Month: August 2003

Light up the bottom of your PC – Joe

There’s an editorial over at Planet Savage, which says that benchmarks are grossly overrated and simply encourage benchmark cheating. There’s nothing in the piece I disagree with, except the notion that the problem can be easily fixed. The core problem

EuroDMCA Ever heard of the European Union Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive? If you live in the EU, you will. This is a proposed draft of legislation to be submitted to the European Parliament. If passed there, then the various nations

PC Watch Japan has a picture of an Intel roadmap through 2004 (it’s towards the bottom of the page). It shows that Prescott will come out in 2.8GHz and 3GHz versions in the first quarter, 2004. These will be the

The Inquirer reports on a new virus you should take very seriously. The reason why is that you don’t have to do anything dumb to get infected, like get happy fingers when you get email attachments. Rather, it comes looking