Tech News
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SiS and VIA Dive Into the DDR400 Market
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisSiS and VIA are taking their Pentium 4 chipset designs to the next level by using DDR400 as their anchor into the high-performance P4 market. Kind of sounds like what Intel did with Rambus a few years back, wonder if it will work.
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The Poisoned Apple
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisThis is an older mod that has been done quite often since the release of the G4 tower but it will still turn heads and get you in good with the graphics guys at work. The best part is you'll get all this and more without needed to jump to the Mac platform.
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Dual-channel DDR
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisDDR seems to be the answer to the Rambus problem and until DDR-II becomes around the next logical solution is dual channel DDR, basically DDR333x2
"The dual-channel DDR-333 systems will offer 5.3 Gbytes/s."
"Currently, Nvidia Corp. is the only company to offer a dual-channel DDR chip set for mainstream PCs, which was released last summer. The company has not claimed much in the way of market share, partly because the set is based on CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. "
Ouch
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3Ware 4 Serial ATA/150 RAID Controller Review @ GamePC
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisThis is a 4-channel Serial ATA controller meaning it supports up to 4 Serial ATA drives, one on each channel. The controller will also perform RAID operations in 0, 1, 1+0, and 5 making it similar to the Standard ATA RAID controller from Adaptec. I'm not sure you will need RAID 5 on the desktop seeing that RAID 10 is faster but it does offer more HDD space.
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Zalman ST300BLP Power Supply Mod
Published: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 | By: DennisThe last time I modded a power supply I started getting random power outages to the molex connectors so tread lightly when you mod electronics.
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Triplex Millennium Silver GeForce 4 Ti4600 Review @ RadiativeNZ
Published: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 | By: DennisThis card has been out for quite some time now and is finally starting to filter around the world. If you remember the Triplex card card comes in its own metal briefcase with a nice plexi window in the side for video card viewage.
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Online Time For The Xbox
Published: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 | By: DennisNov. 15th is the planned launch date of "Xbox Live" and for 50bux you too can have your Xbox online not including broadband costs.
"Microsoft will sell a $50 Xbox Live starter kit that includes a headset microphone, a one-year subscription to the service, and software that allows the Xbox to tap into an existing broadband Internet connection. " -
Other Programs Have Holes Too
Published: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 | By: Dennis"Konqueror (kssl to be precisely) fails to detect certificates as invalid that have been signed by an issuer who is not allowed to do so. A patch for this problem has been commited to both the CVS HEAD branch and the KDE_3_0_BRANCH."
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Some Companies Hate GNU
Published: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 | By: DennisBreakdown described this article as "Compelling", and I would tend to agree. The piece is written by an MCSE who wanted to get back into the bloody knuckles of being a network admin. Armed with OpenSource software he took on a British company's network policy and won, until he was fired for not conforming.
Moral of the story? Free software may someday save your life until it gets you fired. -
Gecko Included in AOL for Mac
Published: Monday, August 12, 2002 | By: DennisIt would appear that AOL has finally come around and finally intergrated a Gecko based browser into the next AOL software release for the Mac.
"They have tarted it up and made it look like a MAC application. It finally does have HTML mail so you can read mail that has pictures and colors,"
Tarted??
