8th May 2000 Archive
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Compaq's Enrico The Cloak takes wing
Pesatori leaves gaping hole in lineup
Enrico Pesatori, a senior VP at Compaq in charge of its server strategy, is to leave the firm to head up server firm Synaxia, it emerged yesterday. Pesatori, nicknamed "The Cloak" when he was at Digital, because he often wore a cloak when he was out and about, was in charge of Compaq's Alpha Wildfire project, which the firm is …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:38
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Rambus no longer makes Intel's eyes twinkle
Analysis Willamette to embrace DDR, Micron to push DDR
A senior Intel source told The Register in February that he was very surprised when Rambus became the unexpected star of its Developer Forum show. We can thank senior Intel VP Dr Albert Yu, however, for putting the spotlight on the amazing dancing Rambus. Yu, demonstrating the Willamette processor at IDF, unequivocally stated …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:40
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Via KX-133 boards one degree under?
Our look around some hardware sites
There is a piece at Tom's Hardware which takes 12 KX-133 mobos, while the good doctor's staff go round with their stethoscopes and maybe a speculum or two to find out how healthy they are. The answer seems to be that one or two of them are throwing a sickie... Meanwhile, over at Tech Report, there is some info on why AMD's …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:49
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1GHz Intel shortages hit tier-two PC builders
Not much left after big boys have had their fill
UK system builders are losing Intel business to tier-one rivals due to 1GHz chip shortages. Despite Intel declaring that its 1GHz chips would not be available in volume in Europe until Q3, some UK customers feel they can't wait that long to get these monsters inside their systems. But this leaves many tier-two PC builders unable …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:49
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US extends tax-free Net to 2006
Who cares if it's discriminatory?
The moratorium on multiple and discriminatory Internet taxes looks likely to continue, following the House Judiciary Committee recent vote by 29-8 to pass an amended version of HR3709. The Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce sent its majority report to Congress last month. The Committee also agreed to eliminate all taxes …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:49
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Apache.org owned by white hats
Hacking as a spiritual work of mercy
Friendly strangers briefly took over the Apache Software Foundation server by exploiting a series of common configuration errors, and then announced their presence by inserting an advertisement for Microsoft at the bottom of the home page. The open-source Apache is the most popular HTTP page server software currently in use. The …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:49
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Spam-u-like service sets out Brit stalls
Only it's not spam
A London-based e-company is to launch a service enabling Net users to request direct marketing e-mails. OK-mail - said to be the first opt-in service in Britain - will collect and provide e-mail addresses of consumers who have specifically asked to receive online mailshots. Lionel Thain, one of the co-founders of OK-mail, said …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:49
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Intel's Glen Echo canned?
Lancewood far from breathing its last
Sources close to Intel's plans said over the weekend that its ambitious Glen Echo project, which was supposed to sample towards the end of last month and was scheduled to ship in July, has been cancelled. That will give Lancewood, its trusty workaday server muvvaboard, a further lease of life and two further revs which will last …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:51
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PlayStation 2: How to play any DVD
New drivers fail to stop Region 1 playback
Poor old Sony. A Register reader informs us that there is now apparently a 100 per cent foolproof way of loading Region 1 DVDs, even after the latest batch of drivers, designed to prevent this, have been loaded. "Load the DVD into the PlayStation 2. At the browser screen, select the CD icon then press and hold square and then …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:56
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Gates group plans to cut off NZ yacht team's wind supply
Buy the competition and close it down? Where did we hear that one before?
You'd think Bill Gates had troubles enough; but no - he is reportedly involved in an Americas Cup consortium that intends to buy out the competition and 'cut off the wind supply' to the holders, the New Zealand Americas Cup team. The proposed mechanism is simple enough, and is only a ghastly coincidence as far as Bill is …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:56
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Too little, too late? MS sets out its stall for the judge
MS on Trial Leaks pave the way for the counter-offer
Microsoft is leaking the main thrust of its response to the DoJ proposed final judgment, the Washington Post suggested yesterday. It will apparently have three parts: first, a rebuttal of what the DoJ proposed; second, some mild chastisement suggestions; and third, some procedural proposals to Judge Jackson so that Microsoft can …
Business 8 May 2000, 09:56
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Beeb brings Mitterand back from dead
All the president's hommes
Pity le pauvre BBC. After years of Birt-led cut-backs and the transfer of journo talent to the attrocious CNN-wannabe, BBC News 24, it's clear the Corporation doesn't have sufficient good news staff left over for its online news operation. At least that's the only explanation for the site's latest gaffe. In a news item covering …
Business 8 May 2000, 11:11
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US urges stiffer penalties for Net crimes
Crucifixion may come back in vogue
We never cease to marvel at the smooth, silent process by which corrupt alliances among well-heeled industry lobbyists, putatively 'independent' government commissions and Congress can pervert justice. Most recently, the US Sentencing Commission (USSC) sent a new and grossly Draconian packet of industry-inspired guidelines to …
Business 8 May 2000, 11:20
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Splitting MS and the great Chinese Wall puzzle
MS on Trial Does it exist or not? Depends...
The DoJ's proposed splitting of Microsoft into operating system and applications companies is full circle in a sense. Previously such a split was referred to as the Chinese Wall issue, and it has a curious history. Microsoft has not been at all consistent in its claims about the so-called Chinese Wall between operating systems …
Business 8 May 2000, 11:20
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BOFH and The Mahariji
Episode 17 We have spiritual uplift
BOFH 2000: Episode 17 "You're LOSING IT!" The PFY cries, in a manner that could be construed only as unkind. "I think you’re..." I respond, defensively, being cut off mid sentence by the PFY's next outburst. "YOU ARE! Look, you're even filling in Job Sheets! 'Reset user's password'. Helped a user with a Microsoft Office install …
BOFH 8 May 2000, 11:24
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Online ad service courts students
Sell anything to students in your area - well, just about anything
Students – love them or hate them, there has to be a way to make money out of them. Doesn't there? That would seem to be the thinking behind the burgeoning number of sites targeting the student community in the UK. The latest of which is StudentAd - a classified advertising service aimed at universities and further education …
Business 8 May 2000, 12:25
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Love Bug suspect arrested, girlfriend to follow
Updated Incredibly, no computer found in raid
A Philippine couple, both bank workers, were identified on Monday as the chief suspects in the search for the Love Bug authors. Philippine Feds have finally got one body in custody, at least. They arrested 27-year-old Reomel Ramones after searching the house where, it is believed, the owner of the computer which launched the …
Business 8 May 2000, 13:13
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Gates predicts Love Bug Apocalypse if MS broken up
MS on Trial War, famine, pestilence, death, Eudora Pro...
Global virus armageddon will be the result of the breakup of Microsoft, "writes" Bill Gates in this week's Time magazine, due to go on sale today. Or very nearly, anyway; you may well wonder how the hell he makes that one out. It's simple, really, as Bill - or whoever knee-jerked the piece out so swiftly - explains. The front …
Business 8 May 2000, 13:13
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Improve your golf with satellite maps
Stratospheric tracking: brainwave or balls?
The Internet and its possibilities has got people thinking like never before - but then there is such a thing as. getting carried away. Now if someone had told you three years ago that they intended to hire satellites to track people's golf balls around a course, you'd have tapped them on the head and asked if everything was …
Business 8 May 2000, 13:16
