28th August 2000 Archive
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Hacktivists crash Korea govt home page
DDoS or old-fashioned traffic jam?
Protesters forced the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication's Web site to shut down for 10 hours on Saturday. But was it a mass click-in or a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack which brought the service to its knees? Co-ordinating the protest was the Progressive Network Centre (PNC), a group which opposes …
Music and Media 28 Aug 2000, 08:42
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ALi DDR chipset, 82Gb hard drive debut in Japan
Plus Athlon-Penitent III compared, contrasted
Stacks of interesting news from Japanese site pricewatch over the weekend. Thanks to various readers, including Firestone, for alerting us. First off, here's an account of a press conference about ALi and its famous DDR chipset, which has enough English in it to give you the general idea. (We've lost faith in Lernout and …
Hardware Roundup 28 Aug 2000, 10:33
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AMD 1.1GHz Athlon a go-go
Orders being taken
Following on the sneak preview of the 1.1GHz Athlon AMD showed us in room 1026 of the San Jose Tower and Hilton last week, the firm has announced availability of the part plus a clutch of PC customer wins. Compaq, Big Blue, HP, Gateway, Fujitsu Siemens, and a raft of others are introducing machines based on the part. There's …
Channel 28 Aug 2000, 10:45
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FIC fetes 815e with mobos
Flippy chippy kind of skippy
Taiwanese manufacturer FIC has released two mobos based on Intel's 815e chipset which will support Pentium III chips at 1GHz and above. The First Mainboard FS15 and FS35 also support Celeron processors in both FC-PGA and PPGA packaging, and use the ICH2 controller hub, support four USB ports, AGP 4x and ATA 100. The FS15 has …
Business 28 Aug 2000, 11:02
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Caldera hints at Java-like UnixWare license
Genuwine Unix freed at last? Sort of...
The new owner of Bell Labs original Unix is still wrestling with how to make the source code to its true ancestor publicly available, but has suggested that Sun Microsystems' Java license could provide an attractive model. Caldera CEO Ransom Love told The Register that once the acquisition of rights to the Santa Cruz Operation' …
Software 28 Aug 2000, 11:02
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Intel drops Pentium III prices
Updated 1GHz rare bird drops by a third
As expected, Intel has dropped prices on a range of its microprocessors and has notified its distributors and dealers. The 1GHz Pentium III in flip chip packaging has dropped by nearly a third to around $666, a clear response to drastic price action AMD took earlier this month. The prices quoted below are boxed processor …
Channel 28 Aug 2000, 17:28
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Via, 3Com set up network love-in
My enemy is your friend
Chipset contender Via has announced it has signed a deal with 3Com to bring 10/100Mbps Ethernet networking into Via's Apollo South Bridge. The move is another step in Via's attempt to have a crack not just at Intel's desktop chipset market, but also to capture other business from the chip giant. 3Com is not a friend of Intel. …
Channel 28 Aug 2000, 17:47
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Intel recalls 1.13GHz Pentium III
So it's not fastest x86 chip in the world
Chip giant Intel has confirmed that there are problems with the 1.13GHz Pentium III, as first reported on Tom's Hardware Page, and then on Hard OCP. It is now recalling the part, which won't be available for quite some while. Tom Pabst gives the background to the problem, which he first encountered, here. According to Kyle …
Channel 28 Aug 2000, 18:05
