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9th July 2000 Archive

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  • Intel 815e platform thrashes 820 platform

    Dramurai beat Rambustas in Caminogate shocka

    A report on Semiconductor Business News has compared Intel's own benchmarks for its recent i815e chipset -- which uses PC-133 memory -- to its 820 chipset -- which uses Rambus RIMMs with the results clearly demonstrating the former outperforms the latter. The report, which can be found here, is a further embarrassment to Intel' …

    Channel 9 Jul 2000, 10:01

  • ISP RIPs up UK domicile

    How serious is this threat?

    Poptel, a British ISP which counts the Trades Union Congress TUC) among its customers, is threatening to move abroad, unless the Government ditches email snooping rights introduced through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill. Poptel, a not-for-profit business, reckons that the RIP Bill could be a contravention of …

    Music and Media 9 Jul 2000, 10:12

  • No need for 64 bits in firewall world?

    Column Peregrinations from Voiture Centrale

    The French, aided and abetted by discontented Scottish fans, finally put a nail in the coffin of Euro 2000 a week ago today, when the boys in blue pulled off a last minute surprise equaliser and went on to take the trophy. Down in Nice, the news was received differently from it was in Paris, where armed mobs apparently went on …

    Data Networking 9 Jul 2000, 15:34

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