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Misc Pics (14 Comments) (link)  Friday, 3-July-2009  15:39:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg Friday again!                               Friday Afternoon (5 Comments) (link)  Friday, 3-July-2009  14:36:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg The RIAA has chalked up another victory, this time against usenet.com. According to court documents (PDF warning), the Usenet service is guilty of direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and vicarious infringement. The ruling also said that Usenet.com cannot claim protection under the 1984 Sony Betamax decision which states that companies selling devices cannot be held liable for infringement despite the actions of the buyer. OCInside.de have an english-language Phenom II unlocking guide. It is already well-known that one can unlock the fourth core of a triple core AMD Phenom II CPU. But during a test of the current ASRock A790GXH/128M motherboard at ocinside.de it was possible to unlock much more than this and that is no April joke. The AMD Phenom II 710 X3 CPU became an Engineering Sample with four CPU cores, unlocked Vcore selection and unlocked multiplier ! The London Stock Exchange is moving from Windows to Linux for its trading platform. I'm sure the LSE management couldn't tell Linux from Windows without a techie at hand. They can tell, however, when their business comes to a complete stop in front of the entire world. Spammers have been ordered to pay $3.7M USD in fines. The commission settled with three defendants in the case -- Spear Systems and two individuals, one in the U.S. and one in Australia -- in May 2008. From Amfibius: Just to let you know that the voting for Iron Chef June 2009 is open. The theme ingredient was mushrooms. Friday Morning Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Friday, 3-July-2009  04:26:30 (GMT +10) - by Agg Cases: Antec ISK300-65 Mini-ITX HTPC Case on BenchmarkReviews. Cooler Master Sileo 500 Mid Tower with 500W PSU on ThinkComputers. Cooler Master HAF922 on DriverHeaven. Thermaltake DH101 HTPC Case on OCOnline. Maxcube Amoris 6010 on OCClub. NZXT Khaos Aluminum Full Tower on TechWareLabs. Antec Veris Multimedia Station Premier HTPC case on OC3D. Thermaltake Element G on HWSecrets. Motherboards: ECS Black Series X58B-A LGA1366 board on FutureLooks. EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified LGA1366 board on HotHardware. Biostar TA790GX XE AM3 board on TrustedReviews. GIGABYTE MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 board on Tweaktown. Input Etc: Razer Salmosa Gaming Mouse on Phoronix. Rosewill RM-8500 Mouse on Bjorn3D. Portable & Prebuilt: Acer Aspire Timeline 5810T-354G32Mn - 15.6in Laptop on TrustedReviews. Macbook Pro Kingston SSDNow 80 GB SSD + RAM Upgrade on Motherboards.org. Dell Adamo 1.2GHz laptop on TBreak. Lenovo ThinkPad T500 laptop on DriverHeaven. PC World Advent AIO-101 prebuilt PC on ITReviewed. Thursday Afternoon Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 2-July-2009  14:32:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg Storage: Vizo Saturno 2.5" External HDD Enclosure on Tech-Reviews. Gelid Solutions GC-Extreme Thermal Compound Video Review on eTeknix. Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME Rev.2 CPU Cooler on Tech-Reviews. Promise Technology SmartStor NS4600 on LegionHW. Eagle Tech ET-CSMDSU2-BK 3.5" Dual HDD Enclosure on ComputingOnDemand. Kingwin XT-1264 HTC Cooler on OCIA. Video Cards: 9500GT & 9600GT on a Diet low-profile cards on VR-Zone. Sapphire HD 4730 512 MB on TechPowerUp. Galaxy GeForce GTX 285 OC with AC Edition on HWZone. ASUS Radeon HD 4890 Voltage Tweak on Tweaktown. Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ OC on TechARP. Gainward GTX 295 Graphics Card with 1792MB Memory Preview on Tech-Reviews. Power Supply: Rocketfish 550W on HWSecrets. Seventeam ST-750P-AF on HWSecrets. Thermaltake Litepower 450W on PureOC. OCZ FATAL1TY 550W on Tech-Reviews. Corsair CX400W on HWSecrets. Antec CP-850W on XSReviews. Thursday Morning (4 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 2-July-2009  04:22:56 (GMT +10) - by Agg Top story of the moment would have to be that ThePirateBay has been sold to a software company. The company says that after it has completed the acquisition it will launch new business models so that copyright owners get paid, which is clearly a huge diversion from TPB’s previous modus operandi. Sony have apparently applied for a patent for PS2 compatability on PS3's, entirely emulated. So maybe people (like me) with 40GB PS3s and other models lacking native PS2 compatability will be able to get our oldschool gaming fix. Interpretation is like having someone constantly translating English to Japanese for you, non stop, twenty four hours a day wherever you go. Decoding and recompiling is like someone translating a sets of words and putting them in a dictionary you can reference. Check out this carnivorous clock that eats bugs. The ensuing chemical reaction, or "digestion," is transformed into power that keeps the rollers rollin' and the LCD clock ablaze. The pair offers an alternative design fueled by mice, another contraption whose robotic arm plucks insect-fuel from spider webs with the help of a video camera, and a lamp powered by insects lured to their deaths with ultraviolet LEDs. Man, this is so wrong it has to be right. China is apparently banning gold farming in online gaming. The trading of virtual currency for real cash employs hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and generates between $200 million and $1 billion annually, according to a 2008 survey conducted by Richard Heeks at the University of Manchester. He estimates that between 80% and 85% of gold farmers are based in China. Discussion here. Lemming spotted a clever bit of CGI, this transforming laptop video on YouTube. If you're addicted to energy drinks like me, you might want to get your hands on NASA's sports drink, now available to the public. Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., put 15 years of research into the drink's development. NASA astronauts have been drinking the formula on missions for nearly 20 years. IGN toured Blizzard's studio recently. Last week IGN AU was lucky enough to head over to Blizzard's HQ in California to play the latest multiplayer build of StarCraft II. Wednesday Morning Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 1-July-2009  01:24:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg Cooling: Evercool Transformer 4 CPU Cooler on OCOnline. Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU cooler on RBMods. Coolermaster Hyper N520 CPU Cooler on Tech-Reviews. Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound Video Review on eTeknix. Kingston HyperX (KHX-FAN) Memory Cooler on Tweaktown. Storage: Kingwin EZ-Dock 2 HDD Docking Station on OCIA. Synology Disk Station DS409slim NAS on ITReviewed. Synology DS209 NAS on CCEReviews. Rosewill RX81-MP-US External SATA Enclosure on Tech-Reviews. Synology DS209, Budget Alternative to DS209+ on Bjorn3D. Cases: In Win X-Fighter on HWSecrets. Cooler Master ATCS-840 on VerdisReviews. Motherboards: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P LGA1366 board on HWLogic. Gigabyte G31M-ES2C LGA775 board on HWSecrets. MSI X58 Pro-E LGA1366 board on HWZone. Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 board on Guru3D. CPUs: AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition Processor on LegitReviews. AMD Phenom II TWKR Black Edition Processor on HotHardware. AMD TWKR Edition CPU on OCClub. AMD Phenom II TWKR Black Edition on NeoSeeker. Audio Visual: Acoustibuds Earphone Adapters on BigBruin. Olympus E-620 Digital SLR on HotHardware. BlueAnt Q1 Bluetooth headset on DigitalTrends. LG 22LU5000 22in LCD TV on TrustedReviews. Samsung LN55A950 120HZ 55 inch 1080P LCD TV on Tweaknews. Speedlink Vento 2.0 Speaker Set on VerdisReviews. Sony HDR-TG5V handycam on DigitalTrends. Portable: MSI Wind U100-641US 10-inch Netbook on LegitReviews. Palm Pre on DigitalTrends. Dell Studio XPS M1340 notebook on TrustedReviews. Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T-8480 Notebook on Tweaktown. Software: CyberLink PowerDVD 9 Ultra on ITReviewed. Light of Altair PC game on GamingHeaven. ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6 on ITReviewed. Invelos DVD Profiler 3.5.1 on ITReviewed. Power Supply: BFG ES-800 on HWSecrets. IN-WIN Comander 650/750W on Bjorn3D. SilverStone ST70EF 700W on PCPerspective. Kingwin Mach 1 1000W on JonnyGuru. Misc: TRENDnet TV-IP512WN Wireless N Internet Camera Server on PCShopTalk. Epson WorkForce 600 MFP on TheTechZone. Kingston HyperX T1 PC3-16000 3GB Memory Kit on HWLogic. NZXT Avatar Gaming Mouse on TechWareLabs.

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