Month: August 2003

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Vantec Nexus

August 31, 2003 admin 0

SUMMARY: Nice addition for case cooling and customization. Kit includes Fan Controller, 2 Blue tubes, 3 fan wires and one power wire. The good guys at Vantec sent us a sample of their Fan and Light Controller (Nexus-305) to test

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Do Not . . . .

August 31, 2003 admin 0

Today is the last day those in the United States can register their phone numbers for the National Do-Not-Call registry and keep most telemarketers away beginning on October 1. Here’s the FAQ on the subject Not all telemarketers are covered

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What Do You Want?

August 28, 2003 admin 0

What Do You Want? For the next couple months, most of what you’ll see will be AMD Hammer news, simply because there isn’t going to be anything else terribly interesting happening. We’ve been rather skeptical about the first generation of

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XP Gets Xtended

August 27, 2003 admin 0

As we mentioned yesterday, this article slipped in what is probably the biggest news story in some time: socket A will “likely” last another generation. Now this isn’t any rumor from unknown sources. This is coming from AMD itself. Let

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Another P2P Review

August 25, 2003 admin 0

The Weekly Suits Ratting In the Frat There’s three areas of activity: the colleges, a lottery winner, and a court appeal. At the colleges, in the MIT case in the MIT case, RIAA just refiled the subpoena in the federal

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The $25 CPU

August 24, 2003 admin 0

The 3% Wonder I’m getting some emails which indicate some ignorance of what x86-64 entails. From a circuitry standpoint, x86-64 is, and never has been a big deal. All x86-64 processors have is a little extra circuitry to handle 64-bit