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Thursday, 23-August-2001 01:00:04 (GMT +10) - by Manaz
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I have a cold, I've worked 12 hours a day for the past 3 days, and I feel like my head is going to explode. And yet, here I sit, doing the news for you guys. Is this dedication or what? As a bonus this evening, if you pick my pet hate from the newspost tonight, I'll mention your name in my next news post - email me. Dedication to the OCAU cause, and giving away the opportunity to be (relatively) famous - what more could you want from me? :)
Herbo, Hadamona and Dan all wrote in to tell us that version 4 of DivX has been released - all the details should be available over on the DivX website.
Firestone wrote in to say that AKIBA PC Hotline! have come across the EPoX EP-4B2A motherboard (based on the i845 chipset), and the first of the new Matrox G550 video cards ( direct link for the Matrox cards) in Japan. The fish is your friend (though he's a bit hard to understand at times)...
Ian pointed out this water-windowed case on Ebay Germany. You might want to throw a fish at it for some understanding (because it's in German, surprise surprise).
Xtreme PC UK attended the launch of Creative Lab's new Soundblaster product - called the "Sound Blaster Audigy". They've got a few teaser shots up at the moment, but promise more of the full story shortly.
Electic are reporting that there are new drivers available for the Matrox G400 and G450 graphic cards. You should be able to grab them from the Matrox website.
It seems that every man and their dog is doing a heatsink/fan roundup (we did ours ages ago). Bluesmoke have joined the club with their variation on the theme - a Copper HSF roundup.
TweakTown have published a Internet Security and Firewalls Guide. Like any guide on the Internet (especially one about security), read, learn, and adapt to suit your own particular circumstances and needs. And don't come crying to us (or TweakTown for that matter) if someone still gets into your PC - you're on the Internet, it's a risk you take unfortunately...
PCMag.com are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the PC. Some interesting reading there...
Australian scientists have discovered the "tasty steak" gene. Makes me proud to be an Aussie *wipes tear from eye*. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Though it is an interesting story if you'r at all interested in or concerned about genetic research and it's applications.
Do you feel like learning to fly a helicopter? If so, why not go all out and buy this, a (reportedly) genuine ex-US Army AH-1F Cobra. There's no point messing around, right?
Finally, tonight's Wokket report includes interesting stories such as the "scared shiftless" keyboard, and a US attack on the poor, defenceless bees of Cuba.
Reviews:
Cappuccino PC on FutureLooks - and no, it doesn't make coffee.
Antec Jet Cool HSF on TweakTown.
Soyo K7 Dragon motherboard on AwareMag.
NanoTherm Thermal Compound (and some of those sometimes misleading "Let's not start the scale at zero" graphs) on OverclockersClub.
Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce3 video card on NewsForge. (Update: It's down at the moment, try again later).
Romtec Trios Multiple IDE Hard Drive Selector on Hardware Extreme.
ECS K7S5A motherboard on The TechZone.
Via C3 733MHz on OCWorkBench.
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