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EEEEeeepp.. we're almost drowning in news here! There is over two times the amount there usually is. S'pose that's good for you, and means more news posts for me :) I'll see what I can manage from uni.
Now while we're issuing some well-deserved smackdown to the AusGamers Folding@Home Team, our Genone@Home team has been pretty busy issuing out some smackdown of their own.. they broke the world Top 50 last week. Congratulations to everyone running Genome, it's a great result. The stats are here. Also, all the folding guys pointed out that the proper stats page is now here.
sabretooth pointed out this reg article which talks about the new anti-piracy system for CD's. It works by encoding some really weird frequencies onto the CD that we can't here, but makes it pretty impossible to rip the CD without it sounding like crap. Problem is, those frequencies also have the potential, to, oh, make your hifi EXPLODE! Wouldn't be very nice if you where the frenchman with the insane stereo room we linked to a while back. The fact that the record companies arnt advising consumers about this shortfall of the system could have some interesting consequences.
Interesting article over on Salon pointed out to us by Ashley.. talks about a Mercury mine that just happens to be dangerously close to Silicon Valley.. fun! Now you can take the left overs of your bankrupt dotcom and spend them on health care.
SourceMagazine have taken a look at the upcomming nForce chipset form nVidia.. of course, if the rumors we have heard the past few weeks are true (and we don't have proof either way yet) that article may need a bit of editing :)
I linked to some new det's yesterday, and there are more new ones _already_! Electic has 14.40's for you to download and try out.. Meanwhile Guru3D point out their detonator destroyer freeware utility which will.. destroy your detonators. Good if the drivers suck the proverbial.
The guys over at Digit-Life have been fairly busy.. not only have they interviewed a representitive of Seagate, they've checked out some small presents for your mates and reviewed the Gainward GF2/Pro Golden Sample.. they're a bit behind the times on the last one tho, our man in Japan chainbolt reviewed the GeForce3 Golden Sample a few months ago..
AtlantaOC seem to be running some sort of contest to see who can render a PovRayTrace image in the quickest possible time. There are no prizes, just eternal fame and all that jazz.. but personaly, I'd rather you did something productive with your cycles.. like folding!
There is a rather timely article over on wired.com talking about a man who runs a website dedicated to debunking virus myths. Very timely indeed, with every clueless newbie ringing ISP support lines to ask if they have Code Red.
OCAddiction have a rather handy KT7A BIOS tweak guide up.. and those Abit boards are rather tweakable - finding the right settings will give you quite a boost.
Firemoth pointed out that you can now get a clip-on GPS unit for your Visor Handspring.. which is pretty damn cool. Those PDA things are becomming better all the time.
Anyone who even half-regulary watches the news at night on TV would probably remember the Telstra Calling Card debacle where an MP spent over $25,000 on phone calls, with tax payers picking up the tab.. Well, it turned out that it wasn't the MP making the calls, but his son's ex-girlfriend. Well, now there is a new scandal in parliment, and this time it's involving the hacking into of a MP's personal computer. And it seems no lessons where learnt from the previous episode, with another MP's kids possibly involved in the whole mess.
Finally this morning, HotHardware has some pics of the upcomming mPGA s478 Pentium4 CPU up, along with pics of the Abit TH7-II-RAID board.
Reviews: Cordless Optical Mouse Roundup on BSOD. Icemat glass mousemat on JSIhardware. Budget Keyboard Roundup on GamingIn3D. ECS K7S5A SiS735 DDR mainboard on OCworkbench. EPoX 8K7A+ socket-a AMD 761 board on TempleOfTech.
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