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Andreas received an interesting variant on the "Nigeria scam" email, this time wanting your bank info as part of some fictitious scheme involving international payments for webmaster work. I also keep getting the Ebay one and various Bank ones. Don't give out your personal or financial info in response to an email! But you knew that already.
There's been yet another internet attack, which people are saying wasn't a virus or a worm. It involved hacked websites infecting people who simply downloaded a GIF or similar "harmless" web object - more info here. Apparently the main website has been shut down and the issue wasn't too widespread. More info here.
HP Australia are scrambling to replace faulty notebook memory which apparently affected 900,000 units worldwide. The notebooks effected (sic) include: Compaq Evo Notebook (model numbers: N610c; N610v; N620c; N800c; N800v; N800w; N1000c and N1000v); Compaq Presario (model numbers: 1500; 2800; x1000 and x1200); HP Compaq Business Notebook nx7000; and HP Pavilion zt3000.
Intel's doing some recalling of their own, after a problem was discovered with early releases of a recent chipset. More info here.
I thought a hand-cooling mouse was pretty strange, but these fishtank mice win, err, hands down.
Here's some cool new fuel cells from Toshiba. Might not be too long before you recharge your phone with a shot of methanol.
Sniper spotted some sneak-peek Xbox 2 specs on Xbit. The Xbox 2’s central processing unit is a custom processor based on PowerPC technology. The CPU includes three independent processors (cores) on a single die. Each core runs at 3.50GHz speed of faster. The Xbox 2 microprocessor can issue two instructions per clock cycle per core. At peak performance, Xenon can issue 21 billion instructions per second.
SweMod compared two waterblocks, from DangerDen and Frigus Engineering, while two complete watercooling kits are examined on ATrueReview.
Phalanx sent word of some new RAM technology: Uses magnetisation to store information in non-volatile (doesn't need power) memory, yet is a whole lot faster than flash memory and is much more practical. It means we could have super-fast and large memory in our phones, laptops, etc.
Cassini will fly through Saturn's rings later this week, more info here.
From Mark: here's a very interesting read that questions some copyright issues. Thread discussing it here.
ExtensionTech have a cool DVD PC mod posted.. a bit more effort has gone into this than some similar ones. Meanwhile, GideonTech have some DIY fan filters.
Ben reminds us of Antec's giveaway contest.
Vindaloo spotted this on-bike PC project, very cool. Works a bit better than my effort. :)
Any HTML/graphics wizards who want to take a crack at designing an OCAU sub-site based around our Motoring forum, see this thread for more info.
South Australia has a new supercomputer sporting 160 CPUs, all 1.3GHz Itaniums.
If the rumours are true, then in a few hours we should see a rush of info on Intel's Nocona CPU and NVIDIA's SLI technology. Sudhian have a summary article of what these two technologies are likely to bring. More SLI info on HardwareAnalysis.
Two timewasters for you today: VooDoo spotted this drinking game, while Lurks followed up with a walk the drunk guy home game.
Interesting Forum Threads:
[PICS] New TLSK F6 Clones (w/better tweeters!) in Audio Visual.
Ask eva2000 RAM questions! in Overclocking and Hardware.
My letter to the Federal Transport Minister in Motoring.
Awesome fun dragracing game in Motoring.
Project GSXR750 -> GSXR1200 in Motoring: Worklogs.
Rethink on -advmethods flag? in Team OCAU - Distributed Computing.
Australia vs England Rugby Test (Panoramic Photo) in Photography.
Brisbane Camera Group Portrait Workshop in Photography.
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