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Sunday, 5-September-2004 18:35:37 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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IBM are recalling over half a million notebook power adapters due to a heat/shock/fire danger, thanks Wolfy. The adapters, manufactured by Delta Electronics, are said to be included in the systems sold between January 1999 and August 2000. The main systems being recalled include IBM’s ThinkPad i Series notebooks and ThinkPad 390 and 240 series.
Games publisher Acclaim has collapsed into bankruptcy. Acclaim became embroiled in controversy over the Mortal Kombat series, developed by Midway Games. The title was the first to use images of blood and pushed the limits with its explicit violence.
Gigitt notes that Stanford have released the Folding v5.00 clients. Home Page here, downloads here. For more info about Folding@Home, check out our Folding Team page or our Team OCAU - Distributed Computing forum.
PodgeSSS spotted this heatproof glass that could save on air-con bills.
From Kyocera: Official release of Windows Media Player 10 here. Also be sure to download this new Vis for WMP10 *clouds etc* called Energy Bliss.
Here's a few classic arcade games playable on the Web. Maybe bookmark that one for tomorrow.
Pheaton tested some mousepads in the real world. Trying out a new mouse pad is always fun but the one thing you don’t know is how that surface is going to perform after it has been through some long gaming sessions or had a few drinks spilled on it.
Callan sent in this jet-powered wheelchair. Wheee!
Short-Media show how to clean a laptop heatsink. My VAIO intake is full of dust, I should probably sort it out before summer hits.
PCMechanic looked at the open-source project FileZilla. Wolfy introduced me to this FTP client last weekend and I've become a convert.
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