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Saturday, 25-September-2004 12:50:14 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Comindico have been forced into administration, appointing a receiver and manager on Friday. There's a PDF here with the announcement, and some coverage on Whirlpool. AustralianIT report that Cisco, among others, are involved in this development. Thanks to everyone who sent those in. This is interesting because firstly Comindico provide a huge number of smaller ISPs with the products they on-sell to customers, but also because Comindico host AusGamers and therefore OCAU. Am I worried? Not at all, no. Nobody really knows what effect this will have in the long term anyway, so we'll just wait and see what happens for now.
The BBC report on a web tool that may make broken links a thing of the past. I guess you could do a similar thing by making any broken link point to a google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search for the same keywords/context. Hmm.
Microsoft are suing spammers again. Hooray!
HardwareAnalysis have a bit of a ranty editorial about ATI's approach to Linux drivers. From where I’m sitting this looks like we’ll end up with support for their PCI-E products on the SuSe Linux distribution alone, which could be worse than having no support at all.
The ABC have a story about how a long-necked dinosaur could hunt underwater. When Dinocephalosaurus orientalis jabbed its head forward during a hunt, the ribs along its neck would splay outward, increasing the diameter of the oesophagus, creating a suction that would swallow the pressure wave created by the lunging head, as well as downing the prey.
The HardOCP 500 is a guide to the best upgrades available for $500 USD. On a similar note, ArsTechnica have a System Guide posted.
Sony have decided to join the MP3 party at last, supporting them in upcoming walkman products. You can still use their proprietary format if you want to go through the hassle of converting your songs, though. Murray sent in more info about their iPod challenger, which will cost $100 more than the equivalent from Apple.
Apparently they're making a movie of DOOM3.. grrrrreat.
UT2004 junkies will want to grab the Editor's Choice Edition pack, which seems to be only about 84MB, so dialuppers can grab it overnight.
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