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Sunday, 8-September-2002 01:43:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Pentagon can now lay claim to the fastest AND cutest computer, according to BBSpot.. thanks crispy.
We've seen this before but it's useful.. Lujan sent in the page of bad sounds your IBM HDD might make, and what they mean.
CounterSmurf has some cool PC's.. a HiFi PC and a Slab PC!
From PsyKo Billy: Possibly old news but EarthViewer (also available from nvidia.com) is really really cool. I'm looking at downtown Tokyo right now. :-)
TuNeS took some pics at the Auto Salon in Brisbane this weekend. Mmmm.. shiny.
From HoldenAngel: I found this and thought that with all the people who play Halo and like The Matrix, they'd enjoy this. It's a video.. possibly large.
Apparently the Xbox Live may target hackers, thanks erpio.
From eluial: Some guys are makng a mod of the original Quake source to include stencil shadows and per pixel lights. From the site: "Stencil shadows allow for realistic shadow effects on every object in the game world. Per pixel lighting allows you to have fine surface details correctly lit. These are essentially the same algorithms as used by the new Doom game." Aw baby!
Hurfi sent in a page about New.Net.. an alternate namespace provider, the page reckons there's some things to be careful of.
Rumour has it that Maxtor's warranty may shrink to only 1 year soon.
From VIAArena: A new competition has begun.. the prize being a complete VapoChill case/kit, a VIA P4PB 400 Mainboard and 512MB ofCorsair XMS3200 RAM. The competition URL is here. The URL of the article which entrants will have to read to answer the competition questions is here.
Ted81 sent word of an online funeral for someone who died in real life.
Security woes continue for Microsoft.. from Eluial: The senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team, Brian Valentine, is not proud with Windows' security: "I'm not proud,... we really haven't done everything we could to protect our customers ... Our products just aren't engineered for security." Microsoft have no idea as to why their products are so vulnerable. Their latest problem is applicable to all Windows' from 98 onwards. More info here, from Zate.
Coupla interesting things on Wired.. Palm having to fork over refunds for disgruntled Palm purchasers and this Australian solar-power tower, if built, will be twice as tall as the current tallest man-made structure on Earth. Sounds like a load of hot air to me!
Reviews:
Vantec Fans on SystemCooling.
Swiftech MCX4000 P4 cooler on AusPCWorld.
Everglide and Lian-Li Mousmats on DansData.
Belkin Universal UPS 800VA on LanAddict.
ECS AG400T8-D64 Xabre video card on AusPCWorld.
MSI K7T266Pro-R KT266-based socketA DDR motherboard on MikhailTech.
Abit GF4 Ti4600 video card (video review) on 3DGameMan.
Thermaltake Crystal Orb chipset cooler on Modtown.
Epox 8K5A2+ P4 DDR motherboard with Bluetooth on PCStats.
Albatron GF4 Ti4400 video card on HWConnect.
Plextor PlexCombo 20/10/40-12A combo drive on BlargOC.
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