Tech News
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New Years Over
Published: Wednesday, January 1, 2003 | By: DennisI trust that everyone was safe over the holiday, yep same here and aside from the fireworks at midnight it was pretty peaceful.
btw the link may not be suitable for many work environments.
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Happy New Year Everyone
Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 | By: DennisOn behalf of Ninjalane I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Don't drink to much and please give the keys to a sober friend if you are too fuxX0r3d to drive.
Above all have a good time!
See you all in 2003
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New Soltek Website
Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 | By: DennisSoltek has launched (not formally) a US based website. I'm in the process of gathering some more information about the new site and it's intent. The current rumors say that soltekusa.com is just the start of a much larger US based marketing campaign.
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Springdale Said to be First to Market
Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 | By: DennisI think this will be an Intel first,
j/k.
Here is a clip.
"Typically, VIA and SiS enjoy a honeymoon period of profits before Intel launches comparable products, after which increased competition drives down prices. According to development roadmaps at Intel and downstream motherboard makers, this time Intel will preempt the competition."
Intel is getting very serious about the Springdale chipset. First they make an out of the blue announcement during Comdex and now they’re going to be first to market with it, Goodtimes for Intel
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Mozilla Phoenix Browser Preview
Published: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 | By: DennisI've been following the development of the Phoenix browser from Mozilla and I've been quite surprised as to how far it has come. The new beta browser is built on the Mozilla engine and is designed to be very lightweight. At only 6 megs you'd think it was a version 3 browser.
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Quiet News Day, Best of 2002
Published: Monday, December 30, 2002 | By: DennisIts kind of quiet today so phjear my lack of news!
Its kind of sad that everyone finds it necessary to post stuff like "The best of 2002!" and "My picks for the future!". In a way I can see why they do it, it is just annoying since just about everything on the list was released last month. So, just don't expect me to come up with one.
I have a better idea, how about you post your own "Best of 2002!" in the Ninjalane Message Forum, it will be interesting to see what you all come up with. -
Facts and Assumptions of the AMD 'Hammer'
Published: Monday, December 30, 2002 | By: DennisDigi-Life has a rather lengthily article up that sheds some light on the mysteries behind the AMD x86-64 processor architecture. They dive into processor modes and even touch on memory speeds and potential throughput. The read is very informative though I don't suspect we will know everything until the processor is released sometime next year.
"Those who don't need these new features may not use them - nothing changes for 32bit applications. Besides, you can use 32bit applications in the 64bit OS." -
pcToys DDRMaXX Heatspreaders
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: DennisThese appear to be the same spreaders that you can get on some factory pieces of DDR.
" My gripe with this product is the presence of crappy TIM. It's best to take the extra couple minutes and remove it. Unless you want to permanently affix the heatspreaders to your ram, don't use the TIM. The temperatures won't make much of a difference." -
Inno3D Tornado Ti4200 AGP 8X Review @ BoogleTech
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: DennisInno3D makes some pretty good middle of the road video cards that seem to overclock quite well.
"I seem to be handing out too many awards as of late. Hardware manufacturers seem to have listened to their users and changed everything that they have complained about. The only area this card has failed in is quality due to the visual distortions. I'm guessing that this is most likely a bug (albeit a fairly common one) because it definitely doesn't happen to all cards, but it does happen to a few. "
I'd say its all or nothing bud, my award. "No soup for you!" -
Pepsi boots Britney, picks Beyonce
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2002 | By: Dennis" After two years, PepsiCo Inc. has said goodbye to Britney Spears as its spokeswoman and replaced her with Beyonce Knowles of the R&B trio Destiny's Child. "
I think this is a good move on Pepsi's part, and no I'm not switching to coke.
