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  • All Cheaters will be Prosecuted

    Published: Thursday, August 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Stompted as an interesting piece on CounterStrike and PunkBuster. As some of you know PunkBuster is a program for CS that is supposed to keep people from cheating. Well it seems that the CS ClanRDW has posted a "blacklist" of the people that have been caught cheating on PB servers. This "blacklist have been causing quite an uproar.

  • Vivid!XS Kyro II Review @ 3DSpotlight

    Published: Thursday, August 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The masters of the pr0n video market, Vivid, have started making video cards. Not really but it sounded good. The actual mfg. is Videologic and 3DSpotlight has the goods.

  • Thanks

    Published: Thursday, August 2, 2001 | By: Dennis

    I would like to say thanks to all that wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday. I pretty much took the day off from work and hung out with friends and family, I even got in 5 hours of Quake3. It was quite a blast. I would also like to suggest to everyone that if you can take some time for yourself on your birthday. It only happens once a year, and what better excuse to do whatever you like (of course observing all applicable laws, rules/regulations, etc..).

  • Happy Birthday

    Published: Wednesday, August 1, 2001 | By: Dennis

    I'd like to wish Redmax a happy birthday and to tell him to keep up the good work.

  • Maxtor Announces new ATA Interface

    Published: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Maxtor once again is on top of things and advancing hard drive technology to the next level, this time by announcing their development of the ATA133 standard. Also in the announcement was word that VIA, SIS, Promise, and SIMG have all licensed this technology for use in upcoming products. You can see the entire Press Release here.

  • DES down, AES up, encryption gets certified

    Published: Monday, July 30, 2001 | By: Dennis

    It seems the folks over at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have finally made a choice for replacing DES. Rijndael or "rain doll" is its name. The article talks about being unbreakable, but for the long broken DES and by extension Triple-DES, it is a big step forward. Remember the only unbreakable cypher is the One-Time Pad

  • Dual Monitor Desktops Explained

    Published: Sunday, July 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Looking to do something new? Wow your friends? Or have you just ran out of destop space? What better way to solve all of these problems than to add another monitor to your desktop? The question is what do you need to make it happen, read on to find out.

  • Colored Memory PCB

    Published: Sunday, July 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The iMac effect is spreading! Actually not but it sounded good. Akiba has posted a little something about colored memory PCB's in flavors of Red, Blue, and Black. The specs are not that bad either, 256MB CAS2 PC133.

  • New sections at Ninjalane

    Published: Saturday, July 28, 2001 | By: Dennis

    A small reorder has taken place here at Ninjalane. The gaming section has been removed for now, we are still working on some gaming related articles. It is just a matter of finding time to write them. In place of the gaming section I added an Articles section and put up a How-To on rounded ATA100 cables. There will be another article posted soon on Dual Monitor Desktops.
    The Forums are once again up and running. I ended up resetting the messages in the database since the content was over a year old. Feel free to go forth and post your comments.

  • Tyan Tiger K7

    Published: Thursday, July 26, 2001 | By: Dennis

    I caught this tasty tidbit at 2cpu.com today. The Tyan Tiger K7, pretty much the little brother to the Thunder K7 targeted to the consumer.

    No frills, no gimmicks, and no overclocking.