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Wednesday Afternoon
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Wednesday, 7-December-2005 14:59:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Australians trying to download Kazaa now receive a large red message instead. More info here and here, thanks Banger. However, record companies are accusing Kazaa of ignoring the Court order. Meanwhile RealNetworks is launching a free (limited) music service on the Web.
This virtual environment technology from Philips sounds pretty cool. I guess it's just taking the idea of a home theatre room to the next level of immersion, with a focus on gaming. By utilizing this technology, the treacherous journey through the Amazon will turn a room jungle green, swimming with dolphins will splash it deep blue, 'Halo' jumps will turn fans on full, lightning storms will trigger strobe effects of white light and pirate ships on fire off the coast of treasure island will blast on the heaters, Philips indicated.
Iroquois sent word that a new mammal may have been discovered in the jungles of Borneo. "Researchers from the WWF" makes me think of burly men in bright spandex over-acting their way around the jungle..
Corsair memory gets a going-over on LegionHW, with XMS and Value Select compared.
AusFX have a contest where you can win a GeFore 6600 video card, by filling in a quick survey. The Tech Report have a hefty giveaway for Xmas also.
NordicHW spent some time overclocking the P4 660, using a variety of cooling methods.
If you've been drooling while waiting for Gigabyte's i-RAM solid-state SATA hard drive, check out this competing product from UK-based HyperOS, that can be expanded up to 16GB. I can't wait until these things are mature enough that we can run OCAU's databases from one.
Bit-Tech compared mid-range video cards, namely the XFX GeForce 6600 DDR2 and MSI Radeon X1300 Pro 256MB. At the high-end, Hexus looked at two X1800XL cards from ASUS and HIS.
It's fair enough when unsuspecting end-users get fooled by eBay-phishing emails.. but even eBay get caught sometimes.
Bit-Tech wonder whether SATA or PATA is better for DVD burners. We put a SATA Plextor up against an established burner, a PATA 110D from Pioneer.
PC Perspective have updated their hardware leaderboard, with recommendations for Dream, High-End, Mid-Range and Budget systems. DesignTechnica meanwhile have a holiday gaming gear guide.. go the chainsaw controller! If that's still not your style, consider these gifts for the obscenely rich on CNNMoney.
HWZone went to the recent dual-core challenge issued by AMD to Intel.. who didn't turn up.
Phoronix looked in more detail at Linux SLI with the 1.0-8174 drivers. Although there are a few buggy areas with the drivers, the SLI benefits reached as high as a 294% improvement over a single-card configuration!"
FiringSquad consider the video quality of three video cards: the NVIDIA GeForce 6600, the ATI Radeon X800, and the XGI Volari 8300. Test-taking skills will tell you that FiringSquad wouldn't have bothered talking about the XGI Volari 8300 unless it had something special to offer...
NASA are celebrating a successful year of exploration by the twin Mars Rovers. That's a Martian year of course, or 690 Earth days. They have shown that the same geological processes are at work there as on Earth, and raise the prospect that life existed on the once wetter planet.
Interesting Forum Threads:
512MB HIS X1800XT PCI-E adventure in Video Cards.
Want your Typhoon to run 2C cooler? in Overclocking & Hardware.
Application Form for Opteron 939s (satire) in AMD Hardware.
The WRX Experience in Motoring.
Guess that camera! in Photography.
Battleships are awesome in The Pub.
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