Tech News
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Hercules Kyro II Review @ HardAvenue
Published: Monday, April 23, 2001 | By: DennisKyle at the infamiously non-NS6 friendly site [H]ard|OCP was complaining that everyone but him has gotten a Kyro II card to review. I can't say I feel sorry for him.
The review is pretty good though from the benchmarks that I've seen on other sites I'm starting to wonder if this card's performance scales differently on different processors. -
L33+ 5p34k Dictionary
Published: Monday, April 23, 2001 | By: DennisI thought I would post something fun today for all of the people like me that are not l33t. I’ve made up a simple character conversion dictionary so that you can better understand how l33t is written. Plus, i’ve included a list of common l33t words and phrases.
I'm not sure how valuable this stuff will be but you never know when it might come in handy. -
FastGraphics looks at the Kyro Line
Published: Friday, April 20, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like FastGraphics.com has gotten a new look and is back in the video card game. This time they take a look at the Kyro line of video processors namely the Prophet 4500 from Hercules.
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Get Gray Hair if you use Windows2k
Published: Friday, April 20, 2001 | By: DennisBelieve this or not, copied directly from Microsoft.
If a user group contains more than 500 users, the hair color of the "person" icon for the group changes to gray. This does not affect the functionality of the group or the users for whom the hair color of the icon changes. This issue affects built-in groups, local groups, and global groups. -
SMB Exploit Compromises NT Security
Published: Friday, April 20, 2001 | By: DennisPort 139 is bad!!
An application called SMBRelay, written by cDc's Sir Dystic, exploits a design flaw in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol on Win NT/2K boxes, easily enabling an attacker to interpose himself between the client and the server.
Read more on the reasons why at the register. -
Kyro 3
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | By: DennisWith the release of the Kryo II and the benchmarks that show it to be faster than the GeForce 2 Ultra (at some things) it is no wonder that there are rumors of a successor. The Kyro III or STG5000 will definitely have support for T&L though the board architecture will remain the same as the Kryo II.
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New Boards from Tyan
Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 | By: DennisI saw this post over at 2cpu.com today. It seems that xbit has gotten the inside scoop on some exciting new motherboards from Tyan.
Dual Fosters, Dual Athlon, just about enough to make your mouth water. -
128mb GeForce3 from Hercules
Published: Monday, April 16, 2001 | By: DennisReactor Critical has gotten word from sources close to Guillemot/Hercules that they plan to release a 128mb version of the 3D Prophet III in May.
There have been rumors of a 128mb enabled card ever since the inception of the first GeForce, maybe this time it will happen. -
Dual 2Ghz Athlon Sandra Scores
Published: Monday, April 16, 2001 | By: Dennis2cpu.com was sent a sandra screenshot of a dual Athlon system running at 1.99Ghz.
Knowing that many of us are good enough at photoshop to pull something like this off it is still interesting to see. -
3D Prophet III @ ActiveWin
Published: Friday, April 13, 2001 | By: DennisAnother blue beast from Hercules has been spotted over at ActiveWin. There are a few good screenshots that explain the drivers and install but I don't think they took any original photos. For instance on the first page you will see two versions of the same card. One photo shows the Geforce III with GF2U RamSinks and the other photo shows the same card with the GF3 RamSinks. Makes you wonder what ones you will be getting on your card.
