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Well, the X-Box has been released in the US market, and officially launched in Australia. It won't be available for sale in Australia until March 14 next year tho, which kinda sucks. Coverage is on 3DGameMan, AcidHardware (Aussie Launch, QGL (including a video review with the Aussie director of the X-Box project), DalSat and HardOCP, including this jazzed up version of Microsoft's infamous Blue Screen of Death.. only available when you buy an X-Box!
LivePC has a cool video guide to building a device bus.. something that most of us know as a fan bus, but I suppose it could be used for other devices as well. They also have another video guide showing you how to cut a blow hole. Well, I s'pose if you had nothing planned for today, there is something for you to do - mod your case :) There is also a new version of the divx codec, v4.11 for download over on Electic.
If you're itching for case modding now, JsiHardware have another blowhole guide, PC Workshop have a neat painting guide covering metallic paint and metal flakes in your paint and HW Extreme have a review of the IMT-Max Case. Don't forget to upload pics of your beast into the PCDB when you're done.
RojakPot has a very handy guide to determining if memory problems are because of the motherboard or because of the DIMM itself. They use memtest86 in the guide, a very useful program. If you ever think you are experiencing memory problems, leaving memtest run overnight is probably the best way to find out for sure.
New SBLive software/drives are out for WindowsXP in the form of LiveWare3 v5.12.1.3512 and plain old drivers which have the MS signing XP seems to desire so badly.
AMD is now shipping 1.2GHz Durons, according to this Reg article sent in by EasyDuzIt. Value processor indeed. They've also demo'd a 0.13 micron Thoroughbred processor, the core destined to replace Palomino in time. Thanks to EazyDuzIt again :)
Tee points out this virtual keyboard that works by attaching sensors to end of your fingers and your wrist to detect the key that your finger would be hitting, should there be a keyboard there. It would kinda suck if you didn’t know how to touch type tho.. heh. Another thing that'd be a bit sucky about it is the lack of key response. Try drawing out a quick sketch of a keyboard on a piece of paper, put it on your desk and try typing at 40wpm on it. It hurts.
Tensop points out this thread in the forums by dezbin with some useful add-ons for folders. Beware 56k modem users, big screenshots lie within. The first is a program that can shift ("hide") programs from the taskbar to the system tray, which will stop the console from bugging you so much. Second is a Beta version of the FoldMonitor software, similar to the EM software we used with FAH1.
AMDmb have a COMDEX summary. The reason why there isn't so much more COMDEX news is because, well, there isn't any. There isn't much new there this year.
Stolen from slashdot, Wolfy points out these pics of the damage caused to a few PC's simply by shipping them from Canada to the USA. It's pretty horrible.. way to go UPS.
Smoothy points out that a new version of Opera has been released for windows, 6.0 beta 1. Probably the coolest thing about Opera is it allows you to use "gestures" to perform basic tasks, much the same way the game Black and White did.
Also pointed out by Smoothy is this SMH article regarding X-Box advertising. They've hired a company to go around and spray-paint, illegally and without the owner's consent, advertising on footpaths and other public property. To me that is just downright arrogant, they could at least pay for their advertising.. they are Microsoft. They should be treated in exactly the same way any other person who illegally damages public property is: pay for your damage to be cleaned up, and then some.
Finally this morning, on a slightly more upbeat note rickbishop has collected a bunch of PC's to donate to pcsforkids.org but he needs a few more parts to make them complete. He's got a thread in the forums here, so if you've got any old hard drives or CD-ROM's lying around and would like to donate them to a good cause he'd appreciate it.
Reviews:
nVidia Reference nForce Board on Digit-Life.
Artic Alimunia Adhesive Compound on BurntOutPC.
AthlonXP on BenchHouse.
Tt Volcano 7 on PimpRig.
IWill XP333 ALi B0 MAGiK1 DDR333 board on OCPrices.
Dynatron 1206BM-0 on AtlantaOC.
Akasa Silver Mountain hs/f on Radeonic.
Thermalright CB-6L on M:6.
Microsoft Office Keyboard on AcidHardware.
AthlonXP Overclocking Guide in 3DSpotlight.
Power Magic 7500 and 8500 Radeons on Digit-Life.
Genius EasyPen Graphics Tablet on RipNetUK.
Plextor 24/10/40 IDE CD-RW on OConline.
Hercules Scan@Home 48USB Scanner video review on 3DGameMan.
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