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 Thursday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:19 PM CEST - Apr,22 2004
  • Schools raided by FBI in pirating crackdown - Federal agents in Phoenix and elsewhere in the country raided schools and other targets in a national crackdown on pirated music CDs and movies. Agents poured through data and records at a computer command center for the Deer Valley School District in the northwest Valley and blocked the office from the public. It was among other places in Arizona and "quite a few other states" where sealed search warrants were served, the FBI said. The raids came on the same day that Justice Department officials in Washington announced the creation of a new Intellectual Property Task Force to step up copyright enforcement.
  • China backs off of wireless encryption proposal - China has agreed not to implement a proposed wireless encryption standard widely opposed by U.S. companies.
  • Secret Repairs Preceded TCP Flaw Release - The TCP issue publicized two days ago was publicly known as early as 1998. It allows an attacker to reset an existing TCP session using specially crafted TCP packets. Most TCP sessions are short-lived, so the vulnerability has little impact, but certain critical protocols, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), depend on long-lived sessions. The weakness, which affects widely-used Cisco and Juniper routers, can be addressed by using MD5 authentication to secure BGP sessions, a step most ISPs had never taken because an exploit seemed mathematically implausible.
  • Cisco hit by trio of vulnerabilities - Cisco has warned users of three vulnerabilities (#1 ~ #2 ~ #3) that could compromise the security of its networking products. Cisco advised customers to upgraded their software through the regular route, which is normally through Cisco's website.
  • Army Confronts Enemies Within in Cyber War Game - The mission: to secure an entire computer network for the United States and its allies against a vague enemy force. Hostile agents aim to wreak havoc on military plans, sabotaging databases, computer terminals and communications. But the cyber warriors planning a best defense aren't analysts hunkered down at the Pentagon. They are cadets at West Point competing against military academies and other schools in a four-day Cyber Defense Exercise this week. And the "enemy" isn't al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents. It's a team led by none other than the National Security Agency.
  • Credit card only works when spoken to - A credit card that will not work unless it hears its owner's voice could become an important weapon in the fight against fraud. The card requires users to give a spoken password that it authenticates using a built-in voice-recognition chip. The idea is to prevent thieves using a stolen card or fraudsters using someone else's credit card details to buy goods online. A prototype built by engineers at Beepcard in Santa Monica, California, represents the first attempt to pack a microphone, a loudspeaker, a battery and a voice-recognition chip into a standard-sized credit card.
  • Off-topic: Nasa launches Einstein Gravity Probe B - Forty-five years in the making and 24 hours late, Nasa launched a $700 million satellite into orbit on Tuesday to test Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The Gravity Probe B, one of the most precise scientific instruments every built, was carried aloft by a Boeing Co Delta 2 from the rocket range at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. A day earlier, launch directors from Boeing and Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida scrubbed the launch in the final minutes of the countdown when there was a problem loading software.
    Israeli site unveils its own gigabyte mail plans - Israeli Web portal Walla plans to launch a free e-mail service that gives each user one gigabyte of memory, which it said on Wednesday could affect the revenue models of other service providers. Walla said it hoped to be the first company in the world to provide e-mail with such a large capacity, which could be a marketing coup when it makes the service available in two months.
  • FutureMark releases new 3DMark details - The second bit of info is that the Next 3DMark will use a new 3D-engine which dynamically builds HLSL shaders. The HLSL shaders are dynamically built and runtime compiled using the most optimal compilation target for the installed hardware. Of course, all compilations produce the same rendering. This is an engine structure that future games will be using. Dynamic shader generation is an efficient way to build large 3D worlds with a wide variety of different materials. Runtime compilation, to a target selected for the installed hardware, is a generic technique to produce the most optimal shaders for all hardware.
  • Tests Find Theoretical Data Speed Limit - If there is an article of faith in computer science, it's that everything can keep getting faster and faster. But scientists say they've discovered an apparent speed limit that will restrict how quickly data can be written onto disks and then retrieved. The good news: This limit is about 1,000 times faster than today's state-of-the-art data storage devices.
  • Stacked, packed nanowires hold triplexed megadata - A novel transistor architecture using molecular-scale nanowire memory cells holds the promise of unprecedently compact data storage. Researchers at the University of Southern California and the NASA Ames Research Center have successfully tested a self-assembled molecular memory device they say has the potential of holding 40 Gigabits per square centimeter -- a far greater density than any achieved on silicon. Furthermore, says Chongwu Zhou, an assistant professor in the USC Viterbi School department of electrical engineering, because of the self-assembly feature, such ultra dense memory devices can likely be cheaper than the silicon flash memories now widely used in digital cameras, "memory sticks" and other applications.
  • Intel Ignites Serial ATA-300 - The Serial ATA Working Group announced Wednesday two specification development milestones at the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain. One centers on doubling the signalling speed for Serial ATA, the other on new cable and connector solutions to support additional applications and usage models. The specification for the second generation Serial ATA signaling speed - 3Gb/s - has been completed and the release candidate of that specification has started its ratification process. The second-generation speed of 3Gb/s (300MB/s) is double that of the first-generation Serial ATA speed which is 1.5Gb/s (150MB/s).
  • Lite-On SOHW-832S DVD+R DL burner Announced - Lite-On has finally updated its website with the official specifications of this drive, the SOHW-832S.
  • Pioneer DVR-A07XL 8x DVD±RW review  - Without a doubt, what the DVR-A07XL does best is write DVD's. Thanks to its 8x DVD+R and DVD-R writing speeds, it was able to write 4GB of data in less than 8 minutes. While this is pretty impressive, Pioneer's new drive could probably be faster.
  • The SiS755 chipset - The SiS755 chipset is made up of SiS755 north bridge and SiS964 south bridge chips, which come with all the usual integrated features. On the north bridge, the SiS755 houses an AGP 8X interface and 16-bit, 800MHz bi-directional HyperTransport link, but that's about it. North bridge chips for AMD64 processors haven't been all that interesting since AMD took the memory controller, which is traditionally a north bridge component, and moved it onto the processor.
  • BFG Tech's pre-overclocked 5900XT - The 5700 Ultra struggled to even get above 20fps in Tomb Raider with all the details up while the BFG 5900XT OC almost hit 40fps. Turning the details up is something you can do with the BFG 5900XT OC that you can’t do with lower cards.
  • nForce3 250 Chipset Overclocking - There is no doubt in our minds that the AMD Athlon 64 will take a great leap forward in overclocking circles with the launch of the nForce3 250 chipset. At last, now that the PCI bus can be controlled, the full potential of the processor can be achieved. Throughout our testing the motherboard proved extremely stable. Any failures were clearly down to pushing the processor or memory too far, not the chipset. Even at a driven clock speed of 250MHz, stability was assured when the CPU was within its limits. We had to search for Windows applications to unlock the full potential of the test motherboard; hopefully features such as multiplier adjustment will be added into the bios soon.
  • Dell's Inspiron 8600 Gets ATI MR 9600 Graphics Boost - What more can Dell add to its fast and furious Dell Inspiron 8600 notebook with a 15.4" wide screen display, 7200-rpm hard drive and Pentium-M 1.7 GHz CPU? The answer is ATI's MR 9600 Pro Turbo graphics processor. So does this notebook's 3-D graphics capabilities get any better?
  • MSX Game Reader review - It is there! The first new official MSX hardware, straight from Japan: the MSX Game Reader, a USB device that allows you to play cartridge games on MSXPLAYer, the official MSX emulator. MSX Resource Center puts this interesting new device to the test.
  • Rev. 2.0 of The Radeon 9800 Pro To Radeon 9800XT Mod Guide - Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted Rev 2.0 of the Radeon 9800 to Radeon 9800XT Mod Guide
  • GamePC suggests HTPC tips and tricks - GamePC has put together a handy set of tips and tricks for building a home theater PC.
  • Windows Media Player (All Versions) for W2K/2000/XP/2003 hotfix - After applying the hotfix (download) referenced in KB article 828026, some URL script commands do not fire even though they would be expected to do so. In addition to the URL script command issues, this package addresses an issue with the installer that would cause 100% CPU utilization in certain scenarios.
  • CloneDVD 2.0.7.3 - CloneDVD extracts, transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD. Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy.
  • ICQ Lite Edition with Xtras 4.0 Final - ICQ 4.0 introduces a new Edition with Xtraz features on top of the essentials ones.
  • Miranda 0.3.3.1 - Miranda IM (download ~ changelog) is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. Its powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM very flexible.
  • FlashFXP 2.2.986 Beta - FlashFXP offers the easiest and fastest way to transfer any file using FTP, providing an exceptionally stable and robust program that you can always count on to get your job done quickly and efficiently. There are many, many features available in FlashFXP.
  • ATI Radeon DNA-DRIVERS 2.4.4.4 - These are modified/hacked ATI Catalyst drivers (can also be downloaded from Guru3D). The drivers have been optimized with two things in mind, better Image Quality and more/stable frames per second when compared to the official Catalyst drivers from ATI.

Comments from FX5900posted - 04:59 PM CEST - Apr,22 2004
Intel Serial-ATA-300! Ok, we'll all run off and upgrade because Intel said so!!! :-)

Comments from scammerposted - 05:29 PM CEST - Apr,22 2004
oooppps

Comments from posted - 06:33 PM CEST - Apr,22 2004
oh for fucks sake.. why bother raiding schools.. they should go for those little old chinease men selling dvds for like a few bucks at the markets.. cmon leave the kids alone.. and stop disrupting the schools

Comments from bloodukposted - 06:46 PM CEST - Apr,22 2004
Why dont they go after the pedos? or where is osama ? These game companies and movie companies make MILLIONS!

Comments from Hitmanposted - 03:56 AM CEST - Apr,23 2004
Seriously why disrupt 14-25 year olds when they don't do anything but share. Why protect companies when they make billions on end. To warez something doesn't mean that someone would buy it if they didn't warez. Someone should inform the fbi about that.

Comments from posted - 06:23 AM CEST - Apr,23 2004
exactly.. people dont use warez as an alternate for purchasing the software in many cases it will help the business in the long run.. as the students will be learning on the software (dunno about games tho). and when it comes time they need to use it commercially or sombody else they know needs it commercially then they will think of the software they learnt on (and often its expensive..).. so give them a break and put resources into areas where it counts.. stop hasseling school children and go after pedos and terrorists and stuff..

Comments from Tomposted - 06:08 PM CEST - Apr,23 2004
@Hitman, "Why protect companies when they make billions on end." Umm, isn't it all about making money? So because they are successful it's ok to steal from them? Pretty interesting logic. Going after piraters is like getting fish out of a pond with a baseball bat. Governments are stupid, it's a pointless battle they can never win. But it gives them something to spend tax payers money on other than brain research for Bush!

Comments from pinkposted - 10:14 PM CEST - Apr,23 2004
hey FBI, leave those kids alone! All in all you?re just another brick in the wall... everybody sing along with me (you too FBI)

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