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Sunday Afternoon Catchup
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Sunday, 6-November-2005 15:13:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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HWAnalysis looked at upcoming Intel and AMD CPUs, while FlingingSquids have an Intel vs AMD shootout in Quake 4, thanks James.
Jim spotted a Sydney PC vendor being ordered to pay Microsoft damages to the tune of A$1.3M for selling copied software. More info here, thanks Nick.
From B00zer: The November Iron Designer has began with the theme of "My Friend the Toaster". Discussion thread can be found here. Congratulations to "amobea" for winning the September ’05 Iron Designer. Voting has now commenced for the October 05’ Iron Designer can here.
Sony have an update to un-hide the copy-protection software sneakily installed by some of their audio CDs, thanks Neil. Sniper sent in an article with more info on Sony's response.
This is a bit random, but I was experimenting with a capture card and video camera earlier today and took a 14MB capture of a top-fuel drag car going bang at Western Sydney International Dragway about a month ago.. the file is here.
Designtechnica have a podcast review of various logitech products and some other topics.
ARP updated their desktop graphics card comparison, which now covers 242 cards. They also have a workstation cards comparison with 73 cards.
LegionHW compared some of the latest video cards, namely ATi Radeon X1800XL vs. NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT.
From Shalmanese: The October battle of the Iron Cook-off (Battle beans) is over and voting for it has begun. Discussion here, Entries here, Voting here. The November battle has just begun. November's battle is EGGS! Discussion here, Entries here.
TheTechZone cover email security, while forgotten WinXP passwords are recovered on PCStats.
TechReport examine if low-latency memory is worth paying so much extra for. Read on as we explore the effects of memory latency on Athlon 64 performance in synthetic memory benchmarks, games and real-world applications.
Dougy spotted this quad graphics SLI board from Gigabyte on THG. Gigabyte's latest stroke of genius is the GA-8N SLI Quad Royal, and is a very high-end motherboard that powers an Intel socket 775 Pentium 4, Pentium D or Pentium Extreme Edition processor via an NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset.
There was a video floating around a few months ago of 250,000 superballs being released on a San Francisco street for a commercial.. well, the commercial is now viewable on the net, thanks Dave.
EverythingUSB found some software that lets you share USB devices across a network, with a 15-day free trial.
Tafe dude sent word of Alien Arena 2006, a free game gunning to compete with the big commercial products.
Mitch01 sent in this article showing overwhelming support for an R18+ rating for games in Australia. However, only 27 per cent of those surveyed were aware no such classification existed for games. At present, the Office of Film and Literature Classification will only classify games up to MA(15+).
From fnkychkn: My bro (baron) works in the towers at sydney airport, and he just let me know that "SACL have advised that the A380 is expected in Sydney on Sunday 13th November at 10:00 local for a 34L arrival. Departs Monday about 9:00 am." Also they're looking at shutting down general Holmes Dr. for a kilometer each way. The best spot to watch will be in front of my work at the old control tower, or if you want to get closer to the plane but not see much in the way of landing at the new control tower. There's also a little parking lot on the other side of the bridge across from my work that prob won't get too packed out. I'm not sure how many ppls are going to come see. If you don't know what an A380 is it's a big plane 24 m high with 3 decks, capacity of up to 840 ppls, 80 m wingspan which'll hang over the airport bridge as it goes over. In short it's big.
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