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Pretty quiet today.. not much news to report on. My 20g 75GXP hard drive decided that it'd work better if the heads crashed into the platters, but that obviously wasn't the case. I luckily managed to grab all my data off there, despite The Evil Noises, and I got a 40g to replace it.. just gotta get it out to Rochedale for warranty now. Oh well.. now that I've got hard drive space I can have fun with my netstats :)
Had a chat to VooDoo today on IRC.. he's still in Taipei because he missed his flight home.. has/had to spend 23hrs at the airport waiting for the next plane. Apparently the net cafe where he's Doing Time (not the first time I'd imagine hehe) has 21" TFT screens and superfast P3's.. damn.
WildAndyC have reviewed a Taisol CGK760092 cooler with a copper insert. It's another one of those killer-heatsinks-with-a-crap-fan jobs, which a delta monster soon takes care of. Not sure what he's trying to say with the URL for the review tho.. hmm.
In other hs/f reviews, AMDmb have had a look at the Thermalright SK-6.. an all copper job with a decidely better name. It also comes with a delta already strapped onto it.. it performs pretty decently as well. Shame you don't seem to be able obtain either in au easily.
More news on the Telstra broadband AUP front.. Reaper sent in an email from Telstra explaining that subscribers will have 14 days after the "Usage Meter" is introduced to cancel their account.. 'spoze it gives them more time to leech, as a large number of them are now doing. In case you where unaware, you are able to terminate your contract without penalty up until that yet-to-be-determined-date. Does not really help with the installation fee you've already paid tho. Also, it appears this "Usage Meter" is just going to be a data counter, so not that cutting edge.. can already get fancy programs like DUmeter that do the same thing pretty well. Final thing to note - it'll probably be counted as 1Gb = 1000Mb, when 1Gb really = 1024Mb.. so you miss out on a whole 72Mb, that's 2.5% of 3Gb!
It seems Telstra is not content to screw their users over with a oppressive AUP.. they now want spread the troj_hybris.m virus amongst their subscribers. leperMessiah wrote in to say that he copped that virus as a part of EDLIFNED.EXE attatched to the 2nd Telstra email, talked about above. Mmm.. fun time to be a BigPond Advance subscriber. Manaz also pointed out that it's not a Bandwidth cap, but a Data cap.. for those that don't know the difference, Telstra already have a Bandwidth limit (haha) which is the 256/64 or 512/128 speed you chose between.
isometrix pointed out this fairly sweet looking desktop-image page on IRC - desktopimage.com. Some nice images there if you're looking for a computer-art type background.
It appears Intel have developed the world's smallest transistor to date, and Electic have the article. Bit of predict-the-future talk about 20GHz in there as well. They also have the latest build of IE6 beta, 2488 available for download.
OCWorkbech has a huge smattering of Computex-type news over their news page.. might want to go over and have a look if you're not a regular to their page. Looking at all those µATX nForce boards makes me want a little bookpc-sized box even more.
It seems the US Army are keeping with fashion.. they've got a new APC that, well, not really an APC. Heh.
All that news about a new company formed by ex-3dfx employees getting together and forming a company called 3DPower and releasing a chipset heavily based on the now-defunct 3dfx "Rampage" engine is false. It did seem a bit suspect, quite a few legal issues in that.. They are still making nVidia based boards tho, just not the "Rampage" ones.
Steve from Hypothermia is getting ready to build a full blue-PCB based PC.. heh, looks pretty cool, if not top of the range gear.
Finally today, a reminder for everyone out there with spare CPU cycles. The Overclockers Australia folding@home team needs YOU! (to run folding @ home for them). If you don't already know, it's another distributed computing effort - except it's not to find aliens, it's to help cure cancer and other diseases. Pretty worthy cause. Anyway, the team stats are here, and to join you just put (Overclockers Australia) after your name when you're installing.
Just on distributed computing, there has been rumors of Seti@HOME being a conspiracy theory of the US government to process echelon data. Heh.
Reviews:
YATDR (Yet Another Thermaltake DDR Review) on Rizenet.
Labtec LCS-2514 5 speaker set on G3D.
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