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Thursday, 21-February-2008 18:59:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The "toxic satellite" has been successfully blown to bits by a missile launched from a US warship, thanks Timbot. Left to its own devices, about half of the spacecraft would have been expected to survive the blazing descent through the atmosphere, scattering debris in a defined "corridor" which runs across the Earth's surface. Of course, plenty of people feel it was just a chance to show off their anti-satellite capability, and others think it was to destroy top-secret components.
Also on the BBC website, it seems End User License Agreements are under attack. The National Consumer Council (NCC) has accused 17 firms, including Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec, of using unfair "end user licence agreements" (EULAs).
James sent in this link about free web-based Quake Live on the way. In-game advertising specialists IGA and id Software have partnered to bring you the next iteration of the classic Quake franchise, Quake Live, and it's definitely not your normal web-based, free-to-play game.
Tweaktown report from Toshiba's HD-DVD Press Conference in Sydney. They also interviewed Toshiba Australia's General Manager, Mark Whittard. He was gracious enough after what must have been a hard few days to remain more than happy to give us his time.
Techgage describe how to build an affordable "Skulltrail" system. Intel's new dual-socket enthusiast platform is in every sense impressive, but due to the price of the recommended CPUs, owning one is a dream for many. We're taking a look at a few ways to build your very own full-featured 8-core "Skulltrail" machine for a price that's a lot easier to manage.
XbitLabs continue their 19" LCD Monitor Roundup, and checked out two four-heatpipe CPU coolers from AeroCool. Light, universal, decently efficient, but pretty expensive cooling solutions with highly original design made it to our lab.
Metko show how to add animation and colour to your engraved case mods. Most of the engravings today are done to a single sheet of acrylic but there is no reason why one couldn't use several of them. Added layers give some interesting possibilities like adding different colors to the design, make the design feel more 3D and finally, they enable animation.
PCPerspective have a preview of AMD's Quad-CrossFire. After successfully releasing the Radeon HD 3800-series last year based on the RV670 GPU, AMD promised support for three and four-GPUs working in a single system. The new CrossFireX software is finally evaluated at PC Perspective as they put one, two, three and four GPU configurations through a good set of gaming tests.
Digit-Life meanwhile checked out the Phenom X4 in RightMark. In this article we shall analyze the key features of the new AMD Family 10h Processors architecture. We'll compare those with features of a typical AMD K8 processor -- Athlon 64 X2 5200+ for the AM2 platform or, officially, NPT (New Platform Technology).
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