Tech News

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Arkua Technology 6258 Review @ 2FastCPU

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

    Another "Thermoengine" under review at 2FastCPU, this one looks to be very similar to the Thermal Integration version that they reviewed back in May. Here is the link to that review.

  • Asus nForce for 2 C-notes

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

    The Inquirer has a short blurb about the new chipset from nVidia. I espacially like the last line.
    "I just hope that the Xbox graphics will be better than MX400"

  • Hyperthreading from Intel

    Published: Sunday, September 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Imagine having a computer with a single processor that had the speed and processing power of an SMP system. According to the Intel that is what "Hyperthreading" is supposed to do.