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• Paint the Dark Side of the Moon

  Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Nope its not a new Pink Floyd album but rather a technical view of an artists view. Paint the Moon is a website designed to organize millions of people to shine laser pointers on the moons surface. The Register has posted a response to this.
  
  "I'm not 100% sure what the minimum intensity visible by the human eye is, but if every person on earth shone a laser pointer at the moon, the reflected intensity would be in the order of 10^-21 W/m^2, and that is definitely not visible. In other words, the guy is dreaming. "
  

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• New VIA 4-in-i Drivers

  Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It doesn't look like anything new except for XP support.

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• ATi Cheating for Higher FPS??

  Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

  This is has been a hot topic lately in how ATi has optimized their drivers to tweak Quake 3 game results. Though as most of us know speed comes at a cost.

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• Windows XP Released

  Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The hot news of today is the release of Windows XP. I still don't know if I'll take the plunge. Here is another article with some more information.

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• MSN Blocking non-IE Browsers

  Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

  ZDnet is reporting that MSN is blocking non-IE browsers saying
  
  "Additionally, you'll see the most advanced functionality of MSN.com only with the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer" etc...
  
  I've checked this with both Netscape 6.1 and Netscape 4.7 and found the site to load just fine so it would seem that the block is limited to the smaller and open source browsers.

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• Shuttle SV24 Bare-Bones Review @ The Tech Report

  Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 | By: Dennis

  The Tech Report took some time and reviewed a nifty integrated system from Shuttle. This system is based on the VIA PL133 chipset, the same one used on Freeway's FWD-CUPA. The cool thing about the SV24 is its size.

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• 75GXP Failure Rate Sparks Lawsuit

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Heat can damage electronics, and hard drives are not immune. The super fast 75GXP drives from IBM have been plagued with a high failure rate since their introduction and these failures can be attributed to heat and low tolerances, together they spell disaster. It would appear that with this lawsuit the 75GXP drives are being pulled from production.

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• PGP to be sold by NAI

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Well, as expected (by me), it's happening. Shortly after Phil Zimmerman, the creator of PGP, leaves NAI for personal reasons, Pretty Good Privacy goes on the auction block. I guess they didn't realize the immensity of the task that Mr. Zimmerman was managing.

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• VisionTek Xtasy Review @ Evil3d

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Another VisionTek review has been posted, this time by the Evil Smokers at Evil3d. I wonder if VisionTek will be the big seller this year in the video card market.

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• Motorola G5 CPU news

  Published: Monday, October 22, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Though still plagued with problems, the soon-to-be G5 PowerPC processor will indeed be a 64-bit chip, and current yields are stable at 1.6 Ghz.

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