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Saturday, 27-May-2006 19:44:18 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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HardOCP have an article about pre-overclocked GeForce 7900's having reliability issues. What seems to be happening the most are problems associated with playing F.E.A.R., Oblivion, or using the 3DMark06 testing suite, but issues are certainly not limited to this. 7900 cards have been artifacting and/or locking up while playing games. This sometimes happens when the card is installed the first day, or it might happen a month later.
Sciby spotted an article about a game of Tringo within the MMORPG "Second Life". We've actually been looking at Second Life this week and will have a discussion about it on the next podcast. Games inside games; worlds inside worlds. We've finally entered the Matrix, it seems -- and it's a hell of a lot of fun. Some more Second Life info here.
The first new skyscraper on the site of the old World Trade Centre in New York has been opened. We've come a very long way," said Silverstein, who built the first 7 World Trade nearly 20 years ago and has struggled to rebuild destroyed office space at the 6.5-hectare site for more than four years.
DigitalGrabber explain the difference between WiFi and WiMax. WiMax can handle virtually all the same protocols Wifi can including VOIP. African countries are now going to start deploying WiMax networks instead of cell phone networks. Disaster zones can also utilize WiMax giving them the ability to distribute crisis information quickly and cheaply.
Shane sent in an article on the American "Car and Driver" website about Ford's Australian lineup. Somehow, Australia has become the place to find the quintessential American muscle sedan.
VIA Arena have an interesting article about the language of IT websites. The IT industry might be just a teenager but many of the old school IT journalists are not far off middle age. Has the language all grown up?
FiringSquad checked out how NVIDIA and ATI chipsets fare on the new AM2 platform for AMD CPUs. ATI’s decided to stick largely with their tried and tested Xpress 3200 platform first launched in March, while NVIDIA’s come up with a new nForce chipset that’s a little more revised in comparison to the competition.
PCWorld share what they think are the 25 Worst Tech Products of all time. Microsoft Bob better have made it to their list. We sought the worst of the worst--operating systems that operated badly, hardware that never should have left the factory, applications that spied on us and fed our data to shifty marketers, and products that left a legacy of poor performance and bad behavior.
Some snippets from Murray: flash-based portable PC's from Samsung, a robot brain interface and an invisibility cloak!
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