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After DualBIOS, EasyTune, @BIOS, Gigabyte motherboard has another new innovation --- the Smart Card Reader. To support the SCR header, Gigabyte now starts the Smart Card Reader business. The SCR is a new device to read/write IC card including memory card such as security card, and CPU card such as mobil phone SIM card. The SCR device is a standard 3.5" device like FDD.

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PlanetHardware has posted the benchmark results of an NVIDIA
GeForce2 Ultra 64MB DDR SDRAM card used with an AMD Athlon T-Bird 1GHz CPU. Here´s a snippet:

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Patch Available for "Specialized Header" Vulnerability
Originally posted: August 14, 2000

Summary
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Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security
vulnerability in Internet Information Server that ships with
Microsoft(r) Windows 2000. Under certain conditions, the
vulnerability could cause a web server to send the source code of
certain types of web files to a visiting user.

Frequently asked questions regarding this vulnerability and the patch
can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-058.asp

Affected Software Versions
==========================
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0

Patch Availability
==================
- http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=23769

Note: This vulnerability is eliminated by installing Windows 2000
Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/recommended/sp1/
We recommend that customers apply SP1 as the preferred option for
eliminating this vulnerability, as it has been fully regression
tested and includes fixes for additional issues.

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Lexmark has released new 2.0 drivers for the Lexmark 3200 printer under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. Thanks Anthony.

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VIAHardware has posted an exploration of the quality sacrifice imposed by S3TC using S3´s and NVidia´s latest drivers. Here´s a snip:

When Unreal Tournament debuted, many were awed by S3TC´s supposed power. However, the visual quality increase wasn´t due directly to S3TC itself, but to the increase in texture resolution used when enabling S3TC. The use of texture compression in more modern games is tending toward decreasing the constraints of limited memory bandwidth, rather then increasing texture resolution and realizing similar memory bandwidth to the smaller, uncompressed texture. This is truly a tragedy, as texture compression is far too imperfect a technology to achieve flawless rendering with simple textures.
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Epic Games has released a new patch for Unreal Tournament. Along with other fixes include this patch a fix for the creeping ping problem with Win2K.

Bug fixes
- fixed 425´s D3D problems
- improved client prediction of other players on slopes
- fixed ´killall bot´ working on servers even if not admin
- fixed Unrealed2 problems with DirectInput (by disabling DirectInput when using Unrealed2).
- fixed picked up weapons occasionally looping firing anim.
- fixed another case where server would keep sending data to client after disconnect.
- fixed Unrealed2 mesh viewer problem.
- fixed Owner being passed to new actor in Mutator.ReplaceWith().
- fixed creeping ping problem with Win2K. - fix for occasional accidental port changes on servers using NGStats: These ini files are used: [IpServer.UdpServerQuery] OldQueryPortNumber=0 bRestartServerOnPortSwap=True OldQueryPortNumber will get saved to the current value of the query port number. If the port number changes, the server will quit - and restart automatically if you are using an appropriate batch file ( see http:\unreal.epicgames.comutservers.htm ).
Setting OldQueryPortNumber to 0 will cause it to save the current port number again, so you should set this value to 0 when you want to change the port number deliberately (ie you´re running a second server on the same machine).

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