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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 23-June-2005 14:45:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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NVIDIA have new drivers to go along with their new video chip. Phoronix checked out the Linux version.
I'm surprised to have not heard more about this.. TheReg report on an Australian court case where people are being prosecuted for linking to allegedly copyright files. Fact is, unless Oz gets some real changes to its Copyright Act including the introduction of a real fair use exemption, the scope for any future law suits by ARIA will remain unacceptably wide.
AusGamers have a new Far Cry Patch, v 1.32, fixing various issues. They also have the latest version of NASA World Wind, which is a bit like Google Maps in that it lets you zoom in and look at the planet via satellite images. Big download and bandwidth-intensive during use, though.. not that Google Maps isn't also.
If you're a C coder you might be interested in this free e-book offered via TheInquirer. The work is entitled: "The New C Standard - An Economic and Cultural Commentary" and is described as, "a detailed analysis of the International Standard for the C language". Given that it's hosted on the author's personal webspace, I've taken the liberty of mirroring it on our server here (8MB PDF).
Cancer has claimed Jack Kilby, who invented the integrated circuit. By hand-wiring together multiple transistors, Kilby's invention -- about half the size of a paper clip -- spawned a revolution in miniaturization in which millions of circuits are now housed on tiny pieces of silicon used in devices from computers to elevators to pacemakers.
TrustedReviews compared a couple of upside-down fulltower cases from SilverStone and Enermax.
FiringSquad have a review of Battlefield 2.. I know a lot of people have it already, but if you're still just playing the demo like me, check out what else is in store.
Apparently you can run Linux on your iPod, thanks DarthDVD.
Rob_blong sent in this long video of a cool little remote-controlled boat/plane/sled. Reminds me of these things we used to make in high school, which were basically a lump of polystyrene foam with an RC motor on the back. Clip has annoying music (from about my highschool era!)
OCW have modded an nForce 4 motherboard to nForce 4 SLI with some scraping and pencilling.
Murray spotted some hard disk encryption on the way from Seagate.
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