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86117	2002-10-04 10:01:00	New Nvidia Beta Detonators 40.72 Win2000/XP/9x nVidia (http://www.nvidia.com) has released new version 40.72 drivers for nVidia based graphics cards. The new drivers have the following highlights: Up to a 25% increase in performance Third BETA Windows XP / 2000 driver (if you are experiencing any problems with this driver please install the latest WHQL Certified driver nView 2.0 multi-display technology increases productivity and provides the necessary tools to control the way users access and view applications. NVRotate enabling image rotation on today's advanced flat panel displays. NVKeystone allows for real-time image correction on portable projectors and heads-up displays. Digital Vibrance Control allows users to adjust color controls to achieve accurate, bright colors under all conditions. New control panel streamlines user interface and enables faster and easier access to all video settings Robust Channels enables higher faster performance and better stability for all applications through fail-safe paths in the drivers CineFX Simulator allows developers to use Cg - "C for graphics" - to write complex shaders in a high level language faster and more easily than before. NVIDIA's patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) - supports all products in a single driver binary. Grab em from the following links: Windows 2000/XP Mirror 1 (ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/40.72/40.72_win2kxp.exe) Mirror 2 (download1.nvidia.com) Mirror 3 (ftp://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/40.72/40.72_win2kxp.exe) Windows 9x Mirror 1 (ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/40.72/40.72_win9x.exe) Mirror 2 (download1.nvidia.com) Mirror 3 (ftp://download1.nvidia.com/Windows/40.72/40.72_win9x.exe) Lite-On CD-RW firmware updates LiteOn have released some new CD-RW Firmware Updates for the Following drives: Lite-On LTR-48246S ( 48X/24X/48X ) CD-RW Firmware R48SS06.zip 2002/10/02 Lite-On LTR-48126S ( 48X/12X/48X ) CD-RW Firmware R482S0D.zip 2002/10/02 Lite-On LTR-48125W ( 48X/12X/48X ) CD-RW Firmware R48VS08.zip 2002/10/02 Lite-On CD-RW firmware (www.liteonit.com.tw) Drivable vehicles in UT2003 Here's a little hidden easter egg of sorts. UT2003 has a hidden vehicle that is driveable and here's how you activate it: Press the tilde key (`) and type "open vehicledemo" - without the quotes To get the vehicle to appear you need to run over this funky little hand painted switch. Near the switch you'll see a very small vehicle hanging in mid-air....this is where the vehicle will drop drown from once you run over the switch. To mount the vehicle press the "U" key and to dismount use the Space key..... You can have up to two vehicles I believe and I don't know whether you can set up an Internet connection to play against someone else in this mode either. If you find a way let me know! You can fire rockets too! You can catch some screenshots of the vehicle here (www.ut2003news.com). New SiS Xabre Driver version 3.06.55 Xabregamers has just posted up some new SIS Xabre drivers version 3.06.55. The new drivers is for Windows XP/ME/2000/98SE and is for the following video cards: Xabre 400 Xabre 200 Xabre 80 SiS 315 New SiS Xabre Driver version 3.06.55 (xabregamers.free.fr) ZoneAlarm Pro 3.1 released A new version 3.1 of ZoneAlarm Pro has been released for registered users. There's no word on what's new in this version, but rest assurred any update of one of the best on the market is worth it. ZoneAlarm Pro 3.1 released (www.zonelabs.com) Americas Army Weapons Cache and JRTC_Farm Map Pack A new map pack containing two new maps, Weapons Cache and JRTC_Farm has been released. The pack is 3.3MB and is available from the link below. Americas Army Weapons Cache and JRTC_Farm Map Pack (www.aafiles.com) Its official, the NV30 will be revealed at Comdex nVidia has officially confirmed that the NV30 GPU will be revealed at the upcoming COMDEX show in Las Vegas. read the full details on the confirmation here (www.xbitlabs.com). nVidia Detonator 31.40 WHQL Drivers for all OS's Not to be confused with the official drivers drivers also released today, a leaked beta copy version 31.40 Det drivers are out. These drivers are WHQL certified and are available for Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP. nVidia Detonator 31.40 WHQL Drivers for all OS's (www.fileconnect.net) Record companies to offer a digital free download week For one week beginning Thursday October 3, music listeners in Europe will be able to download, stream or burn onto their hard drives a selection of tracks from 6,000 artists including Coldplay, Dido and Elvis Presley. The week is part of a marketing ploy called "Digital Download Day" devised by British firm OD2, a technology company specializing in digital music distribution and co-founded by recording artist Peter Gabriel. Backed by record labels and music retailers, a host of subscription download services have been hatched over the past year to tap into the consumer craze of downloading music. The program will be open only to European Web users. Consumers who register on one of the six participating sites will get $7.90-worth of digital music to sample or burn. Read the whole story at Zdnet (zdnet.com.com). Radeon 9700 Pro Volt Modage Xtremesystems.org have posted a guide showing you how to volt mod your ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Here's a bit of a look at the guide: It's volt mod time again, and thanks to our Volt mod guru and Xtreme technician and Moderator, DDTUNG, XtremeSystems are proud to present the Vgpu and Vmem volt mods for the Radeon 9700. DD developed these mods several days after the retail availability of the Radeon 9700...and the Xtreme 3Dmark Team has enjoyed their benefits up until this point. The specifications for the 2 volt modifications as outlined by DDTUNG are below....followed by pics contributed by Xtreme 3DMark Team members PiLsY, Manoj Mahtani and myself. Note: these volt mods will void all warranties on the Radeon 9700 videocard....and are done at your own risk. DDTUNG, myself nor XtremeSystems.org take any responsibility for loss or ruin of your videocard by following the procedures presented below! Check the whole guide here (www.xtremesystems.org). DrvImagerXP version 2.0 released Version 2.0 of DrvImagerXP has been released for download. There's no word from the website on the changes, but this program is worthy of the download as it makes a good alternative to Drive Image Pro. Here's the word on the program: Freeware DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows2000/XP operating systems. It makes backups of your partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about files!. It creates a mirror image (but not reversed) of a partition by copying the sector bytes on the partition. And it does this very fast! You can create images of different operating system setups and swap them out in just minutes! DrvImagerXP version 2.0 released (home.carolina.rr.com) How To Make Your Own RedHat 8.0 DVD Jay Berkenbilt has posted a guide on making your own RedHat 8.0 DVD from the CD ISO images that were released fro download this week. Here's a juicy bit from the guide: Red Hat has finally created a DVD version of their distribution for US consumers. (They've had one in Europe for a while, I understand.) For 8.0, though, it seems that you have to buy RedHat 8.0 Professional to get the DVD, and RedHat is not presently offering an ISO image of the DVD for download.After reading some of the anaconda source code, I have figured out how you can make your own DVD from the CD ISO images. I've done this, written it to a DVD+RW disc, had it pass its Media check, and successfully installed from it. This makes for a great alternative to having to use 3 CD's. Read the whole guide here (www.linuxcompatible.org). Sygate Personal Firewall version 5.0 Build 1150 released A new version 5.0 build 1150 of Sygate Personal Firewall has been released with the following changes: Protocol Driver-Level Protection Broadcast Traffic Filtering Server Application Blocking Enhanced DoS Protection Application DLL Authentication Auto Trojan Termination Quick Log View Switch You can get the complete list of features and changes here (soho.sygate.com) or download the very good firewall program from the link below. Sygate Personal Firewall version 5.0 Build 1150 (soho.sygate.com) Four new Security Updates for Windows Micrsoft has released four new security updates fro Windows to patch a number of vulnerabilities. Here are the details of each: Unchecked Buffer in File Decompression Functions Could Lead to Code Execution (Q329048) - Date: 02 October 2002 - Software: Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me or Windows XP - Impact: Two vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could run code of attackers choice - Max Risk: Moderate Four new Security Updates for Windows (www.microsoft.com) Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility Could Enable Code Execution (Q323255) - Date: 02 October 2002 - Software: Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP - Impact: Attacker could gain control over user's system - Max Risk: Critical Enable Code Execution (Q323255 (www.microsoft.com) Cumulative Patch for SQL Server (Q316333) - This is a cumulative patch that includes the functionality of all previously released patches for SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0, Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE) 2000. In addition, it eliminates four newly discovered vulnerabilities. - Date: 02 October 2002 - Software: Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me or Windows XP - Impact: Two vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could run code of attackers choice - Max Risk: Moderate Cumulative Patch for SQL Server (Q316333 (support.microsoft.com) Flaw in Services for Unix 3.0 Interix SDK Could Allow Code Execution (Q329209) - Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a vulnerability in Services for Unix 3.0 Interix SDK. for Unix 3.0 Interix SDK. (www.microsoft.com) The History of Ping Here's a treat for all you techno buffs out there and a bit of history for those who are just interested: The Story of the PING Program: "Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically everyone seems to know about. :-) I named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the whole principle of echo-location. In college I'd done a lot of modeling of sonar and radar systems, so the "Cyberspace" analogy seemed very apt. It's exactly the same paradigm applied to a new problem domain: ping uses timed IP/ICMP ECHO_REQUEST and ECHO_REPLY packets to probe the "distance" to the target machine. My original impetus for writing PING for 4.2a BSD UNIX came from an offhand remark in July 1983 by Dr. Dave Mills while we were attending a DARPA meeting in Norway, in which he described some work that he had done on his "Fuzzball" LSI-11 systems to measure path latency using timed ICMP Echo packets. In December of 1983 I encountered some ......... " You can read the rest here (ftp.arl.army.mil). 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault' Program Causes an Error Message in Windows XP Microsoft has issued a new KnowledgeBase article on a problem affecting Windows XP Home and Pro owners playing Medal Of Honour. Here are the details: SYMPTOMS When you are playing the Electronic Arts 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault' program, you may receive the following error message: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If the error message is still displayed and you want to see the data that the error report contains, click the click here link at the bottom of the message box. You then see error signature information CAUSE This issue may occur if Medal of Honor: Allied Assault version 1.0 or earlier by Electronic Arts is installed. These versions of this program are not completely compatible with the Microsoft software that is listed at the beginning of this article. Read the rest of the article and the work around here (support.microsoft.com). Developer of DEAMON Tools says "forget about doing 1:1 backups" The developer of DEAMON Tools has posted information on CDfreaks forum regarding the latest SecuROM versions. The developer says that with the new version of SecuROM it's impossible to copy some of the latest games. here's a slice of the pie he has written: The Latest version of Securom CANNOT be copied on usual media just like other protections of this style (CDCOPS etc.). PERIOD. Forget about 1:1 copy in a traditional way! The glass master used to produce original SecuROM disc has unsteady physical parameters along the spiral track containing data sectors. Securom loader verifies these parameters and checks that they are indeed changing along the track which is not the case on your '1:1' copy. You cannot copy it on usual media because usual CD-R/RW has consistant chacteristics all over the disc (track pitch etc) and its parameters are different than parameters of the master. Read the whole article over at CDFreaks (www.cdfreaks.com). thx thy god monty (www.ozquake.com)	tweak'e (174)
86118	2002-10-04 11:31:00	Thanks muchly for taking onboard my suggestion to include the date along with "news" I have the link where you get it from in "Favourites" but I prefer to spend more time on PressF1	Elephant (599)
86119	2002-10-05 11:55:00	hmm I'll have to go and have a play with those vehicles later ;)	-=JM=- (16)
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