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Thursday Middayish
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Thursday, 18-September-2003 12:39:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Athlon64 continues to rush ever closer. Tech-Report give us something of a sneak peek, by comparing a 2GHz Opteron and 3.2GHz P4.
From Ambush: XGI, a spin-off of SIS, is releasing the "Volari", a dual-GPU DirectX 9 compatible, high-end graphics card.
Bit-Tech compared two mousepads, the Xtrac Hammer and Steelpad 4S. LegitReviews compared some optical mousepads from Xtrac also, but their site seems to be unreachable for me.
Xbitlabs continue their Intel Developer Forum coverage.
From the PCDB: edmundqu has some hefty RAMsinks while HaL_'s watercooling enclosure and case turned out looking really good.
Kids do something dumb, blame computer game, thanks slick. They told police they were emulating Grand Theft Auto on the night of June 25 when they took shotguns to Interstate 40, near their Newport, Tenn., home, and opened fire on vehicles. Kids having unsupervised access to shotguns isn't the problem at all, nosiree, it's those evil nasty horrible video games to blame! Shame there's no M1A1 tank in my garage, or I could live out all my Battlefield 1942:Desert Combat fantasies.
Pimprig have a quick little guide showing an easy way to sleeve your cables.
Verisign's "unregistered domain hijacking", as some people are calling their new sitefinder service, has aroused a lot of concern because it removes a basic anti-spam check of seeing if a domain is real by trying to resolve it. The ISC are making a patch to BIND, a popular DNS server, to get around this, thanks DJ-Studd.
From Wolfy: auDA have released 50,000 free domain names in the id.au name space. The catch is that the registration is free for 6months, and the domain name must comply with auDA id.au regulations. Regulations here, but you must be Australian, and the domain must "exactly match" or be "an acronym or abbreviation" of a persons real name, or "closely and substantially connected to the registrant" ie a nickname. Offical details here, better details here. It appears that this is a 6month free trial, rather than 6 months free, but it is still a good deal for IT-savvy folk who want to keep the same email/website address even if they change ISP.
It seems real-world monkeys won't work for peanuts after all. The last line of that article is pretty funny. :)
Software patents may be on the cards for Europe, which has already lead to the closing of some important projects. MRTG went away earlier in the week (thanks Brett) and now CloneCD has been axed also, thanks InspectorGadget. Why? In Europe, 30,000 "software patents" have already been granted. Currently without a legal foundation. But if the new law passes on the 22nd, the patent owners can claim exclusive rights and collect license fees for trivial things like "progress bars", "mouseclicks on online order forms" or "the concept of scrolling within a window". Software developers will have to pay the "software-patentholders" for using these features, even in their own, self-developed applications. Let's hope this gets thrown out like so many other silly computing laws in the past.
TweakTown have a comparison of four AthlonXP heatsinks.
From James: some excellent hi-res images of hurricance isabel on its way stateside, and still at NASA - Galileo ends this weekend with the craft eating it on jupiter (personally i just like the URL). there'll even be a webcast.
More of the usual interesting/whacky techo bits in the latest issue of ZZZ Online.
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