I. Video A. ATI Crossfire Technology Detailed 1. http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=689&cid=2 2. Technology really competitive, MSRP competitive 3. Better AA, multiple modes of composite construction (tile, split screen, and alternate frame) B. MSI releases dual 6800 Ultra 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050531/computex_day1-15.html#dual_geforce_6800_ultra 2. Dual cards becoming commonplace? 3. SLI connector spotted, Quad 6800 now possible? C. MSI creates first dual bus interface graphics card 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050531/computex_day1-16.html 2. WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN DONE BEFORE?!?! 3. MSI is the bomb. D. Gigabyte is crazy as fuck, plans to release Quad SLI motherboard 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050526_155843.html 2. http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005May/bch20050527030675.htm 3. Intel Socket 775 only?! GHEYZ0R 4. Quad SLI (MSI, Gigabyte, etc) the future? Is this a good thing, piling CPU and GPU cores all over each other? II. Processors A. Via in the market? 1. http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005May/bch20050527030676.htm 2. C7 runs at up to 2Ghz, 800mhz FSB 3. Real competition for AMD/Intel? The only benchmarks right now are comparitive "performance per watt" so probably not B. Intel finally nails P4 in coffin 1. http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20050531/computex_day1-11.html 2. Good riddance C. Zalman loses its collective mind 1. http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMjE3 2. Is this heatsink a joke? D. New supercomputer can reqire itself 1. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7448 2. Um, why is this being done without the three laws of robotics? 3. Whole system would be really badass, if the software that is supposed to run it actually existed. E. Monomolecular transistors are all up in this 1. http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=2fe32839-9b70-4908-967b-5c6610e2ff2a 2. Perhaps the grey goo is coming after all... F. Transmeta sells Crusoe/Efficeon to Hong Kong-based CultureCom 1. http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jun/bch20050603030762.htm 2. Selling 130 nm but not 90 nm? WTF? 3. Even though nobody cares about Transmeta in the West, will this be important to the mainland China market? G. Intel includes DRM features in its dual cores 1. http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915 2. Another reason not to buy Intel 3. No details on what these features are or how they work "for security reasons" 4. UPDATE: Never trust rumormongering British, Intel denies any special DRM 5. http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050603_132207.html III. I'm the law, and you can't beat the law! A. Congress tells MPAA, FCC to go fuck themselves 1. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/01/mpaa_wont_get_broadc.html 2. Whoa. B. Rodi better than bittorrent? 1. http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/01/1252232.shtml?tid=230 2. Trace this bitches C. Recycling old hardware 1. Maine has made it the responsibility of manufacturers to handle any costs for recycling hardware 2. This is wrong, and is part of a dangerous trend in inverting the ethics of responsibility 3. It also doesn't take any burden off of the consumers, as any costs the manufacturer has to bear will be added to purchase price D. Anonymous library cards 1. http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun05/Ostrowsky.shtml 2. It's kind of amusing and cute to see people trying to pretend that privacy isn't dead and buried IV. Interface A. Morse code pwnz0rz SMS 1. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/05/video_morse_cod.html 2. lol, I should have kept up my morse knowledge B. Wolf's Claw keyboard has badass gamer keys on left 1. http://www.wolfclaw.com.sg/product.php# 2. Kind of ghey that it has redundant keys instead of numberpad keys C. Wireless mouse via RFID 1. http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/17/1431200&tid=125 2. I wish the review would talk about its gaming viability and response time vs. other mice V. Misc A. Earthlink to offer cheap as free PCs in exchange for dialup contracts 1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/27/2019256&tid=95&tid=137&tid=106 2. OS will be Xandros lunix 3. May be a boon to the poor, but otherwise irrelevant B.