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 Friday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 09:17 PM CEST - May,21 2004
  • FBI plans spammer smackdown - It's been nearly six months since President Bush signed the first federal spam law with criminal sanctions--and not one bulk e-mailer has been criminally charged under it so far. But the FBI told Congress on Thursday that it has "identified over 100 significant spammers" so far and is targeting 50 of the most noxious for potential prosecution later this year.
  • Jail terms for tourists buying pirate CDs in Greece? - Holidaymakers in Greece could face a spell in jail if they're caught buying pirate CDs, the BBC reports. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (IFPI) has warned that it will be pushing for prosecution of buyers of pirate CDs, and stressed: "This is not a symbolic measure." Greece is top of the IFPI's hit list, with counterfeit sales equalling genuine ones at a claimed 10 million a year, and available for as little as 6 Euro. The IFPI's current trophy is a man jailed for three months for buying two counterfeit CDs last week, and who therefore serves as an awful example.
  • Italy gets tough on copyright violations - Italy has made transferring content via the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder a criminal offence.The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.The move comes in direct response to the rise of P2P services such as Kazaa and Gnutella, and was prompted by the country's film industry. Those found guilty of the unauthorised distribution of copyright material now face a fine of between 154 - 1032 Euro ($185-1240), a jail sentence of between six months and three years, the confiscation of their hardware and software, and the revelation of their misdeeds in Italy's two national newspapers, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera.
  • New biometric approach secures ID cards - A novel biometric identification system could counter many of the objections to ID card schemes such as the one being proposed by the UK government. The system can unequivocally link a person to a particular ID card without having to match their biometric characteristics to data stored either on the card or on a central database. A biometric is a unique measure of some facet of a person's body - such as a fingerprint or an iris scan. By 2005, the International Civil Aviation Organisation wants such data incorporated in newly issued passports. And the UK government wants it in ID cards from 2007. The information will also be stored on databases.
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML/CSS denial of service vulnerability - Internet Explorer contains a vulnerability (example) that can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition. The vulnerability is due to the way Internet Explorer handles invalid Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). An attacker can create a malicious HTML document containing an invalid CSS that will cause the browser to fail.
  • Internet explorer .clsid vulnerability - CLSIDs are used by windows and other MS products in many different ways,these CLSIDs are linked to folders,applications,files,... When CLSIDs that are linked to executables are used as the extension of existing or non existing files in html pages Internet explorer would execute the application linked to these CLSIDs , in addition existing files with CLSIDs linked to apps would execute too when they are accessed directly.
  • Gmail's Terabyte Glitch Heightens Storage Race - The e-mail storage race appeared to have reached a new height this week when test users of Google's free Gmail service noticed having not just 1 gigabyte of storage, but 1 terabyte. But the appearance of the "1000000 MB" ticker at the bottom of their Gmail inboxes was no more than a system bug that Google Inc. is working to fix, the company confirmed Wednesday.
  • Terratec exits graphics card business in disgust - Recently, Terratec decided to get out of the business of making graphics cards and it's blamed its exit on the continuing wars between Nvidia and ATI. According to UK graphics analysts Meko, a representative for the firm said that Terratec is "struggling for breath" because of the the fight between the graphics giants, with the pressure to push each of their own graphics chips.
  • Chip Designer Sues Intel - All Computers has filed a patent lawsuit against Intel, claiming that Intel's Pentium II processor infringes on a circuit design patented by All Computers. The lawsuit seeks over $500 million in damages as well as a permanent injunction against Intel, says Ed O'Connor, a lawyer with Levin & O'Connor in Laguna Beach, California, representing All Computers. According to a copy of the complaint filed Thursday, Intel's Pentium microprocessors infringe on a patent for circuitry that controls the frequency of signals heading to microprocessors through a chip set.
  • Will Napster kill High Street record stores? - Record stores have been an integral part of popular culture since the days of the first rock and roll singles in the 1950s. The hang-out of choice for teenagers over many decades, the contemporary record store has evolved over time. From specialist independent shops offering rare vinyl to expansive megastores selling CDs, DVDs and iPods, the record store remains at the heart of the music buying experience. But the with the launch of Napster in the UK this week, are record stores under threat?
  • Adidas puts best foot forward with "smart shoe" - The entire microprocessor kit weighs less than 40 grams, or about 10 percent of an average weight of running shoe. The design seeks for reduce weight and drag for long-distance runners. Embedding a smart chip in a running shoe has been greeted by skeptics as a marketing gimmick by Adidas designed to steal attention from international rivals Nike, Puma, Reebok and New Balance. Nevertheless, Adidas said it is confident that its technological innovation is a positive step toward a next-generation of running shoes. The gambit could work, observers said, as runners seek any legal edge in an effort to gain speed and reduce race times.
  • Philips 3-D Display Uses Patented Lens Technology And New Software - The new 3-D display offerings combine Philips' unique patented slanted lenticular lens technology with real time 2-D to 3-D conversion software that can toggle between 2-D and 3-D on any type of flat display module (transmissive LCD, reflective LCD or emissive display). Philips' 3-D autostereoscopic display technology can be enjoyed by multiple viewers without the need for glasses with special lenses to experience the natural 3-D effect and also provides a wide viewing angle that can be enjoyed by multiple viewers.
  • Verbatim goes to market with dual layer (8.5GB) in July - Verbatim has announced that the company is on target to be the first to deliver Dual Layer DVD+R discs. The new 2.4x DVD+R media nearly doubles the storage capacity on DVD recordable discs from 4.7GB to 8.5GB on a single side while maintaining compatibility with existing DVD video players and DVD-ROM drives.
  • Belgacom to launch DSL interactive TV - Belgacom has selected Alcatel as the first supplier for the roll-out of their upcoming VDSL service. The Belgium telecom operator plans to offer new, premium broadband services such as interactive television to residential and business customers in Brussels, Ghent and Liege.
  • BenQ to launch Microsoft smartphones in 2005 - BenQ, Taiwan’s largest own-brand handset vendor, plans to launch several smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 OS, according to company chairman KY Lee. Its first Microsoft smartphone, the P50, was introduced at CeBIT in March.
  • Sony's 300-mm fab starts test production of Cell processor -  Sony Corp.'s Nagasaki 300-mm fab has begun test production of Cell processors, Ken Kutaragi, Sony's executive deputy president and COO, acknowledged this week. He declined to elaborate.  Sony and IBM Corp. recently announced joint development of Cell processors for workstations to provide a graphics content creation platform by the end of 2004. The first Cell chips will be fabricated at IBM's Fishkill, N.Y., fab, but Sony is also preparing for volume production of the Cell processor, which will be the core of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s (SCEI) next-generation game console.
  • Nvidia's HIS is two way chip - Nvidia CEO's confirmed claims in a conference call last week that its High-Speed Interconnect, HIS chip (a bridge chip) actually works both ways. This means not only that it can turn an AGP card into PCI Express, it actually can turn a native PCI Express card into AGP. This means that the NV40, Geforce 6800 generation of cards, does not have to be the last of the AGP cards from Nvidia. If Nvidia sees any demand for AGP cards sometimes later this year it can make new PCB and launch a new AGP card. This one would be a native PCI Express part turned into AGP one. Remember that Intel is about to a launch full scale attack with PCI-E platforms starting from the 21st of June.
  • New Shuttle SFF PCs to have ASP of US$300 - The new small form factor PCs marketed by Taiwan-based Shuttle will have an ASP (average selling price) of around US$300, as the PCs will use the new Intel Pentium 4 processor (Prescott) and chipsets supporting PCI Express standards, according to company sources.
  • Alienware Area51-m Extreme review -  The guys at Hexus.net have done a review of the Alienware Area51-m Extreme. "Personally I love it. I'm a geek, I appreciate a £650 server CPU in my laptop. I appreciate being able to swap the GPU. I like having a 4x DVD+RW on the move with 1GB of memory and a 60GB HDD to feed it. I like 108Mbit WiFi without even having the means to use it."
  • Samsung SCD303 DV NTSC review - This is a good quality camcorder for the price it is being offered at  $400 USD ($550 CND). It has a nice size to it making it compact and it is also lightweight and easy to carry. Most of the controls are easy to access and the on-screen navigation is easy to follow. It has some neat features; USB streaming and DV in/out are some of the promising ones, handy for home video editors. I do think that the movie quality could be improved and made sharper and the camcorder should be made more accommodating to those who are left handed.
  • Lite-On SOHW-812S DVD±RW Burner review - There are several major draw backs to this drive. The first is the slow DVD reading speeds. Although it is supposed to support 12x read speads, every program showed it as having only 8x reading. While this is, as far as we can tell, limited to this drive, it is problematic. The second is that there is no Mount Rainer support. Mount Rainer is a very convenient way to keep data on CDs up-to-date. However, as stated earlier, with DVD+RW, the need for Mount Rainer is drastically reduced, as it operates in a very similar manner, and DVD writing is faster per MB. The 2MB buffer should also be increased to 8MB.
  • Plextor PX-712A DVD±R/RW Recorder review - This drive is the first one that supports 12X DVD+R recording in combination with 8X DVD-R. In addition, it is the first DVD recorder with 48X maximum recording speed for the CD-R format. Plextor usually put a lot of effort in the correct hardware implementation and firmware design, so our expectations are high for this model. In all cases Plextor PX-712A seems to offer high recording quality no matter what the media format is. In all cases the PI/PO levels were low.
  • ASUS A8V preview  - ASUS is one of the first companies that announced support for the upcoming AMD Athlon 64/64FX socket 939 processor. Among the very interesting new features, the motherboard is based on the new VIA K8T800Pro+VIA8237 chipset.
  • Asus AX800 Pro review - ATI is presenting the R420 core with two different models, one being Radeon X800 PRO, and the other Radeon X800 XT. Classically XT model is the one which has higher processor and memory speed. X800 XT has a core speed of 520 MHz, while X800 Pro is 475 MHz. Likewise, GDDR3 RAM modules are respectively 560 MHz and 450 MHz. Moreover R420 provides lower energy consumption as it was produced with TSMC's "low-d" 130 nm technology which results in lower heat too. (this technology had previously been used in 9600XT series also)
    Six Dual Xeon Motherboards on the cheap -    THG looks at six dual Xeon mobos and their cooling solutions. For as little as $250, boards from Asus, Intel, MSI and Tyan have much to offer.
  • 2x Leadtek WinFast A360 Ultra TDH diagram maps Review (GDDR3 vs. DDRII) - check it out
  • Asetek WaterChill Antarctica KT12A-L20 Kit - Everything fits nicely in the box, but the components are not packaged individually, they can hobble around. If you shake the box hard enough, like UPS probably did, you could end up with more pieces then intended. I ended up with a broken P4 hole in the water block top, which is probably the most fragile part of the kit. It was still usable, and when shipping them in great numbers on pallets this will not happen, but sending a single kit by a courier service might give problems.
  • Canon Pro 1 - Sony F828 Showdown - Such digital camera features as a 28mm-200mm zoom and 8-million pixels almost speak for themselves. In THG's review of the Sony DSC-F828 and Canon PowerShot Pro 1, there is also plenty more to say about what users can expect from Sony's and Canon's stand out cameras.
  • ATI's Radeon X800 texture filtering game - Recent revealitons about the trilinear filtering techniques ATI has used in its more recent graphics chips, including the X800 series, have been something of a shock. The reason they came as a shock isn't because we've now learned that ATI is using an adaptive algorithm to reduce its graphics workload. Such algorithms make sense, done properly, so they don't harm image quality. Indeed, the essence of graphics is creating an illusion as effectively as possible, and shortcuts are big part of that enterprise. The shock comes because ATI has consistently touted its own texture filtering techniques as superior to the competition's, talking down the so-called "brilinear" filtering algorithm used by NVIDIA and encouraging use of tools for IQ analysis that don't show the effects of ATI's method.
  • Terry Makedon reveals ATI User defined component video modes - The CATALYST 4.5 driver provides a new interface that allows users to define the optimized modes for their HDTV's. This allows for images to be properly centered on their HDTV. The interface allows users specify a mode through a test window. Once the user saves this information, it will be saved as a user defined preference. It has come to my attention that this feature is not actually available in CATALYST 4.5. This is due to an oversight on our part for which we apologize. We will include this feature in the next WHQL certified version of CATALYST.
  • DDR vs. DDRII: Fight - If you’re watching closely the events of the PC market, you should have noticed that the term “DDR2” has been used more frequently. As you know, it stands for the second generation of DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access memory, if you’re not in the know). Platforms with support of the new memory type are starting out in this year. In the next year DDR2 is going to become widespread (or even predominant) memory type on the PC.
  • HD overclocking article - BSpot has posted an interesting article on hard drive cooling for overclocked systems.
  • WinFS StoreSpy v0.8 for the WinHEC 2004 Longhorn Build - WinFS Store Spy is an Explorer-like tool to browse WinFS. It offers flexible ways for you to quickly find your stuff and navigate the store. You can inspect Item, Relationship (all 3 types), Extension, Nested Element, and MultiSet properties.
  • Virtual Server 2005 v1.1.445  - Virtual Server 2005, another piece of software Microsoft hopes to get out this summer, July if the recent reports hold true.Within the current builds the release notes have also been changed to indicate that a release candidate is not far away. A quick preview covers the build v1.1.445.0, however the latest build, which was compiled today, is v1.1.446.0.
  • MySQL 4.0.20 - MySQL (changelist ~ download) is the world's most popular open source database, recognized for its speed and reliability.
  • TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress  - This new version adds several new features which include native MPEG 1 and 2 (inc. unprotected VOB), unprotected Windows Media, uncompressed AVI and QuickTime input. In addition, Its MPEG 1/2 encoding engine has been redesigned to give better audio & video quality and a 5% to 30% speed improvement.
  • Crap Cleaner 1.09.057 - CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.
  • WhereIsIt? 3.60 - WhereIsIt (download) is an application written for 32-bit Windows operating systems, designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, DVDs, or any other media that Windows can access as a drive.
  • SecureFX v2.2.5 (SHW) - SecureFX (download) lets you choose standard FTP or secure data transfer with FTP over an encrypted SSH2 connection. It has a simple Explorer-like interface, so it's easy to learn and use. SecureFX supports multiple concurrent transfers, server-to-server transfers, and site synchronization.
  • SecureCRT v4.1.5 (SHW) - SecureCRT (download) software combines the secure login and data transfer capabilities of Secure Shell (SSH) with the reliability, usability and configurability of a proven Windows terminal emulator.
  • AC3 Filter 1.01a RC1 - AC3Filter (download) is a DirectShow filter for AC3 decoding to play AVI with AC3 audio tracks and MPEG2 (DVD). Distributed absolutely for free (FREEWARE, OpenSource).
  • FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 20-05-2004 - FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.
  • Hmonitor 4.1.4.2 - Hmonitor has much more functions than MotherBoard Monitor, for example, including thermocontrol features and COM/PerfMon API support (quoted from the author).
  • DirectX 9.0c 4.09.0000.0904 - FutureMarks Forum has posted  DirectX 9.0c 4.09.0000.0904, ripped directly from Windows XP SP2 build 2126. Try only at your own risk.
  • ATI Catalyst 64-bit Drivers - ATI have released some 64-bit Catalyst drivers for the beta of Windows 64-bit at last for everyone with an ATI card, a 64-bit AMD CPU, and Microsoft's Windows 64-bit beta ~ ATI Catalyst Beta 1 AMD64 Driver Performance
  • Forceware 60.85 & 60.86 WHQL - Station-Drivers have posted two new sets of Forceware Drivers: v60.85 for Windows 2000/XP and v60.86 for Windows 9X/ME.
  • NGO's ATI Optimized Driver V1.3c - ATI Optimized Driver v1.3c (based on Catalyst 4.5) has been released. This new version adds 3 types of OpenGL Drivers for your selection (Avarage,Fast,Fastest), full OpenGL support for X800 cards and Cheating-Death issues has been FIXED. now you could play on Cheating-Death Servers.

Comments from th4t1guyposted - 10:38 PM CEST - May,21 2004
Ati caught cheating? Seriously, who else saw this one coming?

Comments from Samadamaposted - 01:05 AM CEST - May,22 2004
I totally agree, all this crap about image quality, over and over, they lied and deceived. " Any points ATI has scored on NVIDIA over the past couple of years as NVIDIA has been caught in driver "optimizations" and the like are, in my book, wiped out" ( I second this) Where is the SPANKMASTER when you need him.

Comments from SPANKMASTERposted - 04:51 AM CEST - May,22 2004
ATI's cheating ass = SPANKED!!! WHIPPED!!! SPANKED!!! WHIPED!!! If you cheat, you will be caught and SPANKED!!! The Spankmaster has spoken. :-)

Comments from Samadamaposted - 05:08 AM CEST - May,22 2004
.... S.A.N.K.Y.O.U... :o)

Comments from FX5900posted - 05:14 AM CEST - May,22 2004
"pirate CDs in Greece?" lol whatabout Hong Kong and Malaysia?!?!?! :-) Terratec QUITS the graphic card wars because they can't stand the heat.

Comments from NOTHINGposted - 06:03 AM CEST - May,22 2004
damn hx, nice selection of tech news!Thnx

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 11:44 AM CEST - May,22 2004
Spankmaster, you should come work for the Microsoft Marketing Team. As for DirectX 9.0c - Just be patient!!! You'll get 9.0c in SP2 once we have detected all the bugs. (Not saying we'll fix the bugs =) )

Comments from FX5900posted - 01:58 PM CEST - May,22 2004
HX Rockz!!! The only way he could get any better is by changing his username to FX. :-)

Comments from Aimesposted - 11:59 PM CEST - May,22 2004
No it isn't.

Comments from FX5900posted - 03:07 PM CEST - May,23 2004
is too!!! :)

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 06:01 PM CEST - May,23 2004
Anyone try the "HD overclocking article" -- i tried it on my 250GB SATA drive. Works great except Windows keeps 'freezing'. =D ROFL ROFL ROFL

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