Howtoforge publshed a guide about hardening PHP5 with Suhosin under CentOS 5.0

This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.0 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core. Suhosin comes in two independent parts, that can be used separately or in combination. The first part is a small patch against the PHP core, that implements a few low-level protections against bufferoverflows or format string vulnerabilities and the second part is a powerful PHP extension that implements all the other protections.

How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.0

XtremeComputing posted a review on the SunbeamTech UV UFO Acrylic Cube

Well Sunbeamtech have been around for a few years and have offered some great products, from cases, to lights and even lighted feet for your case. Also they are responsible for the Tuniq cooler under the brand of Tuniq, So when I heard they had released a UV version of their cube I decided to drop them a line and get one in for review.

SunbeamTech UV UFO Acrylic Cube Review



Hardwarecanucks have reviewed the Edifier S5.1 Home Theatre System

This system just drips with quality from the time you open the box until the time you turn it off. The speakers have a flawless wooden finish and modern styling that would be at home in a modern living room as they would on a computer desk.

Edifier S5.1 Home Theatre System Review

GideonTech.com posted a review on the Antec Nine Hundred Case

Today we are going to take a look at the Antec Nine Hundred gaming case. This is a mid-tower ATX case with the capability of using ATX and uATX motherboards. With this case, any gamer or regular computer user who wants a little kick-in-their-case, will be totally satisfied at not only the look and quality, but the whole tower itself inside and out.

Antec Nine Hundred Case Review

bit-tech published a review of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

The sleek and smooth implementation of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword blends in extremely well with the original game. So well in fact, that a lot of the time you will find yourself, as I did, believing that new elements of the gameplay have been there ever since the original //Civilization IV.

The espionage system seems slightly hit and miss and I’m sure fans will continue either loving it or hating it. In fact, I reckon that the same opinion will be shared with the majority of the new major improvements, including the corporation system and random events. However, you cannot argue with variation and though you may dislike these new gameplay features, they are easy enough to ignore and balanced enough to be a powerful mechanism for victory if undertaken.

It’s easy to see that //Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword brings enough content to appeal to the hardcore //Civilization fans, giving them even
more paths to victory and also removing the war-centric feel of the previous games. Additionally, the new content is also strong enough to bring the old fans who got bored crawling back for just a little more of this wonderful game.

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Review

OCC has published a new review of the Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard

When building an HTPC, most look to achieve the HD standard at a minimal cost, so to accommodate this we are seeing more motherboard manufacturers produce boards with onboard HD video and sound. Some have HDMI capabilities, which will also carry sound, and some choose to use DVI as the way to transport the HD digital image. With straight DVI, these motherboards must have an additional sound source onboard since, at this time, DVI is incapable of transferring sound by itself. We are also seeing two formats of motherboards that are equipped with the HD qualities, Micro-ATX and ATX. Micro- ATX allows for a smaller system case which will be more compact, whereas ATX will require a normal sized case and may not fit in most entertainment centers.

Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H Motherboard Review

The TechZone has posted a review of the Logitech Alto Notebook Keyboard Dock

Logitech claims that that the Alto -- which retails for about $99.99 --
will "raise your sights on notebook comfort with an adjustable stand that puts your notebook display at eye level and gives you a full-sized keyboard for faster, more comfortable typing." Better still, it's supposed to work "with virtually any notebook." Bold claims, but does the Alto live up to these expectations?

Logitech Alto Notebook Keyboard Dock Review

Futurelooks checks out the XtremeMac ExtremeHD HDMI Switcher

It seems that HDMI has taken over as the dominant connection for HD connectivity on consumer electronic devices. From your DVD player to that next generation game console, they all use HDMI to broadcast that HD picture to your HDTV. So why do manufacturers include just a couple connections? This product rescues us from HDMI starvation.

XtremeMac ExtremeHD HDMI Switcher Review

Benchmark Reviews has posted a review on the SOYO FM-SY-SLIM20GB 20GB 1.8" SlimEx Platinum

Do you remember SOYO?  It has been almost ten years now since I build my very first computer system from parts ordered over the web.  Back then, it was all about searching Price Watch for deals, and the AMD K6-II CPU.  I clearly remember learning how difficult it was assigning IRQ addresses for dial-up modems, and how troublesome it was to load the drivers for Windows 98.  In those days it was very common to find SOYO brand motherboards for sale almost everywhere you shopped, and most often times those motherboards fetched a premium for the high-end accessories they featured. Those were the good old days, and that was the old SOYO.

These days SOYO is best known for consumer electronics, communication equipment, and several computer peripheral devices.  SOYO hasn't produced a motherboard is several years, with the last being targeted for the Intel Socket-478 P4 based i875P chipset.  Benchmark Reviews has decided it was time for the public to get reacquainted with SOYO, and so we begin by offering our review of the SOYO FM-SY-SLIM20GB 20GB SlimEx Platinum External USB 1.8" Hard Drive.

SOYO FM-SY-SLIM20GB 20GB 1.8" SlimEx Platinum

Virtual-Hideout posted a review on the Super Talent 2GB 200x USB Flash Drive Review

Not too long ago, 128mb flash drives were the norm; now the norm is around 2GB or up. Well, today I'm going to be reviewing a 2GB flash drive from Super Talent. Now keep in mind that size is not the only factor in a flash drive, but the speed in which data flows also plays a major factor. The Super Talent 2GB drive has a rated speed of 200x. 200x is extremely fast, but just for the sake of comparison, 400x is around the speed of USB2.0 Super Talent also offers other varieties of flash drives.

Super Talent 2GB 200x USB Flash Drive Review

MadBoxPC posted a review on the Super Talent 2GB 200x USB Flash Drive in Spanish

Foxconn 8600gt comes with 1500Mhz shaders (same as GeForce 8800 Ultra), so its awesome performance at stock clocks can beat a standard GeForce 8600GT with overclock

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DragonSteelMods posted a review on the USB2.0 7-Port Compact Hub

Pretty much everything uses a USB connector anymore, your camera, audio player, assorted gadgets, we can run out of USB ports very fast. Most motherboards today come with 4-6 USB ports and some with the ability to add more via headers on the board itself, but what if that isn't enough? I guess if that's not enough you just have too much stuff... but there is a solution to not having enough ports, add a USB hub for a couple more ports. USBFever just sent me a hub for review that adds a whopping 7 more USB ports to your computer. On my system I have 8 USB ports, this hub effectively gives me a total of 14 available USB ports, I think that should be enough for most of us....

USB2.0 7-Port Compact Hub from USBFever

3D Game Man posted an Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Overclocking video

Overclocking the Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8GHz (Socket 775) CPU. See how far Rodney pushed this processor! Share your own finding on this product and please remember to post your overclocking results.

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Overclocking

Madshrimps posted Revoltec Zirconium RT-101 ATX Case Review

Revoltec introduces a new enthusiast minded enclosures at a very affordable price, we test their mid-sized Zirconium RT-101 which features a classy front panel and 120mm cooling fan, stress testing it with high end VGA cards, as well as mid-range to see how this new case handles the heat.

Revoltec Zirconium RT-101 ATX Case Review

XYZ Computing posted Logitech Wave Cordless Desktop Review

This review will be looking at the wireless desktop, what Logitech calls the Cordless Desktop Wave. This package, which retails for about $90, includes the Wave keyboard, a laser mouse, and a USB RF adapter to allow them both to connect to your computer. Logitech, despite being a leader in the input device market, has not released many ergonomically-inspired products so this could potentially be an important offering for them. With an more people than ever using their computer for multiple hours a day, the focus on comfort is an increasingly important trend with input devices. The Wave keyboard's design is not nearly as drastic as some other models available, but the intention is the same- to put a person's hand in a position that is comfortable and ergonomically sound. The does this by slightly turning the outer edges of the main block of keys to prevent the wrists from being at an unnatural angle and by giving a wave contour to the keys so as to match the varying lengths of your fingers. The Wave also uses a padded wrist rest and tilt adjustments that can place the keyboard at three different heights in order to match the user's preference.

Logitech Wave Cordless Desktop Review

Hardwarecanucks posted a review of the QNAP TS-109 Pro NAS

What else is there to say? The QNAP TS-109 Pro looks good on paper, looks great in person as seen in the photos above, and performs incredibly well with top notch bandwidth over a gigabit network to boot. The immense feature list did not disappoint in providing everything that was promised and the configuration of those features was simple enough for even the most basic user. The TS-109 Pro is designed for the small office but with so many home users with a network once previously only seen in the work place, it would be a mistake to discount the TS-109 Pro as only a device welcome in the office.

QNAP TS-109 Pro NAS Review

TrustedReviews have looked at the QNAP TS-109 Pro Turbo Station

When we reviewed the Synology CS-407e we thought it wasn’t possible to get any more features at this price point but QNAP has proved us wrong. Overall performance is particularly good and although the Download Station feature is of limited value there’s little this box can’t do - the backup features are also a cut above the rest.

QNAP TS-109 Pro Turbo Station Review

Elite Bastards posted an article on the Radeon HD 2900 XT

In essence, the concept of ATI's edge detect anti-aliasing is all in the name. It detects edges. Hold the front page! In slight more complex terms, this particular anti-aliasing mode looks for geometry edges in the rendered scene which sit across a pixel, and uses both the position on screen and the direction of the edge which has been detected to weight and then anti-alias that edge. ATI currently has two levels of edge detection available, one labelled 12x (which sits under the 4x mode with the edge detect filter selected in Catalyst Control Center) and the other 24x (which correlates to 8x with the correct filter in use in the driver control panel).

Needless to say, this isn't a cheap process to carry out computationally, so it should be noted right here and now that performance hits have the potential to be rather large using this mode of anti-aliasing. Of course, we'll take a look at just how hefty that performance hit is in a handful of game titles in due course.

The future of AA? Edge detect anti-aliasing on the Radeon HD 2900 XT

TrustedReviews posted a review on the Sharp LC52XD1E 52in LCD TV

The 52XD1E is certainly a good TV, especially for the money, and will doubtless satisfy anyone who decides to buy one, at least while viewing HD sources. Yet we have to say that if it were our money, the extra picture quality and enhanced feature count of Samsung’s 52M87BD would probably lean us in the Korean brand’s direction instead.

Sharp LC52XD1E 52in LCD TV Review