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(link) Monday, 29-April-2002 14:11:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sadly young Liam Magee has been killed during qualifying for the Australian Superbike round at the Mallala circuit in South Australia on the weekend. RIP and condolences to his many friends and family - may we all die as he did, doing something he loved.
Robert X. Cringely, a professional PC-industry insider who wrote the book "Accidental Empires" about the emergence of the PC industry and who has written several magazine/newspaper/online columns for years, suffered a personal tragedy recently when his 74-day-old son died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He thinks that SIDS isn't having enough attention paid to it and is using his PBS column to try and get some geeks involved in research towards solving this problem, thanks Callan. (Yes, I know there's some debate over Mr Cringely's identity, but I think we can leave that aside for now..)
On to less morbid topics.. if you thought building your own PC case was hardcore, check out this guy's DIY rollercoaster.. cool. :)
Wanted a PC but accidentally bought a Mac instead? Maybe this product will help. But, they do not advise buying an emulator just to run PC games. Many will run but many will run at speeds that make playing almost impossible or at least irritatingly slow.
Tweakers have a CPU Database now, which seems very similar in concept to the long-running OC.com CPU Database.
Hotmail is apparently vulnerable to cookie thieves, info here and here.
SourceMag have a USB 2.0 roundup with info on a few devices.
Quite a few nasty virii doing the rounds at the moment, I'm getting 20-30 a day. I could go into details about all the different ones but the basic principle is always the same - don't run any attachments you aren't expecting to receive, even if it seems to be from someone you know. If it is from someone you know, reply and ask them if they sent it. A few new virii will look in address books and pretend to be from someone in there, so I'm even receiving emails that appear to come from me (but are in fact from an infected pc out there somewhere with me in their address book.) Virus writers - get a life.
Reviews:
Variable-speed fans on TechWatch.
Asus P4B533 P4 DDR motherboard on SubZeroTech.
EPoX 8K3A+ KT333-based socketA DDR motherboard on MikhailTech.
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