September 2001 News Archive


Sunday, September 30, 2001 - 8:45PM

.Net may lead to fewer viruses

I saw this at TheRegister. They are reporting that this new .Net initiative that Microsoft has might lead to fewer viruses. But of course it will cause other threats.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Saturday, September 29, 2001 - 4:10PM

Excite@Home Files for Bankruptcy

Excite@Home has filed for bankruptcy Friday. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection & agreed to sell its crown jewel, its broadband Internet access business, to its controlling shareholder, AT&T Corp., unless it gets a better offer from another company

Quote from report: Link to report here


Friday, September 28, 2001 - 5:30PM

AthlonXP To Ship October 9

TheRegister has a report about the AthlonXP that is going to be shipped October 9. Remember that AMD originally named these the Palamino, then the Athlon 4, and then decided to use the Performance rating to directly compete with Intel.

Quote from report: Link to report here

These are the additional speed grades once they come out:

Thursday, September 27, 2001 - 8:45PM

SiS745 in the making

I saw this at 3DSpotlight.net. They post a report about some news at OCWorkbench about the SiS745 Chipset that is in the making. It has support for the new 333FSB (166MHz), as well as other things.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - 2:45PM

VIA 4in1 Driver Installation Guide

I saw this at VIAHardware.com. They have post on an installation guide for the VIA 4in1 drivers. This is over at Noticas3D.com, and can be viewed in spanish as well.

Quote from article: Link to article here


Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 10:45PM

Excite@Home To Declare Bankruptcy Later This Week?

I saw this on Icrontic.com. They report on the fact that Excite@home MIGHT declare bankruptcy later this week. Excite@home has $800 million or more in debt.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - 10:20PM

AMD Announces Closure of FABS 14 and 15

I saw this at AMDZone. They report that AMD is going to close FAB 14 and 15 to reduce costs. On a side note as well, they are laying off 2300 workers and these fabs were built in the mid-'80's.

Quote from report: Link to AMDZone report here
Link to ZDnet report here
Link to the Statesmen report here


Monday, September 24, 2001 - 4:20PM

nForce Review at AnandTech

I saw this on VIAHardware.com, they mention that AnandTech has a review of the nVIDIA nForce 420 and 220 based boards. This is the new chipset for AMD Based CPU's that also has integrated Geforce 2 and Geforce 3 video chips, as well as integrated 5.1 channel sound on the 420 based board.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Sunday, September 23, 2001 - 8:10PM

XBox Launch Delayed One Week

It is being reported by Electic.com that the XBox will be delayed for one week.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 4:45PM

New Powerstrip 3.0

I saw this at [H]ard|OCP. They report that the new version of Powerstip 3.0 can overclock the new Radeons, no matter what MHz they show up as.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Friday, September 21, 2001 - 9:35PM

100GB Western Digital Hard Drive

BlueSmoke.net has a review of the Western Digital HDD that is 100GB. It has 30GB platters, 7200RPM spindle speed, 2MB buffer and 8.9ms access time.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 8:35PM

VIA tries to stop P4 sales

This is something very interesting. TheRegister is reporting that VIA is attempting to stop Intel selling the Pentium 4 for the alledged illegal use of one of VIA's patents.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Wednesday, September 19, 2001 - 5:05PM

New Nimda Virus

I saw this at Icrontic. They mention that there is a new virus going around called Nimda. They mention that it might be propogated by a wav file on infected websites.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Tuesday, September 18, 2001 - 2:45PM

Athlon XP Name Confirmed

I saw this at AMDZone. AMD is definitely going to name their processors AthlonXP.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Monday, September 17, 2001 - 4:06PM

ABIT KG7-RAID Review at TechZone

The TechZone has a review of the KG7-RAID. This is a DDR board based on the AMD760 chipset.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 1:52PM

NCCI Holdings dissallows the Display of the American Flag

I saw this at Icrontic.com. They report on a company that was not letting their employees display the American Flag because the CEO felt that it would be offensive to other workers.

Quote from report: Link to company: NCCI Holdings
Link to report here


Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 11:52AM

WinXP, The Real Deal

FiringSquad has a review on Windows XP and they attempt to answer several questions

Quote from report: Link to review here


Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 11:45AM

Light a Candle Against Terrorism

I saw this website from my Dad's e-mail. It is a website where you can enter your name (once per computer) and will be entered with a database of people around the world who entered their name. Currently at 11:46AM, there are 264,966 candle lit so far.

To go and enter your name there, click here


Friday, September 14, 2001 - 1:55PM

SuperPower Zephyr KS-201 ATX Case

GideonTech has a review of the SuperPower Zephyr KS-201 ATX case. I happen to own this case, and I like it. The one they review is a new design of it. This one has the sleep button and sleep LED removed, the back has a plastic face plate.

Quote from review: Link to review here


Friday, September 14, 2001 - 1:01PM

National Day Of Prayer And Remembrance


Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 9:15PM

Intel Pentium III @ 1.2GHz

[H]ard|OCP has a Pentium III Tualatin running at 1.2GHz on an Asus motherboard.

Quote from review: Link to review here


Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 1:18PM

ABIT KG7-RAID Review

I saw this at AMDZone. They mention that Pimprig has a review of the KG7-RAID. This one is based on the AMD760 chipset.

Quote from review: Link to review here


Wednesday, September 12, 2001 - 1:10PM

ABIT KR7 Pictures

Hexus has pictures of the ABIT KR7 based on the KT266A chipset.

Link to pictures here


Tuesday, September 11, 2001 - 3:45PM

Terrorist Attacks in The United States

As everybody knows, a Boeing 767 and a 737 have crashed into the World Trade Centers, causing them to collapse, a plane has also crashed into the Pentagon damaging it as well. The stock market is closed because of this, and will be closed tomorrow. The WTC Tower 1 had the main part of the stock market in it.

Quotes from news organizations:

World Aghast with Horror at U.S. Attacks (Iwon.com)


Aircraft Crashes Into Pentagon, Triggering Chaos (Iwon.com)


Twin Towers-How They Collapsed (ABCNews.com)

Monday, September 10, 2001 - 4:05PM

VIA sues Intel

Intel sued VIA over licensing rights, claiming VIA didn't get licensing to produce the P4X266 chipset, so VIA decided to sue Intel over anti-competitive practices, willful destruction of VIA property and other things.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Sunday, September 9, 2001 - 4:15PM

Organic LED Displays

This one was also posted at The-CAD. This article from TechTV reports on OLED displays that use organic leds that are very conservative on battery power, that it will last 1000's of hours.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Sunday, September 9, 2001 - 4:15PM

Electronic Ink Displays

I saw this one at The-CAD. They post an article from TechTV about Electronic Ink displays that are so thin, they look static.

Quote from report: Link to article here


Saturday, September 8, 2001 - 1:30PM

New Copyright Bill Heading to DC

Hold on, a new copyright standard is being pushed by Hollywood. It will make it illegal to manufacture any digital device that has this new standard disabled. The maximum possible penalty for distributing media on a digital device with this standard disabled is $1,000,000 or 10 yrs in jail. Such digital devices include anything with a microprocessor in it.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Friday, September 7, 2001 - 4:20PM

Intel to Sue VIA

I saw this one at 3DSpotlight. They report that Intel is going to sue VIA over their chipsets that support the Pentium 4.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Thursday, September 6, 2001 - 9:22PM

2.0 GHz AMD Hammer Chip Coming Soon?

I saw this at The-CAD. They have a post on an article at Van'sHardware stating some information that they believe to be true.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Thursday, September 6, 2001 - 8:50PM

DOJ will not seek MS breakup

Saw this at ArsTechnica. They report that the Department Of Justice won't be seeking a breakup of Microsoft. CNN has the story on this.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - 10:30AM

70GHz CPU's soon from Motorola

I saw this link at [H]ard|OCP to Independent News about Motorola using a new technology to produce 70GHz CPU's relatively soon. The are combining silicon with galium arsenide and indium phosphide. Originally 40 yrs ago and more they used gallium arsenide in transistors and the like, but could not use it in processors because of the reason the mention in the article, it could not be properly bonded with silicon.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 3:10PM

AOL declares war on Internet Explorer

I saw this at The Register. They report on how if you have AOL and use Internet Explorer instead of using their browser, they forfiet your right to any tech support in the future.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Tuesday, September 4, 2001 - 2:40PM

Hewlett Packard to buy Compaq for $25 billion

I've heard and seen this on the news. 3DSpotlight also has a post on this news from CNet as well. This would make the company the largest computer seller in the market. The resulting merger will cost 13,000 jobs as well, and total revenues will reach $90billion dollars when the merger is completed.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Monday, September 3, 2001 - 4:40PM

GeForce3 Ultra in 6 Weeks

I saw this at The-CAD. They mention that GamespotUK reports that we'll be seing the GeForce3 MX and Ultra in a few weeks.

Quote from report: Link to report here


Monday, September 3, 2001 - 4:35PM

VIA KT266A Review at Anandtech

AnandTech has a review of the VIA KT266A chipset. This is the new stepping of the KT266 chipset. This new stepping hopefully fixes the performance issues.

Quote from review: Link to report here


Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 4:35PM

ACPI article

I saw this at Insane Hardware. They posted an article from PCHardware about ACPI and how to use it and/or disable it if needed.

Quote from article: Link to report here


Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 1:55PM

AMD and the MHz Myth

I saw this at AMDZone. They posted an article about a report at EBN News. The report mentions that AMD wants to educate the public that sometimes, less is more, and that their processors perform better than Intel's P4 processor.

Quote from report: Link to report here


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