Maybe this was already mentioned here, but: Intel graphics driver not so open source after all http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.1/1879.html There is a propriaty module intel_hal.so that is released under the MIT license. It contains 'Macrovision register stuff and other...

Flash splash, from iPod Nano - Technology - International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/30/business/ptflash01.php It looks like certain older capacity landmarks for hard disks are becoming the domain of flash. For example, 4GB flash would be cheaper than 4GB HD, except for the...

bigtime. http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=paxville&page=1

I've been limping along on two Socket-A machines for a couple years, watching the technology unfold and eager to finally get a nice new computer or two. Now that July 2006 has come and gone, there are plenty of new processors to choose from. Surely, this is the day I get my new computer... I...

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/24/technology/nvidia_intel/index.htm AMD-ATI deal boosts shares of Nvidia Speculation about a possible partnership between Nvidia and Intel has driven the shares up nearly 10%. By Amanda Cantrell, CNNMoney.com staff writer July 24 2006: 3:23 PM EDT

I've had it permanently installed on my desktop since version 5.10, too. Meanwhile it's been permanently installed on my laptop since 8.10 (after I upgraded the disk to 160GB). I now find myself using mainly Ubuntu on the laptop, but the desktop still needs a few apps running on Windows -- that'll...

Ed wrote: Intel doesn't have a Dual Core CPU. Its what is called MCP (multiple core package) Here's an example: http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=44932 I'd like to upgrade in about 6 months, will the Athlon 64 (not opteron) dual cores be out by then? More than likely they'll be...

AMD's Cool'n'Quiet support is supposed to be natively built into Vista (no need for drivers). However, they are finding that C'n'Q setups that were working fine under XP, no longer work under Vista. People have been waiting for BIOS updates for their motherboards, and some have found that the BIOS...

Rumours are that Intel is adding additional pipeline stages to the Prescott, even higher than its existing 20 stages. I can't see it happening in this late stage of the game, perhaps half a year from now. It will possibly be getting rid of the internal double clocked ALUs too, and replacing it...

Very detailed and technical play-by-play of somebody discovering a rootkit installed on their system by Sony Corp.! You gotta wonder what somebody could do if they weren't familiar with the low-level details of a Windows system, like this guy was? Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and...

Ok, first of all, let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. I'm an idiot. So please indulge me for a moment. Consider it an act of "community service".... What does "64bit" mean to your friendly neighborhood C# programmer? The standard answer I get from computer sales people is: "It means that...

Seems that for one week this past month, there were more AMD-based desktops sold than Intel-based. http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/33636.html For the week ending April 24th, 52% of retail desktops were AMD, and only 47% were Intel. Minor, temporary victory? Absolutely. Just a victory...

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Oct/bch20031013022157.htm

Chaintech's new Athlon 64 motherboard will feature an extra fan built-in to the motherboard itself which will be used to cool the capacitors next to the CPU. It calls it RADEX, for Revolutionary Active Direct Exhaust. Here are the...

Tom's Hardware is hilarious. They've refined the art of *BS'ing* to a fine state. It's their pseudo-technical explanations that always try to be mindful of large advertisers are their biggest classics: techno-spin as an artform. Tom's is doing some kind of longevity endurance runoff test between...

Anandtech did a test on a couple of Intel-supplied boxes one containing a pre-release Conroe vs. an FX60. And exactly as Intel said, their box beat the FX60 in every test by about 30%. AnandTech: Spring IDF 2006 Conroe Preview: Intel Regains the...

Itanium sales have finally surpassed Alpha sales at HP. Looks like it's mostly in the OpenVMS market though. Most OpenVMS customers are entrenching around Itanium now. The Alpha-Tru64 market still seems to be volatile. http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040820S0005 Yousuf Khan

I have a pc AMD 2000+ (home built) that will not power on. It powers on but no post, no beep codes just cpu fan, power supply fan and hard disk comes on. I believe it;s the CPU because when the problem happeed there was alot of dust across the top of the heat-sink completely covering the top...

Looks like the price cuts that Intel did have worked for it. Not too bad, but it's certainly not back at the 90%+ marketshares it had in retail in the not too distant past. It's never going to get to those levels ever again, not with the anti-trust lawsuit hanging over it. Intel takes back lead...

One of the ports of my NEC-based USB 2.0 card quit working because the National Semiconductor LM3526 power controller chip failed. I'm pretty sure that I didn't zap it with static (I always touch the outher metal shell to the computer case before plugging it in) or try to plug it in backwards. ...