MySQL addresses open-source license problem - The rift divided MySQL and PHP, software that lets computers construct customized Web pages on the fly. The two packages are found alongside each other so often, along with the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, that there's an acronym, LAMP, to label the software combination. On Thursday night, MySQL published a license exception that, the company said, permits PHP to resume its previous practice of bundling MySQL components called libraries, said Zack Urlocker, MySQL's vice president of marketing.

Off-topic: Prenatal choline supplements make baby's brain cells bigger, faster - The important nutrient choline "super-charged" the brains of animals that received supplements in utero, making their cells larger and faster at firing electrical "signals" that release memory-forming chemicals, according to a new study. These marked brain changes could explain earlier behavioral studies in which choline improved learning and memory in animals, say the researchers from the departments of pharmacology and psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and from the Durham VA Medical Center. The implications for humans are profound, said the researchers, because the collective data on choline suggests that simply augmenting the diets of pregnant women with this one nutrient could affect their children's lifelong learning and memory. In theory, choline could boost cognitive function, diminish age-related memory decline, and reduce the brain's vulnerability toxic insults.

Off-topic: 100-metre nanotube thread pulled from furnace - A thread of carbon nanotubes more than 100 metres long has been pulled from a fiery furnace. The previous record holder was a mere 30 centimetres long. Carbon nanotubes are stronger than steel and better conductors than copper, but are often just a thousandth of a millimetre in length. By bundling the nanotubes together into much longer fibres, scientists hope to harness their properties on a larger scale. For example, embedding long carbon nanotube threads in plastic would give tougher composites for airplane hulls.

Intel ready to intro 300MHz Prescott - As Intel appears to have decided that Megahertz Madness is now a thing of the past, we're looking forward to when it introduces a 300MHz Prescott Pentium 4 on its 90 nanometre process.This will run very cool and get us back to the time when we had to pay for central heating, rather than have our PC be part of the "Digital Home" and keep us warm on winter nights and evenings.

Athlon FX53 goes up for sale - The forthcoming Athlon FX53 has started appearing for sale - although according to Chris Tom at AMD Zone, these are pre-orders and there doesn't seem to be any stock of the CPUs yet

VIA aims latest P4 chipsets at HDTV generation - VIA today launched a pair of integrated chipsets for the Pentium 4, touting the parts' graphics performance delivered courtesy of an S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro core. The chipsets, the PM800 and PM880, offer single- and dual-channel 400MHz DDR SDRAM memory controllers, respectively. That's their only distinguishing feature: both can handle up to 8GB of RAM and both support the P4's 800MHz effective bit rate frontside bus.

Preparing for PCI-Express - For nearly anyone in this market, the idea of spending $300 or more on the latest and greatest graphics card to play the newest games is enough to make then cringe. However, these people are now faced with the potential need to upgrade their motherboards and likely processors in order to adopt PCI-Express. In a best-case scenario, you are still talking hundreds of additional dollars. Then again, who is to say that we will see any immediate benefit from PCI-Express in the first generation of cards?

NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb Performance Preview - Now NVIDIA is back again with its follow-up to nForce3 150, dubbed nForce3 250. Whereas nForce3 was originally intended to compete in the workstation segment with nForce3 Pro 150, and eventually adapted to serve the needs of the consumer in nForce3 150, NVIDIA’s nForce3 250 merges the needs of the workstation segment (where features and performance often take a back seat to stability and reliability) with the speed and eye-catching features consumers want to see in a motherboard.

Sapphire The Beast All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro review - Velocity has posted a review of the Sapphire The Beast All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro video card.

ABIT 9800XT review - HardOCP has posted a review of ABIT 9800XT. "In typical ABIT style the box has a dark look to it with a powerful graphic on the front. ABIT makes sure to point out some noteworthy features of the video card on the front of the box such as Dual VGA, TV-Out, DVI and DirectX9. They also let you know the card supports AGP 8X/4X and has 256MB of RAM. Also indicated on the front of the box is the free Half Life 2 logo. On the back of the box ABIT lists the complete product features of this video card along with the packaging contents."

Video card round-up - Digital-Daily have published their VGA Roundup with _twenty_ video cards.

Ultimate Athlon XP Overclocking: Mobile Athlon XP, DFI, Corsair - Guru Review has posted a new article called "Ultimate Athlon XP Overclocking: Mobile Athlon XP, DFI, Corsair"

High-Speed CDROMS - The Hidden Dangers - ExtremeMHz has posted a new article called "High-Speed CDROMS - The Hidden Dangers" Here is an excerpt: "About two weeks ago, a friend of mine had a CD literally explode in his drive. I've never heard of such a thing and figured this was just an isolated incident but today, I received an email from one of our readers who unfortunately encountered the same exact problem. It seems to be a common issue and is why we decided to write a short article on this hidden danger. But just how powerful can it be? Can it actually cause serious injury? Our reader James, has sent in a couple of pictures to prove the magnitude of such an event."

Hidden Space on Hard Drives? - AllHardwareZone has published an article on hidden space on hard drives. "With quite a bit of controversy being stirred by this article at The Inquirer, I was compelled to examine the claim of free space. Basically, the article claimed that there was a procedure available which made it possible to "recover unused areas of the hard drive in the form of hidden partitions". According to the author the the article, more than 100% of the drive's capacity could be unlocked."

Unattended XP CD Guide - Microsoft Software Forum Network has updated their Unattended XP CD Guide. Have you ever wanted a Windows XP CD that would install Windows XP by automatically putting in your name, product key, timezone and regional settings? Followed by silently installing all your favourite applications along with DirectX 9, .Net Framework and then all the Pre-SP2 hotfixes, updated drivers, registry tweaks, and a readily patched UXTheme.dll without any user interaction whatsoever? Then this guide will show you how you can do just that.

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server security - Microsoft has published a guide about making Terminal Server more secure.

Registry Edits for Windows XP: Tweaks and Tips - Looking for some Windows XP tweaks and tips? then head this way to Kellys-korner-xp for hundreds of tweaks for XP.

CoDBench - CoDBench is a Guru3D.com freeware application for automatic Call of Duty benchmarks.

MultiEx Commander v3.9.70 - The worlds best multi game resource archiver MultiEx Commander has been updated. Version 3.9.70 is now operating solely on online resources for maximum performance. Dubbed "The Ultimate Mod Tool" by PC Extreme (UK) and with more than 150 game resource archives supported for extraction, MultiEx Commander is steadfast in user-requested game support.

K9 1.27 - K9 is an email filtering program that works in conjunction with most popular email applications that use the standard POP3 email protocol. Messages pass through K9 on their way to your email program and as K9 processes them it can learn to identify the difference between Spam and Good emails, marking Spam emails so that your email application can file them away or delete them.

FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 12-03-2004 - FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.

RadLinker 1.005 - RadLinker (download) is new tweaker/linker for ATI Radeon based graphics cards.