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Sunday Evening (3 Comments) (link)
 Sunday, 12-September-2004  18:21:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg

More coverage of the Intel Developer Forum on HWZ (and here), Hexus, (with more Intel and AMD info), LegitReviews and Xbit.

Unfortunately all is not well on the International Space Station, with the failure of some oxygen-generators onboard. The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some "trade secret" about the final adjustments of the devices -- and it died with him.

TheTechZone have an editorial covering their thoughts on why Dell won't sell a Linux desktop.

Last month's "Iron Photographer" contest in our Photography forum is now open for judging. Go cast your vote in this thread. The theme was "Transportation".

Soc sent in The Rasterbator. The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size!

PCStats explain safe mode in WinXP, while personal air filters are covered on FutureLooks.

Fatal1ty, the most successful professional gamer, was killing people at ECTS and talking to people on GuruReview.

OCModShop cover PCB etching, with moving to a laptop examined on PCMech.

Sniper noticed this TheReg article about the desktop market share fight between Intel and AMD. AMD-based desktops first outsold Intel-based machines this year in the week ending 24 April 2004 - the first time they have done so for some years.

Interesting Forum Threads:
It's a factory.. what else to add? in Graphics and Programming.
Argh, the waiting game is killing me! in SMP & Clustering.
Basic Nutrition in Sport, Fitness & Health.
Best way to get into photography in Photography.
Mushroom cloud reported in North Korea in Current Events.



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