She just keeps going and going and going ...

Subject: General Tech | August 30, 2006 - 11:45 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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In the 7th installment of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft makes her appearance on the Xbox360.  [H]ard|OCP takes on the onerous task of playing through the game to make sure the animation and ...er physics standards are up to par.

Waiting for the new wireless standard

Subject: General Tech | August 30, 2006 - 11:35 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The new WiFi standard, 802.11n is having some troubles.  While you can buy "Draft n" routers, they don't work at nearly the speeds they should, as AnandTech found out.  Add to that the fact that there is no guarantee that these draft models will be compliant with the 802.11n standard, once the IEEE gets it hammered out.

I think this might count as masochism

Subject: General Tech | August 29, 2006 - 12:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Vista RC-1 can be yours, if you are one of the first 100,000 people to downlaod it from Microsoft.  Get yours today, and you can be beta-testing Microsoft's newest in no time.  The Inquirer has the link on this page.

Let's hope they stay lazy and pick the easy targets

Subject: General Tech | August 28, 2006 - 11:50 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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There hasn't been a virus that attacks anything but the OS since the Chernobyl worm, almost a decade ago.  According to this story at the Inquirer, there's a proof of concept virus that could directly target AMD processors.  It seems Symantec is busy this past month, first targeting Microsoft and Vista's insecurities, and now AMD.

World's greatest mouse?

Subject: General Tech | August 24, 2006 - 05:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Extremetech tests Logitech's claim of releasing the World's Greatest Mouse, the MX.  Are things like a wheel that can scroll line by line, or be set to free wheel and SmartShift technology the best thing since the 2nd button, or just another way to do waht most mice of today already do?

Blame it on the chipset

Subject: General Tech | August 24, 2006 - 01:25 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The problems with Creative's X-Fi cards are no longer being blamed on DDR Dual Channel setups.  From what NGOHQ found out, Creative is now pointing the finger specifically on long PCI hold-offs that are supposedly unique to nForce4 boards.

Folding on a console

Subject: General Tech | August 24, 2006 - 11:32 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BOINC is assimilating more and more devices to increase it's power.  As The Inquirer talks about here, the Cure@PS3 project will allow people to Fold on their PS3.  There is also a project in the works to allow you to run Folding on ATI GPUs.

A remake of an old classic

Subject: General Tech | August 23, 2006 - 02:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Thanks to Strategy Informer, there is a link to the full remake of King's Quest 3.  Everything is new again in this remake, graphics have been updated, a new music score and no more typing.

"Infamous Adventures is proud to present a Remake of Roberta William's classic 1986 hit, King's Quest

III. This is version 2.0."

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