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(link) Tuesday, 21-February-2006 12:41:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Issues with the database server over the last coupla days..
Cnet have an editorial about Australia's love for piracy when it comes to TV episodes etc. According to Envisional, a web monitoring company, Australians are responsible for 15.6 percent of all online TV piracy, bested only by Britain, which accounts for 38.4 percent. There's a thread about this article here in our TV, Music and Movies forum.
You can win a 7300GS PCIe video card over on 3DAvenue. All you have to do is complete a Nvidia based mini flash game.
Phoronix have some info on Intel's EIST SpeedStep technology. However, over six years later SpeedStep Technology remains in their mobile platform as well as some Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors.
From gords: Windows Defender (Beta 2) has recently been released. It replaces Windows AntiSpyware. More info here and direct download here.
Virtual-Hideout have part 2 of their Taking the SLI Plunge article posted. It's no secret that SLI is also for Gamers, video editors and other professionals looking for the absolute most graphics processing power they can get.
SilentPCReview tried using AMD's Turion 64 on the desktop. We examined the power efficiency, cost and implementation details of Turion 64 ML44, ML40, MT40 and MT34 models, along side Athlon 64-3200+ and Intel Pentium M 770 CPUs.
Australia's CSIRO Parkes Telescope has found some new stars. The stars are made of old, dormant, neutron stars that are able to send only short, intermittent bursts of radio waves, for periods of approximately 2 milliseconds.
ARP show how to mount S462 heatsinks onto S939 motherboards.
From Sutto: I saw Dark Oberon on the front page and thought I might as well suggest 2 other alternatives - 1) Glest - a fairly good looking open-source rts (3d). 2) TA: Spring - Another RTS, 3d as well. According to the site the aim is to make it also run Total Annihilation content :D
From Daniel: If people have tried Konfabulator on their desktops before and had it expire due to trial version restrictions - good news: Yahoo have bought it out, and it is a free download here and here.
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