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Dink (and several others) send word that Telstra is doing deals with the recording companies and will soon offer paid music downloads. "Telstra says BigPond Music will become Australia's largest music download site. Single tracks and albums will be available for download in early December, and will not count towards broadband download caps". This could be a good thing, depending on the final pricing because it looks like Kazaa will start charging for music downloads as well. Maybe the recording companies have finally woken up! The last link came from Steven.
AseLabs have another Chronicles of Crummy Computers article for you. It's always worth a laugh.
If you've always wanted one, but can't afford a Ferrari, you can have yourself a Ferrari notebook PC. Actually, if you can't afford a Ferrari then you probably can't afford one of these either.
"Cheap hardware allows more computation per query" or so the guru's at google say. "Cheap and fast" hardware is the way to go.
yyk found this list of the top ten WindowsXP tips. A bit old but still useful.
AmdMb have a round-up of nine KT600 motherboards from Abit, AOpen, Asus, Azza, Epox, Gigabyte, MSI, Soltek and Soyo.
Dan has reviewed a nifty little err...thing! Its the "Swiss Army Micro-Light Pocket Tool Chest". Have a look. One of these would make a nice X-Mas gift, for me. You can check out his latest batch of letters while you're there.
Finally, a few pieces from Tekka: Maxtor claim that they can double the storage capacity of a hard drive using current technology. Microsoft have put back the release of Windows Longhorn until 2006. Also, this page has some interesting stats about Australian's internet usage.
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