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Economic authorities inquiry against Intel has been finished

Geri — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:09:09 +0000

This time, Intel should not pay money, but must do a few action. In the past, Intel was penalised with huge amount of money, because they offered reduced prices for corporations who are banned AMD’s CPU’s from the market. Now Intel must modify some contracts wich will favor to its rivals.

In the recent, Intel has denied some rights from Nvidia and other corporations to create own GPU based on the Atom architecture. Now Intel must manufacture PCI-E based products too in these devices for 6 years. The agreement does not contain the current Nvidia vs Intel lawsuits about Quick Path Interconnect technologies. Intel claims that Nvidia using these patents without correct license.

Intel also forced to extend license treaties with VIA, and authorities has been deleted every limitation from the contracts, which was limited VIA in any activities, including merging with other companies.
Intel also must warn the programmers in the Intel’s C++ Compiler’s read-me, because the compiler can only use the Intel CPU’s properly.

The judgment still not answers a lot of questions. Who waited the x86 technology’s liberation, shall be sad now, because the measures seems only temporally and semblance.

Xfire was bought by Viacom – Good or Bad… Xfire system message below:

bOingball — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:53:30 +0000

Xfire was bought by new owners today. Most of the team that has built Xfire over the last six years is leaving. We enjoyed working for you for the last 127 releases and wish we could stay to create the next 127. Good bye, good luck, and game on. — The Xfire Team

@IvyBean104 has passed away.

bOingball — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:58:24 +0000

IvyBean the worlds oldest Twitter user has passed away 12 hours ago.

http://twitter.com/ivybean104

Edmund’s Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A2 2600 on ebay!

bOingball — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:22:35 +0000

You will find it here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/3Dfx-Voodoo-5-6000-AGP-128MB-Video-Graphics-Card-RARE-/300438358211?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item45f38588c3

Welcome to all the new x-3dfx-ers

bOingball — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:00:46 +0000

I see a lot have registered today so I want to say Welcome and enjoy your stay

The Longsands…

bOingball — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:16:44 +0000

since The Longsands band started to follow me on Twitter they now get free publicity from x-3dfx.com.

Please visit there website – http://thelongsands.co.uk/

‘The best support band we have had, great band, great songs.’
(Bruce Foxton: The Jam)

‘Let Love Rain On You is an anthem, great debut album from a fantastic new band.’
(Steve White: Style Council, Paul Weller)

Download there Biog as a PDF here http://www.thelongsands.co.uk/longsands_biog_2010.pdf

Also…. Windows 2000 Support ends on 13 July 2010

bOingball — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:01:11 +0000

Just a FYI – Windows 2000, Thank you for starting off a nice reliable desktop OS which has evolved to Windows 7

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Lifecycle coming to an end on 13 Jul 2010

bOingball — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:57:41 +0000

Just a note, Windows XP Service Pack 2 support ends on 13-Jul-2010 (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps), If you have-not done already update to Service Pack 3 to keep updates coming for Windows XP.

Since I work in a software support job in real life – It will be nice to force people to update to Service Pack 3…

iPhone 4 announced – Looking good…

bOingball — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:51:36 +0000

Well this afternoon the iPhone 4 was announced and I can say I’m impressed with the look and the new features.

The iMovie HD software looks great and I can imagine when I get one (I’m hoping on launch day) I can use this for holiday vids and just random trip vids.

The Video Calling whilst wows America is old hat here in the UK though, Video calling has been out for ages and still no one uses it (and even less so now since everyone moved to an iPhone and Blackberry)

Also I wonder what iOS4 will bring to the older iPhone 3G(s).

It looks like O2 have this ready for launch in the UK so heres hoping by the end of this month I’ll be updating and twitting from the new phone.

Anyway well done Steve Jobs for launching the new phone – Congrats Apple.

Sentionline007 & Saab-FAN from pcgameshardware.de have modded there Voodoo 5…

bOingball — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:18:58 +0000

I’ve just seen this news story (the post is in german but google translate and the pictures speak for themselfs) – http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,746964/3dfx-Voodoo-5-So-entsteht-ein-1-5-Kilo-Monster-mit-ueberarbeiteter-Kuehlung/Grafikkarte/News/

Looks like he his 180Mhz in the main forum here : http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/luftkuehlung/99779-3dfx-voodoo-5-kuehlung-mal-extrem.html