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Tuesday, 2-April-2002 02:19:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I take no responsibility if any of the stuff linked today turns out to be a complete lie. :) In fact, that's one of the things that annoys me about April Fool's Day.. people these days seem to treat it like "Blatant Lie Day", rather than constructing clever ruses or parodies. Emailing everyone with "OMG, (celebrity name) is dead! Check CNN!" then laughing when they load CNN.com.. just isn't funny. It's old and tired. There is some clever stuff out there though, like on ThinkGeek and Google and to a lesser extent FreshMeat. Or maybe I just don't get the spirit of April Fool's.. suggestions for what OCAU should do next year welcome. :)
Simon Wright over on Whirlpool got plenty of people with his story about Optus@Home dramatically lowering the data cap on their cable service.. 4 or 5 people emailed us, frantic with the news.. only to immediately follow with another email saying "AARGH, they got me!" or similar. :)
A couple of interesting recent PCDB entries.. Nemast2 has an interesting 3-way status LED setup, among other things.. alexm's Ferrari PC we saw recently but his PCDB entry has more info. For something totally different, there's a Mac 5500 in there too.
Decryption spotted this clear case mod for an iBook.. on a site calling itself the chamber of fussiest people.
From Peter: There's been increasing news of people coming across CD's that won't play or (heaven forbid) rip in their computer. The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story on how Philips and Sony are saying that these new CD's may not legally be CD's any more and how Sony Electronics is not happy with Sony Music for being one of the instigators.
Vaempyr found this Motherboard Manufacturer Comparison.. which is literally a review/article about each of the manufacturers of motherboards. A fair bit of info there, but I don't think you can really boil down a manufacturer's history of products to a couple of sentences. I mean, Asus make more motherboards than anyone and have produced both excellent and woeful boards - and boards like the P3V4X that are either or both, depending who you ask. The same with Abit, who have made class-leading motherboards like their KA7 from the SlotA days and more current KR7A series.. but ask people who owned KT7A's and they'll tell you Abit are evil. Still, it's an interesting read in places, if oversimplified IMHO.
OCLabs have their Athlon XP 1700+ AGOIA 1467 @ 1962Mhz, which is not too shabby.. but it's in non-English so you'll need a fish.
NASA's Ames Research Center has a new image gallery online, some cool stuff in there.
Need a TV guide? Mike reminded me of this one which used to be on Sofcom but is now hosted by Yahoo.
Office without Windows? Sounds interesting.
OCOnline have their CeBIT 2002 coverage posted.
It seems Lombers has himself a dual Tualatin system - he's posted some benchmarks in the forums.
Reviews:
Abit NV7-133R nForce-based socketA DDR motherboard on HardOCP.
Antec 400W PSU on Gaming-Media.
Dynatron DY1206BH-625 copper heatsink on FrostyTech.
ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV video card on Buddhacon.
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