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Friday, 10-September-2004 00:01:11 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Intel's Developer Forum is on at the moment and there's plenty of coverage out there. Hexus have an intro and keynote speech, as well as DTCP/IP and multi-core technologies. Xbit have day one coverage, and a look at the show floor. Back to Hexus for DDR2 & DDR3 developments, as well as NVIDIA's presentation. They have more from Intel and some mobility info. HWZ also have day 1 coverage.
Lombers sent in this groovy Gmail Filesystem utility. GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.
Also cool are these release-and-forget robots that fuel themselves by catching flies.
Microsoft have managed to patent the use of the Tab key to navigate between hyperlinks on a page.. sigh. Thanks Iroquois.
TweakTown pondered how computer audio is a forgotten component nowadays.
Short-Media attempt to explain dual-core technology, the buzzword of the moment.
Scott sends word that Autopatcher has been updated. This is apparently the all-in-one updater for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003.
Kamehameha notes that Sept 19th is talk like a pirate day. Yarrr!
There's some GeForce 6600GT voltmodding and overclocking on Xbit.
Dan has more letters, about brightening CRTs, long-lived batteries, power cable speaker cables, close-up telescopy, steel odour eaters, tiny helicopters, spud gun lighters, and pr0n.
BigWilly sent in this article about photonic wires being researched at the Uni of Sydney. But it will revolutionise the communications network, helping link the globe through light, quickly and cheaply.
More info from Intel in the form of an interview on PenStar.
Xbit compared two subnotebooks from ASUS, while GeForce 6800 Ultra cards from Leadtek and AOpen are examined on TrustedReviews.
Oosh was one of many who sent word of the Genesis probe crashing on re-entry. Main page for it here. The probe was collecting solar wind particles for analysis, it was supposed to be caught by helicopter on re-entry but, it's parachute didn't deploy and it crashed. :( Hopefully they'll be able to recover something useful for analysis. More info here and here. An image of the impact here. More info here on NewScientist.
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