Tech News
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Encryption laws not expected to change
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisSeveral key people are of the opinion that basic encryption laws are not going to change. As a result of the status quo remaining, we'll all feel good about making secure on-line transactions. Check out the details here
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Intel Develops a new way to produce silicon chips
Published: Monday, October 8, 2001 | By: DennisIntel has released some details into their solution for fitting a billion or more transistors on one chip.
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No More Floppy Drives?
Published: Friday, October 5, 2001 | By: DennisHere is an interesting bit of news. Intel wants to phase out the use of floppy drives by 2nd Quarter of 2002. Though that isn?t all either they are requesting that the PS/2 ports for Keyboard and Mouse be removed as well.
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AMD Blames Intel for 3Q Loss
Published: Friday, October 5, 2001 | By: DennisAMD projected a major loss for the 3rd Quarter and didn't blame it on the bad economy or even the Sept. 11th attack but rather is pointing fingers at Intel. Aggressive pricing and marketing drove the active selling price of processors down.
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New Soyo Dragon
Published: Thursday, October 4, 2001 | By: DennisSOYO Computer, Inc announced a revised edition to the already popular K7V DRAGON the K7V DRAGON-Plus. The new motherboard will use the VIA Apollo KT266A chipset along with an enhanced memory controller to further boost performance. Other than that the Dragon will remain relatively unchanged.
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ServerWorks not worried about Intel
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | By: DennisServerWorks came to the server chipset table with a pretty big bang in recent years with their latest offering for the P3. This chipset provided excellent performance using simple and available SDRAM. ServerWorks isn't worried about Intel and their P4 platform either feeling they will still dominate the top players in the server market.
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Cirrus Logic Completes Acquisition of ShareWave
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | By: DennisThe Texas chipmaker has finished its acquisition of ShareWave and estimated a 5 million dollar gain. This is pretty good news for shareholders. One being that more money usually means good things, plus the acquisition gives Cirrus Logic an entry point into wireless connectivity.
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FileSharing Programs Under Fire
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like Napster isn't going to be the only company to be in the hot seat. Now the "clones" using the Gnutella network are under investigation.
"All the recording industry can do is shut down people trying to make businesses out of file trading."
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OTD, Outlook-transmitted disease
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | By: DennisI cannot say that I don't agree with this author's views. He makes some valid points, though harsh, still valid. The issue of email viruses and Microsoft won't be going away any time soon (if ever) so our best defense is to keep on our toes, disable HTML in our emails, keep your software up to date, and stop opening attachments!
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TweakMax on IDE Cables
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2001 | By: DennisTweakMax has a great read on the good and bad of IDE. As some of you may know the maximum cable length for ata66/100 is 18", anything longer can cause data corruption. This corruption is also the reason for the additional grounding wires in modern ATA cable, and why rounding your ATA cables is bad if not done properly and with care. Take a look at TweakMax they touch on some really good points.
And, of course if you are curious about how you can round your ATA100 cables How-To article on the subject here.
