Monthly Archives: May 2001

Seagate – Cheetah 36XL ST336705LW

Hardware
May 8, 2001

Seagate’s Cheetah 36XL is a 36.7GB, 10,000rpm, Ultra160 SCSI hard disk, and has been designed to provide outstanding performance and high capacity storage for workstations and servers. Does it do exactly what it says on the box? Let’s see. Installing the Cheetah 36XL is little different from installing any other SCSI drive, since jumpers have…

Panasonic – LF-D201E DVD-RAM drive

Hardware
May 6, 2001

There are now two different, semi-established technologies for writing to DVD. The DVD-RAM standard, which allows re-writing, can use single-sided and double-sided media. Once written, media can be write-protected, and 4.7GB discs can be used in compatible DVD-ROM drives (once removed from their cartridge). The second technology, DVD-R, uses only bare discs, and these can…

SuSE – Linux 7.1

Software
May 3, 2001

SuSE has used the new kernel 2.4 as an excuse to bring its Linux offering up to date. The result is a more usable version with fewer glitches and minor annoyances than version 7.0, which it replaces. The kernel is the essence of the Linux operating system, and kernel 2.4 is a major release that…

SMC – EZ Network Kit

Hardware
May 2, 2001

IT journalists tend to be at the forefront of nerdism, and a few years ago it wasn’t uncommon to find a squirm* of hacks standing around discussing who had the largest home network. Servers in the cellar, CAT 5 cabling up the walls and routers under the floorboards. Sad, really, since the only practical use…