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Hardware
April 2004 hardware news overview -- link.
What is your DIY personality? -- link.
Systems
AnandTech system price guides -- Entry-level/budget; Mid-range; High-end.
Looking for Mr. “Big Value, Small Price” -- link.
Microsoft’s Xbox 2 architecture unveiled -- link.
How to create your own (near-)silent PC -- link. Discussion here. Noiseless, but pricey, Zalman TNN500 PC -- review.
The secret market contender: White-Box PCs -- link.
CPUs/motherboards/chipsets
New ATI Intel and AMD chipsets with integrated graphics on the way -- link.
Via partner introduces lead-free circuit board manufacturing technique -- link.
April CPU and memory price guides from AnandTech -- link.
IBM, Stanford craft next-generation chips -- link 1, link 2.
-- AMD
Athlon 64 sales slow as Windows 64 delayed -- link.
AMD’s next-generation 90nm chips details -- link 1, link 2,link 3.
AMD chip core changes on the horizon -- link.
ASUS motherboard reviews: A7V880, with a first look at Via’s KT880 Athlon XP chipset -- link; ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset-based -- link./p>
AOpen’s AK89 Max nVidia nForce3-150 chipset-based motherboard is well worth considering -- review.
The state of AMD on Opteron’s first birthday -- analysis. Opteron puts AMD on server map -- link.
Epox 8KDA3+ motherboard with nForce 3 250Gb chipset -- review.
AMD Athlon 64 2800+: A cheaper Newcastle -- review.
AMD CEO: “Dual-Core Opteron Will Shock the Hell Out of Everyone” -- link.
-- Intel
Intel’s 90nm Pentium M “Dothan” chips will ship on May 10, clocked at up to 2GHz -- link 1, link 2.
CPU heat comparison: How hot is Prescott? -- link.
Hitachi brings the Pentium M to the desktop -- link.
Intel starts preparations for the transition 65nm circuits -- link.
Intel’s Grantsdale/Alderwood chipsets will not have drivers for Windows 98 or ME -- link 1, link 2.
Intel readies “Dothan” Mobile CPU: Pentium M, based on 90nm process with 2MB cache -- link.
Intel’s Xeon “Whitefield” chip for servers designed in India spotted, due to arrive in 2008 -- link 1, link 2.
Graphics
AnandTech video cards and memory price guide -- link.
Postmortem on nVidia’s NV3x, as improved successor NV40 appears -- link.
DirectX 9.0, PCI Express solutions on the way from 3Dlabs -- link.
ATi All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 XT -- review.
Memory, storage
Rising DRAM prices could prompt vendors to cut bundled memory -- link.
Toshiba debuts 2.5” 100GB hard disk -- link 1, link 2, link 3.
Hitachi 7K400 400GB Deskstar hard drive -- review.
Iomega’s 35Gb/90Gb removable hard disk drives -- review.
Formating woes with DVD recorders and media -- link.
Blue laser products emerge -- link.
Spring 2004 DVD Performance Roundup: More DVD Dual 8X -- link.
Miscellaneous components and periferals
PCI bus specification version 3.0 released, breaks compatibility with older cards -- link 1, link 2.
9 PC cases reviewed -- roundup here.
Lian-Li PC-V1000 ($270) ATX case -- review 1, review. Thermaltake LANMOTO ($115) aluminum case -- review. Opus Technologies’ Titanium MT-200 mid-tower chassis -- review. The Antec P160 ATX case has some clever noise reduction features -- review.
Replacing the mouse with thumb control -- link.
ATI unveils USB 2.0 TV-Tuner -- link.
Acer TravelMate C111Tci tablet PC review -- here.
PalmOne updates Zire PDAs. Zire 31 brings color to low end; Zire 72 improves camera, software at top of the line -- link. PDA sales hit a slump -- link. Windows-based PDAs gain ground on those running the Palm OS -- link.
Operating Systems
Linux
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Distribution News & Reviews A short list of top Linux distros, by category -- link. Cobind Desktop: Linux Done Right -- link. Trying out Fedora Core -- link. |
End of the line for Red Hat Linux 9 -- link. Sun’s Desktop Linux draws interest -- link. Xandros Linux Desktop 2.0 -- review. |
“CLI Magic” series from Linux.com continues -- “stay regular with cron and crontab”, “test this”, “let’s Go!”, “not your father’s batch”.
Novell eats own dog food, moves to Linux on desktop -- link 1, link 2.
Windows vs. Linux: Which is easier to install? -- link.
ONLamp.com’s weekly Linux newsletter for 4-19-2004 -- here.
Securing a fresh Linux installation -- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
GNOME 2.6 is faster and more polished, further brightening Linux desktop prospects -- link.
GCC 3.4.0 has been released -- link.
Miguel de Icaza on the Longhorn threat to Linux -- link.
A better solution to upgrading KDE -- link.
E-government in Ireland will be built using open standards technology, which may not be open source software such as Linux -- link. Comments here.
Eye candy for system administrators (SuperKaramba) -- link.
Plugging the Linux application holes -- link.
The coLinux project: Linux for Windows without rebooting -- link.
Linux on your desktop -- editorial.
Cairo, GTK+, X11 Coverage from XDevConf -- link.
BSDs, other Unixes
Latest release of FreeBSD 5 reviewed -- link.
Diskless, Low-Form-Factor OpenBSD systems -- link.
Windows and DOS
Birth of the Evil Empire? Snapshots from billg’s early days -- link.
The advent of Longhorn and OSS considerations -- link.
Windows XP SP2 RC2 due in May -- link. XP users want to know if SP2 security features will interfere with antivirus, firewall apps -- link.
Mac fanatics working at Microsoft -- link.
68 Windows tips & tricks -- link.
New devices will shrink Microsoft’s OS market share, researcher predicts -- link.
Unofficial Win98 SE Service Pack -- link. Discussion here.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 delayed -- link. Microsoft irks ISVs with XP SP2 delay -- link.
Microsoft conference to detail next moves into Web services, sneak peek at Longhorn -- link.
Windows XP users can get a customize their interface to feel like OS X -- link.
Longhorn’s real job: Trying to gore Linux -- link.
Mac
How Apple stole SGI’s Hollywood business -- link.
Apple’s spiffy retail stores assessed -- link.
Apple’s core business shifting, thanks to iPod -- link.
Other OS’s
SkyOS 5.0-beta5 quick review -- link.
QNX shows hardware-accelerated security stacks, new licensing model -- link.
Applications
The N|vu web development application with a WYSIWYG interface has great potential but a long road ahead -- link.
MySQL makes waves -- link.
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. commercial DBs: Choice depends on your needs -- link.
Free Software’s killer applications -- link.
Open source databases climb corporate ladder -- link.
Recalling Rekall, the GUI database front-end with aspirations of becoming Linux’s answer to Microsoft Access -- link.
AOL opens ICQ interface, but will anyone care? -- link.
Desktop-oriented
Advice for installing and choosing fonts in OpenOffice.org -- link.
GarageBand (on Mac) for the musical newbie -- link.
MS Office 2003, Sun’s Star Office 7, and WordPerfect Office 12 contrasted and reviewed -- here. Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org 1.1.1 -- review.
The GIMP 2.0 released -- link. The GIMP 2.0 for Microsoft Windows first look -- link.
CinePaint: The GIMP goes Hollywood -- link.
How to create a simple Web page with Mozilla Composer 1.7 and Netscape 7 Composer -- link.
StarOffice reaches maturity -- link. MS Office vastly overpriced, says UK consumer outfit -- link.
Yahoo Messenger gains multimedia features, tighter integration with other Yahoo tools -- link.
A random collection of Photoshop CS tips -- link.
Using Linux tools to prepare digital photos for email -- link.
The return of WordPerfect: WordPerfect for Linux and WordPerfect Office 12 reviewed -- link.
Programming
A Beginner’s Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming -- link.
Perfect text editors for coders -- link.
Busting Windows-to-Linux development myths -- link.
Xtreme Programming and Open Source software development -- link.
MyXAML ported on DotGNU -- link.
C/C++/Java family
D is a new addition to the C family of programming languages -- link.
Seven low-cost ways to improve legacy Java code -- link.
Prototyping Java desktop applications -- link.
New features in Sun Microsystems’ Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.5 -- link.
Should Apple adopt C#? -- link.
Scripting and high-level languages
Smalltalk language creator, Dr. Alan Kay, to receive the 2003 Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computing” -- link.
Migrating from ASP to PHP -- link. Why is PHP popular? -- link.
User-friendly form validation with PHP and CSS -- link.
A glance at garbage collection in object-oriented languages -- link.
Dive Into Python version 5.0 now available -- link.
Security & Privacy
The theme of this year’s “Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference” is: “Who is watching the watchers?” -- link.
Industry insiders, government officials debate merits of laws versus technical solutions to spyware -- link.
To outsmart intruders, enlist a counterspy -- link.
Company to offer disposable credit card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, etc. to protect your privacy -- link.
Using Secure Shell and Secure Copy -- link.
PKWare adds encryption and centralized management to SecureZip compression software -- link.
California decertifies all electronic touch-screen voting machines in the state -- link.
Should we blame security victims? -- link.
Microsoft
Big security problem hits Windows, Internet Explorer -- link.
Microsoft slammed over delays patching software holes -- link.
Nasty malware fouls PCs with porn by altering IE settings -- link.
Spam, advertising
Offer from marketing firm to let them use your computer to send bulk email is too good to be true -- link.
Hardly anyone admits downloading, installing spyware -- link.
Spam is getting nastier, Brightmail says -- link.
Miscellaneous
Video games with a conscience -- link.
Self-publishing is losing some of its negative connotation -- link.
Business
Efforts to bring hybrid power sources to the high seas steam quietly, if slowly, ahead -- link.
Openwave embraces Linux -- Part 1, Part 2.
Quirky Google culture endangered by going public? -- link.
File-sharing is, like, totally uncool: The MPAA tries to turn junior high school into antipiracy boot camp -- link.
Tennessee Board of Regents rejects Napster/RIAA tax -- link.
The Hippie Professor (Lawrence Lessig) and his PDF book -- link.
ForSaleByOwner.com argues that it does not need a real estate license to advertise in California -- link.
More reasons to love Google -- link.
How VCs earn their keep -- link.
The Internet
Make way for the new Internet domain: .ax -- link.
The future of Weblogging -- link 1, link 2.
Sex.com settles with VeriSign -- link 1, link 2.
Serious security flaw leaves core Internet technology vulnerable to hackers -- link.
Former AOL employee manages to parlay private information into useful Hollywood contacts -- link.
Will RSS readers end up clogging the Web? -- link.
Making Wikipedia work -- link.
Science
How to make a pack of robots act as if with one mind -- link.
Have we written off cold fusion too soon? -- link.
The spooky weirdness of quantum computing -- link.
Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics -- link.
Telecommunications
Satellite radio a free-speech, shock-jock haven? -- link.
FCC rules that AT&T must pay access charges for its Internet phone service -- link.
What happens when anyone can be a phone company? -- link.
Low-watt radio wields its power -- link.
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