Archive for May, 2005

MSI Megabook S250

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idl3mind
on 5/24/2005
in Computers
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I’ve always liked MSI. It’s a name I can trust. My PC mobo at home is an MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR. My next video card will probably be an MSI nVidia-based card. I may have to look into one of these laptops too to replace my ancient Toshiba Tecra 8100.

Solace was to be found from the kind folks at MSI. They’ve arranged for me to borrow one of their Megabook S250s for the duration of my trip (and hopefully some time afterwards!) to Taipei and ShenZhen, and it’s in a different class of portability to my usual Dell. You may have seen the sleek black Megabook S270 on HEXUS’ pages in recent times. Powered by Athlon 64 or Turion, the S270 sports a 12″ widescreen LCD in a tiny chassis, making it one of the smallest 64-bit notebook PCs that you can buy at the time of writing.

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Intel Hyper-Threading A Security Hole

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idl3mind
on 5/24/2005
in Computers and Security
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Hey why just blame Microsoft for security problems, when you have Intel being exposed for its own short comings. On the very day Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was considering using Intel chips, here comes a warning, almost like god was at work. Colin Pervcial, a researcher and BSD guru of sorts, in his case study has proved that “Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediately; single-user systems (i.e., desktop computers) are not affected.”

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Lightsaber Home Uses

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idl3mind
on 5/23/2005
in How To
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Sapphire ‘Blizzard’ Liquid Metal Cooled Graphics Card

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idl3mind
on 5/23/2005
in Computers and Technology
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Someone was thinking…

Sapphire Technology Limited, the supplier of ATI-powered graphics solutions, has recently announced a revolutionary new cooling system on its latest family of high end graphics cards - Liquid Metal Cooling.

Built upon a liquid metal technology that is 65 times more thermally conductive than water and requires no moving parts, the new Blizzard range is equipped with the definitive long term cooling solution for the demanding enthusiast.

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