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Hardware
General
The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide, Revision 8.0 Interim Release 4 is out -- link.
Comdex 2003 picks and pans -- link.
Comdex 2003 LCD coverage -- link.
Buying computer parts: What to say and do -- link.
Realistic performance: How fast is fast enough? -- link.
Systems
How-To Guide: Building Your Own PC -- link.
Common architectures and formfactors of motherboards, chassis, CPUs, and drives -- link.
The Many Shapes of Tomorrow’s PC: Sure, it will be faster and more powerful. It will also be far more oriented to specific tasks and take wireless broadband networks for granted -- link.
Small form factor PCs with style, and price-tags to match -- link.
Elonex eXentia Media Center PC impresses -- link.
Digital Networks: PC to Stereo. Electronics makers are coming out with a new class of device that can pipe digital music through the living-room stereo or other speakers throughout the house.
Palm Zire 21, “a superb ‘beginners’ PDA” -- review.
CPUs/motherboards/chipsets
November 2003 price guides for CPUs and motherboards -- link.
Choice is king in the promised land of 64-bit computing -- analysis.
Page on Athlon 64 performance computing -- link.
13 mainboards for AMD Athlon 64 Socket754 platform -- reviews.
Analyst: Silicon on insulator will be key to AMD 90nm success, avoiding Intel’s problems -- link.
Graphics, memory, storage
Rambus set to take RAM bandwidth lead -- link.
RAM: Comparing price and performance -- link.
ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs. nVidia GeForce FX5700 Ultra mainstream market segment graphics chips -- reviews.
Digital visual interface (DVI) in the Real World: 17 graphics cards tested for compliance with the protocol used by many flat panel displays -- link.
ATI Radeon 9600 XT takes dead aim at the mainstream market -- review.
Price Guides November 2003: Video Cards and Memory -- link.
Next-generation hard drives previewed -- link.
RAID demystified -- link.
Comparing hard drive performance: IDE, SCSI, and RAID arrays -- link.
External drive shootout: Maxtor OneTouch vs. Seagate External -- link.
1GB compact flash media roundup -- link 1, link 2.
Miscellaneous components and periferals
Closer look at the 19” LCD monitors’ features -- link 1, link 2.
Multifunction printer (MFP) -- roundup.
Contemporary integrated sound solutions reviewed -- link 1, link 2.
Ten ATX power supplies compared -- link.
Operating Systems
Comprehensive review of alternatives to Windows here.
Windows-to-Linux roadmap for developers making the transition -- link.
More Linux command-line interface for noobies -- “file this”; “man for hier”; “everything’s a file”; “an initiation more or less”; “making and melting tarballs”.
Obtaining multi-boot capabilities using LILO and GRUB -- tutorial.
Linux Distribution News & Reviews
Libranet 2.8.1 “impressions” -- link.
Linux Desktop Distro Shootout Part 1: LindowsOS -- link.
Linux From Scratch 5.0 book released -- discussion here.
Red Hat Linux ends ... now what? -- link.
Redhat Fedora Core 1 -- review 1, review 2.
SuSE Linux 9 -- review.
A first look at Turbolinux 10 Desktop -- link.
Vector Linux 4.0 reviewed, rates 8.5 out of 10 -- link.
VectorLinux 4.0 Download Edition -- review.
More on Xandros Desktop 2.0 -- link.
GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. Package management is performed through the directory layout itself by storing each program in its own /Programs/[AppName]/[Version] directory. Version 007 is now out. The Unix tree rethought: an introduction to GoboLinux -- link.
Using and customizing Knoppix -- link.
What has Gentoo Linux done right to become such a runaway success? -- link.
Latest edition of Linux.Ars available here. Previous editions available here.
A review of some of the presentations and news from the Desktop Linux conference -- link.
To push desktop Linux, radical shift may be required -- link.
Thai information ministry’s scheme of selling PCs loaded with Linux and OpenOffice for $250 is a runaway success -- link 1, link 2.
The future of the Linux filesystem -- link.
Kickstarting Linux client installs -- link.
Interview with major freedesktop.org members. Issues discussed include the new X Server aiming to replace XFree86 -- link.
One user’s thoughts on FreeBSD 4.9 -- link.
From Linux to FreeBSD: FreeBSD reviewed -- link.
“Three Years of Free Software Activism: The Case of GNU-Darwin OS” -- link.
How to Install QNX 6.2.1 into an FAT Partition -- link.
Applications
Accounting applications for Linux -- roundup.
Users report on experiences with drive imaging software -- discussion.
theKompany.com’s Data Architect, Linux and Windows versions reviewed -- link. The same company’s DB front end Rekall is now available under GPL -- discussion here. Community development and organization is to take place on rekallrevealed.org.
Distcc, a program you should know about -- link.
New 3D Navigation system is as radical an innovation for UIs as the introduction of the mouse -- link.
JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage -- link.
Open source 3d graphics application Blender releases version 2.3 -- discussion here. Blender 2.3 manual available -- discussion here.
PostgreSQL 7.4 released -- discussion here.
Programming
Removing software complexity -- link. Discussion here.
Introducing REBOL with amazingly easy GUI programming -- link.
Rapid Application Development with QT -- link.
GNUstep, an open-source GUI/Programming framework, developer Nicola Pero interviewed -- link.
O’Reilly’s “Safari Bookshelf” is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals -- home page. Two week free trial available. O’Reilly’s e-book strategy -- link. Subscription details and pricing -- link.
Moving from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.1 -- link.
Security & Privacy
The Inquirer guide to protecting your PC -- link.
Our fundamental security philosophy — responding to damage — is flawed -- link.
Market for products that allow secure access to corporate networks based on a widely used browser security technology SSL heating up -- link.
CodeFellas: Building a secure P2P bet-processing system for the mob -- link.
Practical Cryptography -- book review.
The Anatomy of cross site scripting (XSS) web application security flaws -- link. Discussion here.
Miscellaneous
Voice-Over-IP providers face price war -- link. FCC expects VoIP Rules in 2004 -- link.
New FCC rules no win for consumers -- link.
The legislative rush to curb telemarketing and spam makes it hard to sell electronically. Even if you keep your data clean, no silver bullet prevents lawsuits -- link.
Free online books on the subjects of mathematics and computer science -- link.
Ibiblio, where sharing isn’t a dirty word -- link.
Top 101 “Most Incredibly Useful” web sites from PC Magazine -- link.
ExtremeTech Geek Gift Guide 2003 -- link.
Sun refugee Bill Joy talks about greedy markets, reckless science, and runaway technology. On the plus side, there is still some good software out there -- link.
Making a case for efficient supercomputing. Efficiency, reliability, and availability are issues to consider besides speed -- link.
VoIP Regulation in America: A View from the Trenches -- link.
“DVD Jon” unlocks iTunes’ locked music by producing a simple program which dumps the output of a QuickTime stream to a file. You can see why Hollywood is so keen to lock down open computer platforms, and this includes plugging the analog hole -- link.
In search of Amazon’s customer service number -- link.
What is Google worth? -- link.
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