January 17, 2004 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 3-D graphic power in PCs goes all-time high THE proliferation of faster-than-ever internet access, music, gaming have at least made one thing crystal clear, that is the PC will not go away. Rather its market is gaining maturity with... Get the most out of your WindowsXP EVERYONE who uses Windows operating system has to face often undecipherable error messages sooner or later. Microsoft may claim the errors are rare occurrences, but they can’t deny the reality.... Webwatch This valuable source provides a virtual tour of the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and provides you a chance to find out what happens when an ion is smashed. Also learn about particle... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. AP: Short for Access Point, it is a hardware device or a computer’s software that acts as a communication hub for users of a... Trans fatty acids are bad for your heart UNDER the US Food and Drug Administration rules, as the 2006 deadline for including information on trans fats (trans fatty acids) on the “nutrition facts” food label approaches, snack and processed food manufacturers will seek to reformulate their... The strange quantum world, not strange anymore QUANTUM physics is all about the mysterious movements of quantum substances. What one might be aware of is that the Quantum theory explains the nature and behaviour of matter and energy... World’s largest consumer electronic show LAS VEGAS is turning into a city of conventions. Most of the important international conventions are being held there. It provides the best of convention facilities, hotel accomodation to suit all... Can there be life on Vega? IT was the source of the mysterious radio transmissions in Contact, the 1985 book by Carl Sagan and later, the movie. In the sci-fi film, Jodie foster sits up as she... New trojan horse on the roll A NEW Swen-style Trojan horse, posing as a critical update from Microsoft, has been detected on the internet, and users who open the e-mail message may find their machines loaded... Panoramic view sent from Mars THE US space agency’s Mars rover Spirit has sent back a complete 360-degree panoramic colour image of its location on the surface of the Red Planet.... Chemistry symposium held in Karachi THE 9th International Symposium on Natural Product Chemistry was held in Karachi from Jan 10-13.... Helping the world to communicate FAMOUS American judge, John Marshall, once wrote, “To listen well is as powerful a means of communication as to talk well” and telecommunication helps us listen well as well as talk... Byteback CRC error Using WindowsXP, a ‘data error (redundancy cyclic check)’ error occurs on certain games while I try to install them. Is there any solution for this... Cool gadgets A 0.85-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the first hard drive to deliver multi-gigabyte date storage to a sub-one-inch from factor, developed by Japan’s Toshiba Corporation. the manufacturer expects to start sampling the new drive...

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