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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 5-June-2001 12:41:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Well, the initial spike from slashdot has passed and the server is still alive. We're still getting a lot of traffic from around the world but the server is coping fine.
With Computex being on at the moment, expect big rushes of info as new products are launched there and websites all around the world receive the details from their roving reporters. The first example of this is NVIDIA's nForce. This is a socketA motherboard chipset with a GeForce2 video processor built in! That's not the only cool feature by a longshot - check out these preview articles for details:AllTechBox have a guide to building a UPS.. mmm, mains power.
Ben sends word of smoothwall, a free linux-based firewall that runs on a 386 with 8mb ram. I know, there are lots of other products out there, please don't send me a huge list of them. :) This site is interesting because it has a quick article on the problem of meta tag squatting which is another tricky legal internet phenomenon. Smoothwall is almost worth using just for the cool polar bear graphic. :)
Another thing on Slashdot today is this making PC's quieter thread. Alchemy pointed out an unusual but effective technique for muffling the noise..
Some stupid stuff with fans on Icrontic.
From Andreas: This is very loosly technology related but i bought a new cover for my phone (nokia 3310) today. It was a chrome looking one with splashes of silver paint on it. Anyway when i put it on, my reception dropped to 1 bar then no reception!! Got home a checked it with a multimeter and it's bloddy electrically conductive. So i just thought i warn people with internal antenas not to buy phone cases that look metalic....cause they are
AOpen have made a DVD+RW drive. Rewriteable 4.7GB optical media!
Another bizarre heatsink on HardOCP, thanks Stewart.
PCCritic have a bit of a win2k rant happening.
From Xixys: Thought this may be of interest - 16Mb cache on the drive! I have purchased three of these to run on a 2xPIII 1Ghz server via a Adaptec 2100S Raid controller. Unfortunately I haven't had time to run a benchmark. However, I had one on it's own in my own box (1ghzTbird @ 1.333) via an adaptec U2W, @ LVD, and imaged my system drive accross from a 9Gb WD 10k SCSI LVD and it ran an average of around 500mb a minute. Then when it was time to put the 36gb in the server, I ghosted back from the 36 to the 9gb and averaged nearly 900mb a minute!!! It transfered nearly 6gb in well under 10 minutes and thats at U2WLVD or 80mb/s wonder how fast it would gon a U160?!?! oh and price per 36gb SCSI drive was just under $1100, bit pricey but very very fast :)
Reviews:
Nonconductive shims on RizeNet.
ViewQuest AmazingCam VQ680 PC Camera on ARP.
Adaptec SCSI RAID 3200s on NewsForge.
Swiftech 462A on OCOnline.
Cool Case EL keyboard mod kit on JSI.
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