February 6, 2002

The BBC has a story on Belgium apologizing for the first time on Tuesday for the killing of Patrice Lumumba who led Congo to independence from Belgium. In November a Belgian parliamentary commission conclude that Belgium did bear moral responsibility for the killing. The same article notes that two years ago Belgium apologized to the people of Rwanda for his country's attitude during the 1994 genocide. Looks like Belgium is the wrong country to be making judgements on other state leaders, at least until its tries its own first. 11:59:52 PM     Israeli troops today, captured a shipment of eight Kassam 2 rockets that Palestinians attempted to smuggle the between the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin. The shipment of rockets was believed to have been in transit to attack towns in Israel. The range of the Kassam rockets is between 10 and 15 kilometers with an explosive charge of four to six kilograms. Their existence violates the Olso Accords. 11:06:34 PM     Technical (ZDNet News, The Register) and gaming sites (Anandtech, Firingsquad) report on NVIDIA introducing the GeForce4 GPU families. The GeForce4 Ti 4600, 4400 and 4200 chips replace the GeForce3 at the top of the graphics heap, while the GeForce4 MX 460, 440 and 420 is a mixture of GeForce2 MX and new technology and the GeForce4 440 Go and 420 Go chips handle the mobile side. There is no word on any techology from the remains of 3Dfx being used. Meanwhile ATI counters with 128 MB version of their Radeon 8500 card line and everyone waits for Doom 3 so they can put these cards to good use.   10:54:08 PM

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