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Dansdata has more letters on various topics from mysterious RAM settings to ASIO audio.
Apparently you will not need to wait until Half Life Episode 2 for the source engine to get its multithreaded overhaul. The Tech Report has an article on this. You won't have to wait for Half-Life 3 to enjoy the benefits of Valve's multi-core efforts, though. Multi-core optimizations for Source will be included in the next engine update, which is due to become available via Steam before Half-Life 2: Episode 2 is released.
Over at SilentPCReview they have a couple of reviews which are a great resource for choosing the best silent fans.
From Clinton: Apparently somebody has managed to get a refund of Dell for a copy of pre-installed Windows that he was not going to use. Damn, I should have done this :(. A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant………When he started it for the first time, he clicked the box that said "no" on the Windows licence agreement that asked him to agree to its terms. The text of this agreement states users can get a refund for the "unused products" on their new computer if they get in touch with the machine's manufacturer.
From Matt: Bigpond have released a whole bunch of new plans including ADSL2+ plans. All the existing plans have been made cheaper and give you an extra 2gb of download quota before capping, so you can either save a few dollars, or get a faster plan for the same price. Of course, Telstra won't do this for you automatically, so you have to log into the My Bigpond control panel and change your billing details. (however, if you go above 1500/256, you might require a new modem)
From Errin: Apparently there was a vote to see which Aussie slang should be recognized in Office 2007, TG Daily reports these to include sickie, Sheila and bogan. The translation for bogan is great. “a bogan is someone who doesn't take pride in their appearance”.
The CSIRO has won a landmark battle in getting royalties for a specific part of the 802.11a/g standard. The CSIRO brought the case against Buffalo before the US Federal Court of the Eastern District of Texas in February last year, claiming the manufacturer had failed to pay royalties on US patent 5487069....It stems from a system developed by CSIRO in the early '90s, "to exchange large amounts of information wirelessly at high speed, within environments such as offices and homes", said a CSIRO spokeswoman.
Futurelooks has an article about a virus that mimics the name of the system process lsass.exe. Do you know your lsass.exe from your isass.exe? Well... Do you? Hell, I didn't, and it was sitting on my PC the whole time. They look so similar, you tend to look at them, thinking they are the same thing. However, ones very bad, and one's essential for operation of your Windows based system.
For those who havn't heard, there is a Simpsons movie coming out. Check out the trailer here.
Have you ever wondered what you would do with a teraflop of computing grunt? If so, check out news from this years supercomputing show in Florida. Seems that most of the big computer companies have decided that we live in an age of supercomputing. As with most other technologies the strive is to go smaller, faster, and more effecient. Thus each of the major vendors has on display their super high end computer capable of breaking computing barriers that were previously though of as decades away.
Todays Timewaster is from Lazerin: Google Image Labeler. You get paired with someone else randomly and are shown an image. You both have to type words that are associated with the image. Once both of you have registered the same word, the image changes.
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