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Rauch Medien releases the first Dual AMD Athlon 1U

Author: JT Smith

An anonymous reader writes: “Rauch Medien (http://www.rauchmedien.com)
is proud to announce the release of the Prolinium 1850 server system. The
Prolinium 1850 is the first 1U system based on the AMD 760MP chipset for dual
AMD Athlon capability. It features the capability of 225 GB of storage, Dual
1.33 GHz+ AMD Athlon processors, 3 GB DDR ECC Ram, and remote administration
with web based control panel. All of this fits in a standard 19″ 1U
rack-mount chassis.

760MP Power

The Prolinium 1850 features the powerful AMD 760MP chipset. The Prolinium
1850 allows you to put more AMD processor per box than any other 1U before.
Using a special air channeling and heatsink system we are able to put dual 1.33
GHz+ AMD Athlon processors in a 1U chassis with up to 225 GB RAID array and 3 GB
of ECC DDD RAM. This allows the user to configure a system approaching
performance levels unheard of before. The Prolinium 1850 also includes our
standard server features like remote administration with web based control panel
and wide OS support with compatibility with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux kernel
v2.2 or v2.4 based distributions.

Features

The Prolinium 1850 features easy setup and management. It simply plugs in and
features an easy to use web interface to aid in the installation. In addition,
administration can be performed remotely with its built-in web-based control
panel. Tasks such as setting up new servers, and services can all be performed
via this web-based control. Email alerts can also be setup to allow the
administrator to be alerted on service failure via email. In addition it allows
you to customize it with up to 225 GB RAID array, two hot-swap SCA SCSI bays
(optional 3rd SCA bay available), one or two 1.33 GHz+ Athlon
processors, and up to 3 GB ECC DDR RAM.

Availability

The Rauch Medien Prlinium 1850 Server is available now, and can be ordered on
our web-site at http://www.rauchmedien.com.
It comes in a sleek black 1U rack-mount chassis and prices start at $2,384 (USD).

About Rauch Medien

Rauch Medien is based out of New York, USA, and produces various business and
consumer hardware and software. Rauch Medien also maintains a computer tech site
called OSFAQ.com (http://www.osfaq.com).

News Release
For Immediate Release
For More Info Contact
Robert Lodato
Sales & Marketing
Rauch Medien
sales@rauchmedien.com

AMD launches companion chips

Author: JT Smith

CNET: “Hoping that two Athlons prove better than one, Advanced Micro Devices
on Tuesday launched chips that will allow high-end computers to use two of AMD’s flagship
processors simultaneously.”

Category:

  • Unix

Sega and Sony to link consoles via Internet

Author: JT Smith

The Standard: “Japanese game maker Sega
Corp and Sony Corp’s game unit plan to enable
users of their consoles to play video games via
the Internet.”

Napster near deal with major labels

Author: JT Smith

Reuters at Yahoo: “Napster is close to a deal to license music from three of the world’s major recording companies who are currently involved in a landmark copyright lawsuit to shut the company’s existing version of its song-swap service down, sources familiar with the situation said.”

NetWare bug is ‘not in real world’

Author: JT Smith

The Register: “Novell has downplayed the significance of a NetWare 5.x bug which could result in
an admin password being left in plain text on a server. Crackers, it says, would not
be able to access the relevant file in the first place.”

Category:

  • Linux

AOL risks losing out on Windows XP

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET: “AOL Time Warner may miss the chance to bundle its online service software with Windows
XP, according to sources close to negotiations between the media giant and Microsoft.

Each company has different reasons for wanting to see the AOL software ship with Windows XP,
as it did with earlier versions of the operating system. But one source close to the negotiations
described the positions as “far apart” and warned that “time is running out.”

Developer interest in Bluetooth decays

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET: “With the first bits of Bluetooth hardware trickling to market, proponents of the much-heralded
short-range wireless protocol are turning their attention to software developers for much-needed
application support.

But while Bluetooth supporters maintain wooing the developers is vital to the technology’s
success, some in the development community say they’ve wearied of waiting for the technology
and are concentrating on other wireless protocols.”

Just call it ‘GNU/Linux’, insists Sun founder

Author: JT Smith

The Register: “Richard Stallman’s singular crusade to have Linux christened GNU/Linux got praise
from an unexpected quarter yesterday.

Sun Microsystem’s chief scientist and co-founder John Gage credited RMS with
creating the free software that made the Linux phenomenon possible, describing it
as a fifteen-year sleeper hit.”

Category:

  • Linux

Dot-com layoffs raise threat of ‘hacking’

Author: JT Smith

NandoTimes: “When someone broke into Slip.net’s computer system, altered customer
accounts and deleted crucial databases, the Internet service provider didn’t have to look far to find the attacker.

It wasn’t a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn’t a scrawny whiz kid hacking away for a challenge in his dark
bedroom.

It was Nicholas Middleton, a former computer administrator for Slip.net, who had been unhappy at the San Francisco company and
recently quit. Middleton fought the resulting criminal charges on a legal technicality but lost and got three years’ probation.”

Category:

  • Linux

Net shakeout more sweeping than expected

Author: JT Smith

CNET: “Net surfers spend about 60 percent of their time online using products and services owned
by just 14 companies, down from 110 companies merely two years ago, according to a
report released Monday.

As further evidence of the rapid consolidation in the Net sector, the report by Jupiter Media
Metrix also found that 50 percent of Internet usage is spent on sites and services owned by just
four companies: AOL Time Warner, Microsoft, Yahoo and Napster.”