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Monday Middayish
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Monday, 12-December-2005 12:54:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Intel plan to show off a prototype transistor made from indium antimonide instead of silicon. Intel says that replacing silicon with indium antimonide cuts power consumption by 10 times while boosting performance by 50 percent. Meanwhile the top 10 chip makers rankings for 2005 have been published, with Intel and Samsung at the top.
Techgage report on two weeks of Xbox360 usage. By popular demand we now have a separate Games Consoles forum on OCAU, too.
OCW cover a new M1967 A64 chipset from ULi. We don't really hear much about ULi, hopefully some benchmarks will be forthcoming. Update: a review of the reference board with benchies here.
An interesting story at the moment involves a Wiki prankster who entered some false info into a colleague's Wikipedia entry. This highlights a potential problem with accuracy in Wikis, while some are reporting that anonymous editing will be disabled on Wikipedia, although a quick check shows it hasn't been yet. Our own OCAU Wiki authenticates via OCAU's Forum database, so you need a forum account in order to edit our Wiki pages.
Xbit have a roundup of video cards for gaming, as well as a Mobility Radeon X1600 review and a look at two new 2.5" hard drives from Seagate.
There's a variant of the Sober worm that has something planned for January 5. The date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the founding of the Nazi Party. The release of worms has been tied to political events in the past, iDefense noted, in a kind of "hactivisim" designed to distribute propaganda.
FiringSquad suggest their top 10 holiday gadgets for 2005. I recommend the LaCie Brick simply because it looks like a giant LEGO block.
Not only can you get in trouble for uploading or downloading copyright music, but now the MPA is pushing for prison time for people who publish song lyrics, guitar tabs and musical scores. 'Unauthorised use of lyrics and tablature deprives the songwriter of the ability to make a living, and is no different than stealing,' he said.
If your wireless signal is a bit weak, maybe you need a larger antenna, thanks Boyd. Will arrange for local pickup only (no shipping).
Quite a few timewasters doing the rounds today. Firstly from Nick comes Slingshot Santa, while people in our The Pub forum have been playing Sober Santa (thread here), online Millionaire Quiz (thread here) and an oldie but a goodie, Virtual Bartender which probably isn't work safe, thread here. Finally from Fen, this Jedi Trainer game. Erm i played it for over 5 hours. I Stopped cause the sun came up again.. thats how good it is.
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