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 Saturday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:12 PM CEST - May,29 2004
  • Taiwan Engineer Arrested in Trojan Computer Virus Case -  Kaohsiung-based computer engineer was arrested for designing a new Trojans virus program that provided Chinese hackers with the means to attack Taiwan government agencies and local enterprises' computer systems, officials from the Criminal Investigation Bureau disclosed yesterday. Software engineer Wang Ping-an, 30, was apprehended on Tuesday, May 25, as CIB computer crime investigators discovered that he had created the original Trojan horse program called "Peep". The program was developed by Chinese hackers into advanced programs, some of which, the CIB suspects, caused an unprecedented one-day paralysis of Taiwan's postal system last month.
  • Web-cheat student to sue university - A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner. Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem." His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.
  • XP SP2 Launch Price: $300 Million - Microsoft plans to spend about $300 million to support the launch of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2), company officials said. The security-centric XP update, which enjoyed top billing at this week's TechEd conference, will be available as a "critical" download via Microsoft's Windows Update feature and will ship with all new PCs as part of an agreement with OEMs (define) and computer retailers.
  • Off-topic: Span of French Millau bridge, world highest, is completed -  Engineers brought the two central ends of the Millau road viaduct in southwest France together, completing the span of the highest bridge in the world (photo). The road surface is 270 metres above ground, a world record, and the total structure, with suspension cables added will be 343 metres (1,132 feet) above ground at its highest point or 23 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower.
  • Off-topic: Route Finder Software Uses Power of Latest Phones - A car navigation company is using the increased power of the latest mobile phones to debut the world's first route finder service that works without any help from a personal computer or a mobile telecom network. Privately-held Dutch firm Route 66, already one of Europe's biggest sellers of CD-ROM-based car navigation kits for use on personal computers, said it would sell road maps of an entire country and the necessary navigation software on a tiny memory card that can be inserted into the latest advanced phones. It is the first time detailed maps for countries such as France or Britain are stored and used on a phone.
  • Off-topic - Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder - The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" said one message. "Yes," came the reply. Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder. An intricate web of deceit had been spun by the boy on the chatroom to recruit another teenager as his would-be killer.
  • Nintendo's Next Console At E3 '05? - At a press briefing in Osaka, Nintendo told reporters that the company would ideally like to reveal its next console at next year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, held in Los Angeles. At this year's E3, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata promised fans that they can expect a "gaming revolution" from the new machine, although nothing concrete was revealed.
  • PS3 due in March 2006 - After Sony's somewhat obscure comments at their E3 conference regarding their forthcoming Cell processor - which will be used to power PlayStation 3 - Sony chairman Nonuyuki Idei has revealed more of their plans for the chip. And he's confirmed that their first consumer application for it is going to be PS3, which now looks set to appear in March 2006.
  • Gateway 30-inch HD-Ready LCD TV Display first look - Flat-panel HDTVs are hot, and Gateway seeks to capitalize on their popularity with the introduction of a new, extensive line. Its top LCD model is the 30-inch HD-Ready LCD TV Display, which checks in at $3,000. The unit is thin (only 7.5 inches deep) with lots of input options, but its overall video performance is far from spectacular.
  • Combo Wi-Fi, Cell Phone Coming Soon - The dual phone won't work with the more commonly deployed wireless networks that use the 802.11b standard. That standard has only three non-overlapping channels, which can support between six and eight calls at a time, whereas the 802.11a standard has 21 non-overlapping channels and can support roughly 25 voice-over-IP calls at a time from one WLAN access point.
  • Realtek finally rolls out WLAN chip set - More than a year after its Asian rivals, Realtek Semiconductor Corp. has finally pushed out the door the RF component of its wireless LAN chip set. To make up for its tardiness, the company spun the 802.11a/g transceiver on a 0.18 micron RF CMOS process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., representing a one-up on local competition and driving the price down in the increasingly competitive Wi-Fi marketplace.
  • HP, Iomega unveil low-end storage systems - Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP said this week that its StorageWorks NAS 2000s and 1200s systems will enable companies to consolidate Exchange Server 2003 data stores on Windows Storage Server 2003. The network-attached storage (NAS) devices will let a company cut back on the number of file, print and Exchange servers it manages and thus reduce costs, HP said. The base model of the NAS 2000s has an estimated street price of $5,800, while the base-model NAS 1200s device is priced at $2,495. Both are available now.
  • Radeon X800XT is a 500/1000 MHz card - ATI will have three cards based on its R420 marchitecture, matching Nvidia. It was simply a matter of time for ATI to start talking about its new card clocked in-between X800PRO and X800 XT PRO. Ironically, the ATI X800XT will be clocked at 500/500 MHz. X800 XT PE, Platinum edition is a 525MHz card with 560MHz memory and will ship at the end of June or early July and the X800 PRO is already in the market and it's clocked at 475MHz core and 900MHz memory.
  • ATI to unveil 0.11-micron Radeon X300 graphics chips at Computex - ATI Technologies will showcase its first 0.11-micron graphics chip, the Radeon X300 (formally named RV370), at Computex Taipei 2004 from June 1-5, according to market sources.
  • ELSA GLADIAC 940 128MB GeForce 6800  - ELSA Japan has introduced its new GLADIAC 940 128MB card on NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPU. The product will go on sale in mid-June for about $425. The model features a 325MHz core clock, 128MB DDR SDRAM, 700MHz memory clock, 256-bit bus.
  • Nokia 6820 messaging phone review - The phone is less obtrusive than its predecessor, the 6800, which featured an FM radio but no Bluetooth or camera. (At 100g, the 6820 is 18 per cent lighter, and a centimeter shorter and narrower). As a consequence, the QWERTY keys are a little smaller too. However the addition of a joystick makes for a dramatic improvement in usability. John C Dvorak recently wrote a scathing smartphone summary concentrating on the Nokia 6600 and concluding that the UI was designed by someone who liked pressing buttons far more than a normal person should. He has a point: for almost every practical purpose, the Nokia 6820 was easier to use than the Series 60 models we have tried, PalmOne's Treo, and Sony Ericsson's P800 and P900. To a large extent this is because functionality is limited: there are fewer things to do and fewer ways of doing them.
  • Rock Xtreme XTR-3.2 Laptop review  - Hexus.net has posted a review of the Rock Xtreme XTR-3.2 laptop.
  • Samsung SyncMaster 193P LCD review - ipKonfig.com take a look at the Samsung SyncMaster 193P LCD monitor.
  • Sony DRU-700A DL 8x DVD±RW review - CDRLabs have posted a review of the Sony DRU-700A Double Layer 8x DVD±RW drive.
  • ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 review - Hexus.net has done a review of the ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700.
  • X800 XT Softmod CAN be done, it seems - Some folks are hard at work on the task and claiming success.
  • Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.0 - FINAL - Adrian Rojak has released the final version of his Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide Rev. 8.0. This interim release features 20 new BIOS options. Here is the list: AGP Capability, DRAM Burst Length 8QW, Floppy Disk Access Control, Full Screen Logo, Keyboard Auto-Repeat Delay, Keyboard Auto-Repeat Rate, Onboard FDC Swap A & B, PIO Mode, PS/2 Mouse Function Control, Rank Interleave, SDRAM Write Recovery Time, SDRAM Write-to-Read Command Delay, Ultra DMA Mode, UltraDMA-100 IDE Controller, UltraDMA-133 IDE Controller, UltraDMA-66 IDE Controller, USB Keyboard Support, USB Mouse Support, Write Data In to Read Delay, Write Recovery Time.
  • Results of Multiformat at 128kbps public audio Listening Test - These are the summary results of the Multiformat at 128kbit/s Public Listening test.
  • 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP - PCstats has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently.
  • THG Task Assignment Manager - A dual-processor system with two 3-GHz Xeon processors does not automatically have the same kind of power as a 6-GHz computer. The application and the operating system have to support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or HyperThreading (HT) for performance to improve. Also, the native management features of the operating system aren't always as effective as you might imagine.  However, THG offers a software utility that allows you to switch over to manual operation. As our benchmarks show, you can push your dual-processor system to even higher levels of performance.
  • DeepBurner v1.1.0.117 - DeepBurner is a free CD and DVD burning package that utilizes power and efficiency. It takes away the hassle of making CDs, DVDs, autoruns, creating and printing labels and booklets. The program supports a very wide range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD writers. Burn audio, data and ISO CDs and DVDs with just one FREE program called DeepBurner. (It was released a couple months ago, but hey it's free!)
  • TVTool 9.6.4 - TVTool (download) is a control center for the TV output of nVidia graphics cards. With this tool it is possible to adapt the TV output perfectly to your needs and to control the TV mode in a comfortable way.
  • AWStats 6.1 - AWStats (download) is a short for Advanced Web Statistics. It's a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web (but also ftp or mail) server statistics, graphically.
  • Fresh Download 7.00 - Fresh Download (download) is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners in the software, no spyware.
  • Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.0 - This version of the Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility has been updated to support the new Intel Xeon Processor, Pentium 4 processors, Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processors, Pentium III processors, Mobile Pentium III processors with Intel SpeedStep technology, Pentium III Xeon processors and Intel Celeron processors with 66, 100, 133, 400, 533 , and 800 MHz system memory bus products, as well as adding new processor identification functionality (CPUID).
  • ATI Linux Driver 3.9.0 - ATi has released a new set of Linux drivers version 3.9.0.

Comments from chrisposted - 04:55 PM CEST - May,29 2004
i was in London for a week.. vacation :-) ... interesting city but damn EXPENSIVE... went to some internet shops... and only had to type one URL... www.ggmania.com !!!!! thanks so much hx... u make life so easy :-)

Comments from Hamposted - 05:05 PM CEST - May,29 2004
That new french brigde is going to be a suiciders dream.

Comments from Givemeposted - 09:52 PM CEST - May,29 2004
300mil for sp2 launch? Just put it on the web and ppl will be all over it.

Comments from 190578925729857posted - 09:32 AM CEST - May,30 2004
the french bridge will make suicide take longer -- you'll have a full 2secs to regret jumping.

Comments from mrleeposted - 05:11 PM CEST - May,30 2004
it's also a base jumpers wet dream. omgomgomgomg

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 04:16 AM CEST - May,31 2004
I'm spending $300 mill on SP2 because I CAN AFFORD IT! Ha! Windows(tm) XP(tm) will remain the most secure and stable OS ever made. You have my personal word of assurance on that. -Bill

Comments from disillusionedposted - 06:51 AM CEST - May,31 2004
The guy who calls himself "Bill Gates".. Dude what's up your butt? If you want to make fun of Microsoft or Microsoft products make fun like a normal person. This is VERY VERY childish and it's getting irritating. Get a life dude.

Comments from magaposted - 07:35 AM CEST - May,31 2004
actually, he's quite funny....

Comments from I Love Billposted - 10:44 AM CEST - May,31 2004
he sounds like the real Bill too -- but this Bill doesn't go on and on and on about his visionary 'digital nervous system' plans which is a pig-pile anyhow. (no offense Mr.Gates ;-) And at least Bill isn't going on and on about whether ATI/nvidia sux or why HL2/DOOM3 is better. Bill gets my vote!

Comments from posted - 07:30 PM CEST - May,31 2004
Actually he's not that funny. If you find him funny, you've got some problems yourself. It's already not funny 'prentending' to be Bill, but the further plan stupid sh*t he's keeps rambling on makes all the more annoying...

Comments from Tomposted - 10:15 PM CEST - May,31 2004
Ya ignoring him doesn't change anything either..but I guess he's having a thrill being somewhat important for a change, even if it's just fantasy. heh.

Comments from Samadamaposted - 11:51 PM CEST - May,31 2004
I like his comments and I think their very original and funny..... It is a pleasure to read them.

Comments from omarposted - 08:19 AM CEST - Jun,01 2004
how do u know it's not the real bill? though chnces are it isnt. i like the film kill bill

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