... is now available directly from their website. Get it here.
"New Features and Fixes
- Mozilla now includes a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.
- Mozilla MailNews now supports the printing of the attachments list.
- ChatZilla, Mozilla's internet relay chat client, has had a major overhaul bringing many improvements.
- MailNews users can add header lines to *every* msg sent out via a certain identity.
- A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections in MailNews was fixed.
- Unstyled XML display has been improved.
- Users can now mark message as read by date in MailNews.
- Gecko now supports setting color for HR and BR.
- A common problem collapsing the URLbar popup on Windows has been fixed.
- Mozilla's view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.
- Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and web compatibility.
- Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.
New Issues
These are items that have been added to the known issues page since the last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.
- Macintosh users with older versions of Flash may experience crashing on sites that use Flash. (bug 200511
- The Linux binaries distributed by mozilla.org are now compiled with GCC 3.2. If you're using these binaries then popular plug-ins like RealPlayer, compiled with previous versions of GCC, will not work. See bug 213234 and 158385 "
"A few weeks ago we visited PowerVR for a meeting with David Harold and John Metcalfe to check up on the progress of PowerVR's 3D graphics solution for small devices, MBX."
There is more as well as a nice interview which takes care of a bit more than just MBX. Head over here.
Seems like it's possible because according to Guru3D.com the guys @ myhard.com have done it. Here's Guru's link and here's a bigger res version of the image on myhard.com.
PVRGenerations.co.uk have released a list of PowerVR 3D optimisation registry strings available in the latest drivers. If you want to find out more, just click here. Enjoy! =)
... nothing new to some but really cute, make sure to check out Pucca on her quest to conquer Garu's heart... here's it, all in flash! :)
Kudos to Hawk for letting us know about the X² rolling demo recently released by Ego Soft. Benchmarking features are included so head over and grab your copy here.
You might want to add your scores to Hawk's, if so please click here for his posting. :)
Microsoft also released a DirectX patch:
"Impact of vulnerability: Allow an attacker to execute code on a user’s system "
You can get more information here.
A new Internet Explorer patch is available from Microsoft:
"Impact of vulnerability: Two new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a user’s system if the user either browsed to a hostile Web site or opened a specially crafted HTML-based email message."
Get it here.
For those who've missed the retail here comes the demo of EA's Command and Conquer: Generals. It's a 400MB download so get a coffee and something to snack while downloading... :)
Planet3DNow.de report a new Hyperion release. Get Via's newest driver set right here.
"Neu hinzugekommen ist die AGP-Unterstützung für Windows Server 2003 über eine spezielle INF-Datei."
Rough: Features AGP support for Windows Server 2003 via a special INF file.
Blizzard have released some new screenshots of their upcoming MMPORPG WoW. Have a look here for more.
A trailer of the upcoming game Panzers can be downloaded here (game's main site, I suggest the Gamers Hell servers :)
It's said to have some very nice graphics so it might be interesting to watch!
E-Merge have released WinACE v2.5. History can be checked here (german language). Main features of this release is support for BZIP2, RAR 3.x and ISO, NTFS security feature recognition, and more comfortable configurability. Here are the files. :)
WHQLed Detonatros v45.23 are available here. According to Warp2Search.net new official ones will be made available by nVidia on Monday. :)
Kudos to the deferred power team for the following info... fro the recently released demo of XIII (toon shooter :) you will need to create a profile with the following setting EnableTextureManagement on, DXTExposeCaps on and ZStore on. Enjoy! :)
According to PCGames online the site of a quite known gaming mag in germany Valve will release a benchmark shortly before Half Life 2 based on the Half Life 2 engine. Original news in germany language can be found here. :)
Found some nice links on 3DCenter.de which all have to do with 3Dfx creations like the Voodoo5-6000 and the Rampage... here's the first one, some Rampage info with pictures. Next one in german language shows some pictures of 3Dfx products and comes with some history... here it is. And finally, here's a link to a Voodoo 5-6000 article. Quite nice.
From the last page:
"She may be old and slow by today's standards, but watching the Voodoo5 6000 regularly sock it to the GeForce2 Ultra and take on the GF3; its obvious just how much gamers might've loved this card back in 1999—and make its all the more regrettable that internal conflict and problems at 3dfx prevented the card from ever seeing the light of day. "
A new article has popped up @ Beyond3D which deals with Photo-realistic Deferred Lighting. For more information about it and the whole article itself... click here! ;)
"Deferred Rendering attempts to combine conventional rendering techniques with the advantages of image space techniques. In this article we separate lighting from rendering and doing so make lighting a completely image-space technique, this has some disadvantages but also some key advantages. ..."
