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  • Mozilla 0.9.5 released

    Published: Monday, October 15, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The code for which most well respected browsers are based on gets an update :)

  • Prototype Wearable WatchPad Running Linux

    Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

    "Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. and IBM Japan Ltd. demonstrated a prototype of their wearable WatchPad 1.5 computer on Oct. 11.

    Slightly larger than an ordinary wristwatch, the device has a monochrome LCD display with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The device doubles as a wristwatch and as a computer running the Linux operating system."

  • Intel's BBUL Package

    Published: Friday, October 12, 2001 | By: Dennis

    To some this is old news but AnandTech has an article up on Intel's BBUL processor package. Just imagine a processor that is thinner than a credit card running 10GHz+.

  • Visiontek Xtasy 6964 Review @ 3DGPU

    Published: Thursday, October 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The latest offering from VisionTek comes armed with blue heatsinks and fan and looks to be quite a performer. Too bad they didn't finish by coloring the PCB; it would have completed the ensemble.

  • Water Cooled Ti 500

    Published: Thursday, October 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Water cooling has been gaining popularity in the past few years and now 3D Power, the Morpheus people, are offering a water solution for the new Nvidia Ti 500 line of video cards. Though this is exciting it kind of takes the fun out of it all.

  • Asus Case Mod Contest

    Published: Thursday, October 11, 2001 | By: Dennis

    So what does Asus and casemodders have in common? Well if you have the best modded case while using an Asus motherboard you will receive an ASUS Dream Machine.

    Of course there are some "catches" so read the rules.

  • Athlon XP Giveaway

    Published: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 | By: Dennis

    OtakuPC has some details on the XPPCentral Athlon XP givaway tour around America. It would appear that at the first stop one everyone that attended (about 200) got a free Athlon XP processor, motherboard, and heatsink.

  • New Gigabyte Motherboard

    Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

    This is actually the feature version of the KT266A motherboards from Gigabyte. The stripped down version is located here.

  • More KT266A Motherboards

    Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

    PCPOP is an amazing site though the only drawback is that the site is in Chinese, of which I cannot read. I am in the process of getting a translation, though until then I would suggest that you check it out. The direct link goes to what looks to be (based on size and layout) a pre-production motherboard based on the KT266A chipset. Down at the bottom of the page is links to other KT266A motherboards.

  • Jedi Knights in the UK

    Published: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The national Statistics office in the UK, the office responsible for the Census there, has recieved a lot of entries for Jedi Knight in the religion portion of the survey.