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Thursday Morning (3 Comments) (link)
 Thursday, 30-November-2006  02:53:33 (GMT +10) - by Agg

NSW CBDs will apparently get free WiFi, according to the Premier. The NSW state government will in early 2007 go shopping for suppliers to establish "universal coverage" of free Wi-Fi in Sydney's central business district (including North Sydney), in addition to the suburbs of Parramatta, Penrith and Liverpool and outlying cities Newcastle, Wollongong and Gosford.

TheInq have some info on AMD's quad-core CPUs, here and here. It is about to launch the Quad FX and in 2007 it will enable two quad core CPUs to work on the upcoming machines.

Sniper spotted free legal Vista copies.. but only for people in the USA, bah.

He also noticed this project to use iris-scanning in schools. An iris scan, which captures more than 250 characteristics, is far more effective than fingerprints that are based on 70 to 75 characteristics, Morton said.

FutureMark have an update to 3DMark and PCMark for Vista. Downloadable patches update 3DMark06 to version 1.1.0 and PCMark05 to version 1.2.0. A downloadable full installer updates 3DMark05 to version 1.3.0. Only scores obtained via these new versions, using approved drivers, will be used in official statistics, comparisons and services provided by Futuremark.

Today's timewaster is a Guitar Hero like game from Tenacious D.



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