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A few years ago, a benchmark developer working for Ziff-Davis' benchmark operations group lamented, "In a few years, we won't be able to reliably or repeatably benchmark anything due to the dynamic optimizations of the OS, drivers and apps." It would appear that this prediction is being borne out today. And ironically, it's not entirely a bad thing for consumers.

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Fifteen years after its creation, the storage technology has become essential to data integrity. Should it inspire a similar drive for parity among applications, operating systems and computing hardware?

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Nvidia Corp. has no plans to re-enter the FutureMark graphics benchmark beta program, an Nvidia spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the two sides mended their differences.

On Monday, benchmarking firm FutureMark Corporation reversed course and claimed that visual anomalies produced by Nvidia's Detonator drivers were "application specific optimizations", and not the "cheats" FutureMark had originally claimed.

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NeoWin reports that Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp, has announced to leave Nullsoft in his .plan yesterday.

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3D NewsNET has posted a FutureMark and Nvidia joint statement relating to 3DMark03 and optimizations.

3DMark03 is designed as an un-optimized DirectX test and it provides performance comparisons accordingly. It does not contain manufacturer specific optimized code paths. Because all modifications that change the workload in 3DMark03 are forbidden, we were obliged to update the product to eliminate the effect of optimizations identified in different drivers so that 3DMark03 continued to produce comparable results.
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In a tech arena increasingly flooded with consumer electronics gadgets, storage plays a significant role in how much various devices cost. So it's no surprise that startup Cornice, Inc. is targeting mini, high-capacity storage as the centerpiece of its business. Its first product, the Cornice Storage Element (see the photo) is a half-cubic-inch, 1.5-GB drive that can store about 30 CDs worth of music, or about two hours of MPEG video. The drive is about half the size of a business card. A number of consumer electronics companies have announced products based on the drive.

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Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted a new editorial titled "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 : Sharing, In A Whole New Perspective"

Our intrepid webmaster Ken Ng recently attended the launch of the new Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and instead of being bored to death, he came away mighty impressed! So impressed that he simply had to write an editorial on it!

In his editorial, Ken will reveal some exciting new features in Windows Server 2003 as well as the upcoming Microsoft Office 2003! Don't miss it! Come on in and read his editorial on the new Microsoft Server 2003 - "Sharing, In A Whole New Perspective"
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Storage security isn't a big problem so far, and vendors are brainstorming ways to prevent it from becoming one.

There are no reports or industry statistics of customers actually suffering break-ins into Fibre Channel storage-area networks, where most of the world's mission-critical data is stored, but it's been done in laboratories, a panel of experts sponsored by research firm The451.com Inc. acknowledged here today. Still, there are other reasons for enterprises to pay attention, they said.

"Most of the storage guys don't talk to the security guys at most companies," said Hari Venkatacharya, senior vice president of Mississauga, Ontario, startup Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd. That's why "the discussion has to be elevated above simply SANs," he said.

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The University of Calgary is offering a class in which students will write and test their own viruses--a move that has touched off a wave of criticism within the antivirus community.

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Futuremark, creators of the 3DMark03 benchmark, has accused 3D graphics vendor nVidia of cheating on its 3DMark2003 benchmark. According to Futuremark, when it implemented a trivial change to the benchmark, nVidia's performance dropped by almost 25%, while other vendors' performance stayed within the margin of error. The company identified eight areas where nVidia's driver seems to detect benchmark behavior, and then falsely optimize performance.

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