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• Intel sues Via Tech

  Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: Dennis

  How many of us saw this coming. Intel sued Via Tech for patent infringement saying that they violated not one but 5 patents held by Intel. Via couldn't be reached for comment.

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• Does Linux need Microsoft??

  Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: Dennis

  This is a very interesting article that gets you thinking. I even thought back to a Linux special I saw in TV where the question was asked "When a driver doesn't exist how do you go about getting one?" The answer was something like "We will use a Microsoft version as a basis and port it over to Linux."

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• Dell wants HP-Compaq customers

  Published: Friday, September 7, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Dell is planning to take advantage of the HP-Compaq computer confusion and capture some of their market share. A pretty smart move considering that when the merger goes though Dell will be at a disadvantage.

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• Microsoft in the clear?

  Published: Thursday, September 6, 2001 | By: Dennis

  It looks as if the Justice Department is easing up on the software giant...

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• Next Gen Kyro Chipsets Delayed

  Published: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Just when product support for the Kyro is starting to stir STMicro loses focus and lets the next generation Kyro slide. But on a happy note developers have released dev. kits for the Kyro chip (PowerVR) so we should see some specialized game titles in the future.

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• Code Green?

  Published: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Some enterprising gentlemen have come up (independently) with a solution for the continued Code Red infections. You'd think that this late in the game, System Admins would have it together, but my personal Web Server still logs a lot of code red II traffic

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• Got 25 Billion?

  Published: Tuesday, September 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Hp does, and guess what they are buying? Yep I'm sure you've heard they are buying Compaq. The combined reviews alone will bump HP to the 87 billion range which is ever so slightly less than IBM at 90 billion.

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• FreeBSD Point Release

  Published: Tuesday, September 4, 2001 | By: Dennis

  That's right kids, FreeBSD 4.4 is set for it's full point release tomorrow. Find your mirrors tonight ladies and gents, and watch for that all important FTP update to finish, then log on, ready, set, GO!!!!
  
  Update: I changed the link to point to the press release. Rm

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• Hot topic, Unix worm x.c

  Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

  -Buffer overflow, buffer overflow
  wherefore art thou buffer overflow-
  Coming to a Telnet Daemon near you another buffer overflow is posturing to make life interesting. Everyone, let's mark the time and see how long until our servers start paging us.

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• Not your everyday Joe Camel

  Published: Monday, September 3, 2001 | By: Dennis

  Here is a fun site, not really news though so I won't comment on it.

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