Tech News
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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.
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Removal of Playtime Case Mod
Published: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 | By: DennisSome of you may have seen my latest case mod that we called "Playtime". Well due to unforeseen complications it was requested of me to remove the "Playtime" case mod from my website. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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Hydraulic Full-Tower Case Review @ GideonTech
Published: Monday, June 18, 2001 | By: DennisIf you remember back a few months ago we did a case mod on a case just like this one. If you missed it before see it again. Stealth Mod
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Hercules GeForce Tweak Utility
Published: Sunday, June 17, 2001 | By: DennisI saw over at the RivaStation that a new tweak utility has been released by Hercules for their Nvidia based products. I would suggest only installing it if you can't get coolbits to work. Just for the record I have the Det 12.60 installed on my GeForce3 and after installing the coolbits I was able to overclock the card, not sure why everyone else is having problems.
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GeForce3 Reviews Abound
Published: Friday, June 15, 2001 | By: DennisLooking around the net I see that with the retail release of the GeForce3 there have been an explosion of reviews and comments about the new chip from Nvidia. Anandtech, and Hard|OCP have reviews up. I even noticed the other day that Arstechnica posted a friendly blurb saying they are sorry for being skeptical.
About 3 weeks ago I became a proud owner of the Prophet III and all I've had is troubles. Once I figure out what the root of the problem is I'll let you all know.
