Tech News
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Ever See an Itanium??
Published: Thursday, July 26, 2001 | By: Dennistbreak has photos of an Itanium server and even go as far as to show use the bios level settings. From the looks of things the motherboard layout is hardly "typical", processors are on bottom with expansion slots up top. Also check out how many fans are in this case, I count 8.
You to can get on the Itanium bandwagon though at 3000+ grand for the processor it is hardly a budget purchase. -
Detonator 14.20 Drivers for Win2k
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 | By: DennisWith the many problems and issues I had with the official and unofficial Detonator 12 drivers both on my Hercules Prophet III and Gainward MX TwinView, I was skeptical about their stability.
I did install the drivers and found that my skepticism was for nothing. It seems the Detonator 14 drivers are quite stable in Windows 2000. There is still no option for a monitor refresh above 75hz and a few other quirks but at least I don't get random BSOD's and lockups during Q3 and CS.
You can find the drivers in the download section of the Guru3d website. -
RSA sends out challenge to the world
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 | By: DennisRSA, those guys that brought you some of your favourite encryption algorithms, in an annoucement today, have sponsored a challenge. Up to $200,000 U.S. to the person or group that can crack it's newest crypto. Grab your calculators ladys and gentlemen, this is gonna be a long night. Just hope it's easier than jn-25!
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Whitehouse.gov now on Linux
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 | By: DennisAfter Whitehouse.gov had a near fatal encounter with 'Code Red', someone got smart. Whitehouse.gov is moving to Linux. We here at Ninjalane.com are glad to see that George and Co. have seen fit to explore the right Operating System for the job.
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SSH vulnerabilities
Published: Monday, July 23, 2001 | By: DennisWell folks, it appears that someone has found an exploit in SSH. SSH is a secure telnet application for *nx based O/S's. The problem seems limited to version 3.0.0 of SSH though all SSH users are urged to check their SSH version and upgrade if necessary.
You'll notice that Slackware Linux is not expressly listed as one of the problem Linux distro's.
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ATI Radeon VE Review @ OnePC
Published: Monday, July 23, 2001 | By: DennisThe ATI Radeon VE is the low cost alternative to the Radeon and is quite similar to Nvidia's MX lineup of GPU's in a variety of ways. The VE is the crippled version of the Radeon, it is able to run in a "Dual-Head" configuration, has a 64-bit memory bus and has relatively poor 3D performance.
Overall from experience I believe these dual-head cards still need a lot of work. With a major problem being that monitors don't get recognized properly. -
Gigabit Access from your House
Published: Monday, July 23, 2001 | By: DennisImagine this, an affordable internet connection that is a 1,000 times faster than a cable modem that is not on a shared network. Sounds too good to be true but could become a reality in the near future.
I didn't see anything in the article about upload speeds so I'm going to assume it to be a 56k modem, though time will tell. -
Tualatin 1.2GHz Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, July 20, 2001 | By: DennisThe HardwareZone has posted a review of the next generation P3 processor, the Tualatin. The specs of this new processor are quite impressive plus the benches show it to be equal to the Athlon at the same speed. The only major drawback is the socket2 format FCPGA2, meaning if you want to upgrade your will need a new Mobo along with the processor.
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Making DDR better
Published: Thursday, July 19, 2001 | By: DennisLost Circuits has an interesting read up about DDR and what is being done to make it better.
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Another GeForce3 The OCZ Titan 3
Published: Thursday, July 19, 2001 | By: DennisI found a press release for this product at FastGraphics the other day and became quite intrigued in it. The card features a Thermaltake Blue Orb, Copper RAMsinks and enhanced core and memory speeds, 215/515 to be exact. Not sure if there is still room to play but this is still quite an improvement over the stock speed of 200/460.
