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  • Intel Loses Another

    Published: Monday, December 17, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Intel has lost another legal battle over patent infringement. This time the 82Mil case is lost to Broadcom. In this instance I would recommend that you read two reports on the issue to get the full story. The first story is below with the second being at latimes.com

  • SY-P4S Dragon Ultra Based on Sis 645

    Published: Sunday, December 16, 2001 | By: Dennis

    DDR RAID Audio Graphic (AGP) Overclocking Network USB 2.0. We have heard this acronym over and over in reference to the badass black Athlon motherboard from Soyo. Well they have extended the legacy to include the latest DDR333 chipset from Sis. Though the fun doesn't stop there Soyo also added a "U" which stands for USB 2.0, w00t! Now all we need is some devices that support it.

  • OCH LCD MicroView Review @ 2FastCPU

    Published: Sunday, December 16, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Back in my car audio days these sorts of things cost a ton of cash. It would appear now that they have come down in price and would make a nice addition to just about any server or workstation.

  • ZZZ Online Issue 108

    Published: Sunday, December 16, 2001 | By: Dennis

    In their latest issue they are covering bomb-proof curtains, underwater gliders, soldier refrigerators, and gesture recognition software. shock smile

  • To Many Patches for IE

    Published: Sunday, December 16, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Here is a little humor that was sent to me in relation to Microsoft Patches.

    "other patches can be found here:
    www.netscape.com
    www.opera.com
    and others. However, they may not completely protect you, unless you also apply the patch from www.kernel.org or redhat.com."


    Personally I would recommend www.slackware.com over Red Hat any day.

  • IE Security Update

    Published: Thursday, December 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

    IE is getting more patches than a child's Levis. This time Microsoft fixes 3 vulnerabilities in one. I especially like this statement.
    " In order for the attacker to successfully attack the user via this vulnerability, she would need to craft a specially formed web page and host the malicious executable on a site that is accessible to the victim, either on the Internet or on their local network."
    All of a sudden Internet attackers are women.
    To find out more about my funny quote and the patch click here.

  • Intel i845D Chipset Review @ x-bit labs

    Published: Thursday, December 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

    There is some good stuff on how Intel plans to use the i845D chipset along with some benchmarks and comparisons across the P4 offerings. Something that I had not realized was how short the lifespan of this chipset will be. It really makes the move to a P4 a tough one.

  • Xeon vs. Athlon

    Published: Thursday, December 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

    It is an age-old tale of Good vs. Good with one being slightly better than the other. It would seem the faster clock on the Xeon still performs slightly less than the slower Athlon XP on the game side of things. Though much to my surprise some of the tests put the single Xeon as the faster solution.

  • MSI i845D Board Review @ ViaHardware

    Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

    ViaHardware has posted a preview of this MSI motherboard explaining the features and layout of their latest motherboard. I would guess that is all they are allowed to post considering that the official release of the i845D is still a few days off. What is really strange is that a Via website is one of the first ones to post a preview of an up and coming Intel chipset.

  • Warez Crackdown

    Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    For those of you that do not know what Warez is I will elaborate. Think of a digital flea market of software without the exchange of money. Well as it would turn out the software companies are starting to get pissed off about these "markets" and want them shut down. Here is a clip: "Operation Buccaneer, a 15-month undercover investigation into an alleged community of pirates known as Warez."