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Lindows, based in San Diego, Calif., argued that it has no presence in the state of Washington, where Microsoft filed the suit, the Linux company said in a statement Tuesday.

Lindows said a hearing is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 1 on the company's motion and on Microsoft's motion for a preliminary injunction that would halt use of the Lindows name. Microsoft said the Lindows name could confuse the public, but Lindows argues that Microsoft doesn't pursue legal action against many other companies that employ windows or similar words in their names.

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Sales of PCs and other tech products have limped along since August 2000. But flat-panel monitors--which are built around LCDs (liquid-crystal displays)--are selling at rates that remind tech product managers of PC sales in the mid-1990s.

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Amdmb.com has posted a short, one page article on the release of the NVIDIA nForce 415-D chipset today.

So let's jump right to the point. What is the 415-D chipset? The 415-D chipset is the 420-D chipset without the integrated GeForce 2 graphics core. It has the same TwinBank 128-bit memory architecture as the 420-D as well as the DASP and HyperTransport features. But without the integrated graphics core, NVIDIA can now offer the motherboard manufacturers and the end users a lower-cost motherboard.
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The SQL Server 2000 Virtual Backup Device Interface Specification now contains updated information about the Virtual Backup Device interface. Independent software vendors (ISVs) can use the Virtual Backup Device Application Programming Interface (API) to integrate SQL Server into their products. This API is engineered to provide maximum reliability and performance, and to support the full range of SQL Server backup and restore functionality, including all hot and shadow-copy backup capabilities.

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