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Thursday, 15-January-2009 19:59:21 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Rainwulf has updated his Project Monolith thread with more, better, photos. Worth checking out if you somehow missed the storm this project has been causing. :)
Nick wrote a guide to get XP-like Quick Launch in Windows 7. It's not entirely obvious how to get the Windows 7 taskbar to appear like XP's with the Quick Launch bar, so I thought I'd post a little tutorial on how to do it.
MyKP are a new ISP with no download caps, much to everyone's surprise. Called the “myKP Hero Platform”, it will go live on January 26, Australia Day, with interested parties able to visit the myKP website to “pre-register for an information pack”. Discussion here.
The American NSA has apparently approved a mobile phone for the President-to-be. Both PDA-phones owe their existence to a Defense Department project called SME-PED, meaning Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device. Because the SME-PED was explicitly designed to act as a classified-information-friendly replacement for a BlackBerry, it should be an easy switch for a President Obama.
Sniper spotted an interesting little exercise on the cost of SMS's. If you divide 140 (the total number of bytes available to you) by 20 (the cost per message), you find that you are paying 1 cent for every 7 bytes of data. This leaves you with a cost of $1,497.97 for the 1024Kbytes contained in a single megabyte. iPod users: It would cost you $5,991.88 to transfer - not even to buy - a single song via SMS.
It's time for another kid learns to drive by playing GTA story, it seems. The child was able to drive the car six miles before crashing into a utility pole planted about a mile and a half away from his destination. Police said that during his drive, the child must have navigated “at least two 90-degree turns, passed several cars and ran off the rural two-lane road several times."
Despite a software glitch, motorists booked on New Year's Day will apparently still have to face charges. Forms handed to drink drivers after they were tested early on New Year's Day came up with the date of January 1, 1909 instead of 2009 because of the software error.
Here's some scary photos from China's electronic waste village. The city of Guiyu is home to 5,500 businesses devoted to processing discarded electronics, known as e-waste. According to local websites, the region dismantles 1.5 million pounds of junked computers, cell phones and other devices a year.
Today's timewaster is Globulos, which was very popular on OCAU a few years ago. They seem to have a few more free games now.
Finally, these pics from Allen.. could really use one of these in the AggCave some days. :)
  
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