Tech News

  • FreeBSD Point Release

    Published: Tuesday, September 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

    That's right kids, FreeBSD 4.4 is set for it's full point release tomorrow. Find your mirrors tonight ladies and gents, and watch for that all important FTP update to finish, then log on, ready, set, GO!!!!

    Update: I changed the link to point to the press release. Rm

  • Hot topic, Unix worm x.c

    Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

    -Buffer overflow, buffer overflow
    wherefore art thou buffer overflow-
    Coming to a Telnet Daemon near you another buffer overflow is posturing to make life interesting. Everyone, let's mark the time and see how long until our servers start paging us.

  • Not your everyday Joe Camel

    Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Here is a fun site, not really news though so I won't comment on it.

  • Arkua Technology 6258 Review @ 2FastCPU

    Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Another "Thermoengine" under review at 2FastCPU, this one looks to be very similar to the Thermal Integration version that they reviewed back in May. Here is the link to that review.

  • Asus nForce for 2 C-notes

    Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The Inquirer has a short blurb about the new chipset from nVidia. I espacially like the last line.
    "I just hope that the Xbox graphics will be better than MX400"

  • Hyperthreading from Intel

    Published: Sunday, September 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Imagine having a computer with a single processor that had the speed and processing power of an SMP system. According to the Intel that is what "Hyperthreading" is supposed to do.

  • Quake4 and something else

    Published: Sunday, September 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Activision is at it again this time with yet another chapter in the Quake series. No release date has been set but the running rumor is Christmas of this year.

  • Phj34r my lack of news

    Published: Sunday, September 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    In case some of you have not noticed over the past week this site has not been working properly. As it would turn out the company that hosts this site was having trouble with their network and servers last week that caused numerous outages including two days of partial downtime for ninjalane while they rebuilt the server. The thing that really got me was when the site did come back up many of the key pages required for this site to function where missing.

    So to my hosting company "Phuck j00!!"

  • Dance Monkey Boy, Dance

    Published: Thursday, August 30, 2001 | By: Dennis

    I've seen a few humorous alterations made to Steve's recent and very embarrassing video. At least I'd be embarrassed if I was Steve. Come to think of it, if I was Steve I'd probably load a bus full of dynamite and drive it straight into a brick wall. Anyway, here's a remix using some of Steve's speech put to some catchy tunes. I truly hope Steve keeps publicizing his obvious insanity. It's been entertaining.

  • Microsoft finally releases 64-Bit Windows

    Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    A 64-Bit operating system. Months behind almost every major Linux distribution, Microsoft releases Win2K Advanced Server Limited Edition