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Congrats to wa.recoil from clanwa, who won last week's Folding Giveaway. Our team is storming towards first place at the moment, we should be in front by the end of the week at this rate. Way to go, guys! Keep at it, because this week sees prizes from Below-0, GameDude, Adilam and Inspect-A-Gadget.
We broke the forum record again: Most users ever online was 486 on 3rd June 2002 at 10:28 PM. .. appropriate number for a PC hardware site, I guess. Last record was 422, quite a hefty jump.. even if I did cheat by putting "Interesting Forum Threads" on the front page. :)
ScarletHippo suggests writing a letter may be a way to express your dissatisfaction with Optus's latest pricing, if that's how you feel. Meanwhile, Chris spotted this page with arguments about the new pricing. I notice Dan has updated his analysis of their pricing, too.
Computex is on in Taiwan at the moment. AnandTech have their coverage of Day 1 posted, as do TweakTown.
From Shane: I would just like to inform u that the new celeron socket 478 is now on for sale in australia. They only have the 1.7ghz model out on the market as far as i can see and they come with 128k cache and retail for about $209-$210 for the retail box model. That would be your 1.7GHz "value" processor. Just the thing for minesweeper and wordprocessing.
This was mentioned in one of the "interesting threads" in the last update, but Zed says CDR-Info have details on turning a 32x or 40x LiteON burner into a 48x with a bios flash.
If today was April 1st, I'd dismiss this as a joke.. but it seems genuine. AOpen have made a motherboard with onboard sound.. big deal, you say.. well, this has an onboard vacuum-tube amplifier for passionate audiophiles and extreme gamers who are interested in building their own ultimate entertaining PCs. Wow.. thanks SushiMOO.
Iroboi spotted this article about VDSL.. Speeds of anything from 19 to 55 megabits are possible - that's nearly 40 to 100 times faster than normal broadband. Cool, imagine how quickly you could hit your 3GB cap with that!
From Chris: this article has info about upcoming Microsoft OSes, codenamed Longhorn and Blackcomb, along with new graphics technology.
I was talking to Tifkat about this at the Sydney Cruise on Sunday.. info on the Compaq and HP merger from Adam: They have now released their product roadmap. I noted that many Compaq brands are staying (as I thought). The Proliant and iPaq are to stay... as the Compaq name for Business PC's also stays (HP Vectra to be phased out). Seems that the HP name will remain for the entire (new) company.
Magnets and static electricity are bad for computers, right? Dan takes a few minutes (and rather less than his usual bazillion words) to perhaps change your mind.
BOB_LORDOFEVIL says that there were some virii running around at the Shafted LAN on the weekend and there were a few OCAU peeps there. Probably a good idea to scan your PC for viruses and trojans after any LAN, really. Pengo sends a warning that the popular search engine Google is currently infected with the VMX HTML virus. I can't confirm this information, but I belive its legit as my works security/firewall team were the ones who put in a temp block to the url. I've been to Google a few times today, as I do almost every day, with no problems.. but better to be safe than sorry, update & scan, you know it makes sense. Meanwhile, Willmeister spotted another new virus making the rounds.. yay. This one is the first known polymorphic metamorphic virus to infect under both Windows and Linux. Those clever virus writers, I'd like to punch them all in the face for being so creative with their time.
OCrCafe have a guide to easy/cheap case-modding.
From Eugenius: A must for the future techno-junkies, a flexible display. Will takes wearable computing to a new level? Imagine sticking this in the corner of the the old VB commodore windscreen for high-tech telemetery... :)
AMDWorld compared the ASUS P4T533-C (i850E) & MSI 845E Max-LR (i845E) P4 motherboards.
Silly stuff: Random They Fight Crime! blurb-generator (refresh it), thanks OneArmedMan. amibiosornot.com is a funny ripoff of a few other sites, thanks Arkenstone.. BigMouse is a BigBrother ripoff, thanks Pasan. Funny road-safety animation from StraM.
Reviews:
Apple iPod MP3 Player on ExtremeCooling.. our review here.
Thermaltake Volcano 7+ socket cooler on ByteSector.. our review here.
VIA C3 1GHz CPU on Hexus.
Antec Performance Plus 660B case on Virtual-Hideout.
MSI 845E Max2-BLR i845E-based P4 DDR motherboard on HardWareZone.
Leadtek WinFast K7N420DA nForce-based socketA DDR motherboard on Bjorn3D.
Thermal Max CT-288 thermal sensor on HardExtreme.
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