completed a review on the Coolermaster Premium Thermal Compound. "We've taken a look at several different thermal compounds over the last couple years, but all of those have been product made by Arctic Silver or NanoTherm. Today we'll break that trend and take a look at a product by company that you probably don't associate with Thermal Compound, CoolerMaster. Those of you familiar with CoolerMaster probably know them from their heat sinks like the XDream, Aero 7+, or perhaps even their Neon Case Fans, today we'll get to know their Premium Thermal Compound (PTC)."
  • AOpen Aeolus GeForceFX 5950 Ultra - Hexus.net has posted a review of AOpen Aeolus GeForceFX 5950 Ultra. "It's quiet, nView 3.0 is excellent, the 2D quality was the best I've ever seen in isolation using my Sony G400 monitor and it should be comparatively cheap. Radeon 9800XT's are quicker, but FX 5950 Ultras make a decent case for themselves. Overclocking was a highlight too."
  • TDK DED+440N External DVD Writer  - The external model bodes well for consumers who needs the occasional portability and also for those who have absolutely no idea on how to install an internal writer. Whichever the reason, the USB 2.0 connectivity located at the rear end of the unit will provide for a hassle free installation. A word of caution though, this unit requires a USB 2.0 port to work, the bandwidth of a USB 1.1 port just doesn't cut it if you want to unleash the full potential of the drive. So do make sure your PC, be it a desktop or notebook has a USB 2.0 port before you invest your dollars into this product.
  • Sony Ericsson GC79 WLAN + GPRS card - Sony Ericsson isn't the first to market with a PC Card that allows a notebook to connect to the Internet across a cellular network, but its GC79 has the novelty of also providing an 802.11b adaptor in the same card.
  • Kyocera Finecam SL300R First Look - Thanks to an innovative, parallel-tasking signal processor technology called RTUNE (sourced from NuCORE Technology), the SL300R ($380) performs better than many high-end prosumer digital cameras in terms of speed. Power-on time is less than a second, and the shutter delay is barely perceptible. Most impressively, the SL300R can shoot continuously at 3.5 frames per second (or capture video at 30 fps) until the memory card is full—no stopping after a few frames to let the camera process the images.
  • Gigabyte combines Wi-FI, USB Flash drive  - Gigabyte has a novel idea for fans of go-anywhere computing: a USB Flash drive that features a built-in Wi-Fi adaptor. The GN-WLBZ201 offers 128MB of Flash storage accessible using any OS that supports USB storage devices. The device sports a fold-up antenna module with activity lights
  • How to Override the License Server Discovery Process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services - This article describes how to override the license server discovery process in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services.
  • How to make your XP Professional machine an MP3 server - The Crucible have published a new guide for turning your XP Professional machine into an MP3 server.
  • Editorial on The NVIDIA nForce3's Unlocked PCI Bus - Adrian's Rojak Pot let us know he has posted an editorial on The NVIDIA nForce3's Unlocked PCI Bus.
  • Stable 2.4.23 Linux Kernel - Marcelo Tosatti has released the final 2.4.23 stable Linux kernel (download), three months after 2.4.22. This latest kernel includes a number of changes, including the removal of the OOM (out of memory) killer among other significant VM updates.
  • Bart's PE Builder 3.0.22  - Bart's PE Builder helps you build a bootable Window CD-Rom or DVD from Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
  • Threadmaster 1.12  - ThreadMaster Monitors Threads and handle high CPU utilization on a per application basis. This function is primarily indented for Terminal servers hosting multiple users. ThreadMaster can also be used when running multiple virtual machines on the same server, to limit each virtual machines CPU usage.
  • AIDA32 v3.88 - AIDA32 is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program for Windows platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC.
  • AMD N-Bench 3.0  - N-Bench is a Benchmark program that is capable of CPU performance and displaying 3D graphics. It consists of a "Demo mode" that plays back beautiful 3DCG movies and a "Benchmark mode" that measures CPU performance.
  • Fresh Download v6.40 - Fresh Download (download) is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software, no spyware.
  • Media Player Classic version 6.4.7.0 - A new version of Media Player Classic is available for download (WinXP/2k ~ Win9x/ME). It supports DirectX 9 and VFW drivers for capture. It supports viewing through ActiveX controls of Real and QuickTime files.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack 2.20 final - The K-Lite Codec Pack contains a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and decode (play) audio and video. The basic version contains all the codecs that are needed for playing most movies that can be downloaded from the Internet. The full version has some extra codecs which are used less often and includes a media player. There are three options for playing XviD content. The first option is to use the DivX Pro decoder (recommended). The second option is to use the XviD decoder.

Comments from big daddyposted - 03:17 AM CET - Nov,30 2003
System Restore for Windows 95/98?? My question is WHY?!?!?!?! :D

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