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Early Wednesday afternoon
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Wednesday, 13-June-2001 13:11:46 (GMT +10) - by Manaz
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I *was* supposed to have a news post up this morning. Unfortunately, IE/Newspro decided to chuck a fit on me, and I lost about 2 hours work. I also lost some of the actual news (I'd deleted it from the inbox).
Update: Ahh, thank goodness for Outlook's "Recover Deleted Items" feature...
aXXe sent in this link - it gives galvanic corrosion potential of all different metals - very useful if you're using, or considering using, a water-cooling setup for your PC.
ûñdê® thê íñflûêñ©ê wrote in to let us know that there's a whole pile of new Counter-Strike maps available - new, high quality maps at that. You can pick them up here. In further Counter-Strike related news, ArSoNiSt wrote in to let us know that there's a CS Tweaking Guide available on Planet Hardware.
I think we've linked to it before, but it's still a damned useful site. StratosFear sent in the link to the Microsoft Corporate Windows Update website, which lets you just download the updates, rather than automatically installing them for you as well - useful if you've got a *lot* of PCs to update, or just want to keep a copy of the updates on CD or something, for the next time you need them (this is especially useful for those who don't have broadband connections).
StratosFear also wrote to tell us that he has been in contact with Alfredo, the author of the speedfan program, and has received a succession of improved betas of the program, to try make it compatible with more boards (Stratosfear's AOpen AX6BC in particular). It seems that Alfredo is indeed keen to get his program working with as many boards as possible, and I think this is a good thing. Stratosfear *also* noted that there's a link on the MBM website to a program called FanSpeed, which is supposed to work on, amongst others, the BP6 motherboard. Personally, I think software controlled fan speed can only be a good thing for those who want to try keep their systems a bit quieter when they're not hard at work.
Pyroteq pointed out that Telstra's share price has been dropping lately. Telstra claim it's due to a lower-than-expected predicted profit in the coming financial year, but as Pyroteq pointed out, you have to wonder just how much of an effect the negative press about them imposing such a harsh data cap on their broadband customers has also had on their share price...
There's a new version of the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking program available apparently - Sludge thought we should know. You can download it from the SiSoft Sandra website.
Greg wrote in to let us know that the ADSL page we linked to earlier this week, on the DingoBlue website, has been there for at least 6 months, maybe even longer. So if DingoBlue are considering getting into the ADSL market, they're taking their time making the decision...
ZNIPER-X pointed out this interesting article, which seems to indicate that all the Iraqis had to do to detect the F-117As in the Gulf War was hook up with Vodadfone! (OK, that over-simplifies things a bit, but read the article, and you'll see what I mean).
Dan (from Dan's Data) has been doing some research into just how damned (or should that be Danned) fast SD-RAM is capable of going. He's gotten hold of a 256MB stick of OCZs 166MHz, CAS-2 rated SD-RAM, and a Thermaltake Memory cooling kit, and, well, you can read the rest here.
Electic Tech are reporting that there's a new BIOS available for the Tyan K7 Thunder motherboard. They don't link to the file, but I'm guessing that it would be available from Tyan's website. They're also reporting that there are new BIOS files available for the Matrox G200, G400 and G450 video cards. Again, check for the actual BIOS files on Matrox's website.
The Guru of 3D wrote, to tell us the latest version of the GeForce Tweak Utility (now at version 3.0.3.2) has been released. You can get it here.
If you believed half (perhaps even more than half) of the Computex coverage I've seen so far, you'd think that it was just a pretty girl convention, with the computers there as an after-thought. Insane Hardware are helping keep that notion alive, with their Ladies of Computex 2001 article.
Acer Communications and Multimedia here in Australia are, in conjunction with BMG Records, giving away some music CDs. They're also giving away a free movie ticket with every Acer 3300U scanner sold. Details are on their website.
Maximum3D have a statement made by someone at Hercules, about the supposed "bad blood" between Hercules and nVidia.
Reviews:
Ars Technica have had a look at Palm's latest PDA, the slim, sleek, colour m505.
Thermaltake SK6 heatsink at VoidYourWarranty.
RipNet-UK have had a look at the AVGS CA-1050 cooler.
Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce3 video card at OCPrices.
A new-look BlueScreenOfDeth have had a look at a .
PCStats have taken a look at the MSI StarForce 822 GeForce3 video card.
inClose Mobile Dock (removable hard drive bay) on Club Overclocker.
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