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[H]ardNews - Blair Ed.
Really Really MMOG:
The game, called Rekonstruction, is not scheduled for commercial release until autumn 2004. But some of the challenges involved with building it will be revealed at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in Santa Clara, California.
Really Really Good Ethernet:
Many RDMA Consortium members believe the technology when applied to TCP/IP will make Ethernet the most compelling of multiple emerging interconnects to link servers, switches and storage devices in future data centers.
DIE SPAMMER DIE:
One tactic is to don the spam invisibility cloak. Spammers used to depend on harvested e-mail addresses, which meant spam was sent exclusively to people whose names were gleaned from a mailing list or a Web site or via Usenet. Not so anymore. Spammers are utilizing dictionary attacks to send spam to anyone at a given domain name .
It has been a light spam day here, as my personal box only got 496 spams in the last 18 hours.
Fight for Your Right:
Microsoft hasn't been too friendly toward those efforts. Last fall, it shut down a maker of "mod chips" -- circuitry that can be soldered onto the motherboard of the Xbox to make the machine run Linux. The letter politely demanded that Microsoft stop "restricting choice" -- and rid itself of the mod market to boot -- by publishing the code required to run unapproved programs without modifications to the Xbox.
Broadband Sucks?
Don't believe all you've heard about the end of the broadband boom. Two studies released this week show that interest in broadband connections is climbing, and subscriptions to high-speed services are on the rise. But while we're still shelling out for high-speed connections, the actual speed those services provide may vary greatly.