July 5, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Setting up your own home network IF you are one of those lucky individuals who own multiple PCs, then you probably had always dreamt of building a small home network. But how can you achieve such a... The Hulk: mean, green fighting machine THE latest movie incarnation that has arrived at the PC gaming scene is the Hulk. The game coincides with director Ang Lee’s materialization of the comic book green giant. A... Webwatch THIS fitness and health site offers breathing techniques, aromatherapy, and for those whose working life is just too busy and hectic, a few tips for how to really rest. Also find out what could be causing that tension, and learn the... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. Page Flipping: This is a common method used to move the contents of the back buffer into the front one during a buffer swap. Instead of physically moving the data, the graphics adapter... Quaoar: the icy world beyond Pluto INITIALLY detected as a tiny dot of faint light, Quaoar has been discovered as the biggest planetary body in our solar system in the past 70 years. It resides four billion... Upgrading your reality THE esoteric concept presented in the movie Matrix promises us a great digital future where the line between real and unreal becomes highly obscure. Just imagine how would our lives become... Search engines: what’s up next? SEARCH engines are the heart and soul of the internet. Without these integral programs, the internet wouldn’t have been considered a blessing. With simple to use interfaces, these search engines have... WLAN: no more strings attached A WIRELESS LAN is an extension of a wired LAN. WLAN supports network communication over short distances. Its components convert data packets into radio waves or infrared (IR) pulses and... New Itanium chip unveiled TAKING aim at the high-end server chip market, Intel has introduced its third Itanium processor, the Madison, and Xeon processor MP. The company has hopes the new chip will breathe life into sales of its Itanium line, which only now is beginning to see momentum in the marketplace.... More evidence of water on Mars NEW observations by Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor (another Nasa probe that is mapping Mars) suggest the planet’s north pole has about one third more underground ice than the south.... Who leads in computing power? ACCORDING to an independent study released last week, IBM is the world’s leading provider of supercomputing power with a total of 130 teraflops of power (trillions of calculations per second) on the “Top 500 List of Supercomputers”, representing more than 34 per cent.... US will assist Pakistan in S&T PAKISTAN and the United States have signed signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of science and technology. The agreement for cooperation in the field of science and technology was signed by Foreign Secretary.... A new front to computing PHYSICISTS have come a step closer to the Quantum Computer by demonstrating the existence of entangled states between two quantum bits (qubits), each created with a type of solid-state circuit.... Byteback Letterhead problems Can you guide me how to include a letterhead in my email message. Dr Abdullah Jan Pathan Hyderabad... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets AN EMPLOYEE at NTT DoCoMo shows a picture of herself taken by the company’s new camera equipped mobile phone. The D505i handset is the first in the company’s new 505i series...

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