And also today (23-October-2001)...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Red Hat 7.2 For those who track the many and varied releases of Linux, Red Hat 7. ...more

UPDATED: Microsoft denied patent for FAT filing system

Microsoft has lost the first round in the battle to patent the FAT filing system used in DOS and which formed the basis of the disk management system of early versions of Windows. The US Patent and Trademark Office decided in a review of the patent granted to Microsoft in 1996 that it did not differ sufficiently from the work of other programmers to merit legal protection. The challenge to the 1996 patent was mounted in April of this year by the Public Patent Foundation (Pubpat) after Microsoft began to start collecting royalties on the patent. ...more

And also today (12-July-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Photo Album 5.0 The freeware for organising your photos into electronic albums has been updated. ...more

Dell builds workstations on the new Xeon processors

Dell has introduced two workstations built around Intel's new Xeon processor with Extended Memory 64-bit technology. As a result the Precision 470 [top picture] and 670 [lower picture] offer DDR2 memory up to 16GB, PCI-Express I/O architecture and SATA and SCSI (670 only) interfaces with support for RAID. Processor speeds go up to 3. ...more

Rio launches rival to the iPod shuffle

Rio has hammered out the latest in its Forge range of digital media players, the Forge 512MB. Targetted for sports use, the new Forge stands as its largest capacity flash-memory based player in the range, but this can be boosted still further with CD/MMC cards. A single AAA battery will last for 20 hours, claims the company, and the device boasts a touch-sensitive pad for navigation and an LED backlit display. ...more