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Assignments are done, man. I had to engage in a last-ditch red bull fueled all-nighter to get em both finished, but they got done. And handed in. After not sleeping for nigh 40hrs you get some really really weird hallucinations. Bus trip to uni? Nah mate.. sitting in a 60km/hr cage filled with people. And a button that makes a dinging sound. Very strange. Thanks to everyone that sent in encouragement - and to people that offered to find me a "pre-done" assignment. Not that they could. It didn't seem anyone had ever written about "the effect of land use intesification on the biophysical systems of moreton bay". And I imagine that is the last time I'll ever write that sentence again as well.. off to obscurity you stupid topic. All assignments for this semester are now done - all I've got are exams which don't seem too hard. Then 5 whole weeks of holidays. Yum. Anyway, now that I've caught up on sleep heres the news..
Over at IANAG it seems they have discovered the speed cheat issue in windows that we had an article on quite some time ago. Well, it's either that or Sandra has decided to blow chunks. Either way.
They have also reviewed a Samsung DVD/CD-RW drive that goes for a nice price.. $126USD. Anyone seen any AU pricing?
Echelon is real, man. A report into it's existance has been presented and New Scientist have a small summary of it. Basic recomendations include all european nations steer clear of "security by obscurity" based software and head for open source.
Not overclocking related at all, but some food for thought. Dicey sent in this article questioning the "Big Bang" theory of evolution. Apparently there has to be a "Big Crunch" to follow it or something. Sounds like a chocolate bar.
Electic have a small blurb up about nVidia's upcomming chipset for the Athlon platform. Apparently it's going to be on show at Computex, so it'll be a nice year to go. It sounds good, but it'll also be nVidias first (afaik) attempt at a chipset. So I guess we'll see how it goes.
CPUreview have reviewed the Gigabyte i850 P4 mobo. Something to note - even with P4 prices dropping to be almost equivilent of Athlons, the current P4 platform is only a temporary one. Intel intends to replace not only the chipset, but the socket too in an upgrade to come soon. A few people seem to of forgotten that, and it's just something to keep in mind for potential P4 buyers.
ChillBlast have an guide to preparing your Socket-A CPU core for use. Sure, I bet there are alot of old-timers baulking at this thinking "where's the guide for doing up your shoelaces?", but equally I'm sure there are quite a few newbies thankfull for it as well.
Neoseeker have a review of the AOpen AK73-1394, a KT133 (non-a) board with firewire support. Interstingly enough, I was in Harvey Norman today trying to get my MS mouse replaced (no luck, even tho it's buggered) and noticed a large wall of Firewire cards for your PC. Interesting to note the difference between the mass-retail channels (lots of firewire cards) and the smaller cheaper channels (not many).
sniper770 posted this Inq article in IRC about AMD SMP. It appears the the Via KT266 chipset is SMP compatible, just like it's Intel cousin.. so expect to see Via DDR AMD mobos on the market sometime in the far future. At a much nicer price than the AMD ones. Incidently, 760MP boards at a cheaper price point are also being developed.
Well, thats it. I still need more sleep. G'Night.
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