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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 9-September-2004 14:33:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Shacknews report on a DOOM3 Beta Patch that adds, among other things, widescreen support.
In a move that will go some way to silencing the security-related sniggers of Mac OSX snobs, Apple have released 15 patches for security flaws.
Wired report that spam and popups, probably the most annoying way to advertise on the internet, are, also annoyingly, not as ineffective as we'd like to hope.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about hardware hackers having fun while voiding their warranties.
There's a report on Yahoo that the floppy disk is becoming a relic of the past. No kidding! I haven't had a floppy drive in any of my PC's in years. "People say they want a floppy drive, and then I ask them, 'When was the last time you used it?' A lot of the time, they say, 'Never,'" Bhakta said. I remember ranting in my VapoChill Mk2 PE review about the drivers only coming on floppy at the time. Do they come on CD now?
AnandTech have an editorial covering the history of desktop graphics processors from ATI and NVIDIA.
Guru3D spotted some benchmarks comparing NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 with the not-yet-announced Radeon X700 from ATI.
Lexmark has a recall of some shocking printers. This recall affects the E232, E232t, E330, E332, E332n and E332tn models.
Samsung have a phone on the way with a tiny hard-drive inside. The phone is equipped with a one-inch diagonal 1.5 gigabyte hard disc drive that expands the memory capacity of mobile phones from the conventional 100 megabyte.
The NZ-based supercomputer used to create Lord Of The Rings effects is up for hire now. The supercomputer itself comprises 504 IBM blade servers, each of which contains two 2.8 Gigahertz Intel Xeon processors, 6 Gigabytes of memory and 40 Gigabytes of storage. Hmm, what wouldn't our Folding@Home Team do for an hour alone with that.
On a grander scale, the world's largest computer grid with over 6,000 computers at 78 sites, is supposed to be tested this week. Wouldn't the various distributed computing projects count as a larger grid than that? Anyway, this is another knock-on effect from the Large Hadron Collider which will come online in 2007 and produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which needs to be shuffled around and crunched. It's the reason for the internet speed record testing we first linked on Monday Morning, too. High-energy physicists are excited about the LHC because they hope it will allow them to find the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that they believe creates mass.
If you've decided that SP2 is not for you, you can hold off this Windows XP patch for 240 days now. At the end of this period, Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems. I guess you can still do what I'm doing, and not tell Windows Update to actually go ahead with the install just yet. I notice the October issue of APC magazine, as well as having a fascinating 2-page article about installing a watercooling kit, written by one of the most attractive, witty and modest technology writers around, also includes WinXP SP2 on CD.
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