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  • So What Heatsink is Better

    Published: Friday, July 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The guys at ProCooling have three coolers on the grill to prove to us all what cooler is better. Pin/Fin, Copper/Alum are a combo of all.

    Some interesting results

  • Swedish Bikini Team Blasts Away

    Published: Friday, July 13, 2001 | By: Dennis

    After you have been surfing around the net awhile you realize that you can find everything you ever wanted to know about anything but a few things stand out. Girls.

    Since today is the 13th I thought I might do something a little different. Enjoy the photos.

  • IE an Install Option with WinXP

    Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Internet Explorer will finally be added to the Add/Remove Programs section of Windows XP. It is also rumored that XP will be shipped as a "clean desktop" meaning users and OEM's can add whatever they want to the desktop in effect adding personality from one company to another. We might even see Netscape or Mozilla type browsers instead of IE.

  • NEC and Taiwan Semiconductor to make .10 micron chips

    Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    It seems NEC feels the need to make some noise in the chip making market.

    Of course after the announcement, Sony and Toshiba felt the need to announce even smaller chips.

  • Boise firm thinks wireless

    Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Ridge Run, a local Boise company, seeks to make a presence in the Wireless market. This company is wholly funded by Texas Instruments. Can you say Day Trading?

  • Open-source steps in to duplicate .Net

    Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

    DotGNU and Mono under GPL/LGPL to replace .Net?

    You make the call!

  • Can Microsoft weather its HailStorm?

    Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

    MSN Messenger outtage portent of .Net difficulties?

    With the Messenger service being a major part of the whole .net movement from Microsoft they really can't afford to have problems this late in the game.

  • Security firm cracked by PoisonBOx

    Published: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

    These guys were owned . . .

    They set up a server and told everyone to crack it, and it got cracked, then they got the REAL systems. I'd hate to be their Network Admins today!

  • Another Update to Ninjalane

    Published: Monday, July 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Well I have finished updating the old static HTML to fit the new XML format so now everything in Projects and Reviews is XML driven.

    As before if you encounter any problems please let me know at the address shown in the lower right of this post.

  • Another Copper Cooler Review @ GideonTech

    Published: Monday, July 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Copper coolers have become quite a rage lately and for good reason. With processors in the 1+ GHz range there is alot of heat to transfer and copper accepts heat better than aluminum.

    The only drawbacks are heatsink weight and noise from the high speed fan.