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55,618 Two Cents Worth

Readers' Choice In 6 Different Groups

In the time between December 21, 2001 and January 25, 2002 we asked you to give us your choice for

The Best CPU
The Best Motherboard Brand
The Best Chipset
The Best Graphics Chip
The Best High End Graphics Card
The Best High-End Hard Drive

When the 36 days were over, we had collected 55,618 valid votes and today we are finally lifting the curtain to present the first Tom's Hardware Guide Readers' Choice Awards.

http://www.tomshardware.com/column/02q1 ... index.html

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Microtek 17 inch LCD


http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/mon ... 83gm/1.htm

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Study Links 8 Hours' Sleep to Shorter Life Span

Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the largest study ever conducted on the subject.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Feb14.html

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Video Cards Review

MSI GF4MX420, GF4MX440
and GF4MX460

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/gf4mx/index.html



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"Blu-ray Disc"

Tokyo Japan, February 19, 2002:

Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc".

The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording, rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser.

The companies that established the basic specifications for the Blu-ray Disc are: Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson Multimedia.

[url]http://www.matsu****a.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html[/url]

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VIA's KT333 chipset

Socket A bonanza
VIA IS TAKING the wraps off its new Socket A chipset today, the KT333. This successor to the impressive KT266A chipset promises to take AMD's Athlon XP to the next level, provided the Athlon can squeeze some extra performance out of 333MHz memory while reaching through a 266MHz bus.

http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2002 ... dex.x?pg=1

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The Yarner worm

German worm makes PCs kaput

A computer virus which poses as a message from a newsletter from Trojaner Info, a popular German antivirus portal, has made its debut on the Net.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/24132.html

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/ ... .a@mm.html


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W32.HLLO.Rozak Virus

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/ ... rozak.html

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regards

minir

Hi minir

Study Links 8 Hours' Sleep to Shorter Life Span

Contrary to popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the largest study ever conducted on the subject.

At about 5 hours sleep a night, I guess I should be good for an extra couple years.

People should sleep eight hours a night, which has no more scientific basis than the gold at the end of the rainbow,"

"That's an old wives' tale." << lol

Hi Suzie


I try for eigth hours a night, but it seems to be split up into 2 or 3 sessions


Stay young Girl


regards

minir

[url]http://www.matsu****a.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/en020219-4/en020219-4.html[/url]

This is a pretty funny result of built-in filtering. In fact, it's funny as ****.

Minir - I always fail to tell you THANKS ! for the Links; always find something good out of them..

Not much to say, but i just wanted to get that out, Thanks again

Hi eddiec & BadEditor



Thanks for your responses, they are appreciated





BadEditor

Minir - I always fail to tell you THANKS ! for the Links; always find something good out of them..

Thank You for taking the time BadEditor


regards

minir

Originally posted by eddiec
http://www.matsush1ta.co.jp/corp/news/o ... 219-4.html

Change the "1" to a "i"