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pcMods Comdex Cases

Published: Monday, November 19, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Cool Case Alert! cool case alert and LanParty has the photos. I don't have a time line but I would expect to see these at pcMods pretty soon.

The only crappy part is that you will need IE to view the photos.

TechTV to Cut 130 Jobs

Published: Sunday, November 18, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Not much has been reported on this but Wired claims that 130 people or about 25% of the workforce at TechTV will need to be let go due to "current market conditions"

We can only hope that Leo Laporte is one of them, when he is on vacation or traveling about The ScreenSavers is a much better show.

MSI DDR333 Motherboard MS-6547

Published: Thursday, November 15, 2001 - By: Dennis
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A few days ago MSI released their motherboard based on the SiS645 chipset. I'm kind of liking the layout of this board the modem riser is located at the bottom of the motherboard, and there is an entire PCI slot missing adjacent to the AGP. Quite uncommon to see this but I believe it will start becoming a mainstream feature.

P4 Price Flux

Published: Thursday, November 15, 2001 - By: Dennis
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I heard from my sources in the East that right now the P4 line of processors is getting to become a very risky business. With the current shortage of available chips the running price for CPUs is changing radically every 10 minutes. Normally this isn't uncommon in the chip industry but the price instability has wholesalers worried.

Itanium Has Problems??

Published: Thursday, November 15, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Compaq is reporting that some Itanium servers are not passing their rigorous server tests. Compaq claims it to be an Intel issue and is working to find a solution. An Intel rep acknowledges the issue and claims it is not related to the chip.

Comdex pt2 @ VIAHardware

Published: Thursday, November 15, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Sorry for the lack of news postings it would seem that when Comdex comes to town the tech sector takes a week off. There will be plenty to report afterwards I'm sure.

VIAHardware has day 2 posted of their Comdex experience. As always plenty of photos and this time the DDR version of the i845 makes an appearance.

MSI 645 Ultra Review @ OCworkbench

Published: Monday, November 12, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Now that the SiS645 chipset has gone mainstream we will begin to see what this chipset can and can't do. I haven't seen any overclocking scores on this chipset yet so it is hard to say how well the platform will scale.

Feds Fail Security

Published: Saturday, November 10, 2001 - By: Dennis
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Just like in grade school a Federal Subcommittee was given the task of rating how other Federal agencies are doing when it comes to computer and network security. Out of all agencies listed the average is an F. This is partly due to the recent attacks of Code Red and Nimba virri exploiting Windows security holes.