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Upgraded my GF's machine today.. amazing the difference a new HDD makes. 40GB 7200rpm for $150 or so, I can't believe how cheap they are these days. It replaces a 1.2GB Conner drive that I bought in ~1996 for $690..
Anthrox sends word that the trailer and other info for Star Trek X: Nemesis (the new Star Trek movie!) are available now.
AusTNN have some streaming radio stuff with a gaming bent, apparently their last Char show (follow the link under "Wednesday's Char online") had some info about Casemodding including their "Top 10 Case Mods" and "Why Casemodding is Bad". Seems to stream ok over a modem so if you've got Winamp mebbe give 'em a listen. Pretty juvenile in places, but funny too. :) Someone needs to educate them about watercooling, tho!
Imitation spotted this article about a proposed law to let copyright holders take the war to the pirates, using more aggressive tactics to snare them.
ComputerSource have a GF4 MX440 video card shootout.. Digit-Life have a GF4 Ti4200 shootout, too.
A two-year-old white paper authored by AMD and encryption firm Wave Systems may offer additional clues as to the design of PCs incorporating Palladium, Microsoft's new security initiative.. according to this article on ExtremeTech.
Brad sends this Way Of The Exploding Stick flash game and says I scored 1533.. good for you.
Apparently OCMelbourne have some facts to back up their earlier rumour about AMD shifting away from OEM packaging for their CPU's.
Iroquois says there's vulnerabilities in media player.. 3 flaws - one critical. Ver's 6.4, 7.1, and XP's Player (8) cumuative patch here.
A 200GB IDE HDD from Western Digital, cor! Thanks Lethy, and speaking of crazily large numbers, Icewind says Liteon to release 52x52x32x burner in september. Yes yes, but what about everyone picking a standard for DVD re-writing so I can buy one?
From Fabian: The site's in German so a little help from the fish would be useful. Basically its an AMD AthlonMP 2000+ playing chess against an Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz.
Martinus says Slackware 8.1 is out, based on kernel 2.4.18.
SLCentral went to PC Expo 2002 and have about 50 pics of cool stuff from there.
Guru3D reckon that Neverwinter Nights would be a great game if it wasn't for some massive bugs spoiling the fun.
TomsHardware checked out the Roq-it. An alternative to the iPod. It's got a 10GB laptop hard drive in it, and they show you how to upgrade it to a 20GB model.. thanks tifkat.
I keep forgetting to link to TravelMate which is really cool, enter 2 places anywhere in Oz and it'll tell you how to get from one to the other with full directions and time estimates etc.. very cool.
Here's a very useful guide for tweaking the services.msc section in WinXP, thanks Fabian.
tn1 says: Just letting you know we are having a State of CS Comp this weekend, the DGA site has all the info you need, its basically two huge CS Communities one in SA and NT Darwin, having a friendly war, this Sunday, Gamers_underground and Chariot, both are great communities and love there CS, we have a plug on CS Radio show, also we have live commentating thru shout and HLTV running.
Reviews:
CPUFX Z4 watercooling system on AMDMB.
AOpen CRW4048 CDRW on Active-Hardware.
Imperial Case (w/Temp. Sensor) (video review) on 3DGameMan.
MachSpeed 867AS 266A motherboard (video review) on LivePC.
Samsung SyncMaster 151S LCD screen on GamingIn3D.
AMD Thoroughbred XP2200+ socketA CPU on 3DVelocity.
Thermalright SLK-800 cooler on SystemCooling.
PixelView GF4 Ti4200 video card on OCNZ.
Seagate Technology Barracuda ES2
and Barracuda IV ATA HDD's on GotApex.
Belkin Nostromo n50 SpeedPad game controller on Tweakers.
Vantec Copper X on ExplosiveLabs.
ABIT KX7-333R socketA DDR motherboard on HotHardware.
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