Published February 23, 2004 · 0 comments

It seems the US Army doesn’t require the services of a stealth reconnaissance so they may be cancelling the program according to Bloomberg. It was quite the nimble and sleek looking aircraft, it’ll be missed….

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Published February 23, 2004 · 0 comments

New Scientist is covering Intel and AMD’s plan to include technology in upcoming chips that will prevent today’s prevalent security problem, programs causing buffer overflows. It’s sure to make certain operating system makers giddy with delight….

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Published February 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot just put up a review of Creative Lab’s Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition. The card has so many features that this entry could go on for a few pages so I’ll let their review do the…

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Published February 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Extreme Overclocking has a review on the Syntax EZ-Clocker mini-PC. The barebones system sort of resembles all of the other SFF bundles out there except it’s almost twice as tall as the others and is geared towards the tweaker/overclocker crowd….

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Published February 23, 2004 · 0 comments

DesignTechnica recently put together a review of Sony’s DRU-530A DVD±RW burner. The drive is quite fast at burning to most of the formats in fact the major down side is its looks, which will probably be too sleek looking for…

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Published February 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Pimp Rig has a review up on Shuttle’s newest and smallest mini PC available, the XPC Zen ST62K. They managed to “shrink” the Zen’s footprint by having the PC use an external powersupply, a smart move since most people cram…

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Published February 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Viper Lair had a NVIDIA based MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 video card at their disposal and they just so happen to have some opinions on it. The board uses the current top chip from NVIDIA and it’s crammed with a large…

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Published February 22, 2004 · 0 comments

EE Times has a story on what caused the Mars rover “Spirit” to fail and how the fine folks at NASA were able to save the machine from such a huge distance away. Most of the details have been known…

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Published February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has the story on a pair of reports that gauge customer satisfaction of the largest computer makers’ customer service. Dell has seen a fall in ranking but still leads PC makers while Apple has the highest rank overall….

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Published February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Sharky Extreme compares two motherboards featuring the current high end chipsets from the top two AMD Athlon chipset makers. The AOpen AK77-600 Max using the VIA KT600 chipset and sporting Gigabit LAN support on one side and the MSI K7N…

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Published February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

The busy people over at AnandTech have got another review up, this time they take a look at the Samsung SyncMaster 213T LCD Monitor. This stylin’ piece of equipment features a 21.3-inch viewable screen which will provide more than enough…

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