Tech News
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Mac OSX on the Xbox
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: DennisX to the x to the X’addy X,X. Or, X for an X, in either instance OSX on the Xbox is pretty cool news. The mod also works on standard PCs using the PearPC process.
"You have software modded your Xbox and put Xebian Linux on it. You have purchased a copy of Mac OS X and made an image of it."
Dang, no copy of Mac OS X but that problem can easily be solved.
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Getting a Leg Up on 802.11n
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: DennisThe alphabet soup that we call wireless and while the letters keep changing it is still annoying that many cordless phones kill the network connection.
"We tested an early production sample of the Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router, and were impressed with the speed and range benefits 802.11n technology promises. (Though not tested here, pre-802.11n and, eventually, actual 802.11n products are designed to be backward compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g products.) A potential downside: pre-standard products are not guaranteed to work with later 802.11n devices that come out." -
SiS makes inroads into AMD chipset market
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: DennisI was beginning to wonder what happened to SiS, they are usually the first on the scene when new technology breaks.
"Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) is making inroads into the AMD chipset market and will increase its efforts by releasing a number of PCI Express (PCIe) chipsets for the AMD K8 platform, beginning in November, according to the company.
SiS claims it ranks second in market share in both the Intel and AMD chipset market, and its goal is to become the number-one producer of AMD chipsets. Currently, VIA is the market leader in the AMD segment." -
Abit hits record motherboard shipments in September
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: Dennis"Abit Computer achieved record motherboard shipments of 370,000 units in September, for a total of 2.463 million units shipped in the first three quarters of this year, according to the company. Based on its 2004 shipment forecast, the second-tier motherboard maker forecasts shipments this quarter should climb to 1.04 million units, from 1.01 million in the third quarter."
That is a lot of boards. -
Some graphics card makers have insufficient supply of GPUs
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: Dennis"In addition, the sources said that makers had difficulty getting Nvidia GeForce 6600 chips since Nvidia has only recently started volume production. In addition, Nvidia’s shipments of GeForce 6800 and 6800Ultra chipsets were erratic, the sources noted."
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Email Scams - The Evil that is Human Nature
Published: Friday, October 8, 2004 | By: DennisHey everyone, just a reminder, email is great though not all email you get is email you want to have. For instance spam is oftentimes disguised to look like legit email from a legit source in an attempt to get you to click on the link. However if you look carefully you can find small things wrong with the message that give the message away as something you don’t want (spam/scam).
A good rule of thumb, never click on the link directly if it comes in an email from what appears to be a legit source. Instead go to the legit website and sign in directly. If there is any action you need to take the legit website will let you know. Otherwise you might as well give the scammers everything you own cause that is what they are going to take.
The website below shows you an example, learn it and be sure to check out many of the other fraud scams they have on display. -
How to polish your HDD @ Madshrimps
Published: Thursday, October 7, 2004 | By: Dennis"Polishing your hard drive is not difficult, but without the right ingredients and tips on how to proceed, the end result might not be what you were looking for. So of we go:"
This is one of them articles that you just have to go, "oh ya, I guess you can polish the HDD".
This can look great in that custom case though be careful since polishing metal can induce a static charge large enough to destroy your data and/or HDD. -
Asetek Vapochill Light Speed @ ocprices
Published: Thursday, October 7, 2004 | By: DennisMy biggest beef with the Vapochill was the rather shoddy case the unit came in. The metal was pretty weak and quite heavy, granted it needed to hold up the chill unit but the design left much to be desired.
"Unlike the Vapochill XE, as previously mentioned, the LS is a base unit. This means that you will need to have a case to go on top. I highly recommend the Lian Li PC-60, since this is the case Asetek have tailored the LS to look its best with. Installed, you should have something resembling the system below, pretty stylish I'm sure you will agree!"
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Nexus AXP-3200 SkiveTek Cooler @ ModFathers
Published: Wednesday, October 6, 2004 | By: DennisI got to meet the Nexus guys while visiting with my contact from CoolJag at Computex, they are very nice and have very good intentions in the computer market. It would seem that the modfathers gang didn't like what they saw.
"It is very quiet and is very well made. However it loses on that very vital looks department because of the ugly black fan and again because of the poor fitting clip."
I'm still wondering what they ment by a poor fitting clip unless they wanted to have a thumb clip instead of having to use a screwdriver. -
The New Face of Ars
Published: Tuesday, October 5, 2004 | By: Dennis"Most obvious to the naked eye is our considerable style change. After years of a heavily "black" scheme, we decided that we wanted to introduce some new colors into the look, while increasing the ways in which people can customize that look (I'll talk about those customizations below). The new default scheme introduces a number of things to Ars (almost all of which can be changed by you, the reader):"
The new design is very clean and highly readable I would recommend checking it out.
