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 "Maybe you should put some shorts on or something, if you want to keep fighting evil today." Friday, 30th November 2007 
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Gah - what a week!

Just yesterday we put issue 84 to bed, and what a beauty it is. But you'll all find that out soon enough...

For now, we hope you enjoy a hand-picked (moused?) selection of news, reviews and features.

For now, I'm going to go fall asleep in the labs to recover from the will-sapping barrage of Xmas parties that the team has been going to. My liver... my poor, poor liver...

-David Hollingworth



  • ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray combo
  • Team Fortress 2
  • Atomic.edu - TAFE or University
  • Create a stream-lined Vista install
  • Delivering broadband network top of Labor's list
  • Digital library hits 1.5 million volumes
  • Christmas shoppers desperate for a Wii
  • Samsung rolls out coolest 1TB drive
  • FBI arrests bot masters as cyber crime worsens
  • Experts warn of hacking 'cold war'
  • Spammers hack Al Gore's climate site
  • Microsoft sued over Halo 3's 'consistenet crashes'
  • Windows XP significantly outperforms Vista, tests show



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    Atomic.edu - TAFE or University
    Christopher Taylor gets down and dirty with the pros and cons of two very different styles of tertiary education. More...


    Create a stream-lined Vista install
    What to do when Vista asks if its bum looks fat on this DVD. More...





    ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray combo
    Put your shiny 24" monitor to some good use and get Blu-ray playback on a, er, "budget". More...


    Team Fortress 2
    David Hollingworth spins up his minigun and wades into the fray. More...




    Delivering broadband network top of Labor's list
    While there are many things on Labor's Policy agenda, implementing a national broadband network to deliver minimum speeds of 12 Mbps to 98 percent of Australians and improving broadband services for all Australians is top of its list. More...

    Digital library hits 1.5 million volumes
    The Million Book Project, a digital archive set up by the world's universities, has announced that it has exceeded its own expectations.

    More...

    Christmas shoppers desperate for a Wii
    As consumers gear up for the Christmas rush there have been reports of panic buying of Wii consoles.
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    Samsung rolls out coolest 1TB drive
    Samsung has begun shipping its F1 series 1TB hard drive promising the world's highest recording density using only three disks.

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    FBI arrests bot masters as cyber crime worsens
    Even as the FBI on Thursday announced a series of arrests in conjunction with its ongoing campaign against botnets, computer security company McAfee warned that there's no end in sight to the fight against cyber crime.. More...

    Experts warn of hacking 'cold war'
    Government groups around the world are becoming increasingly involved in efforts to launch and defend against web-based attacks, security experts warn.. More...

    Spammers hack Al Gore's climate site
    Al Gore's Climate Crisis website has been hacked by spammers using an interesting technique to affect Google's rankings.. More...

    Microsoft sued over Halo 3's 'consistenet crashes'
    A San Diego resident who recently purchased Halo 3, which stars the pistol packing super soldier, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft -- alleging that the company released a faulty product that frequently crashes when played on the Xbox 360.

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    Windows XP significantly outperforms Vista, tests show
    In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft's newest operating system. More...


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