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The big news tonight seems to be the release of the Raedon2, or Raedon 8500 and 7500 as it is officially named. Anandtech have previewed it, whilst Tom's Hardware have compared it to the GeForce3. Gamespot also have a blurb up about it, as do Rage3D and numerous other places as well. Thanks to Headless Turkey, Matt and sw1tch for the links.
PCStats have reviewed the Handspring Visor Prism, pretty much Handsprings version of the color Palm Pilot.. a rather nifty device, but it seems to me like more of a marketing revolution rather than a usability evolution.
ArsTechnica have a rather in-depth guide to the Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE) certification. Going from the subject material it's a tad more than a "I know Compaq Stuff" badge, but rather a quite serious industry qualification. Haven't really heard that much about it in Australia where it's mostly MS this and MS that. If you're organisation does a bit of business with Compaq it might be one worth looking into tho.. and still worth a read even if you're just in grade 12 wondering what to do next year. My advice: Organise it now, after schoolies -everything- will be blurry.
AMDmb have a Ultimate System Guide up, using a pair of Palomino's as the heart of a 760MP system. Incidentally, seeing those Tyan Thunder K7 lite boards for $566 is quite good.. sure, it's a hell of a lot of money.. but it's over half what the original boards cost... now, who is going to be first? :)
Microsoft are trying to own the keyboard, again. As if adding the three "Windows Keys" wasn't enough, they now want to add OfficeXP keys. I can understand from the usability perspectives and all that, and MS keyboards are actually quite good.. but jeez, what next - a get-out-of-antitrust-case-for-free button?
Siddarth pointed out this incredibly amusing hax0r language pack for Google. Nice work finding that one - it's pretty cool :)
Devinet pointed out that the Optus@Home FTP proxy has returned - after first being introduced in a rather.. untested form and causing all sorts of hassles, it's now been thoroughly tested (or so we're told), and should be ready for mainstream. If you're having any problems tho, best to share them here.
Morjo points out this Reg article which talks about a mobile phone that has been gutted and the insides replaced with four 22mm rounds and a firing pin. Those Yugoslavs are sure creative in giving us new ways to communicate :)
klif-e found this rather amusing article concerning the worlds first "internet ready" park bench that MSN revealed in London a few weeks back.. apparently some kids figured out that they could plug a normal phone handset into the unit and make overseas phone calls free of charge, well.. with MSN picking up the charge actually. Can't complain about that.. almost as good as a Maccas straw :o In other MS-exploit news, the hacker that purchased Bill Gates viagra has escaped prison on mental grounds.
Mitch points out this alternate GF2MX400 roundup, this time on French site Puces3D. Being a French site, the article is (of course) in French, so you might want to visit the 'fish to make sense of it. 7 cards get the going over in an article about 16 pages long.. so fairly lengthy :)
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