Gameguru Mania Updated:03:22 PM CEST Jun,21
AR Wallet

66 lottery login

91 club

okwin

bdg game

55 club

Playbonus.ca
CONTACT
Please e-mail us if you have news.

(c) 1998-2026 Gameguru Mania
Privacy Policy statement
SEARCH:
 Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 10:44 PM CET - Jan,03 2004
  • Belgian watchdog sues record biz over copy protection - Belgian consumer watchdog Test-Achats (Test Aankoop), known for its crusade against Nokia's "unsafe batteries", starts the new year with a fresh assault on the music industry. It is taking the music giants EMI, Sony, BMG Music and Universal Music to court for installing anti-piracy systems on their audio CDs.
  • IE Flaw Processing '.lnk' Shortcuts Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code - A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer in the processing of shortcuts via scripting code. A remote user can create HTML that, when loaded by a target user, will execute arbitrary code. It is reported that if active scripting is enabled, the 'Shell.Application' ActiveX object can be used to modify a known shortcut ('.lnk' file) and then execute the modified shortcut. The report indicates that the shell link (i.e., shortcut) can invoke 'mshta.exe' to execute arbitrary HTA code located at a remote site. The Microsoft HTML Application Host process (mshta.exe) will reportedly execute the remote HTA code on the target system. A demonstration exploit HTA file that will apparently create an executable on the target system can be found here. And the demonstration HTML file that will trigger the flaw is available at here.
  • Off-topic: NASA attempts a return to Mars tonight - Whether the NASA's solar-powered, six-wheeled craft survives the dangerous trip, or becomes scrap like many of its predecessors, will not be known until it sends a radio signal home -- and that could take hours or days. It is scheduled to land Saturday night. If it succeeds, the new rover could be the first of several on Mars. There is a slight chance that the $400 million rover, named Spirit, could contact Earth minutes after it undertakes the most complicated part of its seven-month journey -- going from 12,000 mph travel through space to a complete rest on the surface. In addition,  NASA has released Maestro, a public version of the primary software tool used by scientists to operate the Mars Exploration Rovers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Anyone can download Maestro for free from mars.telascience.org and use it to follow along with the rovers' progress during the mission (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • Off-topic: Ancient site hints at first US settlers - Stone-age people lived in the lands north of the Arctic Circle before the peak of thelast Ice Age - much earlier than had been thought, suggests new findings. The discovery of the site in eastern Siberia also hints that people might have moved from the Old World into the Americas at a much earlier date than believed. The site along the Yanu River, carbon-dated as 30,000 years old, is twice the age of the oldest previously known Arctic settlement, report Vladimir Pitulko of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and colleagues.
  • Corsair XMS PRO 3200LL review - SubZeroTech has posted a new review of Corsair XMS PRO 3200LL.
  • Actiontec Wireless 802.11b+g Kit review - HardwareHell has posted a new review of the Actiontec Wireless 802.11b+g Kit.
  • AMD nForce2 memory timings explored - The Madshrimps clear the confusion that might be there with memory timings on your nForce2 setup.
  • The ATI Radeon Cooler Mod Guide - Andrian Rojak has posted a new guide called "The ATI Radeon Cooler Mod Guide" Here is a bit: "Modding a CPU cooler onto my Radeon would be the best alternative in my opinion. It is easily available and very cheap, especially if you have that aluminium AMD stock cooler lying around. That makes it practically free! Such coolers would work very well with graphics cards since they were designed to handle much hotter processors. But not all CPU coolers are suitable for your graphics card. Sticking to a cooler with heat sink dimensions of 6 x 6 cm is highly recommended"
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 Info - In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will help to improve the ability of Windows XP-based computers to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and worms.
  • WinXP - National Security Agency Security Recommendation Guides - NSA has developed and distributed configuration guidance for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 in the form of configuration guides. These guides are currently being used throughout the government and by numerous entities as a security baseline for their Windows systems. To assist our Windows XP user community, NSA has developed security configuration guidance for Windows XP, with the cooperation of other government agencies and industry partners who provided their expertise and extensive technical review.
  • Microsoft Portrait 2.2 - Microsoft Portrait is a research prototype for mobile video communication. It supports .NET Messenger Service, Session Initiation Protocol and Internet Locator Service on PCs, Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs and Smartphone. It runs on local area networks, dialup networks and even wireless networks with bandwidths as low as 9.6 kilobits/second. Microsoft Portrait delivers portrait-like video if users are in low bandwidths and displays full-color video if users are in broadband.
  • phpMyAdmin 2.5.5pl1 - phpMyAdmin (changelog) can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database.
  • RightMark 3D Beta 3 - RightMark 3D is Independent DirectX 3D Benchmarking Project with support for API DirectX 9.
  • X-Setup Pro 6.5 beta 1 - X-Setup Pro is the ultimate in system configuration or tweaking as some people would say. It covers all types of options and has many useful features - for more information please read the rest of this section or browse to the authors hompage link. X-Setup Pro is not yet another Windows Hacker; it is the ultimate tool for black belt system tuning and tweaking, running on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, ME, XP and 2003 Server.
  • CleanCenter 1.33.28 - CleanCenter (download demo) is a user-friendly application developed to clean hard drive by deleting junk files that are no longer used by any software on your system.
  • DSCALER v4.1.18 beta - DScaler (download) is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor. Unlike most existing software that processes video, DScaler implements highly sophisticated algorithms that work in real-time, providing PC owners with a level of image quality unknown up to now.
  • ChrisTV Professional 3.55 (SHW) - ChrisTV (download) was created due to a need for a better software, than the one delivered by Pinnacle Systems with their PCTV (Pro) Tuner card. Their software has no features like: On-Screen-Display, Channel Settings for each channel, MSP Settings & other necessary features.
  • RAM Idle Le 1.46 - RAM Idle LE is a smart memory management program that will keep your computer running more efficiently, faster, and longer. The program's intelligently manages the free RAM that is available to Windows, and prevents your computer from running progressively slower over time.
  • Game XP - GameXP is a free tool that optimizes the performance of your computer, corrects problems and helps you to set up your system to match your gaming needs. Game XP extends your operating system's capabilities and makes Windows faster and comfortable for maximum gaming experience.
  • Fresh UI 6.80 - Fresh UI (download) is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies.
  • Adobe Reader Speed-Up 1.12 - Adobe Reader Speed-Up significantly decreases the amount of time required for Adobe Reader 6.0 to start by disabling most of the least used plugins. Plugins can be freely enabled and disabled, if required. Currently supports free and full versions of Adobe Acrobat v3.0, v4.0, v4.0.5, v5.0, v5.1, v5.5, and Adobe Reader v6.0 and v6.0.1.

Comments from ritzposted - 07:30 AM CET - Jan,04 2004
It took Chris so long to make ChrisTV finally runnable and able to scan channels for my PCTVPro, I was really excited to try it out because it also got recording ability. But sadly, the program was still very buggy and the image quality still no match to Dscaler(maybe because I couldn't enable deinterlace), but ChrisTV still need a long way to go before it's qualifed to ask people money for using it...

Comments from sowposted - 02:39 AM CET - Jan,05 2004
GameXP would pretty much likely fuck up your PC, so don't use it.

The old comment system has been replaced. Use the regular FORUMS!