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• Ninja's at Penny Arcade

  Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Raise your hand if you have ever had sword fights with leftover paper tubes. Yes I'm guilty too.

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• Ninjalane v2.0 Released - Finally

  Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Whoa, what is going on here??
  
  Oh ya, I finally finished development on the much anticipated v2.0 of ninjalane.com. Aside from the graphics I would also like to draw your attention to the URL changes. Unlike the previous version, which was coded in Classic ASP (.asp), the new site uses ASP.net (.aspx). I ported over many of the pages from the previous site but due to consolidation some needed to be removed completely, please update your bookmarks to reflect the change.
  
  Keep in mind that I'll be making code changes over the next couple of weeks so if a page is down or missing please check back in a couple of hours.
  
  Thank you and enjoy!

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• Happy Hallows

  Published: Thursday, October 31, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Considering the holiday (so to speak) and the pending "launch" schedule later this evening *hint hint* I am going to take a day off from the news, but if you have a story you think is relevant feel free to send it in.
  
  If you are dying for some tech news check out the Ninjalane World News section.

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• Dell selling Apple's iPods

  Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I don't know what to think about this. Dell computer is selling Apple iPods, granted they are the Windows version but still, iPods?.
  
  "Yep, Dell is reselling iPods," Apple said in a statement provided to CNET News.com. "We are delighted to offer our 5GB, 10GB and 20GB iPods for Windows through Dell's direct retail channel. iPod has been a big success to date, and we would like to make it even bigger"
  
  You can thank Talon for the news post.

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• Next Gen ATA Drives - Not Quite Serial

  Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  As I alluded to in the title this is still a parallel ATA hard drive with a few enhancements to tide us over until SATA is released.
  
  "Some of you may say "But SATA increases bandwidth to 150MB/s." True, but the only way you're going to see improvements is through the burst speed of your drives and a 17MB/s advantage over the latest PATA standard, which isn't that much. When the densities of drives start getting higher and maybe a 10k spindle speed increase, we will start seeing drives flex their SATA muscle. "

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• 3-D Chip Bonding Technology

  Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This could be the way of the future in chip design.
  
  "The approach can join logic devices with memory, or logic with analog components, the company said. It could also be used to mount RF filters onto other RF components, or bond silicon or silicon germanium devices with chips made in III-V materials, the company said. "

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• Asus Dual Channel DDR Board Photos

  Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I was quite surprised to find that this board was using the SiS DCDDR chipset instead of the Intel; I must be slipping since I never knew. Anyhow I will let the pictures speak for themselves, oh and as a little side activity try to count the extras, hint: there is a lot.

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• KT400 vs. nForce2 Write-up @ x-bit labs

  Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | By: Dennis

  As usual these write-ups are very informative and covers just about everything you wanted to know about the two chipsets. Be sure to top off your beverage before clicking, you'll be there awhile.

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• EPoX EP-4SDA5+ Review @ Envy News

  Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is a SiS648 based motherboard and despite being first to market with the net technology I don't think the chipset ever caught that much traction.
  
  "On the side of overclocking I was able to get my 2.4G up to 2.7G much like I did with the 4G4A+, on the other side with stability both the 2700 and 3200 DDR options ran, but by sacrificing either overclocking or onboard options."
  
  Sounds similar to our SiS experience.

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• XFX Graphics Geforce 4 Ti4200 Review @ Techware Labs

  Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This review is pretty short but covers all of the basics so I really don't mind. Besides the XFX Graphics card would look perfect on a Soltek SL-75FRV.

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