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A US FIRM APPEARS to have jumped the gun and has started selling Opteron based systems well ahead of the launch date. A search on Polywell Computers – motto: American made Computers – and using the word Opteron reveals it seems to have a number of systems in the offing.

For example, is the PolyRaxx 1U2C Dual Hammer system, a slim baby which comes with a detailed PDF specification, includes an embedded U320 controller, and can support 16GB of memory, DDR 333 registered memory.

Clock speeds, the blurb said, are to be decided.

It has 2 PCI-X expansion slots and there's a picture of the baby too. There's even a picture of the Newisys system management module on the site, as well as a system block diagram and the layout of the box. It uses a 465W power supply, an AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge, an AMD 8111 South Bridge, and includes PCI/Memory cooling fans.

It claims to use the Newisys BIOS, will support MS Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 3), .NET Server RC1 (32-bit), .NET Server Beta (64 bit), Redhat 32-bix Linux V7.2, and SuSE Linux 64-bit beta.

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Kozinski wrote that the Ninth Circuit should have granted Kremen a victory in the case, based on his legal analysis of domain names and property law.

"Domain names, like corporate stock, are clear and discrete property rights. One who alters title to a registered domain name is fairly on notice that he may be affecting someone else's property," Kozinski wrote.

Kozinski also rejected the argument that domain registration records, which are kept in a computer database, should be treated differently from printed records.

The dispute between Kremen and Network Solutions stems from an unauthorized transfer of the Sex.com domain registration record from Kremen to a notorious con artist named Stephen Michael Cohen.

Kremen registered the domain in 1994, but Cohen gained control of it by forging a letter to Network Solutions instructing the company to transfer the site to him, according to court documents.

Kremen alleged that Network Solutions failed to inform him before transferring the site.

If the California Supreme Court does not take the Sex.com case, it's expected that the federal appeals court will render a final decision, said Kremen's attorney, James Wagstaffe.

Attorneys said it typically takes the California Supreme Court about three months to decide whether to hear a case. A ruling could take more than a year.

Meanwhile, Wagstaffe said he's encouraged by the latest turn of events, particularly the court's acknowledgement that domain names are a form of property.

"We're buoyed by this because this is a case where I represent David, who is fighting the Goliath of the Internet," Wagstaffe said. "Goliath is not dead, but I think he's wounded."