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Tuesday, 21-September-2004 18:39:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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In an odd move, id Software are releasing the demo of DOOM3 long after the full game was released for sale. Anyway, you can grab it here, if you're wondering what all the fuss was about.
PC-Welt have an article about some security issues with WinXP SP2. It is not advisable to keep this defective default configuration.
The MPAA seems to have overstepped the mark in their quest to snare copyright infringers in Australia. Smith told Builder AU the incident demonstrated that the process used to locate allegedly illegal files on Australian servers was flawed, and the MPAA could be infringing a number of local laws.
A telescope in Antarctica may be able to far outperform the Hubble Space Telescope, and could be built at a tiny fraction of its cost, says a scientist from the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney, Australia.
To show off a feature of their processors, VIA released some file deletion software as Open Source freeware recently. For those wanting to permanently delete unwanted files for security or privacy reasons, overwriting with random numbers instead of, for example, just a long string of zeros, makes it harder to recover information.
HardwareAnalysis wonder what's really new lately, and decide: not much. At the end of the day we can only reach the conclusion that a ’99 or ’00 PC is still running fine in 2004, and only needs a graphics upgrade to be able to play all current games fluently, for all other tasks it has enough computing power to get the job done.
MadShrimps spent some time exploring the max HyperTransport speed they could get on the ASUS A8V motherboard.
Xbit have a guide to voltage modding your PSU. Remember there's mains voltage inside your PSU, which can kill you dead if you don't respect it.
HardOCP looked at three PCI-Express cards based on ATI's X600XT GPU.
ArsTechnica cover pipelining - what it is and what it does. When looking at the architecture of the different CPUs used in desktop systems, whether a Pentium 4, Athlon 64, PowerPC 970FX, or PPC 7447, one of the things that differs on each CPU is the pipeline.
Digital-Silence look at DirectX past and future.
XtremeResources decided a VapoChill LS just wasn't cold enough. We start with a brand new asetek vapochill LS, add a baker evaporator and fine tune the capillary tube length for the new evaporator and recharge with a high pressure refrigerant for optimal performance.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's some Swiss guy whizzing around the Alps like a rocket-propelled bird.
If you're an NAB customer and use online banking, be wary of a trojan aimed at stealing your password, thanks Bern.
2CPU.com, who we haven't heard all that much from lately, have coverage of an Iwill event in Akihabara, that mystical region of Tokyo where all new PC goodies seem to appear first. Iwill apparently showcased their new workstation, small form factor, and server class hardware.
Josh mentioned something about the air traffic control problem we linked a few days ago, that will add fire to the Microsoft/Unix holy war: The newspaper said that a Microsoft-based replacement for an older Unix system needed to be reset every thirty days 'to prevent data overload', as a result of problems found when the system was first rolled out.
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