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News is quiet today, but Wokket has sent in a heap of off topic but never the less cool stuff to spice up your evening.. I'll let his words tell the story..
Some NBA players (including Shaq) have been fined US$5000 for wearing their shorts too low: here.
MS are settling some cases out of court, to quote the fark headline "Microsoft reaches settlement in private anti-trust cases: As penalty will put $1.1B of MS advertising in poor schools", full info here.
MS also reckon the world rotates in the wrong direction (not around them??), check it out here.
Also in technology, some guy recons he's got 20DVD's onto 1 CD, full info here.
In a move worthy of us Aussies, an English vicar is now holding his sermons in the local pub: here.
In the same vain, a Scottish library has plans to install a pub inside its doors, the story here: here.
And finally a whole group that recon Nazis and aliens live in a hollow core at the centre of the planet, see it here.
If stubborn molex power connectors are annoying the heck out of you when you want to move your hard drive around, this thread in the forums might be just the trick to avoid future frustrations.
Torana pointed out this article similar to the one Wokket pointed out regarding MS's antitrust settlement.. taking a different tack, this article speaks of MS donating US$1.18bn of software, computers and training to the poorest US schools.
Meanwhile, Radix noticed over on the reg an article suggesting Hynix (formally Hyundai) may be shut down or sold to a foreign competitor (possibly Micron).. Incidentally, a revamp of Hynix's current plant has been suggested as one of the reasons memory prices have recently jumped up.
CaseJunkiez have checked out Laser LED's, a different way of lighting up your case (obviously) using LED's as apposed to a cathode or a neon. Good in theory, but they don’t like it in practice. Incidentally, it is also their birthday month and they are still giving stuff away. Can't hurt to enter.
VyW have an article up covering a mod they did to their socket to allow more accurate temperature measuring. It's exactly the same as what Agg did to his A7V a while ago, in that they have dremelled out a path in the socket to allow a thermistor to be directly attached to the bottom of the CPU. Voiding your warranty indeed.
PCStats have a write-up about this years COMDEX. There wasn't much in the way of interesting stuff there, so they reckon it sucked. Fair call.. i845DDR and NV17 seem to be about the coolest stuff that was released at the show, and from our perspective, they are both pretty insignificant.. i845DDR we have seen coming for a long while, and how many overclockers use a laptop as their primary system?
Scriion sends in this hack for Radeon 8500 boards to flash your OEM board to a Retail version.. there is a bit of a clock speed advantage to be had with the Retail boards, so it can't be too painful. Unless of course it stuffs up, in which case you'll be left with an ornamental $600 wall hanging that OCAU take no responsibility for at all.
Finally tonight, Komson sends in his voltage mod for the EPoX 8KHA+ KT266A board allowing you to boost the VCORE up to 2.16V from its previous maximum of 1.85V.
Reviews:
Thermaltake Volcano for P4 on ClubOC.
ABIT BL7-RAID i850 board on IANAG.
Alpha PAL8045 on IANAG.
Case Badge Lightning on TTZ.
Chaintech 7VJDA KT266A board on BenchHouse.
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