28th December 2000 Archive

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Asus striptease an 815 chiptease

HW Roundup Wibble Webble Wobble a go-go

As wor Lucy Sherriff is still tucking into turkey, we've decided to guest-up the hardware roundup for a few days and see what's happening out there on the Wibblesome Wobblesome Web. Asus is getting a right good drubbing over at these threads. The guy who discovered the 815E lurking under a heatsink was told by the people who …

Hardware Roundup 28 Dec 2000, 18:16
Smart kid saves firm from bankruptcy

17-year-old rakes in $1m of orders

A 17-year-old student on a two-week placement has saved a printing company from bankruptcy after his Internet prowess secured contracts worth up to $1 million. British A-Level student Adam Hughes was sent to Martin Mulligan UK to learn a bit about the world of business. During his two-week stint at the barcode printing outfit …

Music and Media 28 Dec 2000, 21:29
BOFH Takes the Wind out of Sales

Episode 42 Christmas cheer

BOFH 2000: Episode 42 "So what you're basically saying is that your hardware is the most reliable stuff we're ever likely to buy, and all your competitors' stuff is built by intellectually-handicapped child labour in the Third World from parts that were discarded from your factory for being unreliable?" The PFY slurs. "Yes," our …

Bootnotes 28 Dec 2000, 23:08
EFF's Gilmore calls for CPRM hardware boycott

Stop these lunatics

John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has urged users to boycott hardware containing CPRM copy-control mechanisms. Last week we broke a story of moves to build CPRM (Copyright Protection for Recordable Media) cryptography into the industry standard ATA hard disk specification. If implemented, the …

Software 28 Dec 2000, 23:10