Ninjalane News

Paint the Dark Side of the Moon

Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Nope its not a new Pink Floyd album but rather a technical view of an artists view. Paint the Moon is a website designed to organize millions of people to shine laser pointers on the moons surface. The Register has posted a response to this.

"I'm not 100% sure what the minimum intensity visible by the human eye is, but if every person on earth shone a laser pointer at the moon, the reflected intensity would be in the order of 10^-21 W/m^2, and that is definitely not visible. In other words, the guy is dreaming. "

ATi Cheating for Higher FPS??

Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 - By: Dennis
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This is has been a hot topic lately in how ATi has optimized their drivers to tweak Quake 3 game results. Though as most of us know speed comes at a cost.

Windows XP Released

Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 - By: Dennis
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The hot news of today is the release of Windows XP. I still don't know if I'll take the plunge. Here is another article with some more information.

MSN Blocking non-IE Browsers

Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 - By: Dennis
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ZDnet is reporting that MSN is blocking non-IE browsers saying

"Additionally, you'll see the most advanced functionality of MSN.com only with the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer" etc...

I've checked this with both Netscape 6.1 and Netscape 4.7 and found the site to load just fine so it would seem that the block is limited to the smaller and open source browsers.

75GXP Failure Rate Sparks Lawsuit

Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Heat can damage electronics, and hard drives are not immune. The super fast 75GXP drives from IBM have been plagued with a high failure rate since their introduction and these failures can be attributed to heat and low tolerances, together they spell disaster. It would appear that with this lawsuit the 75GXP drives are being pulled from production.

PGP to be sold by NAI

Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Well, as expected (by me), it's happening. Shortly after Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP, leaves NAI for personal reasons, Pretty Good Privacy goes on the auction block. I guess they didn't realize the immensity of the task that Mr. Zimmerman was managing.

VisionTek Xtasy Review @ Evil3d

Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Another VisionTek review has been posted, this time by the Evil Smokers at Evil3d. I wonder if VisionTek will be the big seller this year in the video card market.