Cyber sleuths hunt file-swappers
They have been described as Hollywood's digital detectives and they have a warning for anyone illegally trading music or movies: "You can run but you can never hide."

NVIDIA RELEASES NEW GRAPHICS DRIVERS FOR LINUX PLATFORM
NVIDIA Corporation the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, has just posted new Linux drivers for its award-winning GeForce graphics processing units. The new drivers are version 1.0-4496 with a release date of July 28, 2003.

Cooler Master Musketeer -- System Dynamics Detector
When I first pulled the Musketeer out of the box, my first thought was that this thing looks pretty cool. The blue gauges look great even when the unit is not powered up. I was looking forward to seeing how it would look with my black aluminum case. I already had four blue LED fans installed in the case, so the Musketeer's colors match this motif perfectly. Let's take a look at unit a little more closely.

Another Beer Please
What do you get when you combine a glass, a PIC computer, two capacitors, a coil and a zener Diode? A wireless beer glass that signals your waiter when you need a refill.

AMD Opteron dissected, taken apart, analysed
Get your scanning microscope out and swallow your dopants

Danger: IDE Harddrives in 24-Hour Operation
More and more IDE harddrives and future Serial ATA drives are used in servers and desktops in 24-hour mode. However, those drives are not built for continuous use. This article explains which dangers wait around the corner.

Nero 6.0 Ultra Edition is the most comprehensive, versatile CD- and DVD-mastering and packet-writing suite on the market today.

Iwill and Soltek Barebone Systems Review
Smaller is better ? Lets have a look

Microsoft's XP activation process exposed
Internet-based product activation of Windows XP involves transmitting an amount of data to the Microsoft activation servers. Is this a threat to the users' privacy?

Athlon XP [ Barton & Thoroughbred ] Bridges explained

Tool Up against Viruses, Spyware ,Trojans
If it's about online security, barely a story can go by without mention of two protection essentials : anti-virus products and firewalls.

1GB Kingston Kit HyperX DDR 434MHz Review
Since the release of the the Intel Canterwood and Springdale motherboards Dual-Channel memory has become a mainstream item for computer users. The memory industry responded with "paired" or "matched" memory kits that offer end-users modules of memory that can run the same timings.

Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB Ultimate Edition
A little kangaroo Wallaby came to Big Kangaroo and asked him: Grandpa, why do they call us kangaroos? And what is Ultimate? Big Kangaroo opened his bag, fished out a press released and started his story...

The New Sony CLIÉ PEG-UX50 - Evolution of the PDA!
Everyone in the Palm scene was waiting eagerly for the announcement of a new CLIÉ by Sony last Friday. We knew it would be somewhat different from earlier models. But how different could it really be anyway?

Bye-bye books? /// Thomas Monk
Any creative form is open to piracy if it can be reduced to pure information and then easily reconstructed from that information. Two such examples are music and video, both of which have readily succumbed to the pirates. But one form of piracy we hear little about in the West is book piracy.

Ten DVD-Burners Roundup
The top of the optical drives evolution is the DVD-burner combo, which combines the functions of all sorts of optical drives. These units cost quite a bit but will definitely be a very good addition to your system. Need some help on choosing the best solution? Then read our roundup of 10 most popular models!

Why Windows is safe for the forseeable future - perhaps!
Whether you use Windows, Linux, or indeed another operating system I think you will find this article interesting.

Cooler Master CoolDrive 3 Hard Drive Cooler
Well folks it looks like you are about to be victimized by another Voided Review. Today we will be taking a look at the Cooler Master CoolDrive3.

Death of Windows 9X will push up PC sales
Vintage champagne versus Meths

Hacker code could unleash Windows worm
A hacker group released code designed to exploit a widespread Windows flaw, paving the way for a major worm attack as soon as this weekend, security researchers warned.

ABIT officially unleashes the top-end IC7-MAX3 motherboard
The IC7-MAX3 motherboard became the company's top-end product. The new board features all ABIT's latest technologies, including OTES, SecureIDE, FanEQ, CPU ThermalGuard, TweakGuard, FlashMenu, SoftMenu, GigaSystem Overclock.

DOOM 3™ DEATHMATCH
PLAYABLE AT QUAKECON 2003
The world's most legendary multiplayer gaming event will host the first-ever opportunity for fans to play DOOM 3 multiplayer.

Danger Den Watercooling
Some features on waterblocks are for performance, some for looks, and some keep your options open. This offering from Danger Den seems to have been designed with all that in mind. Heavy duty quality assurance completes the package.

U.S. bank hit by international hackers
Counterfeit ring hacks Nebraska bank's computer

Soyo's SY-P4I875P DRAGON 2 Platinum Edition motherboard
DESPITE THE FACT that everyone and his mother seems to be making Canterwood-based Pentium 4 motherboards, manufacturers are still finding ways to keep their products unique.

Microsoft reveals 'critical' flaw
Microsoft issued another passel of warnings about security holes Wednesday, including a "critical" flaw that affects most Windows PCs.

LindowsOS 4.0 reviewed
Review a better Lindows than Linux?
When the LindowsOS package arrived, in a nice box that almost mimics the Sun StarOffice 6.0 package, I decided to eat a "dumb pill", assume nothing, forget everything I learned, and attempt a LindowsOS 4.0 installation in "end user" mode. Here's an appetizer of my conclusion: I was amazed.
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AMD Athlon XP: Barton 400FSB
Here is another look at the AMD Athlon XP3200+ Processor featuring overclocking and heat emission,performance and another grandios conclusions

GeIL Ultra PC3500 Golden Dragon Memory Review
Style is playing a larger and larger role these days in the design of computer hardware, and for good reason. Why have a bland beige box sit next to you when you can have a "flashy" black or brushed aluminum case with iridescent blue lights glowing inside?

Possibly the first dual Canterwood ES Xeon leaks, Asus pre-announces "bi" ES version
FRENCH SITE X86-Secrets has noticed that Asus has gone and pre-announced a machine using the Canterwood ES chipset, for dual Xeon servers.

ASUS SK8N + AMD Opteron 144: Uniprocessor Workstation on AMD Opteron and NVIDIA nForce3 Professional
AMD Opteron based platforms become more and more popular. We tested a workstation featuring ASUS SK8N mainboard based on NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 chipset and one AMD Opteron processor working at 1.8GHz. The whole lot of benchmarks in comparison with AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 4 are included.

More Cache For The Masses : Intel’s New 3.06GHz/1MB Xeon DP
Things have cooled on the desktop CPU market, but the workstation CPU battles are just heating up. Both AMD and Intel have for the most part, drained their current desktop CPU architectures, Intel maxing out their Pentium 4 at 3.2 GHz, while AMD peaked its Athlon XP at 2.2 GHz (3200+). At this time, we're not expecting any new processors to be announced on either company's current generation of processor cores. All will remain quiet in this sector for the next 2-3 months, as Intel preps their new "Prescott" architecture, while AMD gears their Athlon64 for the desktop market.

Opteron 244 LN2 Overclocking
Our friend Katsumi from Japan has overclocked his Opteron 244 (1.8Ghz) to over 2.2GHz on LN2 cooling using the ASUS SK8N nForce3 Pro board. Perhaps the 2.2Ghz CPU should be named Opteron 148 like the RedStorm supercomputer built by Cray comprises of 10368 Opteron 148.

Asus launches Opteron workstation >>>Shock'n'AW171
ASUS IS to start selling an Opteron workstation, it announced today.

FX5900 vs Radeon9800Pro
The R300 chip (ATI Radeon9700) has become the world's first graphics processor to offer full support for DirectX 9 and to take a lead over its age-old competitor during half a year. What's more, when NV30 (FX5800) finally arrived to the reviewers (while ATI Radeon9700 had been on sale in every computer shop by then) it turned out that by the consumer qualities it wouldn't be a match for ATI Radeon9700.

Linux kernel 2.6 previewed
Advancing by leaps and bounds
COMPETENT OBSERVERS of the Linux kernel development process have reported what we can expect in the next production releases of Linux.

Man with 13 monitors flies the world
by Adamson Rust: theinquirer
FORGET BUILDING a 737 simulator in your bedroom.
This chap here uses wideview software, nine PCs and 13 monitor to fly without getting out of his chair.

Intel powers up 3GHz Xeon
Intel has tuned up its Xeon chip for workstations and two-way servers.
As expected, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker released on Monday a new version of its 3.06GHz Xeon that packs an additional 1MB of cache.

Soltek Qbic EQ3701M SFF
Spacious interior, rounded IDE/Floppy cables, 4 drive bays and a gorgeous mirror front panel are some of the major highlights of the Soltek Qbic EQ3701M nForce2-IGP SFF system. Find out more about it and how did this SFF compare to the 5-Star Shuttle XPC

Corsair now offers DDR500 to the demanding market of high speed memory
Power is great, stability is great. Place those two together and you get memory modules from Corsair Memory, and they're what we're looking at this time. But rather than just being memory that does the job, these go much further. Corsair's latest memory modules plunge in at 500MHz of DDR speed, with decent latency timings as well. !

Intel 865 Mainboards Roundup: Part 1
After the Pentium 4 line with FSB 800 MHz was announced we looked over all chipsets offered by Intel for the new processors. But there are no chipsets we would unconditionally recommend you. The i875P (Canterwood) is certainly faster than its dual-channel brothers of the i865 family (Springdale) but its release price is noticeably higher, and the layout is much more complicated.

eVGA Personal Cinema Review
The first iteration of NVIDIA’s Personal Cinema unit met with some commercial success, but yet remained a fairly unpopular solution as few manufacturers supported the concept and seemingly fewer customers were interested in the products. Advance a few years and even your typical “Average Joe” computer user has begun to understand the multimedia capabilities that computers offer. It was an uphill battle, but with consumer acceptance of digital cameras and even better, their video counterparts, computers have become an integral part of the media experience.

Terminator 4
Remember the rather portly young Jedi from several months back? Well now he is staring in the preview of Terminator 4! The trailer is here

Nvidia claims it will trounce Intel with Nforce options
RAID! RAID! Incoming missilez from Nzilla

Man has 737 simulator in his lounge
AN INDIVIDUAL IS SO crazy about flight simulators that he's built one in his lounge, based on a real 737 flight deck.

DELL Axim X5 PDA Review
Dell Axim X5 covers two versions - Entry and Advanced. They look identical, and differ in the CPUs (300 and 400 MHz) and RAM size (32 and 64 MB). These PDAs were first displayed at Comdex at the end of November 2002. Bill Gates, in his speech devoted to mobile technologies personally demonstrated this computer. The sales started about that time as well.

Corsair Announces XMS4000 DDR Modules
Corsair Memory releases its TwinX4000 Memory Modules, and the XMS512-PC400 Memory Modules. TwinX, built and tested for Dual Channel DDR motherboards, uses low latency and is preferred by gamers everywhere. Corsair Memory will be releasing its TwinX4000 memory modules Tuesday July 15th.

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