Tech News
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Via Strikes at Intel with Countersuit
Published: Monday, September 10, 2001 | By: DennisIt would seem that VIA is in the mood to play hard ball with Intel saying that Intel's own chipset the 845 infringes VIA's patents among other things.
As I understand it this is what started it all.
"Via has already released its own chip set, the P4X266, that supports DDR, however the company has not obtained a license from Intel for the 400MHz bus used with the Pentium 4. The company maintains Intel does not have a patent that covers the bus." -
New News Features
Published: Saturday, September 8, 2001 | By: DennisI have added some new "features" to Ninjalane.com not to be confused with the features that you would find with Microsoft products but rather some eyecandy.
The first feature would be "Quoted text like this" followed by smiles
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Another Dual Tualatin Motherboard
Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: DennisiWill always seems to be the first to market with new technology. This time its with a dual Tualatin board using the Pro266T chipset. The site isn't in english but a picture tells many words, maybe even 1000.
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Intel sues Via Tech
Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: DennisHow many of us saw this coming. Intel sued Via Tech for patent infringement saying that they violated not one but 5 patents held by Intel. Via couldn't be reached for comment.
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Does Linux need Microsoft??
Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: DennisThis is a very interesting article that gets you thinking. I even thought back to a Linux special I saw in TV where the question was asked "When a driver doesn't exist how do you go about getting one?" The answer was something like "We will use a Microsoft version as a basis and port it over to Linux."
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Dell wants HP-Compaq customers
Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: DennisDell is planning to take advantage of the HP-Compaq computer confusion and capture some of their market share. A pretty smart move considering that when the merger goes though Dell will be at a disadvantage.
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Microsoft in the clear?
Published: Thursday, September 6, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks as if the Justice Department is easing up on the software giant...
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Next Gen Kyro Chipsets Delayed
Published: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 | By: DennisJust when product support for the Kyro is starting to stir STMicro loses focus and lets the next generation Kyro slide. But on a happy note developers have released dev. kits for the Kyro chip (PowerVR) so we should see some specialized game titles in the future.
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Code Green?
Published: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 | By: DennisSome enterprising gentlemen have come up (independently) with a solution for the continued Code Red infections. You'd think that this late in the game, System Admins would have it together, but my personal Web Server still logs a lot of code red II traffic
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Got 25 Billion?
Published: Tuesday, September 4, 2001 | By: DennisHp does, and guess what they are buying? Yep I'm sure you've heard they are buying Compaq. The combined reviews alone will bump HP to the 87 billion range which is ever so slightly less than IBM at 90 billion.
