The utility companies are going to get it again when Windows XP ships - not that they´ve any right to be surprised. Microsoft has made some small revisions to NTFS with WinXP, resulting in the likes of Partition Magic bouncing straight off WinXP installations, splattering error messages around the place.
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Thanks to Anthony for this one:
Microsoft still hasn´t been able to sell its Product Activation protection scheme to its own beta testers, judging by some of the recent traffic in the Windows XP private beta newsgroups. Transcripts obtained by The Register indicate continuing hostility (as you might expect from techies), and even seem to signal that the Microsoft staff minding the newsgroups aren´t altogether enamoured of the system either.
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Sharky Extreme has updated their weekly memory prices.
Puces 3D has posted a comparison (french) between four drivers on the ATI Radeon.
La Rage128Pro est déjà depuis bien longtemps sortie, cependant, Ati trouve toujours le temps de nous fournir des drivers avec des noms le plus compliqués que les autres. Un petit topo s´imposait parmis 4 drivers distincts. J´ai pris les 3050, 3063, 7020 et 7072. On remarque que la plupart de ces drivers sont en version beta sauf pour les deux premiers. On effectuera ces tests avec deux machines totalement différentes. Les Ati sont réputées pour ne pas bien marcher avec les chipsets VIA, mais elles fonctionnent bien mieux avec les chipsets Intel.
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TweakTown has posted the official Press Release from EPoX regarding the EP-4T2A motherboard which is based on the Intel 850 chipset for the Intel Pentium 4 processor.
Hardware Central has posted a new weekly column "Weekly Platform Trends".
CDR-Info has posted the press release of the new Yamaha CDW2200 20/10/40 drive.
Thanks to John Groller for this one:
I´ve read threads about users trying to get Active Directory and Group Policy to work with pre-2000 Windows systems. Microsoft has released a client for pre-win2k systems that apparently lets them use Active Directory and Group Policy. Here´s the link.
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Anthony send words of a new Voodoo5 6000 driver which is 100% fake.
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The-Ctrl-Alt-Del send words that Podien has released new versions of CPUCooL and CPUFSB.
CPUFSB 2.0.0CPUFSB is a small version of CPUCooL. It is for changing the FrontSideBus only. So you have a small tool with only one of the the most important features of CPUCooL. Changing the FrontSideBus enables you to set the frequency of your CPU up to the limits.
New in this version...:
Help completed, minor bug fixes.
DownloadCPUCooL Final 6.0.8As you might know CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It provides Cpu cooling under Win9x/2000/NT, allows FrontSideBus changing, optimizes your memory and CPU.
New in this version...:
Help finished.
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JunkExtreme has posted an article about the product activation feature of Windows XP.
The 75th issue of ZZZ online is out.
FullOn3D has put up an article which explains the workings of a computer keyboard and its limitations in controlling games.
The-Ctrl-Alt-Del has posted WinAmp 3 Alpha5.
TweakTown has added 10 new case mods to their Case Mod Gallery.
The-Ctrl-Alt-Del has posted a new build of PowerStrip 3 Beta.
Daily Radar has posted an interview with Mike Verdu of Legend Entertainment about Unreal II.
Symantec has posted a fix for Norton AntiVirus 2000 or 2001 under Windows XP
Hardware Central has put up a new editorial "The Inside Line: The Emergence of SMT"
ActiveWin has posted the preliminary list of the KB bugs that will be fixed in the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7 which will be released in the 3rd quarter of this year.
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