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This guide is a must read before you head on down to the show @ Suntec Convention Hall Level 4. The show is on till this Sunday…Check out the Guide by Hardwarezoom @ http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewarticle.jsp?ArticleID=139&CategoryName=Events&CategoryID=60&Path=6

New plans added, one new plan added. Plans now offer better features. See them here.

Free Linux Beginners course for everyone and anyone whose interested.

Date: 15 Mar 03 (Sat)
Time: 5pm
Venue: Blk 691, Jurong West Central 1, #01-185, S(640691).
(RC Centre) See map

here

Please confirm your attendance by emailing
kucheech@mynasoft.com and William
(whose so kind to conduct this free course) adds: "Let me reiterate that this
beginner course will only be useful to those who have never really touched Linux
at all (otherwise, it will be a complete waste of your time)."

See you there!

I think the Segway is a neat, cool and "head turning" way of getting around
but seems some just don’t think it’s safe enough…

From TechTV.

Segway Outlaw

San Francisco just banned Segways from city sidewalks. For Mark Donaldson,
that’s just one more obstacle to getting around town.
Watch today at 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m. Eastern.

By Barbara Moffatt, Tech Live

Mark Donaldson is one of the first owners of a Segway Human Transporter, the
upright, two-wheeled scooter that balances with internal gyroscopes. Dean Kamen
invented it and Internet hype made it famous.

Donaldson is an upstanding citizen of San Francisco. He’s an upwardly mobile
professional and works in the financial district in the city’s downtown. He
depends on his new Segway to get to and from work every day. He paid about
$5,000 for the thing, after ordering it on
Amazon.com.

The only problem for Donaldson is he has to ride his Segway in a city that just
banned the scooter from its sidewalks late in 2002. "Tech Live" caught up with
him during his first week commuting to work and found that it’s not always so
easy to stay in the bike lanes and on the streets.

Admitted sidewalk surfer

"Sometimes I wish this thing would go a little bit faster," Donaldson says as he
leans forward on his way to work, having forsaken other means of transportation
for a green alternative. "It’s a lot more fun, that’s for sure. It’s probably a
little bit slower than a bike but it’s faster than a bus."

Read all @

http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3420644,00.html

One of the most hardware in your PC that a lot of
it is never enough!

From
Howstuffworks.com

"Random access memory (RAM) is the best
known form of
computer memory. RAM is considered "random access" because you can access
any memory cell directly if you know the row and column that intersect at that
cell.

The opposite of RAM is serial access memory
(SAM). SAM stores data as a series of memory cells that can only be accessed
sequentially (like a
cassette tape). If the data is not in the current location, each memory cell
is checked until the needed data is found. SAM works very well for memory
buffers, where the data is normally stored in the order in which it will be
used (a good example is the texture buffer memory on a
video card).
RAM data, on the other hand, can be accessed in any order."

Read the full article @

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ram.htm

From CNN

CNN) — Offering a glimpse of a faster digital future, researchers announced they have set a new Internet speed record.

Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data — the equivalent of two DVD movies — across 6,800 miles in less than a minute.

Read all @ http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html

Try out Opera 7. Seems not bad and sure rocks on my Linux PC.

Check it out @ http://www.opera.com

Download it @ http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?opsys=Windows&lng=en&platform=Windows

Test out the new theme named WinterMute! Go to your

Display Preference AFTER you have logged you and select Wintermute under the
Theme section and then save. Go back to the main page and you’ll see the new
theme being applied throughout the whole site. I am still teaking the theme to
suit the site as some text display badly (eg light text on light colored
background). Enjoy! Post your feedback on the
forum.

We have added 2 great guide for you hardware geeks. They are a

overclocking guide and a

power supply guide by Dreamie whose tender young age as not stopped him to
write such great articles. Check them out in the

Articles section.

Tonight, itcow.com may undergo some theme change from 7pm GMT+8 SG Time onwards. Except to see some great themes made available.

Read this for more info.

The forum will also be upgraded in the process to 2.0 so it may go down for a while.

Check back again tomorrow if the site goes down. Sorry for the inconvience and thanks for visiting!