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Wednesday Night Procrastination
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Wednesday, 23-May-2001 20:07:39 (GMT +10) - by alchemy
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Hmmm.. I'm having mass amounts of trouble trying to start a uni assignment. It's 2000 words, worth over 50% and due on monday. I'm just not motivated at all. Things like this are bad, especially this close to a deadline. I'm hoping writing the news might give me some direction. Maybe.. anyway, continuing somewhat of a trend that I started last post, if you've got any ideas (serious ones) on how I can get motivated, mail me.. heh :)
Styles from over at TweakTown let me know of this, shall we say "abnormality" in the seek.com.au job database.. it appears that an ex-employee of a recruitment company has had his/her revenge! Heh, pretty amusing (read the descriptions for 'Technician' and 'Avionics Technician')
Agg pointed out this picture over on HardOCP.. some hooligans have turned a P4 billboard into an Athlon4 billboard with a little bit of guerilla marketing. Amusing. Also on HardOCP is this pic of a burnt out p3.. I wonder how they managed that. Disturbingly as well is this pic of a remarked Thunderbird.. you'd have to be game to go remarking on the actual die. I'm not overly sure what it was remarked from either.. but still, not a reasurring trend.
Electic has info about Dell readying their Intel Itanium IA-64 based servers for the market. Even Intel themselves have said this won't be a big hit.. they're placing the success bids on the Itanium's follow up. Staying on the big-server trend is this IBM offer to let you loose on one of their mainframe servers loaded with Linux.. featuring 3Gb of RAM, Terabytes of disk space and no less than 10 processors! There are all sorts of limitations on it, and it'll only be for a limited time.. but still. All you need is a Telnet/SSH client. Too easy. Contary to whats been written elsewhere, this has been done before, by Digital/Compaq who offered a wide range of machines with a wide range of distros. Pretty cool way of marketing. Can anyone say RC5?
Wireless D-Link DSL/Router thing-o with ethernet ports on G3D. Has anyone actually got a use for one of these? I mean, is actually sitting at home with their DSL connection and a few computers (including a laptop with a wireless LAN card) thinking gee.. that's what I really need. Hmm. Didn't think so, at least not in Australia.
Tim has let us know of these ~AMD~ case badges over on e-bay. Pretty amusing.
OCworkbench has on their news page what I consider to be a pretty bold statement.. They reckon mainboard manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte and MSI are going to halt development of DDR boards because there is not a market for 'em. They attribute that to the falling prices of PC133 Ram, the increasing maturity of PC133 solutions and of P4 platforms, and of the lack of performance DDR brings so far. Just give it another month is my expectation.. at the moment DDR prices have just fallen to PC133 levels and the boards are only new to market.
Anandtech has reviewed the ATi Raedon LE 32Mb.. sort of like the GeForce2 MX cards with DDR ram, except with a catch.. you can mod it up to fullscale GeForce2 GTS-type performance.. nice. Still on Raedons, PCStats has reviewed a 64Mb Raedon VIVO retail boxed card. Apparently they are pretty common in the US, but I've yet to see an ATi Retail Card sitting on the shelf of a computer store in aus.
Right. This is pretty much it. Cooling is getting out of hand now. I've heard of heatsinks on SBlive cards, and that's just stupid. Heatsinks on modems also goes down as another oddity. Sure, sometimes there are good reasons for it.. but a Monitor Cooler? Shouldn't the manufacturer just design the monitor so it dosn't get hot (ie: give it cooling vents). In the day of fanless-iMac's, overheating monitors just seems stupid. Stilll, I suppose there is a product to fill every market.
EverythingUSB has a bit of news regarding a first from Panasonic.. an external DVD-RAM drive utilising a USB 2.0 drive. You'd be pretty tricked out having one of those in your system.
It's nice to dream, and thats precisley what FutureLooks has been doing. They've sat down and figured out what computer to buy if you won the lottery. It's a pretty hard question too - with things the way they are, there isn't thaaat much totally cutting edge. I spoze at the moment there is actually GeForce3, Dual Palomino's and a Plasma screen. Hmm. That would rock.
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