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Thursday Morning
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Thursday, 27-December-2001 11:08:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Well, that was a Christmas to remember. :) No power, smoke everywhere, driving back from the South Coast through smouldering, charred bushland and being stopped by emergency vehicles etc. I know a lot of people are still caught up in it and worst of all many homes have been destroyed. There's a lot of pictures and accounts from people in our Media & Current Events forum. Kaan is collecting pictures on his site, too. I have friends who are close to being evacuated and others who are actually fighting the fires at the moment. Good luck to you all.
My email has been screwy the last couple of days, so if you sent me something and I haven't replied, don't panic. I think the news-box emails are not getting through, either. Hopefully it's all queueing somewhere and will come through in a big dump later.
Tonight I'm going to see the new Lord Of The Rings film. A few people in IRC have seen it already and I've yet to hear a negative opinion of it. JimX made the bold statement that it's the best film he's ever seen. For those of you who've already seen it (or don't mind a few plot spoilers), there's a couple of "quick impressions"-type reviews, one in our forums and one (longer) here on AusGamers. Don't read those if you don't want to know about the film! There's some desktop images from the film on Wireplay.
A few sites that reviewed the ATI Radeon 8500 have gone back and re-reviewed it with new drivers. Drivers have traditionally been the weak spot with ATI but it seems this latest revision unleash a lot more performance from this chipset - how does a "free" upgrade of 500 3DMarks at 800x600 sound? [H]ard|OCP are the latest to offer a re-review of this particular videocard.. same card, new drivers.. they compare it to a GF3 Ti500 card, with impressive results.
A couple of heatsink comparisons, here on Max3D and here on PlanetSavage.
DesignTechnica checked out a normal-looking stereo that can play MP3's and even stream audio from the internet. AtlantaOC have a project to build your own hardware MP3 player.
Haroc points out this game which seems the express route to RSI of your clicky finger.
There's a LAN in Brisbane.. tomorrow. :)
A slightly delayed ZZZ Online this week.
Reviews:
Chaintech GF3 Ti200 video card on Digit-Life.
Palit Daytona GF3 Ti200 video card on Digit-Life.
OCZ Implosion full-tower case on Rizenet.
Lian-Li PC71 aluminium full-tower case on PlanetSavage.
MSI 845 Ultra ARU P4 motherboard with DDR on Hexus.
AOpen AK77 Plus SocketA DDR motherboard on BlueSmoke.
ATI DV Wonder video capture card on IANAG.
Power COoler PCH155 socket cooler on CoolerHut
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