Tech News
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Gainward GeForce3 review @ mediaxplosion
Published: Monday, June 11, 2001 | By: DennisYes I know the site is in German but from what I can tell this is the only review of the Gainward card on the net. You can see the mediaxplosion review here.
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mod_gzip for Apache
Published: Monday, June 11, 2001 | By: DennisWith most hosting packages the company charges you based on how many GB's you move across their system. Of course if you can support the same amount of traffic with half of the bandwidth you will be in business. That is what mod_gzip does for you on Apache webservers. Kyle at Hard|OCP claims his bandwidth went down 50% since they started using it. At about 650GB a month that is quite a savings.
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1.4Ghz Athlon Review @ got|apex
Published: Friday, June 8, 2001 | By: DennisBased on the review they only got another 100Mhz out of the processor when they overclocked it, seems pretty low. I think this is a sign that AMD could be getting close to the limit of the T-Bird core.
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Netscape out of the browser war??
Published: Thursday, June 7, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like Netscape has finally given its last breath. I have been pretty loyal to Netscape over the years, even after they sold out to AOL. Resistance is futile when going against the 3v1l 3mp1r3.
The only thing I hate about IE is the "sloppy code" support, but as Bill Gates would put it "It is a feature!". -
Things to come
Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2001 | By: DennisAs for things to come here at Ninjalane.
I have a slick new case mod in the works, I am hoping to have the photos and write-up in the projects section later this week. The gaming section should be coming online shortly there after, most likely towards the end of the month, I'm still working on the code. There should be a number of product reviews coming down the pipe as well, I have some things to work out with the supplier so be patient.
I have also been giving my old forums a facelift. I would still consider the forums in Beta mode right now but feel free to check out the new look here. -
Changes at Ninjalane.com
Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2001 | By: DennisWelcome to the new and improved Ninjalane.com! You may or may not notice what has changed so here is the low down.
The website is on a totally new server with a faster connection to the internet. I have also gotten a new email address so please update your address books. -
Processor Gender
Published: Monday, June 4, 2001 | By: DennisNever thought my processors would have a gender other than male but it looks like I'm wrong. So what do you suppose you would get if you crossed a Pentium3 and a Pentium3 EB??
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Nvidia nForce Chipset at Computex
Published: Monday, June 4, 2001 | By: DennisNvidia has been releasing/showing new products left and right lately. First it was the GeForce3 and now the nForce chipset. The nForce is made up of 2 chips, IGP, and MCP (Northbridge and Southbridge), contains integrated everything including a GeForce2 From the initial specs this chipset looks to be very interesting. You can read more about it at the strangely non-Netscape 6 compliant website [H]ard|OCP. Lucky Kyle got to travel to Taiwan for the Computex computer show.
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Copper Inserted ORB
Published: Saturday, June 2, 2001 | By: DennisRecenlty this heatsink was featured in the HardOCP heatsink Roundup. Though it isn't posted on their website there is another version that has a 7k rpm fan, That one did quite well in the roundup.
One thing I'm starting to like about the ORBs is how quiet they are compaired to anything with a Delta. -
Copper Core "ThermoEngine"
Published: Saturday, June 2, 2001 | By: DennisI think it all started with the Alpha line of heatsinks. The concept was this, you have a large mass of copper that is in contact with your heat source, in this instance your processor. By nature copper conducts heat better than aluminum so the heat is removed from the source very quickly. You then wrap aluminum around the copper to transfer the heat into the air.
So what we have here is an efficient heatsink design similar to the ThermoEngine with a copper core.
