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Monday Morning
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Monday, 24-November-2003 11:05:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Intimidated by a particular technology? Perhaps it's too smart for mere mortals, like a system fitted to a new BMW car. Or, perhaps it doesn't suit the cultural diversity and sensitivity of your area.
There seems to be a lot of disappointment about Comdex this year. That's the Computer Dealers Exposition and pretty much the largest PC show in North America. You can read reports from Comdex 2003 on LegitReviews, OCClub and AMDMB.
If you think there should be an R18+ rating for computer games in Australia, funnelbc thinks you should sign this petition. As adults, we wish to dispel the widespread misconception that only children play computer games, and draw the Honourable Ministers' attention to research statistics which prove that a substantial percentage of Australians who play computer games are over the age of 18. The proposed reforms and amendments would allow us to purchase and play games that would conceivably be Refused Classification under the current guidelines.
New laws in Singapore allow pre-emptive attacks against computer hackers, thanks Dink. Security agencies can now patrol the Internet and swoop down on hackers suspected of plotting to use computer keyboards as weapons of mass disruption. I wonder if that will cover alien computer hackers, as spotted by Ken.
"DVD Jon", who wrote the DeCSS tool to decrypt DVD's, has turned his attention to Apple's iTunes, with some success.
TweakTown built themselves a high-powered A64 box, while NordicHardware reviewed the 3200+ CPU. HardAvenue have reviewed the FX-51 and you can see our review of that chip from a few months ago here. Meanwhile, Accelenation have a preview of SiS's 755 chipset for Athlon64.
If you're a motorsport fan, you might want a copy of GlobalSkunkWorks's 2004 Motorsport Calendar, featuring MotoGP, F1, Champ Car, V8 Supercar, Le Mans, World Endurance, World Super Motard, Australian Motorcross, Asutralian Supercross, Australian Drags, World Superbike and many others. It's available for dowload in PDF or MDB formats.
Monster-Hardware display some basic case mods in their latest article.. blowholes, switches, windows etc.
Win some cooling stuff over on ModSynergy.. doesn't mention if international entries are ok or not.
ModFathers have a video card overclocking guide posted. Ages ago I wrote an article which is still very popular, about using CoolBits to overclock NVIDIA-based cards.
What would Monday be without a timewaster? Today's is Whizzball, from nuxie1.
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