CNET News has the story on a flaw found the Linux kernel which could cause operating systems based on it to crash. This doesn’t seem to be a major problem as they make no mention of it causing a buffer…
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June 2004
eWeek has a few interesting rumors that may have Microsoft porting some of its security enhancements in its upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 to its other current OS’ and may go back and move those fixes to Windows 2000…
Read more SP2-Like Fixes for other MS OS'?
The Tech Report has some coverage from last weeks VIA Technology Forum who’s main theme for the show was “Digital Brilliance”. VIA has certainly spread itself into varying markets with compelling products for each, although, I’d personally like to see…
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eWeek makes note of Microsoft’s release of its Windows XP: Service Pack 2: Release Candidate 2 software to beta testers. The software will roll all released patches since Service Pack 1 was launched in late 2002. It will also include…
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CNET News writes of Intel’s planned launch of its first 32bit/64bit processor code-named Nocona coming up later this month. The CPU will initially be targeted to the server markets where they’ll no doubt earn a hefty price tag. It will…
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AMD has completed its design for their dual-core Opteron CPUs which should be ready to ship next year. Dual-core chips will be all the rage for the next few years, with smaller manufacturing processes and much greater performance improvements versus…
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Seagate has been playing spoil sport recently with its entry into the micro hard drive market and now a 400GB, 7200RPM native Serial-ATA hard disk. They also toss in 16MB of buffer memory in this behemoth of a drive. Their…
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ZDNet has the story of Texas Instruments flexible UDSL technology which is capable of high speed bandwidth at decent distances. The technology is able to scale speeds from ADSL quality service to VDSL’s 52Mbps closer to telco equipment and in…
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Fujitsu’s largest notebook drive is now hitting production and should be in many a manufacturer’s designs soon. The 100GB hard drives will be the largest available, although its spin speed, 4200RPM which is a bit of a standard, isn’t the…
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Designtechnica has a review of the Sony PCG-X505/SP, a sleek sub notebook that packs a decent number of features and power into one of the thinnest profiles known to man. Impressive design and engineering in this Sony product although it…
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DigiTimes has more details on AMD’s upcoming Sempron processor line which is making old cores new again. Slick product plans by AMD, it will make for an easy transition to 64-bit land for most of its customers, cutting down cost…
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