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- Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770)
- Falcon Northwest's latest Mach V ($6,957, as reviewed) remains true to the company's reputation of high performance and best-of-breed craftsmanship. But for a few exceptions, its parts offerings remain on the cutting edge, and its smart system building philosophy results in outstanding performance. If your goal is to build the...
- Tags: Processors, Memory, Intel Corp., Falcon Northwest, Mach V, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770, Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Duo
- Product reviews 2008-05-29
- Falcon Northwest Mach V (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700)
- Of the next-generation game systems we've seen recently, none has performed as well on our game tests as Falcon Northwest's Mach V. Similar PCs are by no means slow, but if your goal is showing off frame rates, Falcon Northwest turned in the fastest scores. Like its competition, the Mach...
- Tags: Games, Processors, Intel Corp., Intel Core 2 Duo, Falcon Northwest, Mach V, game
- Product reviews 2007-01-26
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- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureA correction(?)[i]and a new proprietory OS called VMS - that eventually became the basis for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0[/i]The first version of Windows NT was 3.5, not 4.0.Also, I think its not correct to say VMS formed the basis of NT. It is true...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Digital Equipment Corp., VMS, data-processing
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discoveredSurprise surpriseSo many of these, they are dime a dozen for all the operating system out there. Just do a little digging on the IRC channels if you want to see for yourself.RE: Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, System 9, Apple Macintosh, X-WINDOWS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X 10.4
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Snow Leopard specifics revealed
- Snow Leopard specifics revealedWill it finally be a real 64 bit OS?or, like Leopard, is it just a 32 bit kernel with a 64 bit compatibility layer?[i]Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a streamlined, next-generation platform that advances modern media and Internet standards.[/i]Is this a complete rewrite or is it just...
- Tags: Network technology, 64-bit, Apple Inc., kernel, 32-bit
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Alienware Area-51 (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770)
- From its chrome trim to its customizable case lighting, Alienware's Area-51 ALX high-end gaming desktop bears all the visual hallmarks of a luxury-class gaming PC. Our $7,738 review model came configured with Intel's highest-end Core 2 Extreme CPU, overclocked, no less, and a quad-graphics card set up, which give it...
- Tags: Games, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Alienware, Area-51 ALX
- Product reviews 2008-06-05
- Photos: Visiting a Nike missile site
- At one time, there were more than 200 Nike missile sites in the U.S., each tasked with protecting a specific city. Today, the only one left is a restored site for tourists in the Marin Headlands, near San Francisco.The mascot of the Army''s Air Defense Artillery program was a bird...
- Tags: Nike Inc., Photograph, Missile, Missile Site, AJAX, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Manufacturing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-23
- Apple's PA Semi buyout: A defensive move?
- According to reports, Apple purchased embedded chip maker PA Semi this week and the rumors are flying: that Apple is back in chipset business; or that Apple is going back to the PowerPC for some future device (since PA Semi made PowerPC-based processor). However, some chip analysts say that it...
- Tags: Exponential Technology, Apple Inc., IBM PowerPC, Chip, PA Semi, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Motorola splits itself up; Separates handset business
- Motorola splits itself up; Separates handset businessReally now this headset business is long over for Motorola."Their foam density would make no diference to anyone buying Bluetooth Products or Tata. Either one of these two would be the mach "Punisher" to Avaya in the 21St Century; I truly believe that started...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Motorola Inc., handset business, phone business, handset
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Excel:mac 2008 performance issues
- Excel:mac 2008 performance issuesnot just ExcelAll of Office 2008 is slow, even when compared to Office 2004 running under Rosetta. Terribly disappointed except for the fact that I use iWork much more anyway.Constructive Criticism: This is what the Air Diary was supposed to be aboutI'm not trying to be a...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Web browsers, Microsoft Office, NonZealot, Apple Safari, API, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- Apple updates Safari to 3.1; adds support for HTML 5
- Apple updates Safari to 3.1; adds support for HTML 5Why does it require a restart?All you are doing is updating a browser. Hmm, interesting.The rendering engine WebKit is a part of Mac OSThe fastest browser on earth, making IE7 en especially IE6 look like pregnant snails in molasses. Safari is...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Apple Safari, HTML 5, Apple Inc., operating system, WebKit, Help System, kernel, Web browser, HTML
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- The Mask Of Africa (exe)
- Reveal the mystery of ancient mask of Africa. Mach three or more masks in this matching game with novel approach to the ageless-classic. Try beating the clock or take a strategy approach in over 30 stages, bonus games, and puzzles. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Africa, Mask, Shine, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-17
- Apple opens iPhone to developers
- In a news conference Thursday (otherwise known as Feburary 35th), Apple unveiled the long-awaited iPhone native Software Development Kit SDK. It can be used by any developers to create native applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Up to now, developers have been limited to writing Web apps that ran...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Application, Apple Macintosh, Google Android, SDK, Apple Inc., Apple Xcode, Kernel, Language, Process Lifetime, Android App, iPhone Development, Nib File, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- A quick Presidents' Day post
- A quick Presidents' Day postOK, Chris...If you're posting a blog entry to say you're taking the day off from blogging, you're not taking the day off from blogging. ;-)You paid handsomely for that alleged Mac ease of useThe Mac is a FreeBSD box. But nobody likes FreeBSD and...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, education world, Apple Macintosh, Linux, FreeBSD, software, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Fly the green skies at Mach 5
- Fly the green skies at Mach 5It might be less bad than some of the alternatives, butA lot of energy and materials would be used developing, manufacturing and maintaining and operating it and the infrastructure and support systems needed for its use, getting passengers and crew to and from it,...
- Tags: Mach 5
- Discussion threads 2008-02-02
- News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power? Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation....
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Open Source, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Twitter, Motorola Inc., BlackBerry Patent App, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Fly the green skies at Mach 5
- The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...
- Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Linux security guru joins Microsoft
- Linux security guru joins MicrosoftPaycheckWell, I am sure his paycheck will increase in size that is what it is all about correct...RE: Linux security guru joins MicrosoftIsn't this a good thing, in a way? I mean, it just gives more notoriety to the Linux crowd. Microsoft can't keep saying that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX community, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux security guru, Microsoft Windows, Linux security, security
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Simulating planes flying at Mach 6
- Simulating planes flying at Mach 6WOW!This is more "complicated er" than it looks.
- Tags: Mach 6
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
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