Napalm Riot

2 of 2

It seems that a user on MemeStreams.net has found that Charter ISP is messing with their DNS servers. I don't have charter cable, and so I can't verify it, but perhaps our Charter ISP users could comment on what they feel about this and if they have been having any problems.


Original page is at http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid38048/

Mechanical keyboard increases responsiveness by more than 90 percent and is more than 10 times more durable than typical keyboards; Eliminates anti-ghosting

The leading manufacturer of innovative professional gaming gear, SteelSeries, today announced the U.S. release of its new gaming keyboard, the SteelSeries 7G. The keyboard, designed with 18-karat gold-plated mechanical switches, sets new industry standards for advanced key combinations and Actions-Per-Minute (APM). This translates . . . Read more

More universities should provide courses on programming for massively parallel computing, and more graphics processor providers should look at enabling the use of the Compute Unified Device Architecture (Cuda) programming language on their devices, according to David Kirk, chief scientist at Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

Nvidia developed Cuda to run on its own GPUs and has found considerable traction for the language in applying those GPUs to applications for financial and other multiva . . . Read more

Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor

Doesn't sound familiar? I don't blame you, Microsoft only dropped some details to the public within the last week.

Basically, the aim of it is to use a USB thumb stick to gather evidence from computers that're suspected of being used in crimes, rather than the current method of cloning the drive after powering down the machine and moving it to a forensics lab.

What gets me is the fact that it can, apparently, override any security feature curr . . . Read more

Thanks to a new software driver Nvidia is cooking up, any PC game can be played in 3D, with no extra work on the part of game developers.

Beginning this summer, any PC with an Nvidia graphics processor will have the ability to run a game in normal mode, or in 3D, with the aid of 3D glasses.

The software driver will enable the ability to have two views--left eye and right eye--which, at the push of a button, appear blurry and pixelated to the naked eye. When viewed through 3D lenses though . . . Read more

Alienware® – the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems – launches the Area-51® m17x, a commanding and aggressive addition to the newly redesigned Area-51 line of notebook computers. Alienware already shocked the computer industry this year by demonstrating the raw power of the 15.4-inch Area-51® m15x, and the company has once again upped the ante. With a brilliant 17-inch, widescreen HD display, Alienware designed the Area-51 m17x for PC game . . . Read more

Imagine steering through a F1 racing track and doing it without hearing the sweet sound of the engine? Not an enticing prospect is it.

On the other hand, sitting in front of your PC, powerful speakers can bring the experience alive giving you the feel of driving on a game track. Providing 360° surround sound, the G51 speaker system from Logitech makes it possible.

Dual Matrix Modes in the system create 5.1 surround sound from common 2-channel stereo sources. The laser-tuned satellites fea . . . Read more

Intel has awarded its $300 million global media account to Omnicom Group's OMD after a review, the client has confirmed.

A cut to three finalists was made in early March. OMD and Publicis Groupe's Starcom, both in Chicago, and the incumbent, Interpublic Group agency Universal McCann in New York, remained in contention.

"Each of the finalists impressed us, but OMD gave us a stronger sense of possessing world-class media industry leadership and state-of-the-art business intelligence and anal . . . Read more

The president and chief executive of graphic chip supplier Nvidia Corp. received compensation valued at $7.6 million in fiscal 2008, a 27 percent increase from the previous year, according to a regulatory filing Friday.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company paid Jen-Hsun Huang $584,083 in base salary and a one-time bonus of $150,000. Huang also received non-equity incentive plan compensation of $2.25 million.

Huang, who co-founded the company in April 1993, received stock and option awards . . . Read more

AMD announced new Phenom X4 CPUs end of March. Digitimes cites Motherboard sources that there are two new 45nm Phenom X4 CPUs (codename: Deneb) coming in 2008.

The new rumored AMD CPUs include the 125W Phenom X4 9750 and the 95W Phenom X4 9850 will appear before January of 2009. There is supposedly also an updated version of the upcoming Phenom X4 9950 (June) at the end of the fourth quarter.
45nm AMD Phenom X4 CPUs are to be expected on shelves this November.

(Continuation Source: http: . . . Read more

Apple on Monday released an update for iMac computers equipped with ATI’s Radeon HD 2600 Pro or Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics card installed, running Mac OS X v10.5.2 or later. The update is available for download from Apple’s Web site.

The update — version 1.01 — makes a change to the graphics card firmware on these systems that improves system stability, according to Apple. Once it’s done, the Mac’s Boot ROM or SMC version information (as listed in System Profiler) will read 113-B2 . . . Read more

Graphics developer Nvidia has quietly rolled out its GeForce 9600 GSO video card, offering strong performance at a price that should appeal to both mid-range consumers and system manufacturers looking to put a little extra bump in their graphics offerings without significantly raising their products price tags.

The 9600 GSO is designed to compete with AMD's still unreleased Radeon HD 3830 graphics controller. The 9600 GSO shares the same architecture as Nvidia's current GeForce 9600 GT graphi . . . Read more

With an unusual Monday morning product announcement, Apple released an update to its line of aluminum-clad iMac consumer desktops. The 20-inch and 24-inch flat-panel all-in-one computers now sport faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, replacing the previous slate of 2.0, 2.4, and 2.8 GHz processors with 2.4 and 2.66 GHz options in the 20-inch form factor, and 2.8 and 3.06 GHz processors in the 24-inch units (see "Apple Releases New Aluminum iMacs, Refreshes Mac mini," 2007-08-13).

The iMacs can . . . Read more

Synopsys officially rolls out a silicon core for PCI Express 2.0 Monday (April 28), claiming the 5 GHz technology is beginning to get attention from designers. The news comes at a time when experts say the industry is moving at a relatively slow pace down the Express road map.

Synopsys is supplying silicon intellectual property for the physical layer, controller and verification portions of the Express 2.0 spec.

"Other companies tend to have one or two of the components but not all three," . . . Read more

2 of 2