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Time for my newsly duties and this one's a biggie! :) First off U.S. Robotics have doubled the speed of 802.11b wireless LAN gear. Cheers sabertooth.
With the sad loss of the GTRPC (see four posts down) here is a new security system designed for PC's. 'The heart of the PC Tab System is the unique security sensor equipped with a security sticker that you just peel and stick to the equipment you are securing. "
If you at all interested in the upcoming game Neverwinter Nights, you can sign up here to get the beta. Thanks ukei.
If you're worried about security issues in your Windows 2000/XP (& NT4 remotely) systems there is a guide posted to help you sift through problems and how to fix them via Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer. Thanks Julio.
Anandtech have a Radeon 8500 128MB & TV/Capture card roundup.
Well it's that time again, ZZZ is back with issue 125. This week they have, among other things, a tiny airplane (really, really small), a 'silence' machine, and RF mice. As always a weird yet interesting read.
PersianIMMORTAL send word that Nvidia beta detonators 28.90 have been released. On that note the VR-zone has done a review of these and they go on to say " This new set of driver indeed improves the 3DMark2001SE score quite significantly from 11099 3dmarks to 11296 3dmarks and major improvements come from high detail tests and nature test." Check that review out here.
SLCentral.com has updated their CPU/Memory Watch. "This week retail P4's continue to fall, while the Athlons start to slow down. PC100 and PC133 SDRAM make some slight changes in price."
If you have been a little confused with AMD's naming conventions, here is an article which explains the meanings a little more. Also, Getting a tad bored about the look of your Windows system? There is a new version of Ezy Soft.
I spoke to bollocks earlier and he informed me that we only need around 17 more XP's to add to our folding cause to level up the playing field with the almighty [H]! So if you haven't pledged your system to our folding team please do so! Help us fight back! :)
Now for the time wasters. Ryan sent this one in, a 2d stick figure shoot em up game! You actually have to download this one (~500K) but I just had a fang of it then and it's fun in a crappy kinda way :) Also one of my friends with to much time on his hands sent this Potty Putter-Piddle Poop 'N Putt Thanks EvilJack :)
Reviews :
Corsair PC2700 ( PC3000 ) DDR SDRAM at hardware-test.
Sony 24X CDW at the hardware pub.
Vantec CCK6012 Copper 1U Heatsink from frostytech.
Creative 3D Blaster 4 Ti4400 and 3D Blaster 4 MX 420 Cards
ATI 128 Meg All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 from the tech zone.
NVIDIA Quadro4 200 NVS at tweakers.com.au.
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