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I've got a mid-semester exam tommorrow. At 6pm. I'd like to meet the person who decided that 6pm Saturday was a good time for an exam. The Saturday preceeding mothers day when countless people have to go home to suck up. Anyway, I doubt doing the news when I should be studying is a good idea either, and that clubbing until 5am this morning was the best thing as well. HEH. Here's the news.
Hardcoreware are having a bit of a bitch about things, more specefically about the new Asus driver set that allows you to remove textures from walls, letting you see through them. I can understand why they are a bit upset.. because the driver set would assumably work for all nVidia chipset-based video cards.
Stewart from ComputerAlliance grabbed me on IRC to inform me of the software amnesty that is running at the moment.. basically, if your business is using illegal, or pirate, copies of software you have until 30 June 2001 to pay for your software and avoid legal action. So what, you say? Well, apparently Stewart received a card in the mail from Microsoft, stating that during the amnesty, so long as you a purchase a peice of hardware you can also buy an OEM copy of Microsoft operating systems. Which will cost you significantly less than a proper retail version. Like, half the price almost on a copy of WinME. And as an added benefit, a floppy cable, weighing in at a hefty $5, is considered a peice of hardware. So unless you want the BSAA on your case, now is definitely a good time to pay for what you're using.
LeesEmpire sent in this article on ZDnet, who reckon that we are slowly but surely running out of IP adresses. Another interesting thing I noticed on a mailing list from Phil, is this page which lists the owners of some top level subnets.. I bet they're valuable.
FutureLooks have reviewed a very beasty notebook. 1Ghz and 15" of screen beasty. The most suprising fact of it all is that the manufacturer, Eurocom, actually encourage you to upgrade it. Of course there are downsides.. like upgrading isnt as easy as with a desktop computer.. and with all that beastiness comes a fair swag of heftiness. But.. one of these with a GF2GO might make a pretty decent lan rig.. or, ah, corperate workstation *cough*.
Simon has sent in this site which has been floating around HardOCP for the past few weeks. I'm pretty sure that they CAN'T be serious, but still.. it's amusing none the less. I was browsing the news archives a few days ago looking for an article when I came across this, which is also quite amusing. Top Aussie ;)
HardcoreWare are giving away half a gig of your choice of either PC2100 or PC133 SD-RAM. Sorry, no RD-RAM for you, come back later. You don't have to spam their forum, just join their mailing list. Bit of a concession, but eh, less effort than forum spamming, and you can always unsubscribe. I hope.
On the subject of DDR Ram, the prices for Crucial DDR SD-RAM PC2100/CL=2.5 modules are now exactly the same as the prices for PC133/CL=3 modules. Great stuff.. $89.99US+Shipping for a 256Mb stick. So now all that's holding us off DDR is a motherboard. And, as always, a lack of funds.
Still on RAM, Tech-Report has ordered some horribly cheap SD-RAM modules and found out that they got what they paid for. Double Height (as in, twice as high as normal memory) DIMM's that glow in the dark. And flash like a strobe. Fuuuun. Who would expect so much fun from a $US40 256Mb stick?
OCAddiction has decided to see how the Global-Win series of coolers fair against each other, and put them together for a bit of Family Fued. Hmm.. I wonder what the survey says? ;)
If you're looking to get the best of both worlds, OCMelbourne has a guide to Dual Booting Win2k with Win9x/Me.
There are a few reviews of the Soyo SY-7VDA Via Apollo Pro266 s370 board.. first one into the box was from NeoSeeker, followed directly after it by ViaHardware.
Finally tonight, HardOCP has paid a very interesting visit to the factories of VisionTek to see how the GeForce3 boards are being made. And not content to tell you about it, they're also giving away a VisionTek GF3 board to boot.
I'm going to go.. umm, study? No, something else starting with S. Sleep.
Reviews:
KT7A-Raid on Rizenet.
128Mb OCZ PC150 stick of MicroBGA RAM on Technoyard.
Lian-Li PC60 case AND FREE STUFF~! on ClubOC.
Iomega USB CD-RW roundup on Digit-Life.
Keyspan USB 2.0 card is now shipping, according to EverythingUSB.
Samsung SyncMaster 570V 15" TFT Screen on PCStats.
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