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81446	2002-09-20 10:10:00	Creative to announce Audigy 2 next week The Spanish site Meristation (www.meristation.com) has posted details of the new Audigy 2 that was presented at a launch there this week and will be officially unveiled next week. The new Audigy 2 will have the following features: -DVD Audio, Dolby Digital EX 6.1 o THX Lucasfilm and backwards standards compatible. -Playback in 24 bits y 192 kHz. -106dB Signal to noise level (6 dB more than old generation). -Recording in 24 bit/96 KHz. -Frequency response from 10 Hz to 46 kHz. Look to the official site next week and prepare for the battle with the new Hercules Digifire 7.1. ABIT's high performance budget GeForce4 ABIT has launched its new high performance budget Ti4200. The performance is achieved via their new cooling system that it claims will allow you to push performance of a GeForce4 Ti4200 chip up to the level of a Ti4600. The card has been labelled the Siluro GF4 Ti4200 OTES and it will be available for sale from the 23 of September with a price of £US150 (around the $450 mark for us here in Oz). The cooling system works like this: OTES (Outside Thermal Exhaust System) uses some of the ideas from notebook cooling systems, although it clearly doesn't steal them wholesale, because it's patent-pending. It uses a vacuum to seal the Ti4200 on a copper base, then a 7,200 rpm fan to cool the system. This of course just gives you a cooler card, so in order to actually deliver the extra performance Abit is shipping overclocking tools with it. You can read more on the card at The Register (www.theregister.co.uk). mp3Trim version 1.81 released mp3Trim, the MP3 editor, version 1.81 has been released for download. The changes in this version are a fixed minor bug related to the seek-info header. mp3Trim's main advantage is that it works directly in the MP3 format without having to decode/re-encode, so it is very fast and doesn't degrade the music quality. mp3Trim version 1.81 (204.127.198.13) Norton Ghost 2003 leaked to the net A copy of Norton Ghost 2003 has found it's way onto the net for download. Norton Ghost 2003 uses a Windows interface that makes it easy to create regular backups of your hard drive without the need for a boot disk. The iso is a 47MB file. Norton Ghost 2003 (www.sky999.com Ghost 2003 ISO) :-) turns 20 Twenty years ago today Scott Fahlman invented the now famous :-) which has evolved and become one of the most widely used symbols around. here's a little bit on the inventer of the smiley symbol: The IBM researcher has devoted his professional life to artificial intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans. Fahlman is known for his work with neural networks -- a computer technique designed to mimic the human brain -- and helping develop Common Lisp, a computer language that uses symbols instead of numbers, but the bearded scientist is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define Internet culture, in all of its ungrammatical glory. On September 19, 1982, Fahlman typed :-) in an online message. You can read more on the story of the net smiling over at CNN (www.cnn.com). Windows XP SP1 not in compliance with consent decree One of the anti-Microsoft watchdog companies (ProComp-Project To Promote Competition and Innovation In The Digital Age) is claiming that Microsoft is guilty of six violations of its consent decree with the government. ProComp has sent a letter to the Department of Justice and New York Attorney General's Office claiming that Windows XP Service Pack 1 is "rife" with efforts to bypass the spirit and intent of Microsoft's antitrust consent decree with the Department of Justice In their words: All tolled, "SP1 for Windows XP is not, in our view, in compliance. Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 is even less compliant," the letter claimed. Both service packs shipped as a result of the proposed consent decree. Windows 2000 SP3 shipped in August. Windows XP shipped on Sept. 9. Read more at CRN (www.crn.com). nVidia to launch NV18 and NV28 chips on September 25 nVidia will launch it's NV18 and NV28 graphics chips on September 25, give the GeForce 4 family 8x AGP. The NV18 and NV28 will be named the GeForce4 MX440 8x and GeForce4 Ti 4200 8x, respectively and will be priced only slightly higher than the current chips. At the same time ATI has announced that it will introduce its Radeon 9500 series in October, a card based on the R300 core that also offers AGP 8x specification. Read details of the launch at Digitimes (www.digitimes.com). UT2003 Weapons Guide PlanetUnreal have updated their UT2003 weapons guide to include the following: We've updated our UT2003 weapons guide with the latest info, tips, and tactics. I can almost guarantee you'll learn something! They also have a small (4.6MB) video demonstrating the finer points of wall jumps and dodge jumps in the demo DM maps of UT2003. Check out the update Weapons Guide here (www.planetunreal.com) and download the video from the link below. UT2003 video (www.fileplanet.com) ATI Radeon version 7.76 WHQL drivers released Some new ATI driver WHQL drivers, version 7.76 have been released for the Radeon 9700 Pro/9500/9000/8500/8500LE. These drivers have ATI control panels WHQL verison 5.13.10302 included in the pack. ATI Radeon version 7.76 WHQL drivers (http://fernando.darocha.free.fr/) Windows Media Player 9 codecs without DRM One of the moderators over at the Doom9 Forums has developed managed to snag the wmp9 codecs (this should allow WMP9 to work on Windows 98) and created a utility that will allow you to encode your DVD's. This could be a handy tool for all those looking to rip their DVD's. You can read the forum post here (forum.doom9.org) and download the codecs and utility from the links below. Codecs (nic.dnsalias.com) Utility (nic.dnsalias.com) Unreal with S3TC A program has been released that will allow you to play the original Unreal maps using the S3 Texture Conversion pack. The S3TC adds highly details and textured effects to the already outstanding Unreal textures. Here are the instructions on the install: This program allows you to convert UT 2nd CD Texture Packages to Unreal compatible packages. Install: - Install one of the recent OpenGl Patches (OpenGlDrv2.1.0.4.zip for Unreal Version 224 or OpenGlDrv2.1.0.5.zip for Unreal Version226/UnrealGold), and check that "S3TC" is set to true. - Copy Every file from UT 2nd CD "Texture" folder (ex : D:Textures) into an empty directory (ex : c: empUTHiResTextures). - Extract the S3TCExt.exe into this folder too, and run it. - It should process every file and the ask you to press any key to close - (Processing may take long). - A "temp" folder will be generated which contains the converted textures: (ex c: empUTHiResTextures temp) - Copy every file from this folder to your unreal Texture directory (ex : c:Gamesunreal extures) and overwrite when prompted. - (this Program is tested and no errors were found yet, but if you experience a problem with one of the packages replace the file with the original from the Unreal CD.) - Run the game and enjoy Read more info on the pack and conversion here (http://www.oldunreal.com). S3TC (www.oldunreal.com) Zoom Player 2.90 Alpha released Zoom Player, the program that provides special zooming functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan, version 2.90 Alpha has been released. There is no word on the changes in this version as yet. Here's a bit more on the player: Zoom Player's scaling system allows you to exactly match the video area to your screen's dimensions in real-time with adjustable background color in order to test for brightness bleeds. You can also fast forwarding (even on MPEG4 type formats such as DivX), 10 Keyboard accessible presets to automatically adjust the video area to pre-defined settings, customizable control bar with graphical time-seek controls, keyboard mapped controls, aspect ratio support for correct playback of anamorphic video and out of aspect-ratio content. Zoom Player 2.90 Alpha (www.husbandd.clara.net) AsusUpdate version 3.35.01 available Asus Germany released an updated version of the LiveUpdate utility which lets you view BIOS information, download BIOS files, flash directly from the internet and flash locally from within Windows. AsusUpdate version 3.35.01 (ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/BIOS_FLASH_UTILS/asusupd33501.zip) Plutonium XP 8.1 (6166 Based) drivers released A new set of Plutonium XP 8.1 drivers based on the ATI 6166 drivers have been released for Windows XP. Plutonium drivers are customized ATI drivers much like the Omega drivers for nVidia cards. The drivers are for the following cards: Radeon 7000 / VE Radeon 7200 / SDR / DDR Radeon 7500 Radeon 8500 / LE / LELE Radeon 9000 / Pro Radeon 9700 Pro All in Wonder Radeon SDR / DDR All in Wonder Radeon 7500 All in Wonder Radeon 8500dv All in Wonder Radeon 8500 (128mb) Mobility Radeon (M6) Mobility Radeon 7500 / FireGL 7800 (M7/M7-GL) Mobility Radeon 9000 / FireGL 9000 (M9/M9-GL) All other powered by ATI radeon devices The drivers include the following changes: Windows GUI Acceleration problems should be fixed. Hopefully improved more upon 9000/9700/M9 Support. CPanel integrated directly into driver INF (Should help some people with CPanel problems). Did more testing on R100 chips. 6166 Driver fixed the Mozilla freezing bug. NOTE: ATI Icons removed from advanced tabs on purpose, not a bug. Modified WDM Included (Based on 6.13.6142). * file size signifigantly reduced to under 13.5 Plutonium XP 8.1 (6166 Based) drivers (www.driverheaven.net) IE Opera 6.5 released A new version (6.5) of IE Opera has been released. This browser is an opera based version of Internet Explorer that is fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. IE Opera allows user to browse multiple Web sites simultaneously and block all unwanted pop-up pages. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed or arranged with one click. The integrated cleaner helps user to clear all traces and keep privacy. Built-in Google search engine enables user to search for web pages and images in Internet. The following changes have been included in this version: Office XP Style Interface Integrated Google Searching List of Recently Opened Pages Improved Links Bar Improved New Version Checker Importing Favorites from Bookmark Exporting Favorites to Bookmark History Searching Integrated Cleaner You can read more and check some screenshots out here (http://www.ieopera.com). IE Opera (www.ieopera.com) Backing up your copy protected games and CD's 3dgpu has posted up and article on how to successfully backup your copy protected games and CD's. Here's a clip: Received a few emails asking about backing up some of the latest copy protected games out there and thought I would post a summary of some information I wrote for a previous article at another site. I did some rather extensive research on the subject and even went out and purchased the equipment and ran it through a ton of tests to make sure it works, and it has on everything I have tried so far. Since the law provides the right for purchasers of games and CD's to make backup copies for personal use, there should be no DCMA or other copyright violation issues. Check out the full guide at 3dgpu (www.3dgpu.com 759b4b13). GoldenHawk CDRWIN 3.9B released Goldenhawk Technologies (http://www.goldenhawk.com) has released a new version of CDRWin, bringing it up to version 3.9B. There is no list of the changes but needless to say it will include an updated list of compatible CD-RW burners. CDRWIN 3.9B (ftp://ftp.cdarchive.com/pub/goldenhawk/download/cdr39b-e.exe) www.ozquake.com ( [url) monty[/url]	tweak'e (174)
81447	2002-09-20 11:43:00	just gotta say this :D:D:D:D canterbury beat the aucklanders :D:D:D:D 18-11 :D:D:D:D:D	csinclair83 (200)
81448	2002-09-20 11:51:00	isn't the smiley 30yrs old? i think there was a post earlier which mentioned it being 30yrs old. cheers, v.K---------------- :D	vk_dre (195)
81449	2002-09-20 14:08:00	It just goes to show that you can't believe everything found on the net eh! :-( There were two versions listed. 1. In 1972 Franklin Loufrani, a journalist, created a simple concept for European newspapers, sideways type icons to communicate emotions--emoticons. He gave his original icon :) the name of "Smiley". Smiley quickly spread across the world. Other emoticons followed Smiley. 2. Here is another: According to CNN.com Scott Fahlman, an IBM researcher known for his work with neural networks is perhaps best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define Internet culture, in all of its ungrammatical glory. On September 19, 1982, Fahlman typed :-) in an online message. --------------------------------------------------- I think that I prefer the CNN version, as shown on the CNN site (www.cnn.com), where it shows a picture of Scott Fahlman and quotes his claim to being the originator. That puts it back to 20 yrs old. You were right all along Rob! :)	exLL (515)
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