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Thread ID: 24448	2002-09-11 10:50:00	wednesday news (csi is on.....)	tweak'e (174)	Press F1

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78538	2002-09-11 10:50:00	Intel Developer Forum reveals 4 . 7GHz Pentium 4 Intel has continued to use the IDF conference to demonstrate the shape of things to come . This conference sees Intel showing a sneak peek of a 4 . 7GHz P4 chip for high-end desktop PCs . Paul Otellini, Intel's president and COO, in a keynote address demonstrated the 4 . 7-GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor line as well as a 3Ghz Pentium saying it would be available this year with Hyper-Threading (HT) technology . You can read more on this over at Silicon Strategies ( . siliconstrategies . com/story/OEG20020909S0098" target="_blank">www . siliconstrategies . com) and check out some IDF coverage over at CNet ( . com . com/2009-1001-957141 . html?tag=fd_lede" target="_blank">news . com . com) and Anandtech ( . anandtech . com/showdoc . html?i=1702" target="_blank">www . anandtech . com) . UT 2003 demo this week I know you may have heard it all before, but now it is coming from the horses mouth as it were . Mark Rein has another Forum Post ( . ina-community . com/forums/showthread . php?s=&threadid=201466" target="_blank">www . ina-community . com) detailing the imminent release of the demo . Here's a cut from the thread: The demo is nearly ready to go . It should be out sometime within the next few days . Keep watching this space (the stickies) for an announcement . When it's ready we'll just be releasing it randomly to a few major sites so that hopefully it will spread like wildfire and everyone will be able to get it from their favorite games site . There won't be any special exclusives or anything like that . We want everyone to be enjoying it the minute it goes live . He does follow this up with another post that says nothing is set in concrete and that anything could happen in the next five days that would delay the demo . Windows XP Media Centre Edition Trailer Microsoft has released a trailer showing off there new addition to the Windows XP family, Windows XP Media Centre . The new OS turns your PC into a home entertainment unit . The trailer is available in 56Kbit ( . microsoft . com/winme/0207/18505/MCE_56k . asx" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com), 110Kbit ( . microsoft . com/winme/0207/18505/MCE_110k . asx" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com), or 300Kbit ( . microsoft . com/winme/0207/18505/MCE_300k . asx" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com) versions and is in ASX format . Maxtor announces new MaXLine 320GB HDD family Maxtor has announced ( . shareholder . com/maxtor/news/20020909-89588 . cfm" target="_blank">www . shareholder . com) its new family of hard drives called MaXLine . the MaXLine series have a storage capacity of up 320GB and a MTTF of one million hours . Here a bit of the announcement: These new drives are designed to solve another enterprise problem with the storage of video, media and audio conference call files . Even compressed, these files take up tremendous amounts of high-cost server space . Priced starting around $299 . 95 to $399 . 95 MSRP, Maxtor's MaXLine family offers high capacity drives for enterprise applications at price points between traditional ATA and SCSI drives . The MaXLine family includes the 5400-RPM MaXLine II, designed for capacities up to 320 GB and the 7200-RPM MaXLine Plus II, designed for capacities up to 250 GB . At these capacities, MaXLine offers higher storage density than many tape and optical solutions . These drives have also been tested and are projected to meet enterprise reliability requirements, already exceeded by prior drives employing the same robust Maxtor designs, which exceed MTTF of over one million hours . These drives will also carry a three-year warranty . The MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II feature the Maxtor Fast DriveTM UltraATA/133 interface for data transfer speeds up to 133 MB per second . The MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II will be available with next-generation serial ATA interface for higher performance . At 150 MB per second maximum data transfer rate, serial ATA improves hard drive performance to keep pace with the rapidly increasing performance requirements of data intensive environments and enterprise applications . IE 6 SP1 omits fixes for 20 outstanding flaws It has been discovered that service pack 1 for Internet Explorer has been shipped without fixes to twenty pre-know security flaws . The most dangerous of which makes it possible for an attacker to execute script on any Web page that containing frames . The vulnerability has been described as critical because of the way frames (and iframes) are handled by IE version 5 . 5 and above . Read more on the omissions at The Register ( . theregister . co . uk/content/55/27048 . html" target="_blank">www . theregister . co . uk) . jv16 PowerTools version 1 . 1 . 0 . 145 Beta released jv16 PowerTools, a next generation of RegCleaner, version 1 . 1 . 0 . 145 beta has been released for download . jv16 provides a set of tools to keep your computer and your LAN up and running by monitoring and cleaning the Registry and the file system . There is no word on what's new in this release and if you want more info check out the jv16 (http://www . jv16 . org/) homepage . jv16 PowerTools ( . vtoy . fi/jv16/programs/jv16pt_setup . exe" target="_blank">www . vtoy . fi) Microsoft Office 11 Beta Sign-up Microsoft has posted invitations to sign up for the beta testing program for Office 11 the next in the line of Office suites . The beta program is scheduled to start in the next couple of months and as part of the program you will receive a beta kit with Office 11 and Office Family applications, along with a hosted SharePoint Team Services subweb site for exploration and use during the beta time period . If you are interested in signing up use the account listed below and complete the survey at BetaPlace (http://www . BetaPlace . com) . If you already have a personal or previously-assigned BetaID and Password, these will not grant you access to the survey . Guest Access Account : Guest Beta ID: GEXTSU Guest Password: B15LIMK IconPackager version 2 . 02 released A new version (2 . 02) of IconPackager has been released for download with no word on the changes for the version . IconPackager allows you to download packages of icons and apply them to change virtually all the icons in Windows . It comes with several packs of very high quality icons and hundreds of others are available on the net . Check out a screenshot here ( . betanews . com/screenshots/1022618537 . jpg" target="_blank">fileforum . betanews . com) and grab it from the link below . IconPackager ( . betanews . com/download . php?fid=1022618537" target="_blank">fileforum . betanews . com) Madden NFL 2003 demo out Electronic Arts has released the demo for another in its long line of Madden NFL football games, Madden NFL 2003 . This demo clocks in at 42 . 8MB and gives you a brief glimpse in the latest release of the series with improves graphics and game AI . Grab it from the links below . Mirror 1 Madden NFL 2003 (ftp://ftp . sunet . se/pub/pc/games/gamesdomain/demos/maddennfl2003internetdemo . exe) Mirror 2 Madden NFL 2003 (ftp://ftp . gamesdomain . com/pub/demos/maddennfl2003internetdemo . exe) Seismovision Demo Player version 2 . 10 out A new version (2 . 10) of the Seismovision Demo Player has been released for download with some bug fixes the only change . if your not sure what Seismovision Demo Player is then check the description below: Seismovision is a versatile demo player for Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Star Trek Voyager Elite Force and Return to Castle Wolfenstein . The AVA (Auto-Version Adaptation) ’technology’ makes Seismovision the best demo player for Quake 3 Arena, Half-Life (Counter-Strike) Star Trek Voyager Elite Force and Return to Castle Wolfenstein players and its ‘Demodiversity’ makes it a must for every professional gamer . Seismovision Demo Player ( . planetquake3 . net/seismovision/" target="_blank">www . planetquake3 . net) RADEON 9700 PRO Direct3D patch ATi has issued a patch for Direct3D while using the Radeon 9700 video card . The patch fixes some fog problems with Battlefield 1942, Mafia and The Thing and requires that the following drivers be installed on your system: Windows 98/ME - Catalyst 02 . 2 . Windows 2000 - Catalyst 02 . 2 . Windows XP - Catalyst 02 . 2 . If you have this version installed grab the driver from the links below: Windows 98/ME ( . ati . com/drivers/wme-3duag-0121-patch . exe" target="_blank">mirror2 . ati . com) Windows XP ( . ati . com/drivers/wxp-3duag-0121-patch . exe" target="_blank">mirror2 . ati . com) Windows 2000 ( . ati . com/drivers/w2k-3duag-0121-patch . exe" target="_blank">mirror2 . ati . com) AMD announces new technology MSN Money is reporting that AMD has announced new technology that will enable a ten-fold jump in performance in future transistors . Here's the dirt: AMD AMD today announced it has fabricated the smallest double-gate transistors reported to date using industry standard technology . AMD's research breakthrough could foster the placement of a billion transistors on the same size chip that currently holds 100 million transistors, enabling a vastly richer computing experience . Click on Read More for more info . "Transistor development is essential to the creation of higher-performing products for our customers," said Craig Sander, AMD's vice president of Technology Development . "The entire semiconductor industry is working to meet the increasing challenges of developing new transistor designs that are smaller and higher-performing and yet can be manufactured with minimal deviation from today's industry standard manufacturing processes . The FinFET transistor indicates we can continue to deliver very high performance products while preserving the basic technology infrastructure our industry relies upon . " Read the rest here ( . moneycentral . msn . com/ticker/article . asp?Feed=BW&Date=20020910&ID=1913519&Symbol=US:AMD" target="_blank">news . moneycentral . msn . com) . Media Jukebox version 9 . 0 . 053 released Version 9 . 0 . 053 of Media Jukebox has been released with no word on what's changed . Media Jukebox supports over twenty media file formats allowing it to play MP3, Windows Media, RealMedia, QuickTime, LiquidAudio, J . River's own secure format, MusicEx, and many other audio and video formats . MEDIA JUKEBOX also supports the latest streaming technology, like Shoutcast and Icecast . Grab your copy of this magic program from the links below . Mirror 1 ( . 51soft . com/asp/download . asp?id=3165&url=http://dl1 . 51soft . com:8080/dmtl/mtbf/mediajukebox90053 . exe" target="_blank">download . 51soft . com) Mirror 2 ( . 51soft . com/asp/download . asp?id=3165&url=http://dl4 . 51soft . com:8008/dmtl/mtbf/mediajukebox90053 . exe" target="_blank">download . 51soft . com) Tom's Hardware Guide P4 3 . 6GHz review claimed as a fake french website X86-Secret is claiming that the recent 3 . 6Ghz Pentium 4 ( . tomshardware . com/cpu/02q3/020909/index . html" target="_blank">www4 . tomshardware . com) article is fake and that the processor pictured in the article is not in fact a Pentium 3 . 6Ghz processor and they back it up with this tidbit of info: Update: It seems more and more that this CPU is a fake . It is not a certainty, but some elements are disconcerting, here . While examining the marking of famous P4 3 . 3 Ghz ( . altavista . com/urltrurl?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww . x86-secret . com%2Fpics%2Fcputoms1 . jpg" target="_blank">world . altavista . com), one realize that it comprises reference "QFF8ES", it is has to say that of Pentium 4 Northwood 2 . 0 Ghz confidential . Moreover, the code which appears in bottom is "80531" which is that of the first modeles of Northwood . The new ones, as the 2 . 8 Ghz uses the code "80532" . The 3 . 3 Ghz, if there really exists, should use this code, to see one "80533" . More astonishing still, I found a photograph of one 2 . 0 Ghz confidential or all the figures correspond with the famous CPU of Tom' S Hardware . here the photograph ( . altavista . com/urltrurl?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww . x86-secret . com%2Fpics%2Fcputoms2 . jpg" target="_blank">world . altavista . com) . Last point, the "A4" that one finds on both CPUs does not exist any more on new the confidentials, there is replaced by the code of the country of production (MALAY in the case of this true P4 2 . 8 Ghz ES ( . altavista . com/urltrurl?lp=fr_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww . x86-secret . com%2Fpics%2Fcputoms3 . jpg" target="_blank">world . altavista . com) . . . . (to put the 3 photographs dimension-A-dimension for better realizing) In response to the claim, the co-author of the article, Frank Völkel said "We don't have written, that the CPU at the pic is the 3 . 6Ghz version . . . this is only a sample for demonstration . " but many are still not sure . You can see the reaction from X86-Secret here ( . google . com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww . x86-secret . com%2Findex . php%230&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools" target="_blank">translate . google . com) (This is a Google language translation) and check in on the forum discussion at MadOnion ( . madonion . com/forum/showflat . pl?Cat=&Board=techmobocpu&Number=1178916&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1" target="_blank">discuss . madonion . com) . thx monty	tweak'e (174)
78539	2002-09-11 22:27:00	morning robo <bump>	tweak'e (174)
78540	2002-09-12 07:09:00	I see that you've graduated to the top of the page now tweak'e.	-=JM=- (16)
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