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Congrats' to Agg on running the number #1 'Computers and Internet - Hardware' web site in the country, and I get to post on it! *dances*. Ahem, onto the massive amount of news for tonight.
3d GameMan have a VIDEO review of the Highpoint RocketRAID 133 PCI Controller A quick grab : "This RAID controller supports up to 4 ATA133 IDE hard drives and provides multi level RAID support including RAID 0, 1, 0/1, and JBOD." We covered the 372 and 374 models in our RAID0 shootout with ATA100 + ATA133 article.
3d Velocity have a guide to turning your CD-RW into a virtual business card maker.
xerubus sent in a VERY cool toolbox computer mod. Very nicely done indeed.
Sync_array has sent in a few items today, Apparently the playstation 2 emotion engine and graphics synthesizer can now be combined into the one chip. Should Apple turn to intel? Finally, The U.S. Prepares to Invade Your Hard Drive with a new copy protection bill.
Now if you thought you were handy with code, a 14 year old "hacker" has created a program to fetch news headlines via his iPOD. If your a little rusty on what an iPOD is, check out our iPOD review! I can't even remember what I was doing at 14...
An Australian super network has been given the green light with a $58m kick-start. "GrangeNet (GRid And Next GEneration Network) will form a 10 gigabit per second broadband backbone linking universities and research groups in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, with a 5Gbps link to Brisbane" Now that's fast.
Tuppaware found this over at slashdot. "Cray, a well known vendor of extremely fast supercomputing hardware, has introduced a storage system with a 224 GB capacity. The large size seems impressive, but the device can also transfer an unprecedented 80GB(!!) a second" Read more here
Video compression provider DivXNetworks has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics to develop a system to protect digital video and audio from copyright violations.
Apparently there are several vulnerabilities in ZoneAlarm 3.0 MailSafe. The vulnerabilities allow the bypassing of ZoneAlarm's e-mail protection. On that note here is a series of monthly charts counting down the tenmost frequently occurring viruses as compiled by Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection. Thanks Ubeek for all that.
Designtechnica discusses the future of e-mail, including the possibilities of true multimedia in the e-mail. "Does this lead to a new world of spam? Imagine receiving a video that automatically plays without you wanting it too. Will advertisers take advantage of multimedia in e-mail? We list advantages of multimedia in e-mail including rich media.". Interesting subject that.
DeviantPC have an article concerning the Windows 2000/XP Registry. This is the introduction of a four part series spread over the coming weeks. Here's a snip : "If you are anything like me you will have no doubt found yourself digging around Windows attempting to know what exactly makes the whole thing tick. Sooner or later you will stumble across what is known as the Windows Registry..."
HardOCP have an article on Pentium 4 1.6A overclocking. "A quick tour through eight Pentium 4 mainboards with a OCing and 3D Benchmarks as our primary goal. Now that the 1.6A P4 is under US$150, you will need a mainboard to go with it."
arknstone sends a link to AMD's new chip and it's first low-power PDA CPU.
Not to leave you without something funny, Nextwish has taken the term "to fry your CPU" one step further...on a BBQ with some snags! Pics here and here! Making me feel quite the hungy now! Also, expect another big news post tomorrow, or today as there is plenty in the box!
Reviews :
Silvermesh rounded cables over at BurnOutPc.
Altec Lansing 641 Speakers reviewed at the Tech Zone.
3D Prophet FDX8500LE reviewed over at MGON
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