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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Uh-oh. Hazmat time. 0.001% of 1.04%* of the world’s Linux die-hard
supergeeks are about to descend and call me all kinds of names, but
facts are facts: one of the world’s biggest makers of netbooks says
Linux models are being returned at a rate at least four times higher
than XP netbooks. Could it be that Linux sucks?
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
“You’re fired”, says eBay to 1600 workers globally, likely unaware that
the world’s biggest and most profitable online auction house was going
to put workers on the chopping block, with 18 of those poor souls in
eBay’s Australian operations.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Optus has officially gone mad with its announcement that pre-paid
wireless broadband pricing is actually going up in price – unless it’s
an oddly clever way for Optus to reduce the heavy load on its
overburdened 3.5G network. QueTF?!
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Telstra has finally announced that its network will be capable of
reaching “peak” speeds of 21Mbps, but just as there are no 14.4Mbps
devices on the current 14.4Mbps “peak” capable network, we won’t see
any 21Mbps-class devices anytime soon, either.
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
With Windows 7 due in either 2009 or in 2010, and plenty of companies
still happy with their XP deployments, Microsoft has done the
inevitable, extending XP downgrade rights for another six months.
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
Ah, Linux! Is there anything it does that can't also be done with Windows? Linux is a great Windows alternative, but with hundreds of millions more Windows users and thus a much larger potential user base, there’s no need to change entire operating systems to do simple stuff like surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes. And hey, Windows can ALSO help you to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury.
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Apple’s “Mac Pro” range of desktop computers are apparently emitting
toxic gases that could give some people leukemia, or so claims a
French newspaper.
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Nintendo’s upgraded handheld games console has been dubbed the DSi,
coming with interesting new features that could well have been better,
although only Japan will get it before Christmas, with the rest of the
world missing out – until 2009!
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Are
you willing to sell your soul to the Dark Side of the Force? If so,
you’ve probably purchased LucasArts’ hit new game, Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed. But now there’s news of upcoming downloadable content, some
are annoyed it will cost more money, leading some to exclaim that
today’s game purchases simply don’t end when you initially buy the
game.
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Although there’s no “Reef View” to rival the Street View on Google
Maps, a bird’s-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef using new map data
and satellite imagery is now available for anyone to go ogle!
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
With all the financial turmoil and US banks melting down, Australia is
a very big target for the world’s online criminals, what with our
strong commodities-based economy and AA rated banks with billions in
profit each year. How can you outsmart the crims?
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
Several Australian states will go forward an hour this Sunday, October
5th at 2am, as Daylight Saving starts again for the year, but "watch" out
– some of your devices or computers might not automatically make the
change. Here’s what to do...
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
When AMD and ATI launched the new Radeon range, nVidia and integrated
Intel graphics were simply blown away and relegated to the last
generation. Earlier last month, ATI launched the the HD 4670 and 4650
cards, now come two more at “value prices” while still delivering top
performance.
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
Windows, whether XP or Vista, is home to all the major instant
messenger (IM) clients, and for things like Skype, unquestionably has
the best versions. But if you’re hankering to talk to multiple friends on multiple IM
systems at the same time, and you want some
open source goodness without having to go through the pain of learning
Linux, try Pidgin for Windows instead – the open source program that lets
you talk freely.
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
Channel Nine says it is recognising “loyal McLeod’s Daughters
enthusiasts” by making the final series available free for download via
NineMSN. Is Channel Nine finally giving a damn about its
viewers?
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
With the global economic crises reaching fever pitch, will Gen Y’s
desire to frivolously waste money on things like “Caller Tones” give
way to the post “Great Depression” learnings of savings and thrift? Or
will the need to look, and in this case, sound cool, trump economic
reality, with Gen Y’s often still living at home and couched from stock
market shenanigans?
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
What a load of crock – Norway wants Apple to make iTunes compatible
with any music player, and while they say there’s been “no progress
since February”, clearly those pesky Norwegian consumer authorities
don’t know the truth, and have nothing better to do! What’s the story?
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
Western Digital has broken through the half-terabyte barrier for
notebook computers in the standard 9.5mm 2.5-inch hard disk format,
using only two platters instead of three. Is space truly still the
final frontier?
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