VIA Launches "Get the Girls into the Game" Contest with Free Trip to Sweden

Subject: General Tech | August 18, 2006 - 11:16 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Taipei, Taiwan, 18^th August 2006 - VIA Technologies, Inc.,
leading supplier of high definition PC silicon for the gaming market,
together with VIA Chrome Ambassadors the girlz 0f destruction, today
announced an exciting new contest: "Get the Girls into the Game," with
the winning girl spending a weekend at the Home of Chrome in Sweden
with a friend, learning how to play PC games like a professional while
visiting beautiful Stockholm. 

Intro to virtualization, add Linux to a Windows machine

Subject: General Tech | August 17, 2006 - 11:28 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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XYZ computers has started practicing safer browsing, without having to fully install Linux on their Windows box, or play with dual booting. Thanks to virtualization, they can have the security that comes from browsing on a much less commonly attacked OS.  Check out Player, the free version of VMWare's Workstation.

What once was old becomes new again

Subject: General Tech | August 16, 2006 - 06:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you have heard music, live or recorded, through an old tube amp, then motherboards.org review of the Cooler Master Musketeer III Tube Amp will interest you.  If you haven't heard music through a tube amp, you're missing out.  By placing the vacuum tube in the front panel, the heat produced shouldn't be too much of a problem, as it was on a particular motherboard released not too long ago (the AOpen AX4GE Tube-G).

Good Zombie bashing fun

Subject: General Tech | August 16, 2006 - 12:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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[H]ard|OCP really likes Dead Rising for the XBOX 360.  The open playing style allows you to go almost anywhere, assuming the zombies don't eat you.  Everything can be used as a weapon, from bowling balls to heated cooking oil, and there are other ways to amuse yourself, like playing dressup with a live zombie.  There is a lot more to the game, go check out the review.

In the case of Slashdot versus Bigfoot, gD Hardware presiding

Subject: General Tech | August 16, 2006 - 12:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The announced Killer NIC coming from Bigfoot, guaranteed to reduce lag for online gaming seems to have a bit of FUD surrounding it.  gD Hardware has compiled an article featuring the main questions Slashdot members, and Bigfoot's responses.  Head over to get a clearer idea of what this NIC is going to do.

Performing today in the Forum

Subject: General Tech | August 15, 2006 - 06:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Don't think that PCPerspective is just the front page.  If you haven't visited the forums, or have just not been visiting as much as you used to, you are missing out.  Get advice to help you decide between a Pentium D or an AMD X2.  Perhaps an older system's RAM isn't working quite right, and you can't figure it out.  If you are looking to blow up some friends online, the Fragging Frogs are always

The ultimate mousing surface?

Subject: General Tech | August 15, 2006 - 06:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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A True Review tries out the SteelPad 5L, a mousepad with many layers.  Hard plastic, foam, rubber and cloth are all combined in an attemy to give you the accuracy benefits of a hard surface, and the comfort of a soft pad.  Find out if they can make it all come together, or if it makes as good a mouse pad as 5 layer dip would.

BFG TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES MILESTONE FOR ITS SUPPORTED GAMING COMMUNITY

Subject: General Tech | August 15, 2006 - 12:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Lake Forest, IL — (August 15th, 2006) — BFG Technologies®, Inc., the leading North America and European supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards and other PC enthusiast products, announced today that the company has had over 100,000 unique users play on its free to the public gaming servers hosted by Insomnia365 since the company launched the community in December of 2004.

"BFG is a company of gamers building products for PC enthusiasts and gamers throughout North America, Europe, Australia andparts of Asia," said Scott H