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VR-Zone has managed to enable Hyper-Threading on P4 2.4BGhz just one day before the launch of the P4 3.06Ghz HT CPU.

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ExtremeTech's Jim Louderback sits down and talks with Bill McEwen, the CEO and President of Amiga, Inc., about the wheres and wherefores and whithers of the long-loved but marginalized platform.

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Vendors are readying products to support RDMA over TCP/IP, a fledgling networking technology wending its way through standards bodies promising faster data transfers with less processor power.

Remote direct memory addressing over IP lets hardware devices share data directly among their respective memory chips, easing CPUs' processing burden. Specifically, information being passed does not require CPU processing. The process is similar to that of the Virtual Interface and InfiniBand technologies-which also use remote addressing. But this new wave of RDMA takes remote addressing over IP, which is cheaper and less complex, developers said.

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Michael Capellas is quitting the No. 2 post at Hewlett-Packard Co., six months after helping complete the historic merger between HP and his former company, Compaq Computer Corp.

In a statement released today, HP said Capellas was stepping down as president-and also will leave the company's board of directors-to pursue other opportunities.

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Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced its fastest-yet processor designed for laptop computers as the company seeks to take a larger piece of one of the more profitable parts of the personal computer industry.

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The Electronic Privacy Information Center is launching a counterattack against Hollywood's efforts to crack down on student file swapping.

The privacy advocacy group is sending letters to presidents of colleges across the country, asking them to think before they install monitoring tools on university networks.

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Last week, Lance Ulanoff, senior executive producer of PCMag.com, posted a note on the site's Discussions page, asking readers when the flat-panel LCD would finally replace the tried-and-true CRT monitor.

Flat panels have gotten bigger and cheaper (notwithstanding the $1,000-plus, 19-inch Princeton LCD we recently reviewed) and they're beginning to pop up like dandelions on desktops everywhere," Ulanoff wrote. "Are you seeing the same thing? Is your company replacing old CRTs with LCDs? Let's try to predict the date that we will officially declare the CRT deceased."
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A security researcher asked a federal judge Wednesday to let a challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act continue.

Attorneys for Ben Edelman, who specializes in investigating flaws in blocking software, filed a 26-page document arguing that his work is imperiled by legal threats from N2H2, a filtering company based in Seattle.

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