Archive for January, 2005

Well this is it, the last day of the holidays. I have approximatly 1 hour of fun and games still I have to sleep

Hopefully I can meet up with one of the ThunderLAN guys (since he goes to Norwood ).

Oh well, only a few more months now I suppose.

What’s New?

-Fixed playFile function in gen_ff.dll (Allows Modern skins to launch playback)
-Created new eMusic bundles
-Critical Security bug fixed in in_mp4.dll and enc_mp4.dll and libmp4v2.dll
-HTTP Seeking corrected for webservers that refuse to return Accept-Range
-Critical Security buffer overflow fixed in in_cdda.dll

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School on the 31st. It is so close now It’s unfair that I have 2 weeks less than everyone else but oh well.

Not much has hapened over the last few days. Apart from a whole Clan sA dispute (more on that later), there hasn’t been much tech news:

Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher (from Mozilla) have BOTH joined Google. They have both announced that they will still be working on Mozilla products but it shows that Google is interested in possible browser technologies.

Bink.nu reports that the MSN Search Bot has reached 1.0+ (whop de doo)

Bulldog from the Vapochill forums has hit 5.2GHz (from P4 3.8GHz) which is pretty impressive.

As for the whole Clan sA thing – they wish to kick me out because I haven’t had time to play CS:S lately, which I think is pretty lame. I built them a bloody website (www.sourceaddicts.com) and hosted it, attended every war, encouraged the clan with different tactics and the use of TeamSpeak yet I get told “play more, or your out”. That really pissed me off. Especially when one of the leaders can’t organise shit, but oh well. I’ll probally stay in the clan and something will be sorted out – or they’ll be left without a website (or some shitty n00b ass website at moonfruit which you have to pay for. I laughed at the fact of even thinking about getting a pre-made website.)

Oh well. That’ll do for now. I’ve turned into a nightowl once again unfortunatly, I’ll have to get out of that habbit soon. Also changed my desktop layout yesterday – but I havent been bothered to take a screenshot yet.

Well I’ve been asleep for around 22 hours. Just got up (6:00AM now).

MSN Messenger seemed to have a major downtime over the weekend and it would seem that I was just in time to see it come back up.

Not much tech news on Sunday. I’ll have to play around with eXeem today though

Valhalla was pretty good.

Clan SA owned the Counter Strike: Source competition (beating about 5 different clans). Unfortunatly there wasn’t a price for it which we found out after. We were quite annoyed.

I also won the UT2004 competiton but there wasn’t a prize for that either :@. Although the LAN was reasonable it wasn’t very organised (competition/prize wise).

In tech news: EXEEM 0.20 PUBLIC BETA HAS BEEN RELEASED !

Download from eXeem.com

Valhalla is tomorrow. Hopefully it will be reasonable. A lot of people will be there including 3..maybe 4 of us sA people.

|sA|Cynisis was over last night (and overnight) for a bloody long LAN of nearly 8 constant hours of CSS. That was pretty good even though after staying up all night we were damn tired.

Although I think AMD are winning the CPU war at the moment, I do have an Intel and I do believe Intel were wining before. Intel has 2 great stories about their new mobile and 64bit chips.

Intel Pentium 4 processors with Extended Memory 64 Technology begin to emerge for sale in retail and can be purchased by end-users, not computer makers. While the lineup of desktop form-factor EM64T chips can be currently bought only in Japan, eventually such products may become available in other countries as well.

Akiba PC Hotline web-site reports that a number of stores in Tokyo, Japan, sells Intel Pentium 4 processors models 3.20F, 3.40F, 3.60F and 3.80F with EM64T capability enabled. The chips come in black and white retail packaging and are positioned primarily for uniprocessor servers and workstations. The central processing units cost approximately $299, $311, $449 and $755 for 3.20GHz, 3.40GHz, 3.60GHz and 3.80GHz speed-bins respectively. Intel Pentium 4 processors with EM64T come in LGA775 form-factor and are compatible with mainboards based on i915- and i925-series chipsets.

Notebook PCs based on the most powerful version of Intel’s Centrino mobile technology now perform just as well as desktop PCs with Intel’s fastest Pentium 4 processors, according to an Intel executive. During this week’s launch of the Sonoma Centrino technology, Mooly Eden, vice president and director of marketing of Intel’s new Mobility Group, demonstrated a video game on a new Sonoma laptop and compared its performance to that of the same video game running on a Pentium 4 desktop PC. The Sonoma design contains the Pentium M processor, the new Alviso chip set with support for the PCI Express interconnect technology and DDR2 (Double Data Rate 2) memory, and an Intel Pro/Wireless chip. Intel brands the package as Centrino mobile technology.

In the demonstration, the performance of a Sonoma system with a 2.13-GHz Pentium M processor, 1GB of memory, and the Alviso chip set was said to be comparable to that of a desktop system carrying a 3.6-GHz Pentium 4 processor with hyperthreading, 1GB of memory, and the Grantsdale chip set (which also supports PCI Express and DDR2). Intel had previously compared the high end of its notebook technology to the midrange of its desktop technology. This is an important milestone for Intel as it plans to eventually make the Pentium M processor the backbone of its chip designs, according to sources. Intel has not publicly confirmed such plans.

Few new things have been anounced on the hardware side recently and of course a bit on the software.

Hardware:
-AMD holds off DDR-2 Support
-Intel preps 3.50GHz Xenons with 8MB Cache
-HP rolls out Itanium 2 Servers

Software:
-ATI Catalyst 5.1
-Rage3D Catalyst 5.1 Comparison
-Nero 6.6.0.6
-Suprnova page now states eXeem will be released between 17th – 24th of January

Gaming:
-Counter Strike Source Update (includes de_tides, bot support, bug fixes, nextmap command)
-S.W.A.T 4 Beta Open To All

Just updated the shoutbox to version 2.37. I tried v3.00alpha but its not as user friendly and has no admin interface. Unfortunatly the people who develop this particular shoutbox have abandoned the project so this will be the last update for that.

On a few site notes there hasn’t really been any big tech news lately. Today we won a small war in Counter Strike: Source against some random clan (I can’t remember ).

Also – I may not have mensioned Portable Firefox/Thunderbird/NVU/Sunbird. This guy modded the main Mozilla projects to fit nicely onto a USB Drive without leaving anything (including cookies and cache) behind on the computer its plugged into. It does leave one file (if it has permission to) that is about 4k, but holds no critical information.

Check out the project

The suprnova.org page has been updated with the notice:

eXeem Public Beta is most likely to be released next week!

Not much more to say here