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Wednesday Tech Madness - tech
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| (hx) 12:10 PM CET - Mar,17 2004 |
- Symantec Details Net Threats - Symantec's semi-annual Internet
Security Threat report, released this week, paints a picture of an
increasingly threatening Internet. But unlike previous reports,
there seems to be little in the way of good news. In the first half of the
year, one in six companies reported a serious security breach, a number that
increased to one in two in the second half. August, which will go down in
history in malware folklore, had a nasty 12-day period when Blaster, Welchia,
and SoBig.F infected millions of machines worldwide and caused billions of
dollars in damage. The second half of the year also saw a prodigious increase
in the number of Win32 viruses and worms--1702 released in the second half
versus 687 in the first.
- Manually crash Windows-XP -
Windows-XP has a "feature" (???) with which it is possible to manually
crash a system by simply holding the right CTRL key and pressing the "Scroll
Lock" key twice. This feature can be turned on by the following steps: 1.
Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesi8042prtParameters 3.
Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll 4. Right-click on this
newly created value and click on Modify 5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and
click on OK. 6. Close regedit and reboot your system. 7. Now you can blue
screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll
Lock" twice.
- Off-topic: Plan to melt through Europa's ice - Space scientists
want to send a craft to the Jovian moon because its ocean might, in theory,
harbour life.
Once through the 10-30km ice sheet, the probe could take a sample of water,
to analyse it for microbial life. But significant engineering challenges
remain before the German Aerospace Centre lander could be sent to Europa.
- Robotics to Drive "Third Wave" of Chip Innovation - Tsugio
Makimoto, corporate adviser to Sony, said ASICs and flash memory - not
general-purpose microprocessors and DRAM - will be the differentiating
products of
the third wave of innovation, which will replace personal computers.
Makimoto, famous for the so-called "Makimoto Wave" of customization and
standardization, spoke before an audience of top chip executives at the Semico
Summit here.
- Mainstream Games on the Linux Desktop - LinuxWorld Magazine has
held
a Gaming Round Table involving Chris DiBona, Ryan Gordon, Timothee Besset,
Gavriel State, and Joe Valenzuela about where Linux currently stands and how
it will one day become a premier gaming platform. (thanks
Slashdot.org)
- Russian Itanium slayer samples first 130nm processor - Elbrus, the
would-be Itanium slayer, has begun sampling its 64-bit processor, the Russian
company has announced. At the time, Elbrus was seeking $40m worth of funding
to back the development of the chip,
dubbed the E2K. It was to be fabbed at 180nm and clock at 1.2GHz. It was
to offer both IA-32 and IA-64 compatibility.Elbrus' latest statement centres
on a different chip, the MCST R-500, which the company suggests is the first
Russian-made 130nm microprocessor, and who are we to argue? The R-500 is
Sparc-compatible and is clocked at 450-500MHz. It consumes less than 1W of
power, Elbrus said. It began punching out samples in late February, and the
company has already run Solaris and Linux successfully on machines based on
the processor
- NV40 is a 16 pipelines part - Nvidia is telling "selected people"
that NV40 is indeed 210 millions of transistor chip with 16 pipelines. The
other side of this NV40 coin is that the real Mc Coy the real NV40 card that
was taped out quite some time ago is actually going to be KIA [Killed in
action]. Very knowledgeable friends told us recently in the Vienna Opera house
that NV40
with 16 pipes and 210 millions of transistor is completely other chip then
original NV40. What actually happened is that Nvidia recently learned
about R420 marchitecture and this entire 12x1 story and, that they will
eventually end up in second place and decided to can NV40 project and to go
immediately with NV45.
- Netgear MP101 wireless MP3 WMA player powered by ARM - Netgear has
released a new
wireless MP3 and WMA remote controlled player, that will stream music from
any networked PC in your home, to your stereo system. The new hardware is
featuring the ARM9 core family-based Marvell Libertas 88W8510H system-on-chip
(SoC).
- KiSS introduces first DVD-players with WM9 support in Europe -
KiSS introduces
the first DVD-players with support for Windows Media Video 9 in Europe.
The new DVD-players - DP-600 and DP-608 - will be the first in a range of new
products to support Windows Media 9 Series. Studies and industry analysts
indicate that Windows Media 9 Series format will be the final breakthrough for
video-on-demand solutions over the Internet offering high quality at small
file sizes.
- Toshiba Updates Multimedia Notebooks -
The new Satellite P25-S670 comes with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
Edition operating system, and a 17-inch widescreen display. Toshiba America
Information Systems, a division of Toshiba, expects consumers will watch
movies and store their digital media on this notebook. The P25-S670 costs
$2699 with a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, an 80GB hard
drive, and a DVD-RAM/-RW/CD-RW multifunction optical drive. It also comes with
a GeForce FX Go5700 graphics card from Nvidia with 128MB of video memory and
an integrated 802.11a/802.11g wireless chip.
- Dual Channel DDR Pentium 4 Chipsets (Intel, VIA, SiS and ATI) Six
under the Microscope - Read on as
TweakTown discover the best Pentium 4 chipset to spend your hard earned
dollars on.
- nForce 3 250 review - With NVIDIA giving the 250-series chips a
feature upgrade, a 'fixed' HyperTransport implementation, some new disk based
ability with the changed ATA and SATA controller, 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet
capability to let marketroids tick a box, along with an all round spit and
polish,
nForce3 250 is rather good. The hardware firewall for example is a fine
chipset level feature upgrade, scoring NVIDIA good brownie points.
- Xgi Volari V8 Ultra Duo review -
The Volari gives an excellent range of features but due to the drives
being so new the optimization and design isn’t the best at the moment. At the
moment XGI is able to keep up with both the Radeon 9800 XT and GeForce FX 5950
in some tests and considering how long the cards have been out for, some of
the scores achieved by the XGI battler are quite respectable.
- Windows Server 2003 R2 FAQ - First revealed here on the SuperSite
for Windows,
R2
will include all of the free out-of-band updates Microsoft shipped for
Windows Server 2003 since April 2003, including the Group Policy Management
Console and Windows SharePoint Services.
- UT 2004 Benchmarking -
UMark is a Windows
graphical interface that allows gamers and hardware reviewers to easily
configure and run benchmarks on Unreal Tournament 2004. Benchmarking with
UMark is very flexible, as it can run totally customizable benchmarks. At the
same time, it also offers standard benchmarking which imitates the official
UT2004 benchmark batch file tests.
- ChrisTV Professional 3.60 -
ChrisTV
Professional is nice program for viewing TV on your PC for TV Tuners with
WDM Drivers installed. The program supports all TV Cards based on BT8x8
chipset, Philips SAA713x chipset,Conexant CX2388x.
- InstantGet 1.90 -
InstantGet (download)
is a powerful and efficient download manager and accelerator, InstantGet
splits downloading files into multiple sections, downloading each section
simultaneously to increase downloading speed up to 5 times faster.
- Media Player Classic 6.4.8.0 -
Media Player Classic (download
Win2k/XP ~
Win9x/ME version) is similar to windows media player 6.4 but with features
pertained to minimalist advanced users. It also supports DirectX 9 and VFW
drivers for capture. It supports viewing through ActiveX controls of Real and
QuickTime files.
- Central Brain Identifier 6.1.0.4 Beta Build 0317 -
Central Brain
Identifier is designed to provide detailed recognition and obtaining the
most complete extended information for all AMD processors.
- Codec pack All-in-One ver 6.0.0.4 -
Codec Pack All in 1 6.0.0.4 includes: DivX 5.1.1, Koepi's XviD 1.0 RC3,
DivX, XviD - FFDShow 12.03.2004 alpha , MPEG2 2.0.0.2525, Subtitles g400 2.83,
Subtitles DVobSub (Win9x, Win2k a WinXP) 2.23, 2.32, OGG Vorbis 0.9.9.5, AC3
0.70ß, Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.99B.
- ASUS SmartDoctor 4.21 -
ASUS
SmartDoctor is designed to monitor graphic chip Status, altering users
about abnormal events, such as fan malfunction or chip overheat.
- VIA AC97 v5.10b drivers - VIA Tech has released
a
new drivers for the internal AC97 sound (readme)
in their chipsets i.e. south bridges T82C686x , VT8231 , VT8233x , VT8235 and
VT8237.
- Lite-On firmware- Lite-On has released a new firmwares for
SOHW-812S,
LDW-851S
and
LDW-401S.
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| Comments from xxxx | posted - 07:10 PM CET - Mar,17 2004 | | few things: symantec sucks. All bloatware and then try uninstalling it, suprise surprise it can't even uninstall itself fully. JUNK. next, crash Windows on demand, what the hell is that about??? who the F cares about crashing it? and who is the lamer that would even go to such depth to give total info on how to do it? oh gee, what fun, lets crash my own computer!!! yaa!!! linux as a gaming platform? ya right...whatever.. and these download accelerators are near useless now, nearly any site now blocks them, use alternating/dynamic addressing for mirrors etc.. rare to use one of these program anymore and have it work. and this Nvidia thing, all based on hearsay, a 'reliable' source he says.. ya whatever...lots will say ATI is in the lead right now, its BS and marketing, thats what they're leading in. marketing from biased websites that do questionable reviews and post only 'selected' reviews..and i read this story on inquirer, the guy can't even bloody type in english..i'm glad nvidia told this guy to F off, it's people like this that gave ati the publicity they didn't deserve and look where that got us, bunch of moron ati owners who think ati is god and overlook the obviousness of nvidia works with everything and is JUST AS FAST if NOT FASTER. ati doesn't do much but breed morons, and let me tell you, nvidia don't give a shit about ati and their development plans don't change because of ati. this is all ASSUMPTIONS made by people. nvidia is working on a card that you will be able to keep in your pc for a long time as they have always done. sorry i said my ati vs nvidia was over, but i read that before coming here already and it ticked me off. (very knowledgable friends, NO, give us name.. very knowledgable friends means shit to me). and to boot, it helps when you have a friend who works for nvidia. i wrote the author of the post, he wouldn't give me the names of people he was in touch with, so i take that whole article as BS. So far from everything i know about nvidia, nobody is right.. you just have to wait a few months more. |
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| Comments from Zeus | posted - 10:16 PM CET - Mar,17 2004 | | biggest waste of space on this site i have seen so far xxx. |
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| Comments from Foolio | posted - 08:21 AM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | XXX is just jaded that ATI is owning nvidia. |
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| Comments from Bill Gates | posted - 02:18 PM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | Don't need to press "scroll lock" to crash a computer - Windows already has the "start" button to do that. =D |
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| Comments from FX5900 | posted - 02:21 PM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | Let's bitch over different video cards for a change... MATROX vs XGI... XGI sux coz i say so, and matrox ownz because i say so. And all you XGI fanboys are just cut because i say so. =D |
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| Comments from xxxx | posted - 03:43 PM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | as i said. thanks for coming out. |
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| Comments from El_Coyote | posted - 05:13 PM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | heh xxxx souds like all the other nvidiots in denial out there.. nothing new. |
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| Comments from Rob | posted - 05:28 PM CET - Mar,18 2004 | | heh I never get why you all fight about Nvidia and ATI. Some people like Nvidia, and some like ATI. Its great to have some pride in your card, but this is looking to be overkill. :\ |
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| Comments from ATIdiot | posted - 02:45 PM CET - Mar,19 2004 | | Yep in denial alright
http://www.ati.com/images/headers/products/software/CATALYST.jpg
then ->
http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=bf2aa47256ca3f1a4df77741a3de13b9&forumid=69
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| Comments from xxxx | posted - 05:26 PM CET - Mar,19 2004 | | not sure what ur second link is about, but many that rage3d site is on a pitiful host. i'm sure they have some excuse like their site is busy, which i can understand kinda cuz of all the ati problems and people constantly complaining on the forums, but wish i knew what that link was for, probably missed a good laugh. hehee. |
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