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Thursday, 30-August-2007 19:38:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Quite a few people sent word that AutoPatcher is no more. Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the download page down. Seems to be a pretty unpopular move.
Apparently a recent Skype outage was caused by them being unprepared for a massive restart of PCs, thanks Quan-Time. "The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update," Skype indicated on its blog.
IGN report on the recent World Cyber Games AU national finals. Meanwhile booth babes are the focus on TechPowerUp and OCModShop, covering the Games Convention 07 and PAX 2007 respectively. OCModShop also checked out some hardware at GC07.
Phil sent word of Vista SP1 and XP SP3 entering beta. Microsoft today announced plans for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 betas. I received this last night under embargo until today – so here's an extract of what I know.
OCClub are reviewing the Danger Den Water Box Plus Case in 5 parts. Here's parts 1, 2 and 3.. 2 more still to be published.
Timbot spotted this page of industrial photography. Lots of interesting (and in many cases abandoned) big machines and control rooms etc.
Vista has an odd bug where playing music slows the network down, thanks aftahours. In a detailed post today, Russinovich said it's due to a bug that hits if you're on a high-speed (1Gb) local network and using a computer with multiple network interfaces - such as a laptop with wireless and wired connections.
TechARP have a guide to lapping thermal surfaces. Or take a trip back in time to my slug-sanding article from 1999! There's a decent guide in our Wiki, too.
Nanoagent spotted this technology to complete or repair images. A new algorithm devised by James Hayes and Alexei A. Efros of Carnegie Mellon University facilitates this process by drawing on a huge database of more than a million images from the World Wide Web in order to seamlessly fill in the missing areas of incomplete photographs.
Matt sent in a timewaster, Nudge. Push a ball into a hole.
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