Gameguru Mania Updated:03:04 PM CEST Jun,20
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:
 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:36 AM CET - Mar,02 2004
  • Variant of NetSky virus takes flight -  A new computer worm dubbed NetSky.D was clogging e-mail systems around the world after emerging Monday, a security expert said.  The worm is particularly difficult to root out, because it lands in e-mail boxes using a number of different subject lines, such as "re: details" or "re: here is the document."
  • Automated kits fuel virus epidemic - The flood of variants of the Bagel and Netsky viruses shows that more and more people are learning more about viruses and how to tweak them. Netsky.D and Bagel.G have been discovered today, and the rate of new variants shows no sign of slowing.  Netsky.D spreads via email as an executable attachment only. It scans both the local PC and network drives for email addresses to send itself too. Tomorrow, any computer infected by the worm will beep constantly from the PC's speaker from 06:00 to 08:59.
  • Motorola T720 cell phone DoS vulnerability - The Motorola T720 cell phone is a very nice cell phone, with plenty of fun features, including WAP
    access to the Internet. Unfortunately, there is a low-risk vulnerability which allows an attacker to remotely reboot the cell phone easily. The vulnerability lies within the TCP/IP stack of the Motorola T720 cell phone. When the phone receives an abnormal amount of IP traffic, the phone powers-off when the user attempts to access the network (e.g through the WAP browser). The vulnerability can be reproduced in the following way: 1) Connect the phone to the Internet. 2) Flood the device with IP traffic (i.e SYN packets or ICMP_ECHO requests (ping packets)). 3) Run the WAP browser; At this point, the phone should power-off, and lose network connectivity.
  • Clients broadcast buffer overflow in Red Faction <= 1.20 - Red Faction is a very cool FPS game developed by Volition. The problem is a broadcast client buffer overflow (example). Each client entering in the multiplayer menu of the game first contacts the master server to know what game servers are online and then asks informations to eachone of them. The reply of the servers contains a NULL terminated text string identifying the server name, if this string is major or equal than 260 chars the client will be victim of a buffer overflow vulnerability caused by the following memcpy() function (from 1.20 version): " :0047B2D8 F3A5 rep movsd" The attacker on the (passive) server will have full control over any client.
  • Pirates still sail software's seas - You may very well be a smart, community-minded business owner. But if your company is using pirated software - and you condone it, you aren't aware of it or you don't really give a rip - you're not a responsible business owner. And you are taking unnecessary risks. No, you're not alone. In the United States, 24% of the software programs used today by businesses are illegal copies, according to the latest statistics from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an active industry group. For U.S. small businesses, those with 100 or fewer employees, the piracy rate is even higher: 40%. While those numbers are bad enough, the piracy problem worldwide is worse.
  • Off-topic: "Rings" Reverses Oscar Viewership Dip - ABC's telecast Sunday drew 43.5 million viewers, up 32 percent over last year's war-depressed ratings and putting the show on par with 2002 (41.8 million) and 2001 (42.9 million).  But even the last installment of the enormously popular "Rings" fantasy epic, which won 11 Academy Awards to tie the record shared by "Titanic" and "Ben-Hur," couldn't pull ABC close to the high of 55.2 million viewers who tuned in when "Titanic" ruled.
  • DOOM 3 - NVIDIA Deal - This web page on NVIDIA's nZone gaming site reveals that the graphics card maker and id Software have announced that id's upcoming FPS  DOOM 3 will recommend NVIDIA's GeForce FX family of cards to play the game on. (thanks HomeLAN).
  • Nomad Muvo TX announced - Creative announced a new MP3-USB-Stick, the Nomad Muvo TX. It's the successor of the Nomad Muvo NX and has all its features plus an USB 2.0 interface. You can choose between a 128, a 256 and a 512MB version.
  • Intel 90nm 3GHz Prescott postponed until April - Intel has delayed general availability of its 90nm 3GHz Prescott processors to April from the original schedule of mid-March due to production capacity constraints at its wafer foundry, according to sources at Taiwanese distributors.
  • Interview with VIA's Tim Handley - PyroPort has posted an interview with VIA's CPU platform marketing manager, Tim Handley.
  • Intel's Alderwood/Grantsdale Chipsets Preview - This is a year of change. The Alderwood and Grantsdale chipset launch, with its numerous innovations, represents the biggest technological advance since the introduction of the PCI bus. THG take a look at Intel's socket 775, DDR2 memory, the new BTX form factor and PCI Express.
  • 21 New Digital Camera Reviews - PCMag reviewed 21 new cameras in three different categories - compact, midrange, and professional.
  • Graphics round up - DarkHardware has published a round-up of 23 graphics cards, including many DirectX 9 ones and some oldies. A mixture of old and new benchmark are used, together with some short comments.
  • MSI MEGA 180 Mini-PC review - MSI's latest mini-PC, the MEGA 180, was designed to appease gamers with an nForce2 chipset for AthlonXP processors. For interior-decorated-minded users, the MEGA 180 comes in a nice-to-look-at colorful box. While the system has the Hi-Fi sound features of its predecessor, the MEGA 180 represents a major revamp, with new features such as Wi-Fi wireless networking capabilities built in.
  • ProblemSolver: When Wireless LANs Collide! - This ProblemSolver explains the problems caused by too many wireless LANs operating in too small an area, tells you how to diagnose the problems that your WLAN may have, and gives the how-to for getting your wireless neighborhood operating in peace and harmony.
  • Soldering Guide - The Madshrimps heat up the Soldering iron to show you how it's done, voltmodding that is.
  • Taking apart the iPod mini - To help illustrate this disassembly adventure, view the iPod mini autopsy photos and follow along. To begin with, make sure the 'Hold' button is locked into the ON position (showing orange) to prevent the internal components to be turning on while you are taking it apart. (thanks Tuding)
  • Colin McRae Rally 04 performance test  - Unsuprisingly given what has gone before, ATi dominates here as well, finishing around or above the 60 FPS level while the 5900 falls closer to 30 FPS. To be fair, the game is still very playable on both boards, but you can 'feel' the difference in performance quite easily while playing.
  • SQLIO Disk Subsystem Benchmark Tool - SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration.
  • Safe XP 1.4.2.27  - Safe XP is a *FREE* software to allow users to quickly tweak various security and privacy related settings in XP. The options include Media Player settings, Services settings (error reporting, time synch, remote registry etc.), as well as and option to remove items from the Start menu, network security settings and more.
  • PowerShell XP 2.0 - PowerShell for Windows XP is the newest verison of PowerShell. It adds all the shown items to your context menus (right click). Now you can logoff/re-start/shutdown, drop to dos, edit the registry and much more, faster!
  • DVD Decrypter 3.2.0.0 - DVD Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC's hard disk. From there you can choose to watch them with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you can re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX.
  • FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 27-02-2004 - FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.
  • DivX 5.1.1 Free Updated - This is the latest version of the codec DivX 5. This new version updates DivX DirectShow filter.
  • Codec Pack All in 1 6.0.0.2 - This is a collection of codecs for playing DivX movies.
  • LAME MP3 Encoder 3.96 alpha - LAME MP3 Encoder is the best mp3 encoder and is available for free. The latest stable version is 3.95.
  • OpenOffice.org For Windows 1.1.1 RC - OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.
  • XFree86 4.4 - XFree86 version 4.4 is finally out.
  • PlexTools Professional v2.11 - Plextor Europe has released an update of their PlexTools Professional software.
  • Koepi's XviD Codec RC3 - XviD (download) is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. It's no product, it's an open source project which is developed and maintained by lots of people from all over the world

Comments from The Basherposted - 06:12 AM CET - Mar,02 2004
Why couldn`t they name it the Skynet virus. Or are they worried about copyrights on the Terminator movies. Hmmmm they may have to much respect for the virus/A.I/OS portrayed on the movies.

Comments from asdposted - 07:56 AM CET - Mar,02 2004
cmr 4 will run better on ati cards.........yea right.

Comments from hehhehposted - 09:51 AM CET - Mar,02 2004
And here we thought the biggest danger in Red Faction was dying of boredom. Now you can get haxored, too!

Comments from warez daddyposted - 02:59 PM CET - Mar,02 2004
Only 24% of software is pirated?!?!?! COME ON WESTERN WORLD... you can do better than that!!!

Comments from Daveposted - 04:26 PM CET - Mar,02 2004
asd - You should probably read the benchmark results before commenting. The ATi card has a slight advantage in speed compared to the nVidia card, and also has slightly better antialiasing, but that is all. No need to get all het up about it, babykins.

Comments from Tomposted - 09:05 PM CET - Mar,02 2004
Not even worth giving these ati fanboys anything logical Dave, they are out to lunch. In a few months, we'll be laughing our asses off and even more so when they are dumping their powerful ati cards for a underpowered nvidia card. ha! underpowered. When nvidia unleashes the 16 pipeline cards, goodbye ati. ATI is, was and will continue to be a second rate video card vendor.

Comments from abcposted - 11:31 PM CET - Mar,02 2004
What's laughable is how pathetic most you dumbasses are. It's good to know the interenet and your little computers keep you away from the outside world. "Unleash the power..." LOL I'll admit, some of you are funny in your sad ways.

Comments from ati-hoeposted - 01:08 AM CET - Mar,03 2004
Tom - Nobody with any brains praises ATI on this forum coz you put them in their rightful place. You are to be commended!!!

Comments from asdposted - 02:17 PM CET - Mar,03 2004
on second thoughts, little competition is good for nvidia

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