29th June 2000 Archive
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Torvalds: main impact of MS trial psychological
And he doesn't have much in common with Bill...
During a predictably banal interview of Linus Torvalds on Radio Wall Street yesterday - where the interviewer clearly hoped for some tips about how to turn Linux into a pot of gold for investors - our hero had a couple of interesting things to say about the Microsoft case. Torvalds said that "the major impact is psychological" …
Software 29 Jun 2000, 08:27
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Fujitsu takes aim at Sun share
PrimePower takes bite of UltraSparc cake
When we met Fujitsu-Siemens suits earlier this year in good old Munchen, we managed to extract the admission from the boys that its Hal-based Sparc server, running the Slowaris operating system, was a better Sun than Sun. Rumours were spreading like wildfire (oops) that Fujitsu-Siemens was gonna kick Scott McNealy's butt, and …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 08:36
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Novell too nice for own good
Watch out for the steamroller
In the cutthroat, fast-moving world of IT, you can rely on Novell to do three things: Come up with essentially better, less buggy technology Get it all working together, usually with competitors' technology too Bugger up the marketing, so ensuring that it will never getting the coverage or usage it deserves Eric …
Software 29 Jun 2000, 09:03
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NatSemi, Taiwan Semi strike ten-year deal
You gotta have respect for Chang
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has licensed a clutch of its logic processes to NatSemi, it announced yesterday. The ten-year agreement is a major coup for TSMC and for its chairman, Morris Chang. Under the terms of the deal, NatSemi will use "deep submicron" technology at its South Portland fab, to create …
Channel 29 Jun 2000, 09:27
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Ellison offers Gates all his rubbish
"We believe in full disclosure"
Spying on Microsoft and unveiling its several front groups was a "public service", Oracle founder Larry Ellison told reporters during a press conference Wednesday. "All we did was to try to take information that was hidden and bring it into the light," Ellison said. "That's a public service." The investigation was justified by …
Software 29 Jun 2000, 09:31
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WHO doctors clear mobile phones of cancer risk
Evidence 'unconvincing'
The World Health Organisation has joined the ranks of researchers who reckon mobile phones pose no health risk - in opposition to the ranks of researchers who reckon mobile phones are quite unsafe. The United Nations body said that the scientific evidence showed no convincing link with cancer - or anything else, for that matter …
Data Networking 29 Jun 2000, 09:36
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Palm handhelds hit by dodgy DRAM bug
Data corruption glitch solved by patch. Phew...
Palm has coughed to the fact that some of its handhelds contain duff memory chips that could destroy users' personal data. And PalmOS licensee TRG has admitted some of its machines suffer from the same problem. The fault appears in what Palm described as "a limited manufacturing run" of Palm IIIc, IIIxe and Vx machines. So, …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 10:07
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Intel gets round Windows boot floppy problem
BIOS updates for all
Intel is about to introduce a new BIOS update process for its newer mobos which gets around the difficulty users of Windows 2000 and ME have in creating a bootable floppy. With the new Express BIOS Update, users will be able to update the BIOS on an Intel mobo from within Windows. The utility is around 1MB in size and certainly …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 10:26
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Palm Q4 profits, revenues double
Handheld maker's first quarter as public company
If only 3Com had held on to Palm for few more quarters. Yesterday, after the comms giant announced a major downturn in sales and a $340 million operating loss, its former subsidiary reported three-month profits that more than doubled quarter on quarter, and a year-on-year doubling of revenues. For the three months to 2 June - …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 10:42
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IBM super 'puter does 12 trillion calcs per second
Perfect for 3D nuke'em simulations
IBM's latest supercomputer is going to run three times as fast as the speediest beast in in action today. The RS/6000 SP, known as the ASCI White supercomputer, which weighs in at 106 tons, is to be used by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop 3D simulation tools that will sidestep the need for real world nuclear …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 11:55
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ATI Q3 loss wider than expected
Six-seven cents a share forecast turns into 10 cents reality. Oh dear...
ATI's previous predictions of revenue shortfalls and losses for its third quarter proved accurate today when the 3D graphics market leader posted "unacceptable" financial results for the three months to 31 May. In the event, revenues were not down significantly. The quarter's sales of $288.2 million represents a fall of just 4. …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 12:30
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Yahoo! buys eGroups to spam users with ads
And more snippets from the virtual economy
Yahoo! has agreed to buy eGroups for $430 million and fold the business into its exisiting communication businesses - Yahoo!Mail, Yahoo!Messenger and Yahoo!Clubs. eGroups, which was set up to help Net users form and maintain email groups, is now going to generate ad revenue for Yahoo! eGroups claims its 17 million members have …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 12:38
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Get your gen-u-wine Reg merchandise 'ere
Some good news for BOFH fans
Merchandising latest...19th February 2001 Many apologies for the non-appearance of the secure server, but we've been having a few technical difficulties. We hope to have these resolved soon. In the meantime, thanks for your patience. But there is some good news. The BOFH merchandising you all demanded is available now. That's …
Site News 29 Jun 2000, 12:42
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Win a PC. For free. Click here
The Reg and Jungle.com will just give it away
The Register and Jungle.com have joined hands to offer you lucky punters the chance to win an HP Brio business PC with a pretty darn good spec (Pentium III 650, 128MB RAM, 13.5GB hard drive, 8MB Video RAM, Win98, modem, DVD etc.) What do you do? Print out this story, fill in the form below and fax it to us on +44 (0)20 7493 …
Site News 29 Jun 2000, 12:42
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Merchandise Order form
For those with fax machines
Just print this page out, fill it in and mail it to Register Merchandise, 20-22 Maddox Street, London, United Kingdom, W1S 1PN. Don't forget to include your cheque (UK and US customers only) or International Money Order, and your name and address. UK Pricing US Pricing Item P&P Item P&P Baseball Cap £10 £1.50 $ …
Site News 29 Jun 2000, 12:42
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Free broadband access: Spielberg shows how (oops)
Just be famous and influential, and phone bills morph into nothingness...
It's easy to get free broadband access if you're Steven Spielberg, or in some way connected with Steven Spielberg. Or at least it was, until the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) retained Arthur Andersen to compile a report detailing the stack of illegal freebies local telco GTE had showered on Spielberg, Dreamworks …
Data Networking 29 Jun 2000, 12:57
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Bill Gates' roots in the trashcans of history
Garbage in, garbage out, stick your hands in, rummage about...
It is interesting to note the high moral tone being taken by Microsoft in its castigation of Oracle's legal if somewhat dodgy intelligence gathering activities.* But surely Microsoft hasn't forgotten that Bill Gates himself, together with Paul Allen, has also used trash cans as a primary source of intelligence? Gates even …
Software 29 Jun 2000, 13:03
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NTL kicks off customers sharing log in
Registration backlog is cause of crime
Victim of its own success or of inept market planning? Whichever way you look at it NTL has badly underestimated demand for its free Internet service. The company has admitted that there is at least a two month backlog of applications still to be processed. Meanwhile, frustrated customers are sharing CDs around while they wait …
Music and Media 29 Jun 2000, 14:20
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PR flunkeys' hack list is officially rubbish
We'd like to say we're surprised but we deal with them every day
Yesterday we ran a story on Miller Freeman's attempt to make money by charging £725 for a league table of journalists, split into categories such as impact, positive and negative coverage. While these figures were always going to be hopelessly inaccurate, we were not surprised to find that the PRs had failed to do even the most …
Bootnotes 29 Jun 2000, 17:26
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Daily Telegraph offers sex change ops to dotcom workers
And we thought it was a force for conservatism
Today's Daily Telegraph ran a very small correction on page 35. "A technical error in some editions has produced an incorrect picture on page seven of today's dotcom telegraph. For a correct version, e-mail us on tele.com@telegraph.co.uk." Naturally, we rushed to page seven to find that Julian Fenely, ex-JP Morgan man and now …
Bootnotes 29 Jun 2000, 17:29
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Helpful hacker faces Aussie Feds
No good deed goes unpunished
A young computer enthusiast compromised an Australian Government Web site over night using a simple CGI script, and then notified 17,000 businesses that their banking details were unprotected, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. The lad accessed the government's GST Assist site with a script which automatically logged in to each …
Music and Media 29 Jun 2000, 18:36
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Internet pedo sting ruled entrapment
Feds waste six months, countless dollars, role-playing on line
A man convicted of trying to have sex with children was ordered released from prison by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Feds had entrapped him, the Associated Press reports. A three-judge panel found that Mark Poehlman had been lured and manipulated by an undercover agent offering a long-term …
Music and Media 29 Jun 2000, 20:01
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Nvidia confirms Mac support with GeForce 2 MX
Lets slip Apple's plan to offer card as build-to-order Mac option?
Nvidia today clarified its position on Mac support - sort of. The 3D graphics company has certainly changed its mind since we quizzed it on the matter six months ago - back then it had a real downer on the platform, now it considers the Mac a viable market. The question is, what is it going to do to attack that market? The …
Business 29 Jun 2000, 22:08
