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Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0
Based on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite well, both on Web-based mail like Gmail and on POP3 accounts. It also supports IMAP for connecting to Exchange and other servers, but we didn’t test that feature. Outlook Express users should…
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More Power to You: nVidia’s nForce 4 SLI is Fastest
SLI. Those three little letters conjure up memories of a bygone era. If you wanted the biggest, baddest 3D performer for gaming, you’d have not one, but two 3dfx Voodoo2 cards in your system. And since Voodoo2 didn’t do 2D, you’d need a third graphics card to run Windows or DOS 2D. That system would…
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Radeon X850 Platinum Edition Review
Well, we certainly saw this coming. For the last several years, every generation of graphics card has followed pretty much the same pattern. About six months after a new graphics chip architecture is released, we get the “kicker” version. This clocked-up variant takes advantage of better manufacturing processes and slight redesigns of the silicon to…
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Fedora Core 3 Caps Linux Distribution
Fedora Core 3, the latest release of Red Hat Inc.’s free, unsupported, bleeding-edge Linux distribution, is stacked with changes that include the way it partitions disks by default and the appearance of the window managers that ship with it. Click here to read the full review of Fedora Core 3. Fedora Core 3, the latest…
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Belkin Gear Is Not Enterprise-Ready
My tests of the $150 Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router and $100 Wireless Notebook Network Card, released last month, bore out some preconceptions I had going into the tests: The products are not yet enterprise-ready—but man, are they fast. Belkin partnered with Airgo Networks to provide the first product I’ve seen based on MIMO (Multiple Input…
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OpenBSD Widens Its Scope
Already well-regarded as a security-focused network operating system, OpenBSD stands to further upgrade its reputation with Version 3.6, which combines enhanced services with wider hardware support. Click here to read the full review of OpenBSD 3.6. Already well-regarded as a security-focused network operating system, OpenBSD stands to further upgrade its reputation with Version 3.6, which…
