Tech News
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Asustek Said to Build Intel Mobo's in 2003
Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 | By: Dennis"Asustek Computer will become Intel’s new contract-manufacturing partner for own-brand motherboards for 2003, joining Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Mitac International, according to the Economic Daily News Chinese-language newspaper."
I've never really liked Asus but I will admit, the company has been releasing some very popular boards into the enthusiast market lately. Not to mention being "on the ball" when it comes to releasing products to market. All in all I think Intel will be making the right choice. I wonder, will the PCB’s still be that fugly yellow/brown color? or will Intel make them use green? -
Mass Production Key to AMD's K8 Business
Published: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 | By: Dennis"Despite new challenges from Intel’s Springdale specification changes, K8 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) could still compete quite strongly against Intel’s P4s if they are launched on time and start mass production by the third quarter, motherboard manufacturers indicated."
This is really a very open topic since both companies are hush hush with their benchmark numbers. It will be a very exciting time in the hardware industry during Q1 of 2K3. -
Exploit Posted for Linksys Broadband Routers
Published: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | By: DennisThe problem is with the built in web server that is used to configure the device, a fix has yet to be released.
"Many Linksys' network appliances have a remote administration and configuration interface via HTTP, either from the local network, or, if it's enabled, from any host across the internet. The implementation of the embedded HTTP server presents several different exploitable vulnerabilities, some of them allow an unauthorized user to gain control of the appliance, some let an attacker reboot it, and some are of an unknown severity."
They even go into publishing how to exploit the device, scary. -
FLW Chairs Auctioned Off for 71 Grand
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisThis is a little off topic but for those that know my educational background I find this kind of stuff very interesting.
"The slat-backed chairs, which are said to be less valuable than Wright's more elegant spindle-backed furniture, had belonged to the Unity Temple, but were not original to that Oak Park building. They are believed to have been designed for a now-vanished bookstore on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, and later donated to the temple's Unitarian congregation. "
They are also very uncomfortable to sit in, but as with much that Frank Lloyd Wright designed the chairs are sculptural works of art not functional pieces of furniture. -
United Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisThe second largest commercial airline files for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep on flying and become profitable.
"The bankruptcy restructuring also is likely to result in fewer flights. Experts say frequent-flier miles and basic fare levels are likely to be retained for the short term, although fare hikes are likely over the longer haul.
A spokesman for United's pilots union urged passengers Sunday not to abandon the airline during a bankruptcy filing."
This will also mean its going to be harder to book a seat on some flights. -
MechAssault Xbox Preview @ Bjorn's 3D
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: Dennis"If you're a fan of mech games, then look no further than Mechassault for your next giant robot combat fix. Mech games have been popular in the gaming industry for over ten years now, and this latest entry into the mech combat arena does an excellent job of continuing the tradition."
MechAssault on the Xbox might be pretty fun; hopefully it’s not as confusing as Halo was.
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Another Slow News Day
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisI think this is common to everyone today since even the larger sites are posting things that they normally won't. If you have some tech news feel free to send it in.
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That's not Bigfoot
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisI think we had suspicions of this for quite some time now but the truth comes out about Bigfoot, and it all started with a joke to "Freak a friend out".
"They were in fact created by his boss with wooden carved feet to "freak him out", but the local newspaper, the Humboldt Times in Eureka, California, ran a front-page story on the prints the next day and coined the term "Bigfoot"."
When the hoax was uncovered an ISU (Idaho State University) professor, in typical ISU form has this to say.
"Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and one of America's most prominent Bigfoot hunters, said: "There are historical accounts of Bigfoot-like creatures going back to the 1880s. How do you explain that?""
Ya ya question everything and believe nothing.
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AGP Errata Found in New Intel Chipsets
Published: Saturday, December 7, 2002 | By: Dennis" The first of the chipsets is the long awaited "Placer" (7505) chipset. In a note on the Intel website, the firm describes two errata for the chipset – the first is that AGP signals do not meet the AGP 3.0 specification, while the second is that the AGP Prefetch Cache has to be disabled."
The “second” chipset mentioned is the E7205 "Granite Bay" chipset.
It is uncertain as to what kind of performance hit this will cause in systems using these chipsets but one thing is certain, early adoption of AGP 3.0 isn't going very smoothly. -
'Spam King' Buys House
Published: Friday, December 6, 2002 | By: DennisAnd we aren't talking about the guy that likes canned ham. Alan Ralsky is ranked as one of the top 5 email spammers around and after reading the article it come to my attendion that spammers are really 3v1l but the companies that hire them are the ones to blame. Here is a snip of 3v1ln355
"Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything."
Sounds like a virus to me.
