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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 28-August-2001 14:04:11 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Loki, OCAU's second server, is now up and running in Brisbane. Thanks to Teredonn for hosting it for us. Loki will mostly function behind the scenes - the first thing you should notice is that the DNS is now fixed. Any of you who either couldn't access the forums.overclockers.com.au host or had to use an entry in your HOSTS file should now be able to connect fine. If you did add an entry to your HOSTS file you should remove it now, to avoid any problems when/if we move the forums to a new server in the future. Loki is a dual P2-450, nothing too amazing, but I'll make a proper PCDB entry for it soon. Thanks to Manaz and Alchemy for keeping the news flowing while I banged my head against my DNS manual. :)
There's an interesting poll here in The Pub forum, about the future of The Pub. It's not as serious as it seems so don't panic, but I was quite surprised by the balanced results so far and thought it deserved wider attention. So, go express your opinion!
leperMessiah sent along word from a distributor that AMD's 1GHz Duron should be available in Oz next week for about AUD$180. I presume that's the reseller price so maybe $200 for you and me? Either way, with 1GHz (Tbird) Athlons sitting at about the $200 mark also, I know which I'd be buying.. until all the 1GHz Athlons run out, that is. More info on AMD's price cutting here and here, thanks Leo.
Addicted to CS or some other high-adrenaline game? Might pay to take a break every now and then.. and avoid snuffing it for real. The suspicion in that case is that drugs slipped into the drinking water at the Internet Cafe may be to blame. Net access and free drugs? I bet that place's popularity takes a big jump. :)
GideonTech whacked a couple of big heater cores into their case to use as radiators..
Thanks to Dr Kildare for a TheInquirer link saying WinXP Activation may be dropped for Dell and other big OEM's - is this the first sign that MS are accepting what seems to be a general market feeling that XP Activation is Not Cool. Jeff McLuckie had a look at Win XP, including the "Activation" licence-enforcement system for us here on OCAU.
Chris noticed this new XHTML 1.0 tutorial. XHTML is the new standard for web authoring and addresses some important issues - this tutorial might be a good place to start if you're keen to learn it.
TechGamer have a guide to the poor man's case mod.. uh-oh. :) Actually didn't turn out too bad, but I wonder how many Poor Men have Dremels.
A couple more tricked out boxes from Guamy (go the fans!) and Carnage_cdl.
Some more carbon nanotube info from Shannon.. supposedly the Next Big Thing.. or is that the Next Next Big Thing, I keep losing track.
SysOpt have a few new things posted.. articles on case cooling, GeForce tweaking and P3 overclocking.
Daron noticed this service for finding old school chums.. providing they want to be found, that is.
ALI have announced their new P4 chipset which supports SDR and DDR memory.
Building a satellite on the cheap sounds almost like an oxymoron, but it's been done, thanks Paul.
Mort discovered that the SliMP3 device from yesterday's news should go for about $275.. USD presumably, but that's not too bad.
Interesting (old) article about scientists claiming to have broken the speed of light, thanks Brendan.
From Wokket: A church for dogs and blokes getting pregnant in ancient India.
Reviews:
Thermalright CB-6L socket cooler on CaseJunkiez.
Intel 2GHz Pentium4 processor on OCOnline.
Senfu Thermal Probe on PC-Critic.
IWill KK266-Plus KT133A-based SDR SocketA motherboard on PCStats.
Iwill KK266 plus-R KT133A-based SDR SocketA mobo with RAID on Radeonic.
NoiseControl 1888 Slot A cooler on ModdingZone. Our 6-way SlotA cooler roundup here.
Cyber Cooler P-5700 copper socket cooler on MikhailTech.
Abit TH7-II RAID and 2GHz P4 on Icrontic.
Enermax temp-controlled drive rack on TacoNuts.
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