2nd October 2000 Archive

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HWRoundup The battle for the GHz crown is officially on

Plus other gems from the world of semiconductors

The prospect of battle between the one-gig giants has been in the wind for a while, and now people are getting hold of these titans, the comparisons have begun in earnest. Witness, for example, the clash over at Chicks' Hardware between the TBird and the PIII Coppermine. Which is your money on? Click here to check the odds. …

Hardware Roundup 2 Oct 2000, 12:13
ISP whacks game fan with $24,000 bandwidth fine

Halo movie posting made mincemeat of 500MB download limit

An online gaming fan has been hit with a $6000 invoice from his ISP and is set to receive another, for $24,000 - all for posting a movie of upcoming Bungie X-box title Halo on his personal Web site. The movie is a copy of an Nvidia advertisement that features Halo in action, running on the 3D graphics company's hardware. The ad …

Music and Media 2 Oct 2000, 12:34
HWRoundup Dr Tom takes the Asus A7V to the limit

And the Duron gets tweaked agian

Are overclockers getting extra clever or is this just a nice little trick you can use to win friends and influence people? Oh, probably a bit of both. Tom's Hardware posted a "How to?" guide to pushing the Asus A7V to the max. Go here to find out how it is done. If you wanted another angle on the whole Duron overclocking …

Hardware Roundup 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
MS breakup could cost world $310bn – crazed new study

Windows to cost more than petrol, wolves howl on Highway 101..

The estimated cost of breaking up Microsoft has reached a new high - consumer worldwide could wind up paying anything up to $310 billion more, according to a new study produced by Professor Stan Liebowitz under the banner of pro-Microsoft and Microsoft-backed lobby group the Association for Competitive Technology. Liebowitz …

Software 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Click here for furniture porn!

Look at the cushions on that....

WARNING! This article contains material some armchair-lovers may find offensive.... The quest for kinky online filth ends here - with furnitureporn.com. This site has everything sleazemeisters could ask for. What self-respecting porn offering would be without a ménage a trois, bondage scene and office bonking? Only difference …

Bootnotes 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
We won't cut Euro PlayStation 2 allocation – Sony

Glosses over earlier delay to launch date

Sony has pledged that European gamers will get their mitts on the PlayStation 2 on 24 November, as planned, and that the territory's initial allocation of consoles has not been reduced. On Wednesday, the Japanese giant wad forced to admit that it has been forced to halve the number of PlayStation 2s it will ship to the US on …

Business 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Intel's Timna dead – official

So long, SOCker

Intel today confirmed that Timna, Chipzilla's cheapo system on a chip, is dead. Problems with the memory translator hub (MTH) which would have enabled the entry-level chip to use SDRAM memory rather than the expensive Rambus RIMMs for which it was originally designed, meant that by the time a workable solution had been found, …

Channel 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Apple retail chain plan back on agenda

Hints come together to suggest important announcements soon

Apple's plan to open a series of Gateway-style retail outlets appears to be nearing realisation, if the claim by Gateway supremo Jeffrey Weitzen that the Mac maker has been attempting to poach his staff is anything to go by. "Apple is serious [about opening its own stores] because they've been trying to hire our people," …

Business 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Analysts blackball DRAM makers

Spot price could go anywhere

The DRAM price debate was set ablaze again following the decision by Credit Lyonnais Securities to delete DRAM stocks from its list of suggested companies to buy. As soon as this became public, several other leading stockbrokers followed suit, including UBS Warburg and Jardine Fleming Securities. One industry source told us …

Business 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Net builders Kahn, Cerf recognise Al Gore

Grateful for the inventor's genius

We received the following essay by Internet engineering wizzards Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf last night courtesy of the Politech mailing list. While it reads somewhat like a PR blurb, it's also a fair backgrounder on Democratic presidential hopeful Al Gore's legislative contributions to the Net. It's reproduced below, unedited …

Music and Media 2 Oct 2000, 16:19
Singapore's former PM says no to sloppy seconds

Nation learns bigamy "not on" in online chat

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's oldest elder statesman, used his first online chat yesterday to reveal his views on bigamy and feminism. After the 77-year-old former PM had vented his spleen on politics, God and keeping fit, he got asked about Singapore's low population problem. One cheeky Internet user asked if bigamy wouldn't help …

Bootnotes 2 Oct 2000, 16:19