News, News, News and Reviews

The news blender has spoken. After throwing in a multitude of different headlines, reviews, news pieces and general tidbits of interest, our ‘Atomic News Blender’ has spat out some choice cuts of fine news for you all to peruse at your pleasure.

The news blender has spoken. After throwing in a multitude of different headlines, reviews, news pieces and general tidbits of interest, our 'Atomic News Blender' has spat out some choice cuts of fine news for you all to peruse at your pleasure.

3dspotlight has a good guide online covering the set up and tweaking of Internet Explorer 6. Covering items from general page view settings through to security and content control, the guide gives a good overall view of how to set the multitude of different options in IE6 for optimal performance and security.

Overclockedcafe has thrown together a great article on water cooling. Despite their disclaimer that the article only covers the basics of this fine art, it does go into some detail in certain areas. Oh, and its also pretty damned funny at times as well. Or maybe that's just my warped sense of humour showing again. Darn.
Either way, if you're into water cooling for your ambitious overclocking experiments, give Overclockedcafe's article a read (right after you read the Atomic guide in issue 6 :P)

Nvidia has released version 1.0-1512 of their Linux, x86 based graphics card drivers. New features include: 'More robust GeForce2 Go support with support for hot key switching', 'Improved support for TNT2 as second head', 'Optimised multi-thread support for multi-processor systems' and 'Support for Toshiba 3000 series laptops'. It's nice to see a large hardware company providing support for all us Linux lovers. If you too are a 'Linux Lover', grab the new drivers here

Robots wielding weapons? Battlebots! Well no, they're medical robots and they wield scalpels to be precise. The United Kingdom is currently conducting brain surgery trials using robots, according to New Scientist magazine. At the moment, the robot's tasks are limited and will remain that way for a further 30 months or so during initial trials. However, after that time it is planned for the robots to do simple biopsies by themselves, free from human intervention. Hmm, I don't know if I would trust a robot (and by association, a programmers judgement and skill at 3am on Tuesday morning, smack bang in the middle of a monolithic 18 hour coding binge – but I digress) to operate on my brain. But hey, we're not the guinea pigs here, the English are!