[H]ardNews 9th Edition

MS Wants to Delay Remedies

The boys in Redmond are in a legal battle with the European Union concerning a Commission's penalty of forcing it to reveal secrets of their server software to their competitors. Apparently they feel that it will put them at a disadvantage in the long run.

"This is the first time in competitive history that a company has been ordered to draw up a description of secret technology and deliver it to its competitors," Ian Forrester, the lawyer for Microsoft, said in an argument before the Court of First Instance.

Falcon Northwest Selects BFG

Well, it looks like Nvidia got an OEM win today, with news that Falcon-Northwest has selected BFG for their 6800 series of PCI-Express graphics solutions.

"Our customers expect us to choose the best graphics technology in our PCI Express based systems," said Kelt Reeves, president of Falcon Northwest Computers. "As one of our Falcon Select vendors, BFG Technologies has an amazing track record of speed and reliability.

FutureMark 3DMark05 Glance

So FutureMark released their latest version of 3Dmark yesterday, and we we're all clamoring to get impressions of it. Well, ipKonfig takes a look at this latest release and weighs in with their thoughts.

The end results will have to wait in our opinions as 3DMark04 gave us a feeling of deception that will take some time to heal. But as we've also mentioned, any pre-fabbed benchmarking tool should be taking with a grain-of-salt and only used as a quick-n-dirty comparison.

Introduction to Linux

So you've thought about making the switch away from Windows for some time, but haven't taken the plunge yet. Well, you can take a look at Nordic Hardware's Introduction to Linux and maybe get a better grasp on it.

This article is intended as a straight-forward, easy to use guide to get you up and running with your first Linux Distribution, educate you about the History of GNU/Linux, and to help increase what I call “Linux awareness”.

Magnetocaloric Effect

Nathan W sends word on a number of different articles detailing the Magnetocaloric Effect. What does this have to do with our little corner of the personal computer and technology world you ask?

In general, the term "magnetocaloric effect" (thermomagnetic effect) refers to a reversible change of temperature resulting from a change in the magnetization of a ferromagnetic or paramagnetic substance.

Using this, we could achieve better cooling on our systems, of course.