HP unveils new Probook laptops

HP has unveiled their new mid range laptops which ship globally on Tuesday. It is a business laptop which is the first of its kind to offer Linux as an option. The new laptops come in 14, 15 and 17 inch sizes. Click the link below to find out more

HP UNVEILS NEW LAPTOPS
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Conficker Virus Begins Attack!

The conficker virus which threatened to infect millions of computers worldwide on April 1 is now slowly beginning to take effect.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.

Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail spam and installing spyware, they said.

The worm started spreading late last year, infecting millions of computers and turning them into "slaves" that respond to commands sent from a remote server that effectively controls an army of computers known as a botnet...

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Overclocking Intel E8400

After a lot of thinking and reading, I found out that my computers CPU was very good with overclocking. Today I found out just how good it was.

The CPU started off at 3.0GHz. I started pushing it in giant leaps. When I got to 3.2GHz, I was quite content as my old processor only went from 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
Then I found out that people were pushing their PCUs to 3.6GHz with no voltage increase. I managed to do this okay. This was the limit of my DDR2-800 RAM. I learned that to avoid bottlenecks, I needed half of the FSB to be the speed of the RAM. At FSB-1600, I was at the limit.
From then, I wanted to go even further. I overclocked tha RAM. After a lot of playing around with voltages, I managed to get the RAM to 950MHz (I know it can be stable at 960MHz). This allowed me to push my CPU even firther. After lots of burn-in tests, The stable speed was at 4.28GHz! The vcore is at 1.24V (on CPU-Z) and the RAM is at 1.94V

I think this might be the best I can do with my RAM but I know the CPU can go further. The load temperature is only 51 degrees. Keep in mind, this is still with the intel stock cooler!


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Four Men of Pirate Bay Arrested

Four of the men involved with pirate bay, a huge file sharing website have got one year in jail and are ordered to pay 31 million krona (US$3.6 million) in compensation.

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How to get good deals on computer parts

Have you ever wondered how to get the best prices on computer parts?
Well, today's your lucky day. I am going to put a few links to some good comparison sites to help you find good prices. Even if it isn't as cheap as you had hoped, you can bring these prices to your local computer shop and get them to beat it. Most of the time they would be happy to do it. The best tip I can give you is don't wait for the price to come down. For a lot of things, shortages and economic factors can actually make the prices go up. A lot of companies are now raising the prices for electronics because of the Australian Dollar value dropping. Because of these uncertain times, if you find a good deal on a particuolar part, buy it. Here are a few comparison sites to get you started:

http://www.shopbot.com.au - A good site with a variety of goods with many different websites. You can find almost anything on it.

http://www.staticice.com.au - An excellent site for finding computer parts. The only downside is this is all you can find, if you are looking for other consumer electronics, I suggest looking at Shopbot.

http://www.umart.net - A competitively priced computer store. Good for starting off. Just remember to check the price other stores are selling it at.

http://www.ausprices.com.au - Excellent for finding shops which stock the product in your region

Remember, if therehas been a recent price hike from the manufacturer, you might get lucky and find a store with old stock who are willing to give you the stock at a much lower price.

Hope this helps you to find good bargains on computer parts and other goods.
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I've Moved!!!

I got my own domain name
Well, actually it was free. I am working on my website now which is also hosted on the same domain. I will probably change domains soon so people can remember the URL better.
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Optimising Torrent Downloads

Todays topic is how to get the fastest speeds out of your torrent downloads using utorrent (whichever version you prefer)

The First step is to check whether at the very bottom of the window, a green tick is showing. If not it will probably be a yellow tirangle or a red cross. Any of the latter two means something is restricting your downloading. One possible problem may be that your router is stopping access with its hardware firewall. To solve this, you need to open up a port in your router firewall. The port number is the same one you use to download your torrents. Here is how to open up a port on a netgear router.

1. Log into your router settings with your IP address (usually 192.168.1.1)

2. Click on port forwarding.port triggering

3. Click "Add Custom Service" at the bottom of the window

4. Type whatever you like for your service name but try to make it easily identifiable

5. For "Service Type", keep it as your default

6. For both "starting port" and "ending port" put in the port number which you use to download the torrents

7. For Server IP address, enter the IP address of your computer. If you don't know it, go to "attached devices" on the side menu (in a new tab) and find your computer name. It should also have your IP address there.

This should give you the green tick on utorrent

To get even faster download speeds, try limiting your upload speeds. You will find that limiting it at a lower number will sometimes dramatically increase your download speed. But don't get too greedy. After a certain point, the download speed will slow down again.

These are my tips for increasing the download speed of your torrents. These two tricks are what worked best for me. There are still a few more if you do a bit of googling for it.

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