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Dan has replied to yet more letters, column number 67 no less. "Another installment. This time, letters about CD durability, gold harvesting, camera image formats, CPU cooling, too-fast PC clocks, RSS, free speakers, car PCs, wireless power transmission, 1.5 volt rechargeables, and electric blinds. And a reply from someone I'm trying to annoy." Dan's letters column is great, one of my first stops on the net.
It seems a couple of companies have claimed a new internet speed record, set last week when 1.1 Terabytes of data was transferred at a rate of 5.44 Gbps. Thanks to those newshounds who sent in the link.
A bit of news from stmok. nVidia have announced their nForce3 Go 120 chipset for Transmeta Efficeon processors - some nice mobile solutions on the horizon. More information here. OCZ Brings Out World’s Fastest DDR SDRAM Memory. Intel Xeon DP 2M, Xeon MP 4M to Come, and more indication that Prescott processors are unlikely to be filling any Christmas stockings this year.
^catalyst sent in a link to a Netiquette RFC. Lots of good tips in there to help make your online flameproof suit redundant. A good read!
The Register reports a complaint to Israel's antitrust department over a lack of Hebrew language support in Microsoft Office and IE for Macs.
Designtechnica ponder the role of technology in our lives, and ask the question "Are we becoming technology dependant?". I can really relate to that - whenever we lose power or a server at work I seem to slip into a trance-like state, totally unable to do anything ....
Lots of people emailed in to tell us that a new version of Mozilla (v1.5), Firebird (v0.7) and Thunderbird (v0.3) have been released. You can get them from Mozilla. UPDATE : More information in our forums here. Thanks Force.
Leo sent news that Game Arena have started a Desert Combat team ladder.
Logitech have released a very sexy looking new bluetooth keyboard/mouse/media pad thing. I didn't think I'd ever find a keyboard and mouse sexy. Very disturbing. Thanks Draebor.
Tonight's timewasters are from homestarrunner. Not sure if we've linked them before, but they're still fun :) Thanks Benjamin.
Finally, Arachnadactly sent a warning about another potential eBay scam, in the form of an email asking for credit card details. Remember to be careful whenever any site asks for that kind of information via email, and if in doubt, don't do it. Some of the scams we've seen recently targeting online banking users, eBay users and others have been very convincing.
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