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11/23 - The problem is that there have not been many computer games in the past that could take advantage of dual-core CPUs—much less hyper-threading, much less quad-core, which is in the works. Intel has been working to change all that, and in fact a list of game titles "optimized for dual-core" appears at www.intel.com/personal/gaming. So if you are a gamer and you have a dual-core CPU—an AMD Athlon 64 X2 or Intel Pentium D—you might want to check it out.
Do you have your own public Internet address? Probably not. Most of us live behind NAT (network address translation) devices and are assigned non-routable and private IP addresses. With IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), every consumer, every device will get its own public IP address. IPv6 is next generation Internet. This "will make video streaming and remote access to" to computers much easier.
One of the benefactors of the new company formed by Micron and Intel should be Creative, best known for their SoundBlaster sound cards. Creative also competes with Apple in the portable music player space and has been hurt by Apple gobbling up NAND chips. Creative's music players will be in short supply this Christmas thanks to "an industrywide shortage of NAND chips".
There is a new worm on the loose pretending to be an email from the FBI. The FBI, however, does not send out unsolicited emails. The virus comes in a zip attachment and requires its victims to run the program inside the zip. One "in every 74 pieces of e-mail sent over the Internet ... is currently infected".