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| (hx) 11:33 PM CET - Jan,18 2004 |
- Supreme Court Unscrambles DVD Decision - There's a war raging in
cyberspace, and this time it is the movie industry that's feeling the heat.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed an emergency stay on a case involving DVD
descrambling Jan. 3. In so doing, the high court affirmed a decision of
the California Supreme Court, which had ruled that the entertainment industry
could not force a Texas resident who had published DVD descrambling software
on the Internet to stand trial in California. This means that the defendant,
Matthew Pavlovich, who posted the software called DeCSS,
is able to distribute the program online.
- Spanish Police Arrest 14 for Microsoft Piracy -
Spanish police have arrested 14 people for intellectual piracy, including
the first-known forgeries of authenticity certificates for Microsoft's Windows
XP Professional edition, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Investigators
found 3,000 perfectly copied and packaged CDs with the operating system
software, accompanied by the fake guarantee certificates, in the northern city
of San Sebastian, the Ministry said in a statement.
- Retail Half Life 2 pirated in Russia(?) -
TheInquirer has received some photographs of a two-disk Half Life 2
distribution which he says is on the shelves of a Russian trader in
Novosibirsk. The game has been translated into Russian, and according to our
reader, this is a copy taken from Valve's web site and "translated and
compiled by the chaps out there"....Fake or not? :) [thanks Trevor]
- Perchance to dream - anything you like with the fantasy machine -
Entering an exam hall totally unprepared or walking the streets naked may soon
become nightmares of the past. A Japanese toymaker, which has already brought
us cats and dogs that "talk" said yesterday it had developed
a gadget enabling people to turn fanciful daydreams into realistic night-time
experiences. Before hitting the futon, all the owners of Yumemi Kobo, or
Dream Workshop, have to do is stare at a photograph of what they would like to
dream about and then record, in their own words, how the dream is supposed to
pan out. Once users are in the land of nod, the gadget goes to work, combining
the voice recording, lights, music and aromas to stimulate sleepers whenever
it detects rapid eye movement - a sign that someone is dreaming - and directs
their dreams accordingly.
- AMD Athlon 64 3400+ -
The Athlon 64 3400+ is another step forward for AMD but the 3200+ offers a
better price/performance ratio. The Athlon 64 family is still pretty new, and
the need to buy a new motherboard may put off some potential upgraders for a
while yet. That said, there are bound to be some great Athlon 64 3400+ PC
deals from system integrators over the next couple of months. Of course when
64bit Windows rears its head, you can expect to see a big upturn in Athlon 64
sales.
- Corsair XMS4400 TwinX 1GByte memory review - In summary,
Corsair's XMS4400 TwinX 1GByte memory pack will appeal to a very select,
niche market. Priced at over L300 it certainly isn't cheap. Recommended if
your setup can make the full use of it - just ensure that it can before you
part with a large chunk of cash.
- OCZ EL DDR PC-4200 Dual Channel - The Madshrimps have posted
a review of PC4200 "EL" memory kit from OCZ.
- Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith nForce3 motherboard review - Bjorn3D has
posted
a
review of Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith nForce3 motherboard.
- Sparkle Geforce FX 5700 Ultra review - The Madshrimps have posted
a review of Sparkle Geforce FX 5700 Ultra.
- NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 GPU review - Adrian's Rojak Pot let us
know he has posted
a review of NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 GPU.
- AMD Athlon 64 heatsink roundup - The Madshrimps has posted
a
roundup of A64 heatsinks compared to a all-in-one watercooling kit.
- Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu CPU Cooler review - Bjorn3D has posted
a
review of Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu CPU Cooler.
- Evercool Extended Cooling System - 3DXtreme has posted
a
review of Extended Cooling System (ECS) from Evercool Thermal Corporation.
- Cordless Trackman Optical review -
This is a
cordless trackball that uses radio technology to communicate with its
receiver over a maximum 2 metre range, (6'). It uses optical sensors, similar
to that used in optical mice, for detecting movement of the trackball.
Theoretically there are no moving parts to wear out since it is highly
unlikely that the ball would wear out during the units life. It has eight
buttons including the standard left/right mouse buttons and a scroll wheel.
The unit is powered by two AA batteries which have a life expectancy of up to
6 months with normal use.
- Pacific Digital U-30201 DVD±RW recorder -
The Pacific Digital U-30201 did not return good jitter values or at least
not as good as we would have expected, considering that the LiteOn drive for
the same set of tests was particularly good. The table above further shows
that the drive did go over the 35nsec Red Book limit for all speeds excepting
8x.
- Bit Torrent with Nexland Pro100 Router - OCWorkbench has posted
a guide called "Bit Torrent with Nexland Pro100 Router".
- DNA Drivers 9.3.10a VS Omega Drivers 2504 VS ATI Catalyst 3.10 -
The final review of the DNA, Omega and ATI Catalyst driver is online. The
review includes 5 Game Benchmarks, 2 Synthetic Benchmarks and more.
- ReactOS 0.2 RC1 -
ReactOS (download)
is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is
compatible with Windows NT applications and drivers. The 0.2 release has the
goal of booting into a functional Explorer.exe - replacing the default of a
text command line interface. The final release should be on the 25th of
January. The release features more additions and fixes than the ability to
boot into explorer. For a complete listing, view the release changelog.
- GX::Transcoder v1.80.1085 Beta 5 -
GX::Transcoder (formerly GermaniXEncoder) is a universal audio and video
file transcoder. You can transcode audio files into many formats: AAC, MP4,
Bonk, FLAC, LA, LPAC, MIDI, MP2, MP3, MPC, MPP, MP+, OptionFrog, Ogg Vorbis,
rkAudio, Speex, VQF, WavPack, TTA ,WMA, Shorten, AC3, PCM, GSM, ADPCM, VOX,
G721, G723, G726, uLaw, aLaw, DSP, Raw PCM, Monkeys Audio, AVI (Audio), AIFF,
AIFR, AU, SND, MOD, Bonk and video filetypes mpeg1, mpeg2, avi with all
installed codecs and wmv (supports VCD, SVCD and DVD Extensions). The
Transcoder also has a Cue-Cutter, WAV and MP3 Transformer for var. sound
effects, a player and a audio recorder.
- XPlayer 2.3.0.3 Beta -
XPlayer (download)
is an extremely fast and light-weight multimedia player that plays back all
types of media files, which include avi, mpg, asf, wmv, wav, mp3.
- DVD Shrink 3.1.3 -
DVD Shrink
is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with
DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video
disc.
- DVD Region-Free 3.30 -
DVD
Region-Free enables you to watch and copy DVD from any region on all DVD
drives! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not
require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change
the DVD drive's region anymore.
- Game XP Version 1.04.1.17 -
Game XP 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.
- Raine 0.39.1 -
RAINE (download)
is an arcade emulator that emulates M68000 and M68020 based games. The
emulator's main focus is on Taito and Jaleco game hardware.
- AntiVir Personal Edition 6.23.00.33 -
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.
- Burrrn v1.07 (free) - Burrrn
is a little tool for burrrning audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio
files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr,
wv, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burrrn EAC's
noncompliant image + cue sheets.
- Serious Samurize 1.16 -
Samurize (download)
is a system monitoring utility with outstanding configuration power. The
configuration program is totally separated from the client for minimal memory
usage. The program displays almost any kind of information right on your
desktop/taskbar and homepage.
- NFORCE v4.09 Audio Driver - A new audio
driver v4.09 is available through Windows Update.
- Dual format firmware - Nu Technology have released
a new firmware (beta) which will add Dual capability to your 8X DVD-RW DVD
burner. Also BenQ offers
dual format
firmware for DW800A, but not for free. If you want to upgrade your DW800A
recorder to a dual format drive you will have to pay US$ 10.
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| Comments from Bill Gates | posted - 04:22 AM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | great. now HL2 has been released in russia, the release date will be pushed back another 3mths. :D |
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| Comments from xxx | posted - 05:33 AM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | who cares.. Steam sucks. |
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| Comments from asd@asd | posted - 03:31 PM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | its not the full version..
and steam doesnt suck.......that much. |
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| Comments from dmitri | posted - 06:41 PM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | Actually HL2 is not a fake, it's just a compiled version of what was stolen from valve's site. It is not true that it's translates to Russian, the game is "as is". I myself tried to play it, but it's not finished and still not completely playable, it have a main engine and levels which you can choose and play, but truly you can only play few levels, all the rest are incomplete and not playable. |
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| Comments from dmitri | posted - 06:51 PM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | P.S. TheInquirer (as always) had a very old news, this release of HL2 is already sold about two-three month |
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| Comments from concerned reader | posted - 06:55 PM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | That GameXP program is a trojan, nice job posting that guys~ |
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| Comments from ZEUS | posted - 08:03 PM CET - Jan,19 2004 | | DeCSS RULES!!!!!!!!!!1 |
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| Comments from pimpin | posted - 01:30 AM CET - Jan,20 2004 | | zeus - you said it baby!!! |
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