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Here's a blast from the past, a look back at ABIT's BP6 dual-celeron board from 1999 that brought SMP to the enthusiast's desktop. I actually still have mine, which was my main PC for a while, and then powered OCAU for about 18 months.
From Fester2001, a report denying a WGA Kill Switch from Microsoft. Meanwhile, more confirmation that they are dropping it anyway, thanks Murray. Now Microsoft has reacted to user anger by switching off the boot-up check. The company has retained another tool, WGA Validation, which checks back periodically with Microsoft headquarters.
There's an interesting report on IHT about Google's DIY approach. Even as it spends more than $1.5 billion this year on operations centers and technology, most of the hundreds of thousands of servers it will deploy are being custom-made from Google's eccentric designs.
Check out these amazing dust paintings that someone makes on the back window of their car. When the dust gets thick on the back window of his Mini Cooper, Scott Wade uses it as a canvas to create temporary works of art.
The Space Shuttle Discovery's twice-delayed launch will apparently not be stopped by the latest concern about insulation foam. The decision means that Florida's unsettled skies will again be the major launch constraint, and forecasters have put the probability of weather prohibiting today's liftoff - slated for 2:38 p.m. - at 40 percent. Updates etc in this forum thread.
PCMech have a guide to setting up a windows-share server under Linux, using Samba. Even a computer as slow as 500 Mhz will run a Samba server just fine, so if you have any old computers around you might as well give it a try. Finally, Samba is very customizable and tweakable, offering much more detailed control than Window file sharing.
LegionHW compared NVIDIA's 570 SLI and 590 SLI chipsets for AM2 processors. The nForce 590 SLI also includes a total of 46 PCI Express lanes, meaning SLI mode can operate at full speed. By this I mean both PCI Express x16 slots will operate at full speed when using two graphics cards. This is not a feature of the nForce 570 SLI chipset, which only operates each SLI card at PCI Express x8.
Bit-Tech have an extreme-cooling Lian Li project. We follow the progression of a PC70 mod that not only adds a Prometia box on the bottom, but a watercooling box on top.
TrustedReviews have a digicam tutorial, focussing (ho ho) on Exposure & Metering. If you're a shutterbug, or would like to be, check out our extremely busy Photography Forum.
What do you call a toothbrush with bluetooth? A Bluetoothbrush, of course, thanks Tim. Probably not coming soon to a chemist shelf near you, though. :)
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