July 2003 News Archive


Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 8:40PM

ABIT's SecureIDE Technology

ABIT's new technology called SecureIDE can help secure your hard drives by means of encryption. ABIT makes the claim that this new piece of hardware can keep RIAA away from your downloaded files from KaZaA.

Quote from ABIT's website:
For MAX3, the ABIT Engineers listened to users who were asking for information security. SecureIDE connects to your IDE hard disk and has a special decoder; without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone. Thus hackers and would be information thieves cannot access your hard disk, even if they remove it from your PC. Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your KaZaA files.
Click here for info.


Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 7:24PM

Intel Building To House Federal Courthouse

I saw this on AMDZone. They mention on a report at the Austin Statesman that the empty unfinished building that Intel was working on and then abandoned, the city plans on turning it into a federal courthouse. This is a good idea because an unfinished building is usually an eyesore. However it won't be completed until 2008.

Quote from report:
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett and Mayor Will Wynn will announce Thursday morning that the Intel Corp. building will be the site of a new federal courthouse, according to sources close to the deal. Speculation on the location of the courthouse has been ongoing for months, as federal officials surveyed various parcels around downtown while keeping their mouths shut. Leonard Murphy, a property development director for the U.S. General Service.
Updated Report:

Wrecking crews won't raze the unfinished Intel Corp. building downtown until 2005, to make way for a new $75.9 million federal courthouse that will create hundreds of construction jobs and house 220 employees when it opens in 2008. Capping months of negotiations, federal and city officials announced the plans Thursday in Republic Park, in the shadow of the half-finished skeleton Intel had hoped would one day be a chip design center with as many as 1,000 employees.

Click here for first and Updated story


Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 7:15PM

Microsoft Windows P2P?

Now this is very interesting. Microsoft is releasing a P2P software. Neowin has an article up about this new software that will be available from Microsoft. It is mainly used for server related operations. The report comes from Yahoo! News.

Quote from report:
The Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP, which is available Thursday as a stand-alone update and will be folded into the Windows XP Service Pack 2 later this year, incorporates the necessary plumbing to enable applications that exploit P2P functionality--realtime communications and collaboration apps, for example, Microsoft executives said on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the company disclosed updated names for its forthcoming Real-time Communications Server and Web conferencing technology: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003, formerly PlaceWare Conference Center, and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003, respectively.

Microsoft would not elaborate on how the collaboration services will leverage P2P technology, but one company executive said that Microsoft's P2P team has worked closely with the Real-time Communications Server team for some time.

Click here for story.


Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 6:55PM

Telemarketers sue over do-not-call list

I saw this at NeoWin. They have an blurb on a news report on CNN about how the Telemarketers are suing over the very welcome (to us consumers) Do not call list. However, the telemarketers are obviously having a fit over this because they can't make the money they used to by bothering us.

Read all about it at CNN:

The American Teleservices Association, an industry group that sued the FTC in January to stop the list, asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to reject new regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC added its authority to the list to close regulatory loopholes and block calls from certain industries, including airlines, banks and telephone companies.
Click here at CNN.


Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 5:45PM

Ahead Nero 6 Released

Version 6 of Nero has been released. It is possible to get a free upgrade, but you need to have your invoice and remember when you bought it online as well. I am on of those who didn't keep the invoice and don't remember when I bought it.

Nero 6 release:
Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition is the most comprehensive, versatile CD- and DVD-mastering and packet- writing suite on the market today. In fact, calling it a disc-authoring app is a disservice, because the suite also offers a very capable backup program, a DVD-authoring app that compares favorably with all but its pro-level competitors, and even a VCD/DVD movie playback program that includes support for MPEG-4 (the compression scheme that gives you near-DVD quality on a CD). Toss in a slick, completely configurable launch applet, numerous helpful utilities, and a responsive bug-fix policy, and you get a hands-down Editors Choice. In fact, Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition would have been a landslide winner if it were not for a few minor bugs in our prerelease version and some quibbles with the interface in some apps. Still, if youve been thinking about Easy CD Creator, think Nero instead.
Download Nero 6.0.0.9


Saturday, July 26, 2003 - 11:55AM

US Troops Get XBox Live

I thought this was pretty cool. The US Military, more specifically, the US Air Force in Europe bought the XBox's so that those deployed over there have something to do. This was reported by Gamespot.

Quote from report:
Microsoft's Xbox Live online gaming service has just acquired a customer that knows something about strategy and tactics--the US Department of Defense. The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) have paid $200,000 to outfit 14 bases around the continent with 17 Xbox Live gaming centers, as a way of giving young airmen in the region something to do in their downtime, according to the official US military publication Stars and Stripes. When off duty, they will be able to hone their military skills with such multiplayer games as Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Link to Gamespot's report Here


Friday, July 25, 2003 - 10:40AM

Prescott at 103W?

Ace's hardware has a report up on an article PCWatch about how the Prescott is power hungry and dissipates 103W while running at full load. This is a bit much and I know Intel can do better than that. The best thing to do is to attempt to produce a chip that performs extremely well without a ton of heat.

From what the article says (it is in Japanese, so use AltaVista Babel fish to translate) is that the 3.6GHz Prescott (0.09� Pentium 4, 1 MB L2 cache, 16 KB L1 data cache, etc.) was originally expected to have a maximum TDP of 89W, but is currently at 103W, nice move Intel.

Quote from report:

Falling to there, those where it boils, are thermal problem of the Prescott. Electric power consumption of the Prescott, being higher than Intel itself expectation substantially was ascertained. Somehow, the TDP of the Prescott (the Thermal Design Power: Thermal design electric power consumption), it exceeds the mark of the 100W finally at frequency of the 3.6gHz, it seems. Because expectation of the Intel of beginning was the 89w, it means that as many as 15% increased at a stroke.

Because of that, the Intel has begun the specification modification of the Prescott corresponding motherboard. As a result, even with the present Intel 875/865 motherboard which is assumed it can correspond to also the Prescott, the case which it cannot correspond to the Prescott coming out, you rival, is. As for being more painful, with the note PC which loads the Mobile Prescott which appears in the next year head, considerable influence probably will put out, is.

With being the case that it is said, in the circumstance where two elements are fixed, one parameter changed. So when it does, if one parameter which naturally, remains is not changed, it does not consist. In other words, amount and the Tcase where the TDP rose were pulled up. As for the Tcase of the Prescott of the time before those where they are 69 degrees C, with 1.5 have reached 74 degrees C. Actually Tcase rise ratio is smaller than ratio of TDP rise, but that is thought is, because the FMB1 room was seen. That this measure influences it is thought it is yield rate and the like of the Prescott. In other words, the development whose are inconvenient for the Intel it is reason

Read the report from PCWatch here

Take a look at the planned output of the chips:

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Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 9:40AM

Chinese Firm launches 2000 CPU AMD Opteron Server

Over at TheInquirer, they are reporting on a Chinese firm that is launching a 2000 CPU AMD Opteron mainframe. There are related links such as one about a 10,368 (40+ TFlop) Opteron computer built in Japan. I don't think Intel's Itanium ever sold that many in its entire exsitance.

Quote from report:

Link to report here


Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 8:30AM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 Series

VR-Zone Hardware has details on nVidia's new graphics workstation card called the nVidia Quadro FX3000. It is meant for video editing and other stuff such as CAD programming.

Specifications of Video card:

Go to nVidia for details



Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 9:15PM

New RedHat Linux beta Available

Iexbeta is reporting on how there is now a new RedHat Linux beta available, version 9.0.93. This should be great news for you Linux users

Quote from report:

RedHat Linux Download
Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 Release Notes




Monday, July 21, 2003 - 7:15AM

Updated BootVis available

TechConnect reports that there is an updated version of BootVis available for use with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems.

Quote from Report:

Link to report Here



Monday, July 21, 2003 - 6:54AM

Opteron's SETI@Home Performance

Over at AMDZone, they report on the performance of the SETI@Home client on the Opteron. They are dissapointed in its current performance and hope that it will improve.

Quote from report:

Link to report Here



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