Tech News
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Xbox Security HaxX0r3d
Published: Tuesday, June 4, 2002 | By: DennisLeave it to MIT to crax everything. It would seem that with 50 bux worth of parts and a little time Andrew Huang was able to build a device that would read the contents of the "secret boot block" which contains the xbox's primary security.
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Anandtech Computex Day 1
Published: Monday, June 3, 2002 | By: DennisAnother day 1 from Computex, this time from Anandtech. Anand Lal Shimpi seems to get in good with just about everybody and considering how long he has been on the hardware scene its no wonder why.
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Comdex Day 1 @ t-break
Published: Monday, June 3, 2002 | By: DennisDay one for t-break consisted of P4, T-Bird, and Hammer motherboards with a few supporting serial ATA.
They even included a page of booth babes but only two pictures. 
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Computex Starts This Week
Published: Monday, June 3, 2002 | By: DennisOnce again I am stuck in the states when I could be oversees checking out some of the newest computer hardware available to the public. I suppose I could also use the time to rub elbows with other hardware site webmasters and make some new hardware contacts but thats not really the point.
DigiTimes is kind enough to post a daily newsletter from and about Computex and so far it would appear that despite the "turndown" there is quite a crowd this year. (unlike the 2k1 Comdex). -
IBM Network Storage Solution
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisIn a way this article sounds like something that has been around for many years now. Can you say "thin client"?, I knew you could. IBM is taking the concept a bit further though by actually removing the storage need from computers and putting all of the data into a single repository. This includes the "thin client" the dev server and even the production servers will contact the repository for their OS needs, and data storage. Kind of makes it easy for the government to get at your stuff huh?
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Super Flower 201S Aluminum Tower Review @ Hardware Pub
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisSupa Flower Power!
Oh wait its just a case, dang. So what more could you ask for? we have Aluminum case construction, the inclusion of 3 windows 4 case fans, and multimedia ports up front. Well, how about a powersupply!?!. -
VIA P4PB Pro Mainboard Press Release
Published: Friday, May 31, 2002 | By: DennisVIA has announced the P4PB Pro motherboard which in many respects is really quite impressive. Here is a clip,
"The VIA P4PB Pro's impressive performance features includes AGP4X and 533/400MHz FSB support, as well as the industry's fastest memory controller, providing the Pentium® 4 with 2700MB/sec of fast DDR333 SDRAM memory. The VIA P4PB Pro's unsurpassed connectivity features include integrated USB 2.0/1.1, IDE ATA/133, onboard IEEE 1394, 10/100 LAN, and a Smart Card connector. " -
Sneak Peek - New Motherboards from Soltek
Published: Thursday, May 30, 2002 | By: DennisSoltek has pictures and specs posted on 8 new Pentium 4 motherboards in 12 different variations. These boards are based on the new Intel chipsets (i845E, i845G, i845GL) supporting the new 533MHz FSB. Soltek has also changed a few things in the process. The PCB color has been changed from red to Silver! and to spice things up even further these new boards feature any of not all of the following additional features.
6x USB 2.0/1.1 Ports, 2 or 6-Channel AC'97 Audio, 
RealTek LAN Controller, LPC 80 Port Debug (Optional), 
and PROMISE IDE RAID Controller. (ATA133) 
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PowerLeap 423 to 478 P4 Adaptor
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisPowerLeap, remember them? They come up with some very cool and wacky upgrade parts to help extend the life of your older computer. They now have this adapter that will allow you to put a socket 478 Pentium 4 on a socket 423 Pentium 4 motherboard. I would classify this upgrade part as wacky.
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Doom III E3 Demo Clarification @ Shacknews
Published: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | By: DennisIt turns out that the MSNBC article didn't tell us everything about the Doom 3 E3 demo hardware. So for those lucky enough to see it at E3 the demo was running on "next-gen" hardware ATI card at medium quality!
Here is a quote of the email from John
"We actually screwed up at E3 -- we should have been running it at high quality settings (uncompressed textures, anisotropic filtering), but we were chasing some problems the first day, and it got set back to medium quality. The problems had gone away, so we left it that way, rather than risk changing it back."
