Avatar writes: “As promised, Evil3D has revisted the 0.9-6 drivers from NVIDIA with the fix in place. This time around the scores are dramatically different in several key areas. Also detailed in the revisit is how to apply the fix to your system.

You can find the new data right here at evil3d.net.”

Another anonymous reader (or maybe even the same one) clues us to a searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com story: “Although Linux was created in Europe and is used around the globe, it still lacks many language support and multinational capabilities. Find out about the Linux community’s efforts to internationalize the OS in this in-depth SearchEnterpriseLinux.com report.”

The ever faithful anonymous reader tells us about a searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com story featuring
Linuxcare Chief Technology Officer David L. Sifry talking about a possible merger between his Linux technology services company and Linux distributor TurboLinux Inc.

ZDNet reports this gem Wednesday morning: “A range of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) online sites including Microsoft.com, MSN.com,
MSNBC.com, WindowsMedia.com, Hotmail.com, Encarta.com and Carpoint.com. have
been down or disrupted for several hours.” Slashdotters discuss the problems.

AOL is looking to refocus Netscape.com, making it into a hub for “entertainment and editorial content” like Time magazine. This from ZDNET.co.uk and one of its myriad anonymous sources.

ZDNET.co.uk also has the scoop on Intel’s upcoming price cuts. They say that Pentium 4 is coming down by 20%, and the Pentium 3 is dropping 42%. Time to upgrade.

ZDNET.co.uk reports that, at long last, Sun and Microsoft have come to terms on the whole Java thing. Sun is now allowed to terminate the licensing agreement it had with Redmond.

Sensei writes “What is kHTTPd? It’s a webserver that handles only static (file based, non-cgi/php) webpages, and passes all requests for non-static (dynamic) information to a regular userspace-webserver such as Apache or Zeus. This is beneficial because it offloads the delivery of static webpages to the kernel, allowing the userspace-webserver program (such as apache) to do what it does best: deliver dynamic contenet (cgi-bin, php). In a nutshell, it makes your webserver work faster, which means you can serve up more pr0n err, useful files faster…yes…heh heh heh. From Linuxnewbie.org“

TechWeb tells us that Larry is willing to write a check for a cool mil for anyone who tries his database application server and finds that it doesn’t run at least three times faster than the IBM DB2 or the Microsoft SQL servers.

Here’s yet another look at the Open Source Development Lab, from Enterprise Linux Today. The author, John Wolley, says that the lab doesn’t have a hidden agenda against Sun.