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Review: Rockdirect XTI 3.8 Performance Review

8 August 2005, 00:00

Users looking for ultimate notebook performance should seriously consider Rockdirect's XTI series. Taking into account overall performance, the XTI 3.8 is the fastest notebook we've tested thus far.

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Review: Quiet PC/Zalman TNN 300 System

8 August 2005, 00:00

Summarising the Quiet PC/TNN 300 system is quite simple, really. It's a niche product that will appeal, in no uncertain terms, to a select bunch of users that value silence ...

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Review: ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB

6 August 2005, 00:00

Is the ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB graphics card the best X800 XL 512MB-class card we've come across thus far? how does it square up a bang for buck basis ...

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Gigabytes and Gibibytes - What you need to know

5 August 2005, 00:00

You might have seen Rys and I use the terms GiB, MiB and KiB around HEXUS in recent months, when talking about memory or data sizes. If you've hung around ...

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Mozilla Foundation Forms Mozilla Corporation

4 August 2005, 00:00

The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday the launch of a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. The funds generated by the Mozilla Corporation can help the non-profit Mozilla Foundation in areas ...

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Customising Google News

3 August 2005, 00:00

Completely automated, Google News searches the top news sources around the world (HEXUS included) and then presents the latest news stories. It is capable of finding thumbnail images to go ...

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Review: GeForce 7800 GTX shootout

3 August 2005, 00:00

What's abundantly clear in our look at three retail GeForce 7800 GTX graphics cards is that there is no such thing as a bad one. All three cards from BFG, ...

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ATi chipset division coming on strong (in North America at least)

2 August 2005, 00:00

HEXUS remember the days when ATi Technologies, was generally a rather conservative operation, but it seems that those days are fading fast...

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How should Cisco have dealt with their security flaw?

1 August 2005, 00:00

Last week an ISS employee left his job and had a restraining order request filed against him as he made a presentation on exploiting a security flaw in Cisco routers. ...

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Review: ATI Radeon X300 SE HyperMemory 128MiB

1 August 2005, 00:00

My evaluation of such low-end hardware using the latest graphically challenging games might seem pointless at first glance. Look twice and you'll see that while both HyperMemory and TurboCache boards ...

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Spyware takes physical form - your printer is watching you

29 July 2005, 00:00

Tin foil hats at the ready. Your printer could be allowing documents printed with it to be traced back to itself and possibly you. Does it sound absurd? Yes, but ...

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Installing Windows XP with a 3rd party SATA/RAID driver

29 July 2005, 00:00

When installing Windows XP, most of the time you'll find that it has the basic drivers it needs to intsall itself. However, sometimes you might need to intervene. This tends ...

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Review: Crucial RADEON X850 XT 256MB Video Card

28 July 2005, 00:00

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with Crucial's ATI RADEON X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express card; it's reference all the way. The killer is the price, and we urge Crucial to re-evaluate its ...

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PATA vs. SATA

28 July 2005, 00:00

Serial ATA is the next evolutionary stage in the development of magnetic storage media, it differs from PATA not only in the speeds attainable (150MiB/s to 600MiB/s as opposed to ...

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RAID explained

28 July 2005, 00:00

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is used for a number of reasons including improving performance and reliability of your data storage. RAID, which can be implemented ...

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DDR and DDR2 Explained

28 July 2005, 00:00

In this article we will be exploring the differences between DDR memory and DDR2 memory and also explaining a bit about the technology behind the two.

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interview with MESH Computers - Tony Riccardi, General Manager

27 July 2005, 00:00

Following the news of the Granville Technology Group going into administration, we have interviewed Tony Riccardi, the General Manager of system builder Mesh. We asked for his thoughts on ...

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Time and Tiny Stores Close

27 July 2005, 00:00

Granville Technology Group, parent of cheap-as-chips Tiny and Time personal computer brands and the UK's largest maker of PCs, has closed all its 78 retail stores leaving "uncertainty" over its ...

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MS WGA Goes Live Worldwide

26 July 2005, 00:00

Microsoft's latest scheme to battle Windows piracy - Windows Genuine Advantage - has reached version 1.0 and is now in use worldwide.

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A third of businesses vulnerable to backup hacking

26 July 2005, 00:00

Ever-resourceful hackers are looking towards new means of retriving data from businesses, exploiting security holes in backup software to gain access to a company's most sensitive data.

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Port Forwarding

26 July 2005, 00:00

Let's imagine you're trying to play a game over the Internet that needs to receive a UDP connection from the other player. UDP connections aren't initiated, they're just sent in ...

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Memory Prices on the rise

25 July 2005, 00:00

As previously speculated, RAM prices are on the way up reported as rising more than 6% on average. We can expect increased demand to further bump up prices.

Microsoft’s new Vista – can you see through it?

25 July 2005, 00:00

By now anyone within 10 feet of a computer, TV, or mobile phone has heard that Microsoft’s visionary Chairman Bill Gates told the minions attending the Microsoft Global Sales Briefing, ...

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Microsoft anti-trust case could see Intel reinvestigated

25 July 2005, 00:00

As AMD's war against Intel rages on, a former FTC employee claims that AMD's case and a past Microsoft anti-trust case could lead to U.S. regulators investigating Intel again.

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Review: ECS PF5 Extreme

25 July 2005, 00:00

The ECS PF5 Extreme isn't a bad board by any means. We feel as if a few tweaks here and there will make it into a real contender in the ...

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Installing Windows XP

25 July 2005, 00:00

Installing Windows from scratch for the first time can be a daunting experience. Usually you've just successfully built your first home-made PC and the last thing you need is for ...

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Wireless broadband borrower brought to justice

23 July 2005, 00:00

A UK man has been fined £500 and given a sentence of 12 months conditional discharge for the sinister crime of accessing somebody else's broadband connection using Wi-Fi.

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icrosoft reported yesterday that broad-based demand has produced a 9% revenue growth

22 July 2005, 00:00

Microsoft reported yesterday that broad-based demand has produced a 9% revenue growth for the June quarter, with nearly $3bn revenue growth in fiscal 2005.

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Reduced lead processors from AMD

21 July 2005, 00:00

On the 1st July 2006, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation will come into force. It is an EU directive which in part aims to reduce the amount of lead ...

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Industrial Design Excellence Awards 2005

21 July 2005, 00:00

The Industrial Design Excellence Awards, or IDEA, are a way of recognising designs that will help our quality of life or the economy in one way or another.

Typhoon kills Taipei comms

21 July 2005, 00:00

HEXUS has also learned that communication links are affected, making it difficult or impossible for companies to communicate with their Taiwan offices. At the time of writing, Taipei based Digi ...

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AMD File Antitrust Complaint Against Intel In The US

21 July 2005, 00:00

AMD has today announced that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel in the US Federal District Court in Delaware. AMD claim that actions from Intel such as putting ...

Review: The joys of redundancy: XFX's Revo 64

20 July 2005, 00:00

If you need high data rates and really don't need the hassle of downtime thanks to a dead hard drive, RAID is your answer. If you want efficient usage of ...

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