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Mid Week News #1 (4 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 15-October-2003  12:47:36 (GMT +10) - by Mred32

TweakTown check out the unofficial 802.11G wireless standard to see if it's all it is cracked up to be.

From Dink, Microsoft announces some new security initiatives. Dink also notes something that the rest of us have known for years, and that is that managers don't know how to use computers.

Transmeta have officially unveiled their Efficeon Processor. Although we've been hearing about these for a while, this is the first official word on the clock speeds these cool-running chips will work at. Thanks Stmok. While we're on the subject of new chips, VIA have introduced their tiny "NanoBGA" X86 CPU. This chip runs at seven watts at 1GHz!!! Read more here. Thanks WolfMoon.

It's a shootout, messenger style. EliteGuild have put the two more popular IM programs up against each other, namely Trillian and Miranda, to see how they stack up.

There's some updated bits & pieces in the BIOS Optimisation Guide at Adrian's Rojak Pot.

How about an add-in card that will allow your home PC to calculate at the same speed as some of the worlds fastest super-computers! Thats the idea behind the ClearSpeed CS301 chip. From Phalanx.

PCStats have a beginners guide to Encryption and Online Privacy. This should be compulsory reading for ...umm.. beginners.

MadShrimps have posted a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro volt mod guide. So if you want to get the most out of this card, and void your warranty at the same time, read away.

mjcrow says that "ZDNet have spoken to someone at Bigpond, and it isn't good". Email problems, deleted customer web sites, ohh my! Read more here and here.

Hadjicom says that CloneCD is finished, well, it's about to be. New copyright laws in Europe will prevent its sale or distribution.

Just a reminder that there are still tickets available for this weekends Valhalla LAN but you better get in quick.



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