Tech News
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New Radeon Preview @ Anandtech
Published: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 | By: DennisAnandtech takes a preview look at the new Radeon video cards from ATI. I am pretty impressed with the preview and really surprised with the benches, this pre-production video card is almost on par with the GeForce 3.
Though if memory serves the original Radeon was faster than the GeForce 2 of the time and not more than a few weeks later Nvidia answers back with the GeForce 2 Ultra and jumps back to the top again. -
2GHz Xeon Processors go to Hollywood
Published: Monday, August 13, 2001 | By: DennisRemember all of them CGI movies?? Well they need to be rendered somehow.
I've always had a soft spot for computer animation and right now I'm getting the urge to dust off that copy of 3dsmax. -
Kill Port 80
Published: Monday, August 13, 2001 | By: DennisWith Code Red in full effect AT&T has opted to shutdown incoming web traffic to their residential cable modem customers. This won't effect web browsing but will hinder access to the web servers that aren't supposed to be there anyway. Though this sounds like a good idea and could reclaim some of the bandwidth that is being consumed by Code Red from the outside it won't stop further infection unless everyone running IIS patches their system.
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Wireless networking encryption broken
Published: Saturday, August 11, 2001 | By: DennisWirelles LAN Encryption is broken. Passive techniques have been used to definitively break the encryption scheme. Researchers are going as far as to say, treat your wireless networks as external!
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On2i is releasing it
Published: Saturday, August 11, 2001 | By: DennisOn2, makers of the VP4 codec, to be used by RealNetworks, has released there older version to Open-Source. This helps smaller organizations get there content out at a lower cost. Lower cost for them: Lower cost to you :)
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Code Red III
Published: Friday, August 10, 2001 | By: DennisA third varient of the ever popular Code Red worm has been found in Korea. This one sounds even worse than the first two. Maybe I need to start thinking about porting my ASP website to PHP.
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ATI R200/R300 Roadmap Leaked
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisAccording to the roadmap the R200 or Radeon 2 is scheduled to ship in September along with a low-end version called the RV200. Not much has been said about the specs of these two chips except that the R200 will have 4 render pipelines and will support DirectX 8.1. The RV200 (not unlike your motor home) will only have 2 render pipes. It would seem that the RV200 part is based on the old Radeon core.
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1.5GHz AMD Palomino
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like AMD is on track to release their 1.5GHz Palomino processor in September. According to The Inquirer report they are also likely to announce the release of a 1.2GHz laptop processor and 1GHz Duron processor.
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Kinda Slow on the News Front
Published: Thursday, August 9, 2001 | By: DennisThe news was kind of slow yesterday so once again there was a day with no new news. I'll see what I can scrape up for today.
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Fired for MP3s at Work
Published: Monday, August 6, 2001 | By: DennisIMHO, the crazy broad deserves it. 2000+ MP3s on your work machine? By my very unscientific calculations thats about 167 CDs worth of music. Hmm, somehow I don't think she converted them at work from her own collection. And somehow I don't think that roughly (again my calculations) 117 hours worth of MP3s were just for her personal use. Some Peer-to-Peer sharing going on there. Maybe the next NinjaLane poll should be on how many MP3s each of us has at work.
