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 Thursday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:05 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
  • Your Rights Online: Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click - The patent in question is 6,727,830 and says, amongst other stuff:" A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed. A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click." (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • Attack of the bandwidth-hogging hackers - Swiss security researchers have unearthed a flaw in wireless LAN systems that might be used by hackers to drastically increase their share of the available bandwidth at the expense of the other users. The issue should be of particular concern to hotspot operators, according to a team from the computer labs at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lussanne (EPFL). Appropriate standards (such as 802.11i) have been developed to ensure user security and privacy in hotspots, but this does nothing to prevent users altering the MAC protocol of a machine to increase his share of available, according to the Swiss team.
  • MSI sued by company claiming motherboard flaws - MSI has been sued by a Vermont company seeking class-action status over claims that MSI's boards use a defective technology and are prone to fail. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court last Thursday by Electronic Connection Services Corp., a hardware and software services company, claims that MSI has knowingly used capacitors, devices used to regulate the power supply to microchips, that can leak and cause motherboards to short-circuit.
  • XP SP2: Do's & Don'ts for Web Sites - If you manage a website that uses ActiveX controls, file downloads, pop-up windows or the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM), chances are you will need to tweak your code to deal with the new security features in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Microsoft released a document, titled How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2, that spells out the code tweaks needed to deal with SP2. For instance, Web sites using ActiveX controls will run into problems because of the changes made to the Internet Explorer (IE) browser to block those controls in some cases. Microsoft recommends that site owners make sure that all ActiveX controls distributed through a Web site are signed and have up-to-date signatures.
  • Self-destructing MP3s don't satisfy Korean RIAA - Korea's version of the RIAA - the Korean Association of Phonogram Producers - says it is going to sue the carrier LG Telecom for distributing MP3-capable handsets. The network operator has sold 80,000 of the devices in two months. In a compromise reached in April, LG agreed to limit the capabilities of the phones: the MP3s would self-destruct 72 hours after being downloaded onto the handset.
  • New self-destructing DVD launched - A French company has developed a disposable DVD, or DVD-D, which self-destructs after a few hours. Like the classic DVD, DVD-D is made of polycarbonate, but it contains an extra layer of coating that reacts to an oxidisation process which begins as soon as the disc is exposed to air. The self-destruct process can be pre-set to occur between eight and 24 hours.
  • VeriTouch Introduces World's First Fingerprint Secured Anti-Piracy Media Player - VeriTouch Ltd. has delivered its groundbreaking iVue Personal Media Player for demonstration to several major US record labels and industry associations RIAA and MPAA. The iVue is the first wireless media player designed to provide biometrically encrypted and secured content for customers, both professionals and consumers. The patent-pending technology ensures that any music, video or video game delivered to the customer may only be played on the iVue after a successful fingerprint scan on the player.
  • Off-topic: Genetically-modified virus explodes cancer cells - A genetically-modified virus that exploits the selfish behaviour of cancer cells may offer a powerful and selective way of killing tumours. Deleting a key gene from the virus enabled it to infect and burst cancer cells while leaving normal tissues unharmed, reveals a study by researchers at Cancer Research UK and Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. Viruses spread by infiltrating the cells of their host. Normally, the detection of an intruder by a cell triggers a process called apoptosis, which causes the cell to commit suicide and prevents the virus spreading further. However, viruses can carry genes that allow them to slip past this cell death process in normal cells, causing infection.
  • Off-topic: Massive black holes common in early Universe - Giant black holes were common in the early Universe, according to new observations, but most of them are buried in dust. Teams from the US and Europe have found hundreds of these hidden giants by combining data from several telescopes, including some ground-based instruments and the big three in space: Hubble, the Chandra X-ray telescope, and the new Spitzer infrared telescope. These instruments cover a wide range of wavelengths and so together they can discern the signature of a hidden quasar.
  • Microsoft is Adding an RDP over HTTPS Proxy to Windows - At TechEd this week, Microsoft revealed several details of the “R2” update to Windows Server 2003, scheduled to be released sometime next year. R2 is the codename for a massive update to Windows Server 2003 that will include several new features, including branch server deployment, Windows SharePoint Services, and Active Directory Federation Services. R2 will be built on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, which will be released later this year. One of the new Terminal Services features is the ability for a Windows Server to encapsulate and proxy RDP traffic over HTTPS connections. The RDP over HTTPS proxy is part of what Microsoft calls "Anywhere Access." Not to be confused with Citrix's "Access Infrastructure," Microsoft's Anywhere Access will allow users to securely access corporate resources over the public Internet without using VPN software. (source: Bink.nu)
  • Intel to open-source next-gen BIOS replacement - Intel said today that it plans to release the "Foundation code" of its next-generation firmware technology -- a successor to the PC BIOS -- under the Common Public License (CPL), an open source license, later this year. More than 20 years old, the BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is the oldest software technology in PC platforms.
  • Philips DVP720SA multiregion DVD/DivX/SACD player - Philips has announced a new DVD and Super Audio player combined for under £150. The new DVP720SA includes 5.1 channel SACD playback, DivX compatibility and PAL progressive scan to the budget sector of the DVD market. Heading the list of compatible formats is playback of 3.11, 4.x and 5.x variants of DivX, which is widely used on the Internet in movies, trailers and music. Playback also includes MP3 CD, JPEG CD, CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW discs.
  • Computex 2004 coverage  - Day1@TGH | Day1@Hardwarezoom | Day2@OCWorkbench | Day2@The Tech Zone | Day2@VR-Zone | Computex 2004 photo gallery @ TweakTown | New 16x DVD±R and DVD+R DL burners
  • HP makes color printing push - HP is targeting both consumers and businesses with the offers, which include a new color laser printer in North America that the company plans to sell for $499. New products from HP include: The HP Color LaserJet 4650, a color laser printer aimed at small and midsize businesses. It offers speeds of up to 22 pages per minute and is priced at $1,799;  The HP Scanjet 5590, a scanner featuring a 50-page automatic document feeder with duplexing capabilities, priced at $399; The HP Officejet 4215, an "all in one" device with print, fax, scan and copy capabilities, priced at $149.
  • Apple lines up for Toshiba's new 60GB drive - Toshiba Corp. is planning to launch a 60GB version of its 1.8-inch hard disk drive in the coming months and has already found a customer in Apple Computer Corp., the company said Wednesday here at the Computex 2004 exhibition in Taipei. The drive will enter mass-production during July or August and represents a jump in the storage density of Toshiba's 1.8-inch drives, said Cindy Lee, deputy manager of Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan Corp.'s hard disk drive division technical department.
  • ADS Bumps Video Directly into DivX - ADS's Instant VideoDVX is a Hi-Speed USB video capture with a built-in video encoder that converts video imported from composite or S-video directly into MPEG-1, Divx or Windows Media Video 9 (WMA9).  The direct conversion saves time and hard drive space needed for the extra step of conversion. Lately, DivX and WMA9 have quickly made their way into DVD players, home media receiver and other electronics. The $90 Instant VideoDVX bundles a copy of Video Studio 8 Basic with DivX support, for basic video trimming and editing. This solution is similar to Plextor’s ConvertX PX-M402U – the first DivX-certified video capture solution.
  • Shuttle grows the XPC with P-series chassis - Shuttle is showing off something like seven different new or substantially revised models of XPCs here at Computex, including a pair of boxes with matrix LED displays on the front panel for multimedia playback info. The most impressive development is the new P series chassis, which will complement Shuttle's G and K series chassis. For those not familiar, the K series is used for the Zen XPC, which is about 20% smaller than the usual G series. By contrast, the P series is about 20% larger than the G series, and it includes many of the provisions we've been asking for in our reviews of SFF systems.
  • Creative Labs MuVo TX 256 MB review - The 31 grams weighing one AAA battery powered MUVO ladies and gentlemen is next to being a storage device also a voice recorder and hey ... you know what ? It can also playback music in MP3 and WMA format. It's equipped with fast USB 2.0 port, has a nice little LCD which you can use to select music and for example change the 5 band graphical equalizer.
  • Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100 review - PCMag has posted a review on the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100 camera.
  • THG Puts 13 Bleeding-Edge Memory Modules, 14 Mobos To the Match-Up Test  - THG have tested 14 Athlon64 motherboards and more than a dozen memory modules to over 500 application-oriented tests.
  • PCP&C 510 Deluxe review - There's always one part of a system that lets down all the rest. It's a common thing... However, many fail to acknowledge that it's their PSU. The PSU market at the moment is hazy at best, with half the supposed 500w+ PSUs only outputting 430w in real-life... drastically under-rated ampages for each rail on some of the best of the crop... the plain fact is, you get what you pay for.
  • [!] Sapphire Radeon X800 PRO 256MB review - The performance of the WHQL Catalyst 4.5's is a little below the Beta drivers the initial X800 reviews used due to the official drivers being set a few month back, fairly early on in the development of X800 boards - some changes from the beta drivers are scheduled to come in Catalyst 4.6's and more in the Catalyst 4.7's. ATI are also taking about some increases in performance, certainly under FSAA conditions, as they get to grips with tuning their new programmable memory interface under various difference rendering conditions. Although there are likely to be some performances increases as the driver revisions go on, it certainly shouldn't be banked on.
  • Overclocking the Prescott P4 - The Madshrimps take a P4 3.0E for a spin on an Abit IC7 to see how high it can soar, or crash depending on the results: "Since the new Intel CPU didn´t prove to be faster then the P4 Northwood clock for clock, maybe it can beat it when overclocked? Time to find out, as we push a 3Ghz Prescott to its limits using Air and Phase Change Cooling"
  • Windows XP Performance Tweaking Guide (Updated) - I am Not a Geek has updated their Windows XP Performance Tweaking Guide.
  • GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 4.2 - Adrian's Rojak Pot has updated his GPU Comparison Guide with the addition of ATI's Radeon X300, X300SE, X600 Pro and X600 XT cards and NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (GDDR3) card.
  • A fresh install Fedora Core 2 Guide for Novices  - check it out.
  • Thief: Deadly Shadows Tweak Guide - TweakGuides.com let us know they have completed a handy Thief: Deadly Shadows Tweak Guide which covers all the major tweaks for this fantastic game. It contains detailed descriptions of the performance and visual quality impacts of all the in-game settings, links to important resources and all the advanced tweaking you need to make an outstanding Thief game even better.
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2, Build 2138 on Windows Update v5 - It seems Windows Service Pack 2 has been made avaliable on Windows Update V5 (direct link), for anyone using XP SP1. WARNING: dont use with corp versions of winXP, it will ask to re-activate ,how can you activate Corp? There is no activation in corp. I have had this before installing SP2 beta on an official corp PC wants it to activate after install, which is impossible, so that windows PC is screwed. Uninstall sp2 via recovery console. (thanks Bink.nu)
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 Build 2142 - Microsoft has released build 2142 (the latest build internally) to external beta testers at it's Windows Beta Web site. This build is not Release Candidate 2 but Microsoft have released this interim update alongside 2138 to testers which will proove not only confusing but troublesome for testers wanting to provide feedback on Windows XP SP2.
  • Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta  Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Media Player 10 beta (download beta).
  • Office 2003 Tool: Local Installation Source Tool - The Local Installation Source Tool is a wizard to help manage your Local Installation Source (LIS) on computers running Microsoft Office 2003. The LIS Tool allows you to enable or disable LIS, and to move the MsoCache folder to a new volume. This download is intended for use by customers and network administrators with LIS issues who contact Microsoft Product Support Services. Local Installation Source is a Setup feature. When a user installs Microsoft Office 2003 from a CD or a compressed CD image on the network, Setup copies any required installation files to a hidden folder on the local computer. Microsoft Windows Installer uses this local installation source to install Office, and the local source remains available for repairing, reinstalling or updating Office later on. Users can install features on demand or run Setup in maintenance mode to add new features without their original media.
  • CuteFTP Pro 6.04 (SHW) - CuteFTP Pro (download) integrates state-of-the-art security standards including SSL via FTP and HTTP, SSH2 and advanced S/KEY password encryption to ensure that confidential business data stays that way.
  • Opera 7.51 Final - Opera (Win32 with Java / Win32 w/o Java / Linux / FreeBSD) is faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers.
  • AntiVir Personal Edition 6.25.00.03 (Updated) - The private and individual use of the AntiVir Personal Edition is completely free of charge! Even though viruses have now grown very numerous, one thing hasn't changed: our commitment to provide you with all-round protection. The reliability of AntiVir is demonstrated in numerous comparison test and references featured in independent trade journals.
  • Tweak-XP Pro 3.0.4 - Tweak-XP Pro (SHW) bundles more than 48 different utilities in one: it was developed to combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your Windows XP system.
  • Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility 6.0.0.1014 (Unofficial!) - The Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility installs to the target system the Windows* INF files that outline to the operating system how the chipset components will be configured. This is needed for the proper functioning of the following features: - Core PCI and ISA PNP Services - AGP Support - IDE/ATA33/ATA66/ATA100 Storage Support - USB Support - Identification of Intel Chipset Components in the Device Manager This release adds SATA Storage support.
  • Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.5.6 (Unofficial!) - The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition software package provides support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays and redundant RAID 1 arrays on select Intel 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows XP or Windows 2000.
  • Nero version 6.3.1.15 -  Ahead has released Nero version 6.3.1.15, In-CD version 4.2.9.1, Media Player 1.4.0.2, Mix 1.4.0.22, and NeroVision Express 2.1.2.12.
  • PlexTools Professional 2.14 - Plextor Europe has released a new version (2.14) of the PlexTools software.
  • Messenger Plus! 3.01.94 - Messenger Plus! Extension (download) is a program that adds functionalities to the MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger chat program. Some of the added features are logging, personalized Away Messages, transparency effects, and a feature to minimize all MSN Messenger windows to the system tray. Now supports MSNM 6.x as well.
  • Codec Pack All in 1 6.0.1.3 - Codec Pack All in 1 6.0.1.3 includes:DivX 5.1.1, Koepi's XviD Codec 1.0.0 Final, DivX, XviD - FFDShow 20.05.2004 alpha, MPEG2 3.0.0.0, Subtitles g400 2.83, Subtitles DVobSub (Win9x, Win2k a WinXP) 2.23, 2.33, OGG Vorbis 0.9.9.5, AC3 1.01a RC5 and Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher 0.99b.
  • ATI Tray Tools Updated 1.0.0.325 - Yet another new version of ATI Tray Tools is available; which is a small utility that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings.

Comments from stumpusposted - 02:46 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
1ST POST! WOOT!

Comments from l337 H4x0Rposted - 02:49 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
Self-destructing DVD's take 8-24 hours to decay? That's plenty of time to RIP THAT BITCH! HA!

Comments from magaposted - 08:21 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
"Genetically-modified virus explodes cancer cells" - nice one, hx ! I gotta say this is the best news mix so far.

Comments from Tomposted - 09:20 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
wouldn't suggest anyone use the beta intel chipset stuff. I had some funky stuff going on when I used it but not in terms of errors. I just thought one day, hmm, wonder if it's from that stuff I read from ggmania and i went with the latest final release of chipset software and my problems disappeared. Things like screen freeze and no message, or hanging when dragging icons on desktop or even frozen internet connections..Glad to see they are still releasing updates though.

Comments from El_Coyoteposted - 10:56 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
software patents are so lame... doubleclick patents.. bah

Comments from tigermonkposted - 11:46 PM CEST - Jun,03 2004
mp3's that self distruct...what is this mission impossible?

Comments from Vipposted - 12:17 AM CEST - Jun,04 2004
people are going nuts with all this piracy around. whats next? self-destructing USB disk! :|

Comments from ritzposted - 12:49 AM CEST - Jun,04 2004
MSI sucks, and finally someone get so fed up they sue instead of curse!

Comments from 1posted - 07:34 AM CEST - Jun,04 2004
waiting for the bill gays guy talking about how ms is the 1st post again.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 11:20 AM CEST - Jun,04 2004
Sorry I'm late in posting guys. So much is happening at Microsoft as you have been reading. We're working hard on developing WMP10, WinXP SP2, and secret built-in spyware for longhorn which i can't tell you about. =) But with regards the patient on the Double-click, this reflects a new policy shift within Microsoft. In the future, we plan to distribute Windows for FREE!!! Yes, you read right -- WINDOWS FOR FREE! Afterall, half you buggers are probably using a pirated copy of WinXP anyhow. =) Instead users will pay $0.02 per click. =) This has a two-fold effect; users will finally remember where hidden options are and stop bugging system administrators, and workers will be forced into becoming more productive. =D No more useless websurfing on office hours! Well, that's all I have time for now. Amd after i click "submit" it will be my 2 cents worth! =D

Comments from Tomposted - 04:18 PM CEST - Jun,04 2004
what happened to the patient? did he die using the double click?

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 05:42 AM CEST - Jun,05 2004
That was a typo Tom. Patient = Patent. The patient died not from double-clicking, but from screwing with the Worlds Richest man. =)

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