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Bad news for anyone who trades warez at a LAN.. Krim points out that over at big Denmark LAN, Connect #12 (article in German, use the 'fish), a bunch of copyright enforcement officers decided to turn up and observe mass leeching. Not good, for either the people leeching or any LANners in general. We all know warez illegal, but often the solution to curb it involves stopping all file sharing.. including legit stuff. I doubt the same will happen at the next big aussie LAN, but it's still something to be wary of.
Ever wonder what a .ZOO file was? Or a .MWP? Kazashi points out this handy site which associates programs with their windows file extensions. Also handy is this what’s-that-font page that Munkiboy pointed out.
The broo-ha-ha surrounding ATI's optimisation of their Radeon8500 drivers for QuakeIII is getting deeper.. Tech-Report has discovered that by "Quackifying" QuakeIII (ie; disabling the optimisations) the image quality goes up.. so ATI's 'optimizations' may be a bit suspect. Not to mention all the issues surrounding the different clock speed ratings of OEM and Retail cards. Finally, review site Radeonic has decided to shut their doors temporarily as ATI have been giving them the run around. To me the whole situation smacks of a rushed release..
New dets are something we haven’t seen in about a week, and not to disappoint Volnhar points out 22.80 dets over on M3DZone. I'm unsure how well they perform, but I'm sure a few of you will discover it for yourselves. OCcafe let us know they have a mirror up here along with this amusing anecdote.. I suppose the NEDs are like the weather here in Virginia; if you don't like it, wait 15 minutes and it will change.
Ninsei points out this rather cool time suck page that has archived web pages from way back in '96. Due to huge server load they are pretty slow at the moment, and most of the site isn't even loading.. but once it's back up it will be pretty cool I imagine. You can relive what the 'net was like back in the days of Netscape 1.1N.
Andy noticed that VIA have released a new motherboard design format in the vein of ATX and microATX.. they've named it miniITX and it's intended for micro-implementations of PC's. It is over half the size of FlexATX, which itself is much smaller than microATX which is around 1/3 the size of your normal ATX board.. so very small indeed.
MikhailTech are celebrating their 1st birthday by giving away lots of cool stuff including an Alpha PAL8045 and an Athlon XP1600+
Stabo points out a community wireless project similar to the Brisbane Mesh that we talked about a while ago is starting up in South Australia. If wireless community nets are your thing you might want to check out Whirlpool's big list to see if there is one in your area.
Michael points out yet another graphics card tweak utility in the form of UniTuner.
Finally tonight, ArsTechnica have an excellent piece up comparing the Intel P4 architecture to the architecture of Apple's G4 processor. Quite an interesting read because it explains both the P4 and G4 parts work, and then contrasts them together and leaves you with a better understanding of how a Mac works and how it's different to an AMD/Intel system. I believe it is really worth your mouse clicks and time, go and read it if you can.
Reviews: Akasa Silver Mountain on AMDmb. DIY Case-Badge Kit on OCIA. EPoX 8KHA+ on SerialAddiction. IWill XP333 on OCwb. Shuttle AK32 Rev 3.1 on AMDpower. Crucial DDR on Hexus.
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