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Silent PC Review have a brief overview and guide for consumers seeking to minimise the power consumption of their computer gear, as seen in the Homepower Magazine Aug/Sep 2006 issue.
Hardware Secrets have updated their Athlon 64 quick reference tables. All new processors from AMD found on the stores nowadays are based on AMD's Athlon 64 architecture, also known as x86-64 or "hammer". In this tutorial we will list all Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 models released so far and the main differences between them." Also updated to include socket AM2 models.
When is a netcard not a netcard? When it is a Killer Network Interface Card on Internode Games Network News, also on Crowdedbrain, thanks Komodo.
Second Life lets you make, buy and sell property in-game. World of Warcraft specifically forbids you. Flickr is all about creating your own content. How should we handle user-generated content in MMO experiences? Bit-tech look at this in Who owns your virtual life?.
Adrians Rojak Pot have posted the Seagate 2006 Technology Briefing where they take a look at the 11 new products Seagate will be launching in the coming months.
From Scott: Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...
Dan has posted More Letters! In this issue: I-RAM imaging, ancient monitors, RAID disasters, Y-adapting fans, inefficient file transfers, fiddling with Windows' clock, more UPS batteries, and The Joy of Baluns.
APC Magazine have a few interesting articles posted, namely Free antivirus for Vista beta 2, 2GB notebook Ram that is now available, and the unveiling of Vodafones 1.83Mbit/s 3G Modem
Daztay sends word of a funny picture of a Steam Powered internet machine. The clever thing is the background chosen for the shot.
Firetech sent in a link on Overclockers.com, an interesting article on AMD's Conroe situation.
Microsoft Retracts Private Folder Option, and from the land of Tux, Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux, both on Slashdot, thanks Nick.
Podgesss sends us this great little timewaster called Four Second Fury in which you have 4 seconds to complete different tasks and puzzles.
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