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Phish'n'chips lets us know that there has been a 10th planet found. "...the new planet is the most distant object yet seen in the solar system, 97 times farther from the sun than the Earth. It also is the largest body yet found orbiting in the Kuiper belt, the group of icy bodies including Pluto which orbit beyond Neptune."
Interesting read on The Tech Zone about all the various Wireless Security Protocols, and what the difference is between them all.
Thetron has noticed that someone has managed to modify their Linksys router so it has an LCD display built in.
Bonafidereviews has just posted an article about SIP technology. For those who aren't familiar with this, here is a snip from the article. Session Initiation Protocol or SIP refers specifically to a language that various computers can communicate to one another in so that they can complete voice calls. It has become vitally important in recent years as it plays a central role in VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol. VoIP Is the rapidly growing technology which has millions of Americans throwing out their local and long-distance telephone bills and replacing them with free calls made over the internet.
Lots of people sent in news about this blind teenager that plays Video-Games, and is actually some-what good at them!
Lots of interesting stuff has been added to our Wiki database recently, including a guide on the Easy installation and Viewing of Videos on Ipod Photo and 4G, by a fellow OCAU member, Revenger.
Quite a few people sent in news about the 18 servers that were recently purchased from the STA (Sydney Buses and Ferries), and all the servers still contained all their data. Full story here.
Legion Hardware have posted a guide all about the different types of Memory that we have today, a great read for those users that are often confused about timings, frequencies, bandwidth, or simply what memory to buy.
A few days ago, as most of you know, Microsoft made it compulsory to validate your copy of Windows before using their Windows update feature. This 'WGA Verification' was bypassed in under 24 hours. Apparently Microsoft isn't that worried, and that they were 'expecting' users to find ways around the validation process.
SiriX tells us of a site that shows us how to make a pre-labled paper CD case just by folding up a sheet of paper. Nifty!
Adrian's Rojak Pot has updated their Workstation Graphics Card Comparison Guide, featuring nVidia's new Quadro cards.
Extreme Tech has some screenshots from Windows Vista beta 1 posted up on their site. Thanks Bler!
3DAvenue have today posted their review of the new AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and 4800+ processors. Full review, here.
Ub3r sends in our Sunday timewaster, Bring it on!.
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