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Saturday Evening (7 Comments) (link)
 Saturday, 27-November-2004  22:03:13 (GMT +10) - by aftahours

A new regulatory filing from Florida-based firm Infinium Labs has revealed that the company needs to find fresh funding of around $11.5 million if it is to launch its Phantom game service next year as planned. Full story here. Thanks Dj_Pain

Heaps of people sent in that the counter-strike robber has been found guilty of murder.

In the UK, Microsoft is offering to replace counterfeit versions of Windows XP with legal ones. Full story on BBC.

Lycos has just started distributing a screensaver that they claim will hurt spammers. Thanks Ice_Cold!

For those of you that haven't got round to playing Half life 2, Phoronix has just posted some more screenshots for you to drool over.

Accelenation has had an interview with the senior technology manager, Mark Tekunoff at Kingston Technology.

BleedinEdge has an article posted discussing the differences between 90nm and 130nm CPUs.

Some music companies are finding ways to use P2P to their advantage, although RIAA still continues to keep sueing downloaders of MP3s via file-sharing networks.

TCMagazine has a comparison between the 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12 Catalyst drivers posted.

Alex sent in a news about a free tool that allows users to run applications with limited rights (eg. your browser) whilst logged in as an Administrator which makes it much less likely that you will be negatively affected by malware (spyware, trojans, etc).

According to TSN Internet's website they are offering ADSL2+ if you are on a 'TSN enabled exchange'. From their FAQ: Yes we will service customers beyond the standard 4.5kms from the exchange. We are currently evaluating how far we can go. We have heard some people say 15km is not a problem but we doing these on a case by case basis.

This guy started this mod back in July and has been updating his page quite often with the progress of the mod. His latest update has some pictures of the near finished look of the case, and it looks pretty cool indeed.

New Via Hyperion 4in1 drivers are available from Via Arena's site, version 455VP1.

Dan has more letters posted. In this issue: DVI to CRTs, MPEG rotation, smoke reduction, PC PhoneHome, LED lamps, and magnetic miracle cures.

Hardware Analysis has a brief article posted - Half-Life 2, the bane of ATI and NVIDIA’s existence?



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