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Thursday Afternoon
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(link) Thursday, 6-March-2008 15:02:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I haven't quite got my head around what this means yet, but there's a new .au domain transfers policy from auDA. Some more info here. Basically it's allowing a secondary market in our domains, from the sounds of things.
Trent Reznor is giving away music, and still making lots of money. For all the talk of Reznor "pulling a Radiohead," though, the actual strategy was different. There is no "choose your price" component, and there is no free download of the complete project from the NiN site. Instead, Reznor's strategy is more akin to the "free sample" model. Discussion here.
CeBIT is underway in Hannover. Anandtech have day 1 and day 2 coverage, thanks Anlashok. More on Engadget, DriverHeaven, OCClub and CPU3D.
ASELabs have a guide to a DOS bootable USB drive. The one area that USB flash drives are lacking is the ability to boot. Even though many computer motherboards support USB booting, it is difficult to get the right combination. Using this guide, you will be able to make a bootable USB "hard drive.
TechSpot have a video about upgrading an UPS. All in all, I spent about $300, including the tools, to make a UPS with an ~80AH capacity.
Bit-Tech reckon the manufacturers are misinterpreting the enthusiast. It's all about buying it for the look, for the oodles of features you'll never use and general e-peen extension. Back in the day, the real enthusiasts were people that bought relatively inexpensive products and made them into expensive ones. It was about extracting the maximum value and that doesn't correlate to these companies’ bottom lines.
IGN talk to an Australian working on WoW. But what's it like working at Blizzard? What's it like inside those walls? And what is the team cooking up for the new Sunwell Isle patch? We caught up with Julian Morris, an Aussie ex-pat working as an exterior level designer on World of Warcraft to find out.
OCZ have a press release out about their neural activator entering mass production. The NIA radically changes the ways that gamers can interact and control elements within games, and can be configured in a matter of minutes for any game that is already published or will be released.
Rezin spotted an interesting article about Windows on a (USB) stick. Riffing off SanDisk's concept of "bring it all with you," reports now say that Microsoft is extending SanDisk's approach to the rest of Windows with a new "StartKey" product. By the end of the year, StartKey portable flash drives could store a user's Windows profile, applications, and settings, or even an entire bootable installation.
TheTechLounge are the latest to check out the 8.3 Catalysts from ATI/AMD. As of Catalyst 8.3, a.k.a. "The New Beginning" a.k.a. "The Big One" a.k.a. "The Humptyback Zinglebert," it's clear that CrossFireX has picked up where SLI left off. Right now, it's a better arrangement, with a lot of advantages not limited to performance. It's just that now there's even more reason for NVIDIA to improve SLI, and when they do, they're likely to start with a hardware advantage.
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