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Friday Afternoon (0 Comments) (link)
Friday, 2-November-2001 15:05:02 (GMT +10) - by Agg

It's been a bit quiet the last few days. I've been wrestling with a couple of annoying problems on the new server as well as the usual behind-the-scenes stuff. Not a whole lot happening in the hardware scene either, but the local broadband internet market is currently in a frenzy over Telstra's announcement of new pricing yesterday and the return of the 3GB cap. A lot of people sent in information but your best bet is probably to jump into our Networking and Internet forum where debate is currently raging.

It was Halloween a couple of days ago (not that we ever seem to get any trick-or-treaters, we Aussies are not much into it I guess) - Joe noted this Jack-O-Linux pumpkin PC.

How would you like to win a cow? I'd just take the cash.

Quite a few people are reporting a speed boost with the latest "leaked" Detonators. Grab them here. Happy people in this thread and this thread in Software Stuff.

Crazy man Kompson has his P4 1.5GHz at 2.4GHz and very very cold.

A cool site I'd forgotten about but has been mentioned a bit lately is HowStuffWorks.com.. very cool site with a heap of info about pretty much everything.

Silly spank the monkey flash game from mfpmax. Time-suckage potential fairly low. My record 352mph.

Bit-tech have a USB port relocation mod guide.

Reviews:
MSI K7T266-Pro2 RU SocketA DDR motherboard on PCStats.
LiteOn 52X Black CDROM on MikhailTech.
Shuttle AK31 v3.1 socketA DDR motherboard on VIAHW.
Fan Bracket with dual 80mm fans on ThinkTechie. Similar to this and these.
Cyber Cooler P-20000 socket cooler on 2fastcpu.
IWill BD133 i815e Socket730 board on GideonTech.
PowerColor Evil Sam SiS-based video card on Digit-Life.
Millennium Glaciator II socket cooler on PimpRig.
OCZ Dominator 2 socket cooler video review on 3DGameman. 3GB cappees need not apply.
3 Visiontek Titanium video cards on HotHardware.
Fan Adapter on SpodesAbode, our similar reviews here and here.
MITSUMI CR-4809TE 24x12x40 CDRW on CDRInfo.
MSI K7T266 Pro2-RU socketA DDR motherboard on AMDMB.
Abit Siluro GeForce2 MX400 video card on TweakTown.

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