A new version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available for download today, February 27, 2008. At the beginning of the month, immediately on the heels of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM, XP SP3 moved from RC Refresh 2 into RC2 stage. The initial RC2 build was a private release, dropped exclusively to some 15,000 testers, but then Microsoft went public with the build. Now, the Redmond company has done it again, so to speak. A new, refreshed and re-released version of Windows XP SP3 RC2 can be grabbed, both via Windows Update or as a standalone download.
However, despite the fact that the new version of XP SP3 RC2 is up for grabs, the Redmond company failed to breathe a single word on the new release. Microsoft has managed to remain mute not only on the release to manufacturing date of XP SP3, but also on the development milestones of the service pack. The latest version opened to the XP SP2 users makes no exception. As was the case with the first XP SP3 RC2 build, a registry script will permit XP SP2 machines to detect, download and install the Release Candidate 2 version of the service pack through Windows Updates.
"Download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key on your system. The registry key is required for Windows Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2," Microsoft explained.
The Release Candidate notes for the latest version of XP SP3 RC2 have not been touched in the least. Every detail is exactly the same as in the previous build of XP SP3 RC2. But now, Microsoft has also made available the German, English and Japanese standalone versions of XP SP3 RC2, weighing 312.0 MB for WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-DEU.exe, 315.2 MB for WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe and 324.5 MB for WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-JPN.exe.
"Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key. Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta. It is recommended that you apply the resulting update package to an activated, genuine copy of Windows XP, in a test environment. As with any pre-release software, it is also recommended that you back up files and settings on your machine before applying this update package," Microsoft informed.
Note: When I tried to install the new Windows XP SP3 RC2 build on top of XP SP2 on a machine where SP3 had never been deployed, I got an "access denied error" and installation failed. At the time of this article, all efforts to deploy the standalone package of XP SP3 RC2 resulted in failed attempts.
29 Şubat 2008 Cuma
28 Şubat 2008 Perşembe
Kubuntu-KDE4 Hardy Alpha
Kubuntu-KDE4 Hardy Alpha is here. There will be two editions of
Kubuntu with the 8.04 release, a commercially supported KDE 3 edition
and a community supported KDE 4 edition. It includes KDE 4.0.1 and a
few applications from KDE 3 to fill in any gaps.
This is our first alpha for the KDE 4 version of Kubuntu. As with any
first alpha there remains much polishing to be done (you will need to
run knetworkmanager manually for example) but it gives a good overview
of what will be released as 8.04 in April.
More information:
* https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Alpha5/KubuntuKDE4
Download
* http://se.cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-kde4/releases/hardy/
* http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-kde4/releases/hardy/
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Kubuntu with the 8.04 release, a commercially supported KDE 3 edition
and a community supported KDE 4 edition. It includes KDE 4.0.1 and a
few applications from KDE 3 to fill in any gaps.
This is our first alpha for the KDE 4 version of Kubuntu. As with any
first alpha there remains much polishing to be done (you will need to
run knetworkmanager manually for example) but it gives a good overview
of what will be released as 8.04 in April.
More information:
* https://wiki.kubuntu.org/HardyHeron/Alpha5/KubuntuKDE4
Download
* http://se.cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-kde4/releases/hardy/
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27 Şubat 2008 Çarşamba
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24 Şubat 2008 Pazar
µTorrent 1.7.7 Build 8179/ µTorrent 1.8 Build 8682 Alpha
µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. µTorrent was designed to use as little cpu, space and memory as possible while offering all the functionalites expected from advanced clients. With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth. Features of "µTorrent":
· Multiple simultaneous downloads
· Smart bandwidth usage
· File level priorities
· Configurable bandwidth scheduling
· Global and per-torrent speed limiting
· Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
· UPnP support (WinXP only)
· Supports popular protocol extensions
· Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
· Localized to different languages
· Typical memory use less than 6 MB
· Incredibly small: about 200 KB
Changes in µTorrent Version 1.8 alpha (build 8682), 2008-02-24:
- Fix: crash when right-clicking category view
Changes in µTorrent Version 1.8 alpha (build 8680), 2008-02-23:
- Feature: support 'failure reason' in scrape response
- Feature: optional piece progress bar
- Change: (yet another) new installation dialog
- Change: More informative error message for misc. autoupdate errors
- Change: Return to 1.7-style RSS errors
- Change: remove 1000 files warning in create torrent
- Change: Turn off sparse files and turn on compact allocation by default on Vista, because it has a terrible bug
- Change: don not enable a feed when Update Feed is selected
- Change: send rejects to FAST extension peers that request the same piece again before it's sent
- Change: grey out Update Feed when feed is disabled
- Change: change Toggle Feed to Enable/Disable Feed
- Change: update free space on focus change in create torrent
- Change: some RSS speed optimizations for large history and feed item counts
- Fix: Tab order issues in Add Feed dialog
- Fix: magnet URI download directory is now default download directoy
- Fix: Display of "&" characters in title of folder browsing dialog on Windows versions less then Vista, and give Vista version a title
- Fix: Preferences tab order
- Fix: Longstanding bug where dialogs that inside tab controls did not have the proper background when using XP themes
- Fix: Issue where it would stay as admin user after autoupdating through a normal user
- Fix: element not found and 99% cpu bug with partfiles
- Fix: piece picker bug that would cause it to start more equally rare pieces than needed
- Fix: key sort order with extension handshake
- Fix: download bar toggle
- Fix: external IP detection with NAT-PMP and non-conforming routers (like the Airport Extreme...)
- Fix: rare "invalid packet length" bug with encrypted connections
- Fix: Feed names not displaying unicode characters properly in category view
- Fix: Element Not Found when using partfiles with compact allocation
Be warned, this is an alpha, not a beta, so bugs are to be expected, and it is not to be considered feature complete. Don't test this on private trackers without explicit permission from staff, if you value your account. Please test and report bugs/crashes/etc. Thanks.
Homepage - http://utorrent.com
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ATI/AMD Radeon 4000 HD
In yesterday's news on upcoming ATI RV740 graphics chip, we have no details yet. This was one of our readers apparently disrupted and he gave us anonymous authentic-looking images of a presentation probably in June next HD Radeon 4000 series of AMD to you. We unfortunately have no way to verify this information, but interesting to read them in any case.
Accordingly, the graphics chips of the Radeon 4000 HD continues to 55nm production technology and DirectX 10.1. The number of shader units but magnified, anti-aliasing will be accelerated and it is already partially GDDR5. With Power Play + ", the electricity consumption at no load below 20 watts, even with the fast and expensive graphics cards.
The new high-end model is the ATI Radeon 4870 HD X2 (R700XT). Like the Radeon 3870 HD X2 are two (RV770) graphics chips on one board. With over 2 TeraFLOPS (FLOPS = Gleitkommaoperationen per second), this graphics card is theoretically four times faster than a Radeon HD 3870th Radeon HD 4870 X2HD X2 Radeon 4870 graphics card with 1 or 2 Gbyte GDDR5 memory and should consume approximately 250 watts. There will be a chip clock of 1050 MHz and a memory clock of 1800 MHz.
Successor of HD Radeon 3850 and 3870 (RV670), HD Radeon 4850 and 4870 (RV770). The memory interface remains 256bit and ROPs (raster Opera Tons) at 16, but the number of stream processors (shader units) will be from 320 to 480 and a decrease in Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) by 16 to 32 doubled. The power saving technology is to be "idle" less than 10 watts consumed.
The Radeon 4870 should HD with 1024 Mbytes memory and is equipped with 1050/2200 MHz run. The power consumption is under load with 150 watts. The Radeon 4850 HD taktet with 850/1800 MHz, on the other hand, has 512 Mbytes GDDR5 and consumes about 120 watts.
The RV740 forms the basis of the mainstream Radeon graphics cards HD 4650 and the 4670th The graphics chip has 240 Stream Processors, 12 ROPs, 24 TMUs and a 256bit memory interface - twice as wide as usual, otherwise the price range under 120 euros.
The HD Radeon 4670 with 512 MB GDDR4 memory taktet well with 1000/1200 MHz and consumes about 100 watts. The Radeon 4850 HD, however, equipped with 256 MB and runs with 800/1000 MHz.
In the low-end or entry-range plans AMD the Radeon 4450 and 4470 HD with RV710 graphics chip. The specifications are 40 shader units, 4 ROPs, 8 TMUs and a 128bit memory interface. Supports GDDR3 memory and DDR2. The power consumption will no load less than 5 watts. 30 Watt (4450) sein. The 3D-operation should be 50 watts (4470) or 30 watts (4450).
The Radeon 4470 HD taktet with 900/800 MHz and has 256 MB of GDDR3 memory. The Radeon 4450 HD must be opposed with 128 Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM and runs shortfall expected to 700/500 MHz.
The following table provides an overview of the upcoming Radeon graphics cards of the HD 4000 series.
Accordingly, the graphics chips of the Radeon 4000 HD continues to 55nm production technology and DirectX 10.1. The number of shader units but magnified, anti-aliasing will be accelerated and it is already partially GDDR5. With Power Play + ", the electricity consumption at no load below 20 watts, even with the fast and expensive graphics cards.
The new high-end model is the ATI Radeon 4870 HD X2 (R700XT). Like the Radeon 3870 HD X2 are two (RV770) graphics chips on one board. With over 2 TeraFLOPS (FLOPS = Gleitkommaoperationen per second), this graphics card is theoretically four times faster than a Radeon HD 3870th Radeon HD 4870 X2HD X2 Radeon 4870 graphics card with 1 or 2 Gbyte GDDR5 memory and should consume approximately 250 watts. There will be a chip clock of 1050 MHz and a memory clock of 1800 MHz.
Successor of HD Radeon 3850 and 3870 (RV670), HD Radeon 4850 and 4870 (RV770). The memory interface remains 256bit and ROPs (raster Opera Tons) at 16, but the number of stream processors (shader units) will be from 320 to 480 and a decrease in Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) by 16 to 32 doubled. The power saving technology is to be "idle" less than 10 watts consumed.
The Radeon 4870 should HD with 1024 Mbytes memory and is equipped with 1050/2200 MHz run. The power consumption is under load with 150 watts. The Radeon 4850 HD taktet with 850/1800 MHz, on the other hand, has 512 Mbytes GDDR5 and consumes about 120 watts.
The RV740 forms the basis of the mainstream Radeon graphics cards HD 4650 and the 4670th The graphics chip has 240 Stream Processors, 12 ROPs, 24 TMUs and a 256bit memory interface - twice as wide as usual, otherwise the price range under 120 euros.
The HD Radeon 4670 with 512 MB GDDR4 memory taktet well with 1000/1200 MHz and consumes about 100 watts. The Radeon 4850 HD, however, equipped with 256 MB and runs with 800/1000 MHz.
In the low-end or entry-range plans AMD the Radeon 4450 and 4470 HD with RV710 graphics chip. The specifications are 40 shader units, 4 ROPs, 8 TMUs and a 128bit memory interface. Supports GDDR3 memory and DDR2. The power consumption will no load less than 5 watts. 30 Watt (4450) sein. The 3D-operation should be 50 watts (4470) or 30 watts (4450).
The Radeon 4470 HD taktet with 900/800 MHz and has 256 MB of GDDR3 memory. The Radeon 4450 HD must be opposed with 128 Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM and runs shortfall expected to 700/500 MHz.
The following table provides an overview of the upcoming Radeon graphics cards of the HD 4000 series.
| Radeon Radeon | Shader Shader | RAM RAM | RAM-Bus RAM bus | Takt (MHz) Stroke (MHz) | TDP TDP |
| HD 4870 X2 HD 4870 X2 | 2x 480 2x 480 | 1024MB GDDR5 1024MB GDDR5 | 2x 256bit 2x 256bit | 1050/1800 1050/1800 | 250W 250W |
| HD 4870 HD 4870 | 480 480 | 1024MB GDDR5 1024MB GDDR5 | 256bit 256bit | 1050/2200 1050/2200 | 150W 150W |
| HD 4850 HD 4850 | 480 480 | 512MB GDDR5 512MB GDDR5 | 256bit 256bit | 850/1800 850/1800 | 120W 120W |
| HD 4670 HD 4670 | 240 240 | 512MB GDDR4 512MB GDDR4 | 256bit 256bit | 1000/1200 1000/1200 | 100W 100W |
| HD 4650 HD 4650 | 240 240 | 256MB GDDR4 256MB GDDR4 | 256bit 256bit | 800/1000 800/1000 | 80W 80W |
| HD 4470 HD 4470 | 40 40 | 256MB GDDR3 256MB GDDR3 | 128bit 128bit | 900/800 900/800 | 50W 50W |
| HD 4450 HD 4450 | 40 40 | 128MB DDR2 128MB DDR2 | 128bit 128bit | 700/500 700/500 | 30W 30W |
AMD stresses in the underlying documents also the theoretical computing power of the new graphics cards or chips. The following table provides information about:
| Radeon Radeon | Stream Stream Prozessoren (SP) Processors (SP) | FLOPS FLOPS pro SP Per SP | Chiptakt Chip stroke | Rechen- Computing leistung Performance |
| HD 4870 X2 HD 4870 X2 | 2x 480 2x 480 | 2 2 | 1050 MHz 1050 MHz | 2016 GigaFLOPS 2016 GigaFLOPS |
| HD 4870 HD 4870 | 480 480 | 2 2 | 1050 MHz 1050 MHz | 1008 GigaFLOPS 1008 GigaFLOPS |
| HD 4850 HD 4850 | 480 480 | 2 2 | 850 MHz 850 MHz | 816 GigaFLOPS 816 GigaFLOPS |
| HD 4670 HD 4670 | 240 240 | 2 2 | 1000 MHz 1000 MHz | 480 GigaFLOPS 480 GigaFLOPS |
| HD 4650 HD 4650 | 240 240 | 2 2 | 800 MHz 800 MHz | 384 GigaFLOPS 384 GigaFLOPS |
| HD 3870 HD 3870 | 320 320 | 2 2 | 775 MHz 775 MHz | 496 GigaFLOPS 496 GigaFLOPS |
As mentioned, this information is not official and therefore with caution. Up to the expected introduction of HD ATI Radeon 4000 series in June, it is still for a while, so that the details can change anything.
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