May 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Audio News writes of Fraunhofer Institute’s plan to add digital rights management into its future MP3 format. It will allow vendors, I presume, to add a purchaser’s info to a track which can then be traced back to the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Security Pipeline has the story of a man that put together an unofficial service pack for Microsoft’s Windows 98 SE operating system. The “outdated” OS hasn’t received a service pack at all so Alper Coskun grabbed most, if not all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel is getting ready to release is code named “Dothan” mobile processor in early May according to Computerworld. The chip sports double the cache of current Centrino processors which will give laptops and other such devices a sizable performance boost….

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld writes of Microsoft’s turn around, finally, on security issues and some of what Windows XP’s upcoming Service Pack two will bring about. The software giant has been trying hard recently to shore up security issues but SP2 seems very…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft is planning a new specification that would get their software communicating with devices according to ZDNet. Their Web services for devices API would make a whole host of things easier to do with your electronic gadgets and I suspect…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 1, 2004 · 0 comments

Those Elite Bastards have some information on a new anti-aliasing scheme made available by ATI’s latest Catalyst Driver release on, presumably, their Radeon 9500 and on up video cards. It seems like an interesting technique which should appeal to those…

Read more Temporal AA Explained