Tech News
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United Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisThe second largest commercial airline files for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep on flying and become profitable.
"The bankruptcy restructuring also is likely to result in fewer flights. Experts say frequent-flier miles and basic fare levels are likely to be retained for the short term, although fare hikes are likely over the longer haul.
A spokesman for United's pilots union urged passengers Sunday not to abandon the airline during a bankruptcy filing."
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MechAssault Xbox Preview @ Bjorn's 3D
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: Dennis"If you're a fan of mech games, then look no further than Mechassault for your next giant robot combat fix. Mech games have been popular in the gaming industry for over ten years now, and this latest entry into the mech combat arena does an excellent job of continuing the tradition."
MechAssault on the Xbox might be pretty fun; hopefully it’s not as confusing as Halo was.
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Another Slow News Day
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisI think this is common to everyone today since even the larger sites are posting things that they normally won't. If you have some tech news feel free to send it in.
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That's not Bigfoot
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 | By: DennisI think we had suspicions of this for quite some time now but the truth comes out about Bigfoot, and it all started with a joke to "Freak a friend out".
"They were in fact created by his boss with wooden carved feet to "freak him out", but the local newspaper, the Humboldt Times in Eureka, California, ran a front-page story on the prints the next day and coined the term "Bigfoot"."
When the hoax was uncovered an ISU (Idaho State University) professor, in typical ISU form has this to say.
"Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and one of America's most prominent Bigfoot hunters, said: "There are historical accounts of Bigfoot-like creatures going back to the 1880s. How do you explain that?""
Ya ya question everything and believe nothing.
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AGP Errata Found in New Intel Chipsets
Published: Saturday, December 7, 2002 | By: Dennis" The first of the chipsets is the long awaited "Placer" (7505) chipset. In a note on the Intel website, the firm describes two errata for the chipset – the first is that AGP signals do not meet the AGP 3.0 specification, while the second is that the AGP Prefetch Cache has to be disabled."
The “second” chipset mentioned is the E7205 "Granite Bay" chipset.
It is uncertain as to what kind of performance hit this will cause in systems using these chipsets but one thing is certain, early adoption of AGP 3.0 isn't going very smoothly. -
'Spam King' Buys House
Published: Friday, December 6, 2002 | By: DennisAnd we aren't talking about the guy that likes canned ham. Alan Ralsky is ranked as one of the top 5 email spammers around and after reading the article it come to my attendion that spammers are really 3v1l but the companies that hire them are the ones to blame. Here is a snip of 3v1ln355
"Ralsky, meanwhile, is looking at new technology. Recently he's been talking to two computer programmers in Romania who have developed what could be called stealth spam.
It is intricate computer software, said Ralsky, that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad, much like the kind that display whenever a particular Web site is opened.
"This is even better," he said. "You don't have to be on a Web site at all. You can just have your computer on, connected to the Internet, reading e-mail or just idling and, bam, this program detects your presence and up pops the message on your screen, past firewalls, past anti-spam programs, past anything."
Sounds like a virus to me.
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Wi-Fi labeled a 'Terrorist Tool '
Published: Friday, December 6, 2002 | By: Dennis802.11b "wireless" networks are a great convenience but are as hackable as listening to the radio or watching TV, the data is just there to be plucked and nobody is the wiser to it happening. Well the Feds are very worried; naturally others think they are to paranoid."Homeland Security is putting people in place who will be in a position to say, 'If you're going to get broken into ... we're going to start regulating,'" said Cable and Wireless security architect Shannon Myers in a panel dubbed "Homeland Security vs. Wi-Fi."
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Slow News Day
Published: Friday, December 6, 2002 | By: DennisI checked my usual news sources and really found nothing of interest to post, instead of tech news I'll just include some links to a few good webcomics.
Penny Arcade
Megatokyo
Little Gamers
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Soltek Golden Flame - Limited Edition
Published: Thursday, December 5, 2002 | By: DennisHave you ever seen a Gold PCB?? We did at Comdex this year on a K8 "Hammer" board in the Soltek booth. Well it would appear Soltek wishes to do another first and release a limited edition E7205 "Granite Bay" motherboard. thus announcing their motherboard offering for the new chipset.
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Jolie ponders role as 'Deep Throat' star
Published: Thursday, December 5, 2002 | By: Dennis" Jolie is considering tackling the role of Linda Lovelace, the iconic '70s porn actress who starred in the infamous "Deep Throat" movie, reports Peoplenews.com."
I doubt it will be a remake of the classic '70's pr0n film but it should make for some good cinema.
