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 Wednesday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:56 PM CET - Mar,03 2004
  • Spyware bugs US Senators  - Three US senators are sponsoring a law that aims at blocking spyware. The Spyblock Act will make it illegal to install software on people's computers without their consent. Companies that offer software downloads will have to tell users what the programs do and what information they collect. Internet ads generated by the software will have to be clearly labelled.
  • HP, Philips Develop DRM for DVDs - The two companies have agreed to jointly develop technology that will allow users to record protected content from digital broadcast systems, under rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in its "broadcast flag" ruling.The ruling allows programmers to attach a code, called a broadcast flag, to digital broadcasts, specifying whether a particular show can be copied and broadcast over the Internet. HP and Philips said that they have already submitted their planned technology in a filing to the FCC. The new technology will allow users to copy digital broadcast signals onto discs in DVD+R or DVD+RW format or in some other recording formats, the companies said.
  • MP3s Get Copy Controls - Digital Rights Management technology has been added to the MP3 standard, according to one of the companies behind the ubiquitous audio encoding technology. In a new version of the popular music encoding standard, French company Thomson has added the ability to limit how many times a song can be duplicated onto CDs and MP3 players. DRM-equipped MP3 players and services are expected to appear on the market this year.
  • Microsoft's Windows Media 9 may become mandatory for HD DVD - The DVD Forum said its steering committee has provisionally approved Microsoft's Windows Media 9 as one of the mandatory elements of a high-definition DVD spec. The Forum said Tuesday (March 2) that it has issued a “provisional approval of MPEG-2, Microsoft Corp.-developed Windows Media 9 and H.264 as mandatory for the upcoming High Definition (HD) DVD video specification” for future HD DVD players. The choice of a more efficient video codec for the emerging HD DVD format has been one of the most contentious issues currently confronting the consumer electronics industry.
  • AMD to start 90nm production next month - AMD's 90nm Athlon 64 and Opteron chips will start rolling off the company's Dresden production line in the second week of April, but you won't be able to buy a machine based on the parts until late Q3 / early Q4. So said AMD senior VP and CFO Robert J Rivet during a presentation at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Systems Conference on Monday.
  • Future Athlon 64s to include SSE3 support  - According to TechReport, the next revision of AMD's Hammer CPU core will include SSE3 support, among other new features, according to this talk given by Kevin McGrath, AMD's chief Hammer architect, at Stanford University//
  • MSI to launch ATI-based graphics cards in April -  Micro-Star International (MSI) will launch ATI-based graphics cards in April, ending its status of being an Nvidia-exclusive customer, the Chinese-language Commercial Times reported yesterday.
  • Philips to release 16x DVD+R burner with support for DVD-R/RW and DVD+R9 in July -  Heise Online writes that Philips instead will release another double layer burner in July, the DVDRW1640K, which also will support 16x DVD+R single layer speed and the DVD-R/RW format.
  • Canon MultiPass MP390 first look -  Canon MultiPass MP390 prints, scans, faxes, and copies; it also prints photos directly from cameras and memory cards and lets you fax from programs on your computer. Performance is at the low end of midrange, but output quality is good to very good. All of this makes the MP390 a reasonable choice unless you do heavy printing regularly.
  • AMD Opteron vs. Intel Xeon  - AnandTech have posted their AMD Opteron vs. Intel Xeon Performance shootout with Intel's first Xeon MP with a massive 4MB L3 cache vs. AMD's Opteron 848.
  • Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS Review - Guru3D have posted a detailed review of Creative Labs Audigy2 ZS - They still can't recommend the Audigy2 ZS to audiophiles. However, for the hardcore the Audigy2 ZS is the definitive sound card for games. It literally crushed the competition, most dramatically with the UT2004 Demo by running 15 to 20FPS faster. In Call of Duty, sound placement with EAX 3.0 was perfect, and it outran the Prodigy 7.1 by a good %12
  • AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 Evaluation - The results speak for themselves. High performance doesn't necessarily have to be limited to the Athlon 64 or top-end Pentium 4 CPUs. What's more, it can be achieved with a L70 CPU.
  • An introduction to SSL Certificates - LittleWhiteDog has just published a new article titled "An introduction to SSL Certificates". This article covers in great detail what SSL Certificates are, how they are used, and how they are issued and trusted.
  • Style XP 2.01 Final - Style XP is theming software (download) that helps customize the way your Windows XP, Windows XP Service Pack 1, Tablet PC, or Server 2003 system looks.
  • BSPlayer 1.00 RC1 Build 807 - BSplayer (download) is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files ( avi / mpg / asf / wmv / wav / mp3...) and specialises in video and divx playback
  • phpMyAdmin 2.5.6 Final - phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user) but also a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need a properly set up MySQL-user who can read/write only the desired database.
  • W32.Netsky@mm Removal Tool 1.0.2.0 - Symantec Security Response has developed a removal tool (download) to clean infections of the following Netsky variants: W32.Netsky.B@mm, W32.Netsky.C@mm and W32.Netsky.D@mm.

Comments from Noposted - 03:03 PM CET - Mar,03 2004
FINALLY, I'm sick of cleaning up all the sh#t my puter picks up just from looking around the internet. I hope that the law is passed and other countries around the world do the same.

Comments from [email protected]posted - 10:47 PM CET - Mar,03 2004
More laws, more, MORE !! The Net will be no more than a simple private company soon or a governemental institution in a few years... :(

Comments from 123posted - 12:11 AM CET - Mar,04 2004
True, but what's worse is that it's necessary.

Comments from Iposted - 10:40 AM CET - Mar,04 2004
I wrote this, and you read this!

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