Tuesday, February 16

An auction of Hayes assets is receiving little attention. Attendees were required to sign a confidentiality statement. (Thanks, Dana Baggett.)

IBM has chosen Interphase to supply remote access server technology for the Options by IBM program.

Computer Currents looks at the current crop of sub-$800 PCs: monitors included.

History file: where my browser has been lately

Vintage-Mustange.com, a comprehensive site for '65-73 Ford Mustangs.

Colorado Firstrax' Backcountry Ski Camping articles.

PC Magazine review of 366 MHz PII laptops.

I bought my first house last month, and I've had a tough time deciding what upgrades to make. Enter Remodeling Online. Their Cost vs. Value Report examines how much major home improvements typically cost, and how much you can expect to recoup when you sell your home. Figures are given for 60 cities, and averages are given for each region of the U.S.

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Friday, February 19

Free ISPs are gaining popularity in the United Kingdom, and Virgin founder Richard Branson is getting in on the act. Wired explains why free ISPs in the United Kingdom can easily make money.

This week Intel unveiled the Pentium III. The new chip will which is scheduled to ship February 26 at speeds of 450 and 500 MHz. Intel will ship a 550 MHz part in the middle of the second quarter. Gamespot looks at the prospects for PIII-optimized games that take advantage of the new chip's 3D instruction set.

Privacy advocates are concerned because each chip has a unique serial number - intended to enhance electronic commerce - that could be used to track user's online habits. Last month Intel announced that it would offer a patch to allow customers to disable the ID number, though it will be on by default.

IBM and RedHat inked a deal to ship Linux on select IBM ThinkPads, Netfinity servers, and IntelliStations.

Monday was Microsoft Refund Day, an event planned by the Linux community to demand refunds for unused copies of Windows.

Arthur LaFlamme writes:

I have found an init string for the LT Winmodem. It seems to work with all LT's I have tried it with 10 different models and it gives me 53333 every time.

AT&FX&C1&D2S95=1s11=50

Broadband technology

BellSouth and 3Com are joining together to offer ADSL in the Southeastern U.S.

Point-Topic has issued a major new study of DSL.

Motorola reports global shipments of 500,000 cable modems, half of which were shipped in the last six months. Dataquest estimates total 1998 cable modem shipments at 750,000 worldwide.

InternetWorld looks at some bottlenecks to Internet performance that plague all modem technologies.

Intel is in talks with Libit Signal Processing Ltd to develop host-based cable modems.

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