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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 10-January-2006 13:00:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Asteroid sends word of a Perth BBQ meet for OCAU'ers at King's Park on Sunday the 15th. That's this Sunday!
MadShimps have a 120mm fan roundup, while a large pile of heatsinks are compared on FrostyTech.
Your pets are microchipped, so why can't you be, some people think. With a wave of his hand, Amal Graafstra, a 29-year-old entrepreneur based in Vancouver, Canada, opens his front door. With another, he logs onto his computer.
LegionHW ponder the continuing Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD war. They are both aiming to deliver feasible HDTV recording options, larger memory capacities with increased performance, as well as a more secure media format.
HAVIC spotted this editorial on ArsTechnica about Intel's major weak spot. One of the worst pieces of news to come out of Intel's October roadmap reorganization was the fact that the introduction of the company's long-planned Common System Interconnect technology would be postponed. CSI is the "HyperTransport killer" that's supposed to let Xeon and Itanium processors share the same system hardware.
Here's something odd, a strange chemical reaction video. Pretty cool effect, anyone know what's reacting in it?
Tech-Hounds are on a quest for lag-free gaming. In this article, we look at what we can do to eliminate memory-related stuttering and what's the best solution to have a lag free gaming rig.
Will sent a reminder that there's a lot of fake eBay emails going around. The old "someone used your account to make fake bids, so you need to confirm your details", as well as a few from people pretending to ask you questions about items you've probably never even heard of. Check emailed URLs very carefully, some of them look like ebay URLs but aren't. Personally I ignore these emails completely, even though I do do a little eBaying occasionally.
CreativeMods have a new modder of the month with an interesting "field telephone" mod.
Eroda sent in this tongue-in-cheek video pointing out similarities between Windows Vista and OSX.
NASA has made a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency for flights to and from the ISS. While NASA has only contracted for six months of services at this point, Mathews said Russia has agreed to honor the $21.8 million per seat price through 2011.
Maxtor has a few new external hard drive products, including a one terabyte model. However, the fate of the OneTouch line remains in doubt, given that rival Seagate agreed to buy Maxtor for about $1.9 billion in December
HWZone.il have articles about the new Centrino and some interviews with Intel, here, here and here.
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