Tech News
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Linux Desktop Top 10
Published: Friday, June 29, 2001 | By: DennisHere is a funny top 10 list on what would need to happen for Linux to be a top notch desktop O/S. I like number 8.
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Unix-Style Sockets with XP
Published: Thursday, June 28, 2001 | By: DennisRaw sockets among other things will allow you to spoof your IP address. In recent times you had to be running a *nx style to do that but it looks like times are about to change so, with some creative programming you can start cracking sites without a trace.
Even if you aren't a hacker/cracker type you can still be assured worry free surfing unless you go to yahoo.com, they track everything - even after you leave the domain. -
Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
Published: Thursday, June 28, 2001 | By: DennisJust a quick announcement, I just recently got one of these cards and will have a review of it up hopefully by Saturday.
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The Peak of Moores Law
Published: Thursday, June 28, 2001 | By: DennisI find this kind of interesting. In about 20years time according to Moore's law transistors will be only a few atoms wide. What this means is that processor transistors will be so small that they won't work. (So to speak)
Anandtech.com has a short article up on the subject. Its one of those reads that makes you go hummm. -
Tech Changes @ Ninjalane
Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 | By: DennisBeing a professional Web Developer I try to keep up with the latest trends and find easier ways to do things. When I started Ninjalane it was an experiment in web programming "for a better career" (where have we heard that before, Sally?). Then later transformed into what you see now. In my slow process of expanding the website I needed a better way to post my project, articles, and reviews. The current format is HTML and is somewhat cumbersome to work with, so as a result I created an XML "engine" as I call it that will take care of everything. Look for a write up titled "The Technology behind Ninjalane.com" to be posted soon.
Anyhow I plan to be updating the website sometime later this week so if you come across a link that is no longer working please let me know. The email address is in the lower right. -
Color Anodized ThermoEngines
Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 | By: DennisThe "iMac Syndrome" strikes again. Seriously though color-coding your computer goods has become quite popular. The only problem is finding a company that produces the colored goods that will match your current color scheme.
This site not only has color coded ThermoEngines but also Volcanoes and mini orbs. -
Intel Aquires Alpha
Published: Monday, June 25, 2001 | By: DennisCompaq has released control of its Alpha processor division to none other than Intel. The Inquirer claims that Intel and Compaq will work together in a joint effort in "advanced parallelism", the rumor being both 64bit platforms will melt into one design and piss everyone off. The Inquirer has the full scoop.
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Rounded vs. Flat ATA Cables that is
Published: Thursday, June 21, 2001 | By: DennisSystemlogic, a site that cannot close an link tag has posted proof to an age old question. "Do rounded ATA cables hurt system performance?" I remember back when ATA66 and the new 80wire ATA cable where released. The added wires where supposed to decreases data corruption over the high-speed bus. So if you decide to round your ATA cables do so with care, and in groups of 5.
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Dual Athlon Review @ GamePC
Published: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 | By: DennisFor once I was able to read something at 2cpu.com without having the text be all squished up against the side. They have having problems with Netscape, again. :)
Anyevent, GamePC took a long hard look at a Dual Athlon setup and found the performance to be poor at best. Considering this is AMD's first stab at SMP I'm not surprised. See the review here -
.13 Micron Tualatin
Published: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like the .13 micron Pentium 3's are going to be released in two phases. The first being a non-SMP version followed by an SMP'able version both having with 512k of cache. So it looks like Intel will once again try their hands at a +1Ghz Pentium3 but this time the processor will be a Server only application.
