Tech News
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Code Red III
Published: Friday, August 10, 2001 | By: DennisA third varient of the ever popular Code Red worm has been found in Korea. This one sounds even worse than the first two. Maybe I need to start thinking about porting my ASP website to PHP.
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ATI R200/R300 Roadmap Leaked
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisAccording to the roadmap the R200 or Radeon 2 is scheduled to ship in September along with a low-end version called the RV200. Not much has been said about the specs of these two chips except that the R200 will have 4 render pipelines and will support DirectX 8.1. The RV200 (not unlike your motor home) will only have 2 render pipes. It would seem that the RV200 part is based on the old Radeon core.
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1.5GHz AMD Palomino
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like AMD is on track to release their 1.5GHz Palomino processor in September. According to The Inquirer report they are also likely to announce the release of a 1.2GHz laptop processor and 1GHz Duron processor.
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Kinda Slow on the News Front
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisThe news was kind of slow yesterday so once again there was a day with no new news. I'll see what I can scrape up for today.
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Fired for MP3s at Work
Published: Monday, August 6, 2001 | By: DennisIMHO, the crazy broad deserves it. 2000+ MP3s on your work machine? By my very unscientific calculations thats about 167 CDs worth of music. Hmm, somehow I don't think she converted them at work from her own collection. And somehow I don't think that roughly (again my calculations) 117 hours worth of MP3s were just for her personal use. Some Peer-to-Peer sharing going on there. Maybe the next NinjaLane poll should be on how many MP3s each of us has at work.
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"Code Red" strikes again
Published: Monday, August 6, 2001 | By: DennisSomebody out there isn't playing nice; a new variant of the original "code red" is out infecting IIS servers across the globe.
Out of curiosity I checked the apache log on my Linux box the other night and found that there are many IIS machines on the @home network and quite a few of them are infected. Here is the recommendation on what do to if you think you are at risk. Download and run this program from Norton CRDetect.exe, if there is a problem. Update virus definitions and scan for CR Trojan.Patch IIS, and Reboot. -
Dell to Drop Linux from Home PC Line
Published: Sunday, August 5, 2001 | By: DennisIt is a very sad day for the Dell loving Linux users. I would appear that due to a lack of interest Dell is no longer going to offer Linux on its home line of PC's. That's is too bad, though then again it was only Red Hat.
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New Databases for XML??
Published: Sunday, August 5, 2001 | By: DennisDon't get me started on this one. The gist is this; a company has developed a new database to hold XML data. I have one thing to say about that.. "Why?"For those of us that understand XML you'll get a kick out of the article.
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Blow your speakers
Published: Friday, August 3, 2001 | By: DennisYou've heard about it, here is a preliminary report about the new anti-copying scheme that Sony is Testing. Apparently, if you play back a copied CD, you can do serious damage to your ears or audio equipment. I give it two weeks before the issue is taken care of.
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[H]ard|Drive Coolers
Published: Friday, August 3, 2001 | By: DennisI found some interesting news at the OCP today. Kyle is actually using [H]arddrive coolers. I seem to remember that he was always going off about how if your case is well cooled you don't need one (which is true for the most part) and to spend your money in better ways. I say if it gets hot and can be damaged by that heat cool it down I will admit though he did choose some pretty good ones.
See the photos here and here
We at ninjalane are partial to the Vantec under-the-drive coolers, they are quiet and work very well.
