Tech News
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New VIA 4-in-i Drivers
Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: DennisIt 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: DennisThis 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: DennisThe 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: DennisZDnet 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. -
Shuttle SV24 Bare-Bones Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 | By: DennisThe 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: DennisHeat 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: DennisWell, 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: DennisAnother 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: DennisThough 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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Via Starts up Motherboard Division
Published: Saturday, October 20, 2001 | By: DennisZDnet reports that Via will start building high-end motherboards for their P4 DDR chipset. This news isn't really new to us but is worth a mention.
The way I understand it Via isn't really going to be producing the boards but will instead outsource the task to other companies that have the resources to build them. Soltek is rumored to be one of those companies.
