Tech News
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All your communications belong to Micro$oft
Published: Monday, April 2, 2001 | By: DennisYou know those agreements that you always click though saying you read and understood the information contained within? Well it looks like the Register has decoded the agreement for the Microsoft passport service (Hotmail and MSN Messenger) and look what it has to say.
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Tech Extreme on Serious Sam
Published: Monday, April 2, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like I'm not the only one bored that there is no hardware to review. Check out this review of Serious Sam.
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Serious Sam
Published: Sunday, April 1, 2001 | By: DennisThere hasn't been much happening in the world of hardware lately so I thought I would tell you about this new game I picked up other day.
Serious Sam, a new game built on a completely new engine from Croteam. In a way it brings back memories of Duke Nukem 3D and the original Quake, just more intense and with better graphics. The game engine was built with the idea that the maps would be large and have countless amounts of opponents to kill. Some of the maps that I played had over 2000 entities with maybe 500 on screen at one time.
If Doom 3 is anything like Serious Sam it is going to rock! -
Nvidia GeForce5
Published: Sunday, April 1, 2001 | By: Dennisa Year ahead of schedule the GeForce5 is the fastest Video card on the planet. All due in part to the on-board SLI technology Nvidia bought from 3Dfx.
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War Driving?
Published: Friday, March 30, 2001 | By: DennisI remember back in the day sitting at my ole Tandy 1000SX and running a program called a War Dialer. The idea was to have the computer dial a set of phone numbers and then let you know what ones had computers on the other end. Later that day you could review the logs and have something to do for the next few hours. It was great fun though with the advent of Caller ID, *67, and the mainstream use of the Internet war dialing doesn't have much use anymore.
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Servelinux Servers
Published: Thursday, March 29, 2001 | By: DennisHere is some very interesting news. The server that was shown at CeBit is actually produced by an international company called Servelinux. They build a very impressive 1U and 2U linux server complete with Dual Processors, Intergrated RAID 1 and a very specialized Linux server installation.
The best part is that you can pick up one of these babies for less than $1000 bucks!!
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Cyrix will not ever do SMP
Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 | By: DennisVIA hardware has the scoop on the Cyrix dually that was seen at CeBit. It seems that someone made an error when they placed a Cyrix chip on the motherboard we linked to earlier. Any event here is a quote:
A employee of VIA/Cyrix has confirmed that the Cyrix III will not work in SMP. It is technically not possible for them to work in SMP. There have recently been a few rumors about Cyrix III and SMP due to pictures taken at Cebit showing so.
The pictures are no doubt real, but the setup was more then likely caused by human error.
The current line of VIA processors will not work in SMP because of lack of an APIC, however it is still possible the upcoming C5X core may
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Gamesurround Fortissimo II
Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 | By: DennisEver since the buyout of Aureal by Creative I've been looking for an alternative sound card. Don't get me wrong the SB Live that I have works great but I always liked the Digital out option that my Aureal Vortex II had but without Windows2k drivers its pretty much worthless. Though now I think I might have found a replacement. Hercules has released a second-generation sound card that looks quite appealing.
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Dual Cyrix processors
Published: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 | By: DennisThis is quite interesting, At the recent CeBit convention one of the booths had a 1U server complete with two processors. Normally this wouldn't really be a big deal except that the processors where the new Samuel II processors by Cyrix. It would seem that all of the x86 processor makers are jumping on the SMP bandwagon.
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New Home for Ninjalane.com
Published: Saturday, March 24, 2001 | By: DennisLike the subject says we have moved to a new and improved server and looking at the recent stats it would seem most of the users would agree.
Just to recap a few weeks ago I posted some photos of the bare-bones web server that acted as a temporary host for this site. During that time the original server moved to a new location. With the downtime the owner decided that he would upgrade the system by replacing the whole thing, nice guy huh?
Now that everything is complete, tested and approved this site has moved and the bare- bones systems usefulness has come to an end.
Though I must admit for a lil' P166 it did quite well.
