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To kick off tonight, news of a new virus doing the rounds. It's typically showing up as an email purporting to be from Microsoft, with an executable attachment. Of course Microsoft do not distribute system updates by email. More information here and here. Thanks to those avid newshounds who emailed in about this. Yet another reason to be careful.
S3 are attempting to push into the gaming video card market with a new DirectX 9-class graphics chip called Deltachrome! Wow, how long has it been since nVidia and ATI basically swamped the gaming graphics market? I really hope this turns into something, more competition is always a good thing - especially when you consider that a graphics card can well be the most expensive component in your system. More information on The Tech Report, and on Techbits.
HardwareZone have made some AthlonXP and Pentium4 CPUs jump through hoops, play dead and roll over in a comprehensive comparo. They've called it "The Ultimate 32-bit CPU Showdown", and it's certainly taken a lot of testing. "There were a total of 19 different benchmarks conducted in this review and all of these tests were run on 11 different processor speeds". Nice work. Thanks to mxmai.
Sudhian have compared the DirectX 9 performance of nVidia and ATI's flagship cards, the GeForce FX5900 Ultra and Radeon 9800 Pro.
3dXtreme are giving away a ThermalTake Xaser III Lanfire series full tower case. I can't immediately see anything stopping an Aussie from entering.
Intel are celebrating their newfound foray into wireless internet by holding "one unwired day" this coming Thursday. "Join Intel on Thursday, September 25 - your day to try public wireless internet access for free at thousands of locations including coffee shops, airports, and hotels ....." If you follow the links through, it looks like there are some locations in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria that are participating. Thanks Andrew.
X-bit labs continue their coverage of the Intel Developer Forum with a Day 3 report.
Dink sent word that Trillian has been updated to allow you back onto the MSN and Yahoo IM networks. More information here.
EA.com have released a free command and conquer game. "The game offers nine regular missions and two bonus missions. Players pilot an RAH-66 Comanche stealth reconnaissance attack helicopter into enemy territory." Thanks Tekka.
Over on PC Review, you can read through an interview with ZapWizard, the creator of the AmmoCase Mod, voted "Best Modified PC" by nVidia at QuakeCon2003. Remember, you can check progress of the Imperator project too, being lovingly handcrafted by OCAU's Bluesmurf. I must say that is looking quite special.
Since the dawn of time there has been confusion about what hard drive manufacturers call a Gigabyte (and Megabytes in the good old days) and why hard drives seem to be smaller than advertised. Typically, hard drive manufacturers define a Gigabyte as 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes, while a "binary Gigabyte" (what shows up as drive space in an operating system) is 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes. This makes a (say) "20GB" hard drive appear as less than 20GB when installed into a PC. It seems some angry consumers in (of course) the US have decided to make their point in the courtroom, suing several PC manufacturers/assemblers. "The lawsuit asks for an injunction against the purportedly unfair marketing practices and an order requiring the defendants to disclose their practices to the public, restitution, disgorgement of ill-gotten profits and attorneys' fees."
The_SeNTiNeL sent in a link to some pretty cool avatar creation software. Download a trial version here.
TechSpot want to help you get networked with their Networking 101 article.
ShadowPeo let us know that Rezidue LAN is on next weekend at St Bedes College, Mentone, Victoria. Cost is 15 dollars, with many prizes and competitions. Register at Ausgamers.
To finish up, an annoyingly simple timewaster. Thanks Andrew.
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