Archive for November, 2005

Microsoft Xbox 360 Meltdown

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

It’s Microsoft’s legacy now manifested firmly in their new gaming system. Customers in hordes are complaining about new games crashing on the Xbox, crashing on Xbox live, and just general instability. It doesn’t appear to be a problem with the games themselves; the Microsoft Xbox is seriously defective by design. It is […]

Nvidia GeForce 7800 33% Faster!

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

The GeForce 7800 GTX 512’s increase comes from a faster core clock and a bigger memory clock speed: 850MHz (1.7GHz effective), the latter yielding the 54.4GBps of bandwidth provided by the chip’s 256-bit memory bus. Nvidia said GTX 512-based boards are shipping from the likes of Asus, Gainward, MSI, XFX and Point of View. […]

XviD, The Free Open Source DivX Codec

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

With basically the same quality, you can fit an entire DVD movie onto a regular CD, or, fit several movies onto a DVDr disc. Moreover, you can download a DVD quality movie from the Internet in just one file, that is only around 1/2 a Gig. You can watch it on your computer […]

Apple Trying To Close the Door on Open Standards

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Appearing on LinuxChix News, Apple will be modifying OS X not only to run on the Intel architecture, but they are going further to make it incompatible with any Intel system except those produced by Apple. They are obviously trying to protect their hardware sales, but it is a backwards effort to build walls […]

Secret Spyware Technology Revealed and Sony Sued

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Sony music proudly presents, the Sony DRM Rootkit virus purposely infecting their customer’s computers for the sake of copy protection. How far will Sony go? Well let’s just say that Sony sacrifices your privacy, and the stability of your computer without a second thought. Sony’s DRM technology has been found to install […]

OpenBSD 3.8, Hard as Nails Secure

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Theo de Raadt has released version 3.8 of the “Hard as Nails” operating system, OpenBSD. OpenBSD has always been my first pick for a secure DNS or mail server. Now with improved hardware support and RAID management tools, OpenBSD becomes more attractive for a wider host of uses. Although OpenBSD is free, […]

The Wiki in the Wild

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

What is a wiki you ask? Well, wiki is sometimes interpreted as the acronym (WIKI) for ‘what I know, is’, which describes the knowledge contribution, storage and exchange up to some point. Wiki software spawned from the concept of “open editing,” where visitors can create and edit any of the content, fostering knowledge collection, […]

Changing the Format of Tech Review Central

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

One thing I am thinking about is changing the format or purpose of Tech Review Central. Ractive envisioned a web site with industry reviews of the latest technology, much to do with gamer technology (video cards, sound boards, cooling, overclocking). This would not be unique as C/Net, among many others, do the same […]