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• Mac's Sold with Linux Onboard

  Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "For the past few weeks, Moline, Ill.-based QliTech Linux Computers has been selling PowerBooks, iBooks and Power Macs containing both Mac OS X and one of several flavors of Linux, designed to run on PowerPC chips used by Macs. "
  
  What do you suppose Apple will have to say about this.

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• WindowsXP, HyperThreading, and You

  Published: Monday, September 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Intel Corp. is expected to unveil this week a performance-enhancing technology that's due in an upcoming release of its 3GHz Pentium 4. But an apparent lack of necessary support from Microsoft Corp. will mean few early adopters will be able to take advantage of it."
  
  They are speaking mostly in terms to your OS and does it support the new technology.
  
  "But the technology requires software designed for multiprocessor systems. Currently, most consumer software products, including Windows XP Home Edition, don't support hyperthreading."

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• Strange Site Behavior

  Published: Monday, September 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Over the past month I have been noticing a detrimental site issue that will keep my asp scripts from processing. I am actively looking into this and hopes of finding a solution.
  
  My webhost claims the problem stems from some server upgrades that they are doing though it seems a little far-fetched for me to believe.

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• AMD Opteron in China

  Published: Monday, September 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

  AMD had K8-core samples (both workstation and server) on display at the CeBit show in Shanghai this month. The processors are still not due to hit the market until next year and expected to stay out of the mainstream until at least the 3rd quarter of 2k3.

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• Dual Band 802.11a/b From Linksys

  Published: Monday, September 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I saw this item on the Linksys website not to long ago and it looks to be the way to go considering how popular 802.11b is.
  
  "The 802.11a standard will probably never see a life of its own unless it is married with the more popular 802.11b technology to provide dual-band support for wireless networking, according to an industry executive."

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• How to be a "web designer"

  Published: Sunday, September 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is sooo very funny. The sad part is I can actually remember dealing with designers that fit this profile almost excatly.

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• Typhoon Sinlaku Stops Work in Northern Taiwan

  Published: Friday, September 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Classified as a mid-strength typhoon, Sinlaku is bringing force 7 (>15m/s) winds up to 300km, and force 10 (>25m/s) winds up to 100km, from its eye. Maximum sustained winds are reaching 40m/s, with gusts up to 50m/s (about 112.5mph)."
  
  The major concern is flooding due to the amount of rain a typhoon brings.

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• Slackware 9 Beta

  Published: Friday, September 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is some good news for us Slackware Linux users though I suspect it will be quite a while before we see a production release.

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• New Contest at viaarena

  Published: Friday, September 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "The word overclocking is derived from the exercise of running a CPU device at speeds above the CPU's officially rated clock speed. Normally overclocking will result in higher CPU core temperatures, PCI/AGP-bus speeds running out of specifications, which often leaves the user with a non-reliable computer system.
  
  The VapoChill technology effectively addresses the reliability and stability issues on two fronts: CPU heat management and specialized motherboard features. Where the temperature issue is dealt with through the functionality of the VapoChill technology the motherboard related issues have been addressed through a formalized R&D relation between asetek and ASUSTek Computer Inc., one of the worlds leading motherboard manufacturers and now also VIA Mainboards.
  
  VIA Mainboards are proud to support this technology, to give our customers the opportunity to build an ultimate high performance system, coupled with unsurpassed stability and features."
  
  Your on your own here,

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• Bad Greece, No Cookie

  Published: Thursday, September 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Due to a recent law being passed you could land yourself jail time for playing and/or owning an electronic game. This includes games on cell phones, game consoles, game boys, and even game software for your home computer.
  
  "Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public and private places, and people have already been fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing or owning games.
  
  The law applies equally to visitors from abroad: "If you know these things are banned, you should not bring them in," said a commercial attaché at the Greek Embassy in London, who declined to give her name. "
  
  Looks like I won't be going to Greece any time soon.

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