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| 78026 | 2002-09-09 09:46:00 | New Warcraft 3 Patch Blizzard have released a new patch for Warcraft 3. This patch bring s the game up to version 1.02a and adds localised Battle.net messages. The update is only available through Battle.net for now with a manual patch to follow. Blizzard bans 20 000 in map hack scandal Blizzard has lived up to it's promise and banned (www.battle.net) 20 000 accounts that were found to be using the Warcraft map hack. Here's the official word: September 6, 2002 Warcraft III Map Hack Users Banned In keeping with our aggressive stance against hacks and cheats, we have closed 20,000 accounts that were found to be using Warcraft III map hacks, and removed their ladder records. In addition, the CD keys of those offenders have been banned from ladder play for two weeks. We will continue to monitor the Warcraft III realms for malicious players. Please note: repeat offenders can suffer permanent removal from Battle.net if they continue to use hacks. We regret having to employ these extreme measures; however, certain unscrupulous players have impaired the game play of the Warcraft III community as a whole, and severe action continues to be warranted and required. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you would like to report additional instances of hacking or cheating, please contact us at hacks@blizzard.com. Thank you again for your continued support. -- Blizzard Entertainment Rhapsody version 1.5 Audiogalaxy reborn Slashdot.org (http://www.slashdot.org) has reported that Audiogalaxy has been reborn as a new service, Rhapsody. The new service is free until September 15. Here's the details of the subscription: Our new subscription service gives you unlimited, on-demand access to one of the largest music collections in the world. The service will normally cost $9.95 / month, which pays full royalties to artists, record labels, publishers, and songwriters. But right now you can use Rhapsody for FREE until 9/15/2002. There's no obligation and no credit card required during our free access period. Check out more over at the homepage here (www.audiogalaxy.com) and download Rhapsody from the link below. download (download.listen.com) Kazaa Lite XP SP1 Fix There are reports popping up around the net on a possible problem with Windows XP Service Pack 1 disabling Kazaa Lite (and in some cases Kazaa as well). The problems seem to be localised and are not affecting all users, if you are hit by the problem you will not be able to start Kazaa. If this is you then try this fix: Step 1.Right click on the program file (the executable), then select the Compatibility tab. Step 2.Check the box labeled "Run this program in Compatibility Mode for" and select Windows 98/ME from the dropdown menu. Step 3.Then click "apply" and then ok. The program should run fine. DrvImagerXP 1.3 released A new version (1.3) of DrvImagerXP (home.carolina.rr.com) has been released with no word on the changes. DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows 2000/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 coping the sector bytes on the partition. You can create images of different operating system setups and swap them out in just minutes. You can read more about the program and see detailed instructions on how to use it here (home.carolina.rr.com). download (home.carolina.rr.com) Mandrake Linux 9.0 RC-2 released Mandrake Linux 9.0 RC2 is now available for download with XFree 4.2.1 and Koffice 1.2 now included in the OS. Mandrake Linux will run on the majority of 32-bit systems such Intel Pentium, AMD Athlon, PowerPC and 64 bit processors such as Intel Itanium, SPARC and AXP. Check out the Mandrake Linux (http://www.mandrakelinux.com) homepage for more detailed info. download (ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/) ieSpell spell checker for Internet Explorer released There is a new program just released called ieSpell that acts as an Internet Explorer extension that spell checks text input boxes on a web pages. This utility runs faster than a server-side spell checking utilities, plus you can store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application. The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools"). After filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check. You can read more over at the ieSpell (http://www.iespell.com/) homepage. download (www.iespell.com) Klez virus reappearance may be its death knell ZDNet has reported that the Klez virus which delivered its latest payload on the sixth of September could in fact go along way towards "exterminating" the virus once and for all. Here's the bulk of the report: A minor variant of the Klez virus is set to go into action tomorrow, erasing a host of files on infected hard drives. But the attack may also wipe out the attacker. The 8-month-old mass-mailing computer virus called Klez.E triggers its payload on the sixth day of March, May, September and November, erasing 14 different types of files, including Word documents and HTML files. But the variant has all but disappeared from the Internet, said Vincent Gullotto, director of the antivirus emergency response team at security company Network Associates, and the year's two remaining payloads should call attention to the few computers still infected with Klez.E, allowing the pest to be exterminated. The Klez.E variant runs a distant second to its far more prevalent Klez.H cousin, making up only 3 percent of the junk email associated with the Klez virus. Klez.H accounts for the other 97 percent. Data from email services provider MessageLabs shows that in August, the company intercepted 580,000 emails carrying the prolific Klez.H variant but only 16,000 carrying Klez.E. On Thursday, the minor Klez variant was present in only 338 infected emails in the last 24 hours. Check out the rest over at ZDNet (news.zdnet.co.uk). Revolutionary Blank computer display that hides computer data A Japanese electronics company called Iizuka Denki Kogyo has developed a computer screen that looks blank to anyone not wearing a pair of special polarising glasses. The modified LCD monitor could prove to be valuable for financial institutions that need to keep sensitive information safe from prying eyes. To anyone not wearing the glasses the screen appears to be white with no data on it at all. The displayed data is rendered invisible by doing away with a light-polarising screen from the front of the monitor. All LCD's use this filter to block some of the polarised light that passes through liquid crystals controlled by an electrical current. This makes it possible to display information by defining different parts of the screen in light and colour. In the IDK system, the polarising filter is effectively moved from the screen to the pair of glasses worn by authorised computer users. Read more at Newscientist (www.newscientist.com). 18 tips for better Windows XP gaming The kings of game reporting, Gamespot (www.gamespot.com) have published an article that could prove to be a boon for gamers in Windows XP. The guide is their definitive 18 Tips for Better Windows XP Gaming (http:). Check it out and see how of them you already know or have used. Bios Updates Here are some new beat and final BIOS updates from ECS Elitegroup, ENMIC, Epox, Gigabyte, Jetway, MSI and Soyo: ECS Elitegroup ECS Bios BKS630E v7.2: Version 7.1m (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios K7SOM v1.x: Version 020803 (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios K7VMM v1.2a: Version 020812 (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios L4IGA2 v1.0x: Version 1.0b (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios L4S5A/DX+ v3.x: Version 1.0 (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios P4IBASD v3.x: Version 020822 (www.ecs.com.tw) ECS Bios P4IBASD v1.x: Version 020820 (www.ecs.com.tw) ENMIC ENMIC Bios 4VBX2+: Version 7.8 (www.enmic.de) ENMIC Bios 8TEX+: Version 23.7 (www.enmic.de) ENMIC Bios 8TTX+: Version 2.8 (www.enmic.de) ENMIC Bios 8TTX2+: Version 15.8 (www.enmic.de) ENMIC Bios 8TTX3+: Version 21.8 (www.enmic.de) Epox Epox Bios EP-4GLA/+: Version 22.8 (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-4SDA5I: Version 30.8. (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-8K3A/+: Version 15.8. (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-8K3AE: Version 15.8. (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-8K5A2: Version 15.8. (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-8K5A2+: Version 15.8. (www.epox.de) Epox Bios EP-8K5A3+: Version 15.8. (www.epox.de) Gigabyte Gigabyte Bios GA-8IEXP: Version F8b BETA (www.gigabyte.com.tw) Gigabyte Bios GA-8SMMLP: Version F3 (www.gigabyte.com.tw) Jetway Jetway Bios P4533/P4X533U: Version A01 Jetway Bios P4MFA: Version A06 Jetway Bios P4MFM: Version A05 Download Here (www.jetway.com.tw) MSI MSI Bios MS-6390 v1.0: Version 1.4 (www.msi.com.tw) MSI Bios MS-6508: Version 1.2 (www.msi.com.tw) MSI Bios MS-6533 v1.0: Version 1.3 (msi-1.colt-isc.de) MSI Bios MS-6593 (KT3 Ultra2-C): Version 1.2 (www.msi.com.tw) Soyo Soyo Bios SY-P4I Fire DRAGON: Version 2ba1 (www.soyousa.com) UT2003 to support Linux Epic has posted their official word on whether UT2003 will be supported and run on a Linux box. Here's part of the forum thread on the word: Linux is now up and running pretty well. I've been told that we should be able to release the Linux client and server executables around the same time as the windows version ships. Official tech support isn't provided for the Linux versions. Currently Linux will only work well with Nvidia cards - apparently ATI's OpenGL Linux and Mac drivers don't support texture compression. Hopefully this is something they will soon fix. Mac development is just underway so it will still be a little while before it's done. The full thread is here (www.ina-community.com) if all you Linux users want revel a bit further. Tweak your Yamaha YMF7x4 sound card drivers Majorgeeks has hosted a program that allows you to tweak your YMF7x4 (YMF724, YMF740, YMF744 and YMF754) sound card driver. By using this program, you can increase quality of WAV and MP3 files and audio CD playback. You can enable non-documented high quality 44.1 to 48 kHz samplerate converter to increase quality of WAV and MP3 playback and quality of audio CD and more. download (www.majorgeeks.com) BearShare version 4.0.5 released BearShare, the Windows file sharing program, version 4.0.5 has been released for download with no word as yet on what is new or changed. bearShare is another file sharing program built on the Gnutella technology and provides a simple, easy to use interface combined with a powerful connection and search engine that puts thousands of different files in easy reach. download (www.bearshare.com) Nero InCD 3.37 released Nero has released a new version (3.37) of their packet format software InCD with the only change being that it is now fully Wondows XP SP1 compliant. download (www.nero.com) thx monty (www.ozquake.com) |
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| 78027 | 2002-09-09 23:36:00 | <bump> | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 78028 | 2002-09-11 07:57:00 | You mentioned the ECS Elitegroup BIOS updates. Who in NZ sells these MOBOs?? I can't find anything.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 78029 | 2002-09-11 23:37:00 | funny enough the only ECS boards i have seen are in the PCcompany computers. | tweak'e (174) | ||
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