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 Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 12:17 AM CET - Jan,12 2004
  • Cyber X Games Cancelled -  A huge event funded by Microsoft, ATI and AMD has been hit by problems due to networking and patches. The event held in Las Vegas, America is tied with the Consumer Electronics Show 2004. A lot of blame has been put on a company who can't control source code leaks - Valve. The Cyber X team needed a 3MB file to patch systems ready to play the popular online game, Counterstrike. The file could only be obtained from Valves Steam network. Since there were 1000 or more computers, grabbing a patch of 3MB on each one fried one of Valves routers.
  • Internal IBM memo seeks firm's switch to Linux system - In an internal memo that reached the Internet, an IBM executive challenges company employees to abandon Microsoft operating systems by the end of next year. Such a shift would be a dramatic boost for IBM's efforts to sell its corporate customers software based on the open-source Linux operating system.The message from IBM's chief information officer, Robert Greenberg, says Big Blue's chairman, Samuel Palmisano, had challenged the company's information-technology department, "and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux-based desktop before the end of 2005."
  • Off-topic: Robotic Segways play soccer with humans - An unconventional version of soccer is being played by US scientists in a bid to develop to help better co-operation between robots and humans. Researchers constructed the soccer playing robots by modifying Segway personal transporters. The two-wheeled transporters are controlled by two on-board laptops and can play soccer by pushing a ball along the ground. Running into the ball at speed enables them to pass to one another and even shoot for goal.
  • Samsung Introduces Trio of Digicams - Samsung is showing three new digital cameras at the Consumer Electronics Show, including two inexpensive, high-megapixel models and one bundled with a program that lets you create a custom animated avatar to display on the camera, a cell phone, or a Web site. The 3.2-megapixel U-CA 3 comes bundled with DigiStudio software. With it, you can take a picture of a friend, then paste the image onto a ready-made animated avatar and add music. You can change the hairstyle, outfits, and background scenes, and even make the avatar dance. You can e-mail the avatar to friends, or set the camera to display the animation when it starts up.
  • NVIDIA nForce3 250 is Coming Closer - The nForce3 250 family of chipsets is expected to support AMD 64-bit 754-pin, 939-pin and 940-pin microprocessors and is ready to power both high-end AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 FX microprocessors as well as performance-mainstream AMD Athlon 64 chips. The nForce3 250 products are very likely to bring a number of advanced features its predecessor – NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 – lacks, such as 2 Serial ATA-150 ports as well as external 2 Serial ATA-150 PHY support in addition to presently available AGP 8x, PCI, 2 ATA-33/66/100/133 channels with RAID 0,1 and 0+1 support, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, USB 2.0, etc.
  • Ximeta Netdisk review - Ximeta Inc. based in Irvine, CA recently unveiled its line of Netdisk external hard drives. The Netdisk is a robust external hard drive solution that takes advantage of Ximetas own NDAS technology. Ximetas site states, NDAS is an acronym for Network Direct Attached Storage, XIMETA's patented disk storage technology which allows direct connection to your network without a server, IP address, or a protocol.
  • Concurrent Sessions in Windows XP SP2 - More news has surfaced regarding the issue of having concurrent sessions under SP2 of Windows XP when operating Fast User Switching (FUS). This will allow more than one user to remotely connect to a machine at the same time.
  • Mod your FX5900 into a FX5950 Ultra *UPDATED*  - For those of you with a Geforce FX5900 card out there you might be interested in this. There has been some ongoing discussion over at the Futuremark forums with info on how to flash your FX5900 video card into a FX5950 Ultra.
  • DC++ 0.306 - DC++ (download) is an open source C++ client for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits.
  • GAIM 0.75 - Gaim (download) is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.
  • InboxShield 3.0 - InboxShield filters (download) your incoming mail and separates good mail from Spam mail. Thanks to it's Intelligent Filtering Technology (IFT), InboxShield learns as you are receiving mail. So the more you use InboxShield, the better it performs.
  • WINner Tweak 2.4.8 - WINner Tweak is powerful software for tweaking, optimizing, tuning Windows 2000/XP.With WINner Tweak you can easy increase performance and manage your system using tweaks and utilities. This system tweak package includes tweaks for Windows, Hardware, Security, Network and Software.
  • XMPEG 5.03 (free) - This program decodes MPEG1 (Audio & Video) and MPEG2 streams and offers you the possibillity to re-encode them in the format you want. Actual evolutions makes Xmpeg faster, more stable, and offers more options.
  • NVIDIA ForceWare 53.04 - These are NVIDIA ForceWare drivers wiith build 53.04. They appeared on NVIDIA's website moments ago as Windows XP Media Center Edition. No worries as these are normal reference drivers. No word yet on performance.
  • Lite-On DVDs Firmware - LiteOn have released a new DVD Dual firmware updates for LDW-811S, LDW-411S and LDW-411SX.

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