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• Mitnick Sells Laptops

  Published: Thursday, October 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Kevin Mitnick has really become quite a celebrity in recent months. The ScreenSavers gang loves the guy even allowing him to host an episode of The ScreenSavers with Steve Wozniak in Sept.
  
  On that show Kevin showed off the laptops that the FBI confiscated and mentioned that he has plans to sell them on ebay. Well the auction has started and as of this writing pulled in a $15,000 bid for each meeting their reserve price. With 3 days left how high do you think they will go?
  
  The nicer 486DX
  The older and quite dirty 486SX25
  
  Both of these laptops are signed by Steve and Kevin and feature FBI documentation proving their authenticity.

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• Xbox Mod Chip Maker Shut Down

  Published: Thursday, October 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Microsoft has gone to great lengths to enhance security in the Xbox and now they are going after mod chip companies to "tie up loose ends" so to speak.
  
  "Lik Sang was one of the top worldwide retailers of mod chips, devices that, once soldered to a game console's main circuit board, disable security components. The chips typically allow a game machine to play legally and illegally copied discs, run unauthorized software and play game discs intended for other geographic regions."

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• A Serious Sequel

  Published: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is hardly news but there is rumors flying around about another Serious Sam Sequel being released in 2k3 for both the PC and Xbox.

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• Returning Advertiser - Misr Corp

  Published: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I would like to take a moment and welcome Misr Corp back to Ninja Lane as a returning advertiser. Misr Corp is one of the only authorized distributors of Soltek parts here in the United States and we are very glad to have them back.
  
  One of the hot items that is being released this month is the Soltek SL-75FRV KT400 motherboard and at a very reasonable price.

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• Playboy Case Mod Collections

  Published: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Ahh this brings back memories. None of the text is in English but the pictures speak pretty well for themselves.

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• AMD Launches Two new Processors - Sort of..

  Published: Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

  The hot news of the day is the Launch of two new processors from AMD the 2700+ and 2800+. I'm only going to post one link today dealing with the processor release since the reviews deal with hardware that hardly anyone can get. (kind of defeats the purpose IMO)

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• Lian Li PC-6089 Aluminum Case Review @ Explosive Labs

  Published: Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This case is pretty much just like every other Lian Li case with the addition of a removable door and LED strips.

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• Paper Airplanes by Joe Palmer

  Published: Monday, September 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Or not, I've been folding a variation of PL-4 since the early 80's. It was in a paper airplane book that I got from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

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• New Athlons This Week

  Published: Monday, September 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  " Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will roll out its fastest processors yet, the Athlon XP 2800+ and 2700+, during a news conference on Tuesday, according to sources close to the company."
  
  I thought these processors where delayed until around Christmas, I'm not going to be one to complain though.
  
  "The new chips, in addition to running at higher frequencies than the current top-of-the-line 2600+, will feature a 333MHz front side bus, which should enable the 2800+ to perform about 10 percent faster than the 2600+ with its 266MHz front side bus. "

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• Itanium Bet gets "Iffy"?

  Published: Monday, September 30, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "Google -- the Internet's leading search engine, powered by an arsenal of computers with 15,000 microprocessors -- should be a premier customer for Intel's new Itanium 2 super-chip.
  
  Itanium, a joint project of Intel and Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Valley's two largest companies, has been in the laboratory for more than a decade. Itanium is designed to excel at a sweeping array of advanced computing tasks, from solving grand scientific challenges to rendering complex graphics to slicing through vast databases. With more than 200 million transistors on each chip, it is designed to process data in big bites -- 64 bits, in chipspeak -- at blazing speeds.
  
  But Google isn't buying."

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