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Saturday Evening (15 Comments) (link)
 Saturday, 17-April-2004  19:00:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg

GD have an interview with NVIDIA about their new GeForce 6800 GPU, as well as some coverage of the launch event. Launch coverage on LegitReviews and TheMowers too, while HardOCP have a tech article about the new GPU and Xbit think it will go better with a new DirectX version. NVIDIA have some showoff demos posted.

Tim Berners-Lee, who among other things invented the WWW, was knighted last year. Now, he's a rich knight - despite making all the web technology public domain.

Lindows is now called Linspire, to avoid further enraging Microsoft lawyers. Apparently you can grab it for free for the next few days, too.

There's an interesting article here about the Lamborghini factory. No army of high-tech robots here, it's mostly done by hand. Also, whether factories "run in" the motor is often debated by people. In the factory, the Lambo engines are run at low revs for about 50 minutes, then cranked up to about 7600 revs to produce maximum power for 15 minutes.

Sony have co-developed a paper-based disk that can hold 25GB of data. TomsHardware wonder if magneto-optical storage is the way to go.

Anandtech found that Prescott is a hot new CPU.. literally. Mortz noticed this story on PCWorld saying similar things.

PCStats have a beginner's guide to Cloning WinXP (copying an install from one HDD to another) while IANAG have a beginner's guide to setting up networking.

MadShrimps looked at nForce3 150 memory timings.

If you have trouble getting your point across, you might try waving your arms, brandishing objects and making yourself appear larger. Righto then.

Anandtech checked out a mini-PC that is designed for two people using it at once.

Brighter LEDs and flexible LCDs are on the way.

CDFreaks got their hands on a prototype SATA CDRW drive from LiteOn.

Interesting Forum Threads:
kkreiger - oh my! (amazing game demo in 96kb) in Games.
Best pie in Australia in Geek Food.
Porsche Carrera GT exposed in Motoring.
Timewaster - throw paper in bin in Games.



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