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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 27-May-2004 13:44:52 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Quite a few people answered my query about reporting spam in Australia - apparently the Australian Communications Authority is responsible for enforcing the provisions of the Spam Act. There's some information here and you can report spam here. A few people recommended SpamCop as another good organisation for chasing spammers. Business SA has some publications explaining the new laws. Thanks to all who responded!
If it feels like you're being singled out for spam and "phishing" scam emails lately, you might be right. AUSTRALIANS are being targeted by Eastern European organised crime families using the Internet to extort and steal far from home.
Jaguar's Formula 1 racing team are a bit red faced at the moment, having lost one of the diamonds stuck to the front of their cars as part of a sponsorship deal for the recent Monaco Grand Prix. Christian lost his steering and hit the barriers forcing him to retire. His car returned to the garage minus his flawless diamond - it has yet to be found. This is no little rock, either - it's a 108-carat stone worth AUD $360,000. They're now offering a $65,000 car as reward to whoever finds and returns it.
That French review of the new AMD processors in my Tuesday Morning news post was using Socket939 motherboards. According to AMD (via an email from Altech) on the topic of using S939 CPUs in S940 motherboards: No they will only work in 939 boards, don't try they will break. The S939 motherboards and CPUs are apparently being officially launched next week sometime - OCWB have a preview using an SiS755FX reference motherboard.
Microsoft have extended the product support life cycle to a minimum of 10 years for their business and development products.
wearlej spotted this very lengthy but interesting read about the economics of EverQuest. It was the seventy-seventh richest country in the world. And it didn't even exist.
Cisco have unveiled their CRS-1, the latest mega-router designed to handle the massive core traffic of the internet. It sports their new 40-gigabit-per-second interfaces and will cost around half a million USD per unit.
An Australian open source group has stated their position on the SCO-IBM Unix-Linux lawsuit. Linus Torvalds has announced a new process for Linux kernel code submissions, to avoid such confusion in the future.
An unmanned probe is on the way to the International Space Station, taking some badly-needed supplies including food and water. The resupply mission is the most critical since the grounding of the shuttles limited NASA's ability to deliver cargo to the orbiting outpost.
The ArsMasters have an article on Intel's new naming scheme for processors. ZDNet have their opinion also. In case you missed it, we have a copy of an Intel reference document on their new naming scheme here (208KB PDF).
Interesting Forum Threads:
Too cold causing instability? in Extreme Cooling.
Benny's seized Kawasaki.. pics! in Motoring.
Water through the airfilter.. bad? in Motoring.
S939 Reviewed in AMD Hardware.
Dual Opteron SFF in SMP & Clustering.
Bokeh appreciation thread (many pics) in Photography.
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