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What's New Index...chronological sorted

• May 2012
  
  • May 2012
    
• April 2011
  
  • April 2011
    
• July 2010
  
  • July 2010
    
• Sept 2009
  
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• Sept 2008
  
  • Sept 2008
    
• 2007
  
  In hindsight...some random thought 7 years hence:
  • The year of transition back to AMD to vest stock options. Options earned one of the ways for engineers to strike the metal when it is hot. The cumulative result of sustained performance. The decision to "cash in" and leave a promising and healthily established curriculum. The culture of the company had now been "pushed forward" to the yourng steeds chomping at the bit: Were they ready for being the parent fish in a pond with new waters flowing in? You might say there were new species introduced that clouded the future by sacrificing the hatchlings.
  • The process group shifted tasks from the strategic back porting of insight and experience to one of reliance on the foundry. Complexity with physical processes was dealt with by "following" instead of embracing/mastering it. The job shifted to one of version control...and the lastest info is the greatest info.
  • Concept of a "unmanufacturable process" and lack of flow. Especially as to how these pertained to DRC and physical proximity effects.
  • Am I doing everything to attain the dream of having a family of children. Biweekly use of the health system over six months.
• Jan-Oct 2006
  
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• April-Nov 2005
  
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• Jan-Dec 2002
  
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• July-Dec 2001
  
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• Jan-June 2001
  
  • January 2001
    The move away from Super 7 mainboards, the 7062 Radeon Driver Update, Rage3D moves to a new server, Radeon maintains the 2D quality, Not all via chipsets are the same...get the CE version, Abit KA7/KX133 chipset driving strength setting for AGP4x, www.glsetup.com, translating from Chinese to English, Four Yorkshire men and the full Monty, Better 2D and the GCOOPTION_Sloweredge quality option.
  • February 2001
    @3D resurfaces in 2001, Radeon 7041/7072/7075 drivers, Radeon quality versus MX shortcomings, Radeon LE debuts, Radeon Ark Demo and the Tome, recent reviews on Radeon, McGowans's AVI page, Cheap memory, Radeon mathematically correct, Radeon VE debuts with dual monitor support, Beyond Framerate in graphics cards, and GameCube to graphics segmentation.
  • March 2001
    Linux and Radeon, Linux on a PDA, and DVI on the VE
  • April 2001
    Radeon and 3Dmark 2001, DirectShow, and Affordable digital cameras, Soundblaster Live problems, and Fuji's excellent Finepix MX-1300 digital camera,
  • May 2001
    Canoeing on the Rouge, ATI boss Dave Orton speaks, Nvidia share selloff, more Radeon VE success...room for the little versatile guy, digital cameras support for the Finepix MX-1300, and more on the Soundblaster Live/graphic card issue.
  • June 2001
    Anandtech's VE dual display review, CNET awards VE the editor's choice, Ride for Heart, Elora Gorge,

• October-December 2000
  
  • October 2000
    Maximum PC gives Radeon a kick ass rating, Joel sees the finest 2D and 3D, Xfree86 modeline calculator, Samsung 753DF is a steal, Radeon's balanced design and a host of reviews, unbalanced computer/CPU systems, linux in your appliances, Multimedia gets its due at Anandtech, adult bias develops early, and balanced designs get a balanced review with Sharky's budget review.
  • November 2000
    Importance of stable framerates, 3D accuracy and IEEE-754 on the Radeon, Win2K and stability/speed with games,Gimme Radeon means out of the box and running, KX-133 chipset shortcomings in early revisions, Canada's national debt, some thoughts on DX8, Hewlett-Packard quality at $15, Radeon self-service help and great forum design, Radeon's price point, Radeon satisfaction, and Maximum PC's World best budget video card goes to Radeon.
  • December 2000
    Convergence of media from DVD and video and ATI's role, developer's on DX8, Unreal texture thrashing, the compactness of text, DVI connector to replace DB-15 videon connector, video drivers and the industry, game patches and bliss, Z-buffer compression/workarounds and speed, Radeon SDR gets PC Mag's editor choice award for year 2000, texture compression losses,
• July-September 2000
  
  • July 2000
    Angela's Ashes, Summer canoeing, summer projects and the release of the Radeon with the usual "suspect" previews, real Radeon reviews and the raves, reveiw pre-commentary,
  • August 2000
    A review of ATI sites, 2D Radeon quality is head and shoulders above the rest, and GLX and the Radeon tidbit.
  • September 2000
    More 2D evangelism from Radeon, David Orton...the future is bright, X-Box another neat MS concept like MSX, Radeon in Mac Cube, HP Calculator for the masses, the fallacy behind 10% growth, and the first U.K. Radeon specific site.
• January-June 2000
  
  • Jan 2000
    Bluetooth and the smart home, Rage128 support under Linux, Angelfire acquire by Lycos, E.F. Schumacher smaller/better world, common chinese medicine, 3 button mouse and Linux, High-end walkie talkies and the Family Radio Service, High-end ribbon speakers by Newform of Canada, Via's Slot-1 motherboards compatible with Pentium Chipsets, Linux and AMD K6-III are performance sleepers, Y2K problems with Linux's date, HDTV and ATI, and read Audio Ideas.
  • Feb 2000
    Magnetic tape to replace film, Universal support of graphics cards in Linux via the Framebuffer, Updated Rage128 drivers, 3D support under Linux via GLX, junk,
  • March 2000
    ATI adopts 0.18um technology, ATI at the Games Developer's Conference to talk about the next "Radeon" generation.
  • April 2000
    Running Rage128 under SVGA server of Xfree86 3.3.6, recycling computer, The Rage Fury one year later gets the thumbs up, Rage128 and personal computer upgrades, some thoughts on Columbine and humanity, TV-in/out under Linux via the ATI Theatre Chip, GATOS overlay software, Diskless computer versus X-box, Radeon is released on the world, Ananova is a computer generated news personality,
  • May 2000
    No news...on holiday
  • June 2000
    ATI doing RF research, Radeon receives "most innovative product" award
• October-December 1999
  
  • October 1999
    Rage Theatre summary, ATI and extreme 3D via hardware parallelism, ATI crowned Graphics card Channel Champion, Autumn Hikes in Ontario, Compact Footprint Desktop PC, Rage Fury Pro reviews, Enough 3D and hardcore gaming, DVD Primer and Links, Thoughts on Hardware transfrom and lighting, ATI hardware opened up more to Linux, and another fall walk in the Thomsom woods.
  • November 1999
    A quick summary of hardware development and cash flow in fiscal 1999, ISP hardware upgrade and the use of PAP authentication sorted, HDTV and similarly to RGB, and can you believe... ATI 3D support in Linux.
  • December 1999
    More DVD learning/reference links, A history of audio turntables, Rage HDTV, and Linuxmania everywhere.
• Aug-Sept 1999
  
  • August 1999
    Linux is everywhere on the front pages of major publications, the Rage 128 Pro pregnancy announced, Mandrake Linux...a bargain that include Partition Magic for you Win95 centric types who want to preserve your existing Win95 files/setup, Flat Panel Dispaly not just in Melrose Place and product placements, Pentium 233MX for $70(Canadian), QuakeCon runs on Rage Fury Pro, ATI and Transmeta(company that Linus Torvalds) resurrect the Amiga, TMDS and the future of flatpanel displays, local area network for trains and the Mountain wedding, www.ati.com is now property of ATI, ATI and the stock market...its is all about managing technology delivery and being profitable on a consistent basis,
  • September 1999
    Tina's battle with cancer ends, Rage 128 Linux drivers now support accelerated modes, Rage 128 Pro preview, TV-tuner card support under Linux, ATI's role in the success of OpenGL across multiple platforms, comment about watching movies in fast forward and time demos, ATI lends a hand in setting graphics performance records in the laptop, BYTE and the passing of repsonsible computer journalism,
• May-July 1999
  
  • May 1999
    Running the Rage 128 in VESA frame buffer mode footnote, Cirrus Logic suit is without merit, Philosophy Patents, the marketing of cars...one expensive size to fit all, and the Design Automation Conference.
  • June 1999
    Not all AGP is created equal once it is enabled, month long Internet sabbatical in May, an ugly virus, VESAFB to the rescue for new chipsets under Linux, the continuous evolution of Linux graphics, Athold Murray and the training of great hockey players, Tom and the Quake3 benchmark fiasco and some advice, Id on hardware compatability, 3DGaming (personally) chooses Rage 128, the removal of a link to a certain graphics site, Common Win95 install workarounds from Bill, the reliability of graphics chip report mined from the web, Fury testimonials 3 months after production release in April, New ATI Research centre, updated review list
  • July 1999
    Holidays for a month in the east and west coast mountains...absoulutely fab despite the bad planning and some chance meetings with accidents and bears.
• April 1999
  The curse of AGP on Super-7 is being addressed, the war in Kosovo and old men who do not grow up, Part II of Phil's review, Linux becoming a mainstream COMPAQ offering, Video 4 Linux, the video graphics year in hindsight, more Rage 128 testimonials, DVD revolution, and the updated 6076 driver.
• March 1999
  Physical 2D quality relating to sharp text on the Rage Fury, Conflicts and stuttering/dropped frames with audio drivers, Rage Fury appears in Retail a month early on Mar 1/99, My next car: Suzuki Vitara, PCI bad-citizen syndrome, Final reviews on Retail Fury, ALI/Fury woes and BIOS workarounds, A working professional's take on the Rage 128 under NT, the ingredients of a useful review and the Fury, Fury takes on TNT2...no problemo, Fury is a mainstream solution that does not depend on overclocked memories non-production memory parts, Linux X11 for Rage 128, Useful features on new generation video cards besides 3D peformance, and the Rage Fury is still the fastest shipping graphics card for the month of March.
• February 1999
  Rage 128 is best hardware investment with minimum risk, some thoughts on texture compression, VooDoo1,2, and 3 image quality is severely flawed, Ritualistic Fury review, what is texture mapping and relation to bump mapping, Linux 3D hardware development, Freak's Fury review on Soyo MP3 motherboard and on Celeron based board, ATI Invasion site resurfaces as ATI World, First Rage 128GL products surface in Euroupe on February 10'99, lack of compatability tests for video cards, Single Floppy Linux...now you can test your next purchase at the store, Voodoonation moves to www.fullon3d.com and offers first Rage Magnum review, King of the Hill...Fury scores highest Winbench numbers ever of 743 at www.mercury.com, MuLinux is another single floppy linux supporting a GUI interface, Quake 3 Arena runs best on Rage 128 chipsets, heatsink added to production Fury boards, Great image sharpness, color and acuity on Rage Fury, VooDoo3 and bad image quality and questionalbe reliability.
• January 1999
  Rage 128 on the Mac, Rage Fury reviews on 4 different Socket7/Super 7 boards, neutral hardware reviews, AGP DIME not enabled in Fury Previews, Shopping for a Super7 motherboard and the Microstar MS-5184, Linux running 3 games of DOOM and 2 games of Quake in separate windows, Rage Fury stress test at 150 degrees C, Rage Fury shipping in February/March 99, UnReal development targeting Rage Pro, Rage Dawining 3D Demo is a visual delight on Rage Fury, Let it snow...let it snow, Brian Hook of ID on Rage Fury, Progressive JPEG, Modem upgrading to 28.8K, Z-buffering inuendo by Tom on Rage Fury, Celeron running Rage Fury review, 3Dfx is one frame faster, The Dali Lama and the Webmistress meet, Running RagePro and UnReal, Tom's Pabst's Rage Fury issues gone, ATI DVD on RagePro beats TNT, HTML browser errors, Digital editing of Photographs with GIMP.

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• December 98
  ATI centric site maitenance, Bruce Cockburn...musical artist, 16 vs 32 bit rendering, ATI LT-pro latestst generation laptops run Linux, Rage 128 reviews everywhere, Why Vsync, boiling water aint that hot, Update to NAD 3020 modification, Even hardware gods are human, Ricky Lee Jones info, Epson PhotoPC 550 camera, Rage 128 significantly better, Rage 128 and OpenGL performance, LOD dithering is not Trilinear filtering, Heat vs Temperature, Iraq anyone ?, ATI and the phantom heat issues, Alan Dang's comprehensive Rage 128 review, The Dancing Baby, Professional OpenGL page, Rage 128 review at VooDoo site,
• November 98 :
  Linux on StrongArm/Corel CPU, Linux and 3D/GLX support, Rage 128 and Multimedia/HDTV/IDCT, ATI Conspiracy, Rage 128 Previews, Heatsinks, Socket 370, Comdex and Unreal on the Rage 128, V3 Hype at Comdex, Vsync-ON for quality, Rage Pro Register release for Linux multimedia development, Linux takes COMDEX by storm, Linux packaged on Major OEM platforms by Dell/Gateway/Compaq, Rage Pro forever, Cheating on Winbench by TNT and i740, Comdex 98 in pictures, Low cost Rage Pro XL card review, and modifications to the integrated amplfier classic NAD 3020.
• September/October 98:
• September 98 News...Trangia noiseless camping stove, Lonsdale performance drive, Co-development of drivers, chipsets, game code for performance, Maritime vacation, Legality of dumping, Rage 128 show, Home-made camping stoves, Zero Margin overlocking of competitor chipsets, AGP incompatability of video chipsets, Concept of a workstation class 90's multimedia chipset and Rage 128, and Genlocking on the Rage 128. Busy month !
• October 98 News...My new LX-5 high end $180 speakers and mods, 4th generation chipsets not working on Socket 7 motherboards and overheating, thoughs about Intel's slot-1 only stragegy for next generation chips, Hello Mom, Machine translation of Rage 128 reviews, Chromatics joins ATI, Ferrari-syndrome in 3D chipsets, 2nd generation Rage Theatre TV-in/TV-out chip, First HDTV broadcast, Happy days are here again, and a comparison of 16 bit and 32 bit images.
• July/August...Canada Day, 2411 Drivers released (Version 5.2) for Rage Pro with better games performance, 2411 Final Reality benchmark comparison, Acer AP5T board,comments about GIMP application, Refresh rate/frame rate interaction, Acer "Super 7" board...the AX59 Pro, Internet logos from ATI, and patent mentality.

August news covers internet addiction, ATI patent suit and the Katadyn water filter.

• May/June 98

...ATI Ball hockey, Win95 5.20 driver release (2411), 1036 Quake-only OpenGL driver, DFP(Digital Flat Panel), Neil Young's Decade, Honda Civic long term ownership, and Grand Canyon visit

• April 98 ...4th generation cards required this year? Beta-OpenGL summary, End User Reviews, why Linux ?, New Linux Links
• March 98 ...ATI Beta2 OpenGL, LinuxFocus, Rage Pro Turbo driver, Mercury Research Winbench98 summary
• February 98 ...Win95 Opera browser, Linux applications
• January 98 ...Final Reality 3D benchmark, X11 for Rage Pro AGP cards
• 1997 News