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Possible Security Issue (218 Comments) (link)  Saturday, 21-November-2009  14:54:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg Unfortunately last night I became aware of a possible security issue on one of our servers and noticed some unusual activity. I am investigating it in more detail and will be working with the vendor of our forum software and quite possibly the Police to determine what has actually occurred. For now it doesn't seem that the issue is too serious, but I would say as a precaution you might want to: change your forum password change your password on any other services that use the same password (although sharing passwords across services is a very bad idea, so you shouldn't be doing that anyway) I'll give more info as it comes to hand. Saturday Morning Reviews (6 Comments) (link)  Saturday, 21-November-2009  02:39:47 (GMT +10) - by aftahours Media Players: Insignia NS-BRDVD3 Networked Blu-ray Player on I4U Toshiba RD99DT DVD/HDD Recorder on TrustedReviews Popcorn Hour C-200 Blu-Ray Networked Media Tank on Digital Reviews Cooling: Titan Skalli CPU Cooler on Hardware Secrets Corsair Hydro Series H50 CPU Cooler on RWLabs Mouse: CM Storm Sentinel Advance Mouse on Hardware Secrets Coolermaster Sentinel Advance on XSReviews Logitech Performance Mouse MX and Anywhere Mouse MX on InsideHW SteelSeries 9HD Mouse Pad on techPowerUp Storage: Qnap TS-419P Turbo NAS on DragonSteelMods Synology Disk Station DS409slim NAS Enclosure on Futurelooks Vantec NexStar Vault NST-V290S2 2.5-inch HDD Enclosure on TweakTown Kingwin F-35 on PureOverclock StarTech Dual-SATA HDD Docking Station on BmR Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock+ on TestFreaks Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD Docking Station on DragonSteelMods Kingwin F-35 HDD Enclosure on Virtual-Hideout EagleTech CSMDSU2-BK 3.5-inch Dual Drive Enclosure on PureOverclock Thecus N0204 miniNAS Pocket RAID Storage on Legit Reviews Audio: Panasonic SC-HC4 iPod Docking Station on Hardware Zone Tritton Technologies AX51 Pro Precision PC Gaming Headset on Futurelooks AVLabs AVL787 Bedside Companion Speaker System on TweakTown Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset on Benchmark Reviews Logitech G35 Surround Sound Headset on DriverHeaven.net Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-UD6 & P55M-UD4 on Neoseeker Gigabyte MA-785GPMT-UD2H Motherboard on TechwareLabs Gigabyte P55-UD6 P55 Lynnfield Motherboard on PC Perspective ASUS P7P55D Premium Motherboard on Motherboards.org RAM: Patriot Sector 5 2x2GB 2000MHz Cas 8 on OCC OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 AMD Black Edition Ready 4GB Dual Channel Kit on Technoyard OCZ PC3-12800 OCZ3X1600LV4GK Intel XMP 2x2GB on OCC PSU: Ultra X4 500W PSU on DriverHeaven Nexus NX-5000 PSU on Rbmods Antec CP-1000 1000W Power Supply on Johnnyguru.com CPU: AMD 125W Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition on Techgage Intel Pentium E6300 2.80 GHz on TechPowerUp Case: NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series PC Chassis on Bona Fide Reviews Corsair Obsidian Series 800D enclosure on Techreport Azza Solano 1000R Full Tower Case on Pro-Clockers Portable: Speck Products TuckPack Sleeve on TestFreaks MSI X-Slim X600 - 15.6in CULV Laptop on Trusted Reviews Misc: Canon PowerShot S90 on Hardware Zone Lowepro Outback 100 Camera Bag on ThinkComputers.org De-Branded HP Sempron LE-1250 PC on MHW TRENDnet TEW-671BR Concurrent Dual Band Wireless N Router on PCShopTalk LG BL40 Chocolate on TrustedReviews Misc Pics (30 Comments) (link)  Friday, 20-November-2009  14:15:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to mikloise and sciby for these:                               Thursday Night (14 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 19-November-2009  21:51:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg GamerLimit sent word of a QLD Govt E-Petition in support of an R18+ rating for games. Many campaigns for change in QLD have begun with one of these, and it’s certainly a great start to push the QLD Attorney General into action and pledging his support for a change in the system. Tweaktown looked at a laptop with 3D Vision. They are announcing, in conjunction with ASUS, the world’s first mobile 3D Vision capable laptop. This is based off of the G51 line up and will be dubbed the G51J-3D. To do this ASUS has packed a 120Hz 15.6-inch LCD screen that is capable of handling the 3D Vision. Australia has a new fastest supercomputer. The supercomputer was supplied by Sun Microsystems and contains 3,000 quad-core Intel Nehalem processors with 36TB of memory and a petabyte filesystem. Tweakhound have a Windows 7 tweaking guide. I highly recommend you use Windows 7 in its default state for at least a week before you start tweaking it. There are new features in Windows 7 that may seem like unnecessary bloat at first that you may discover actually help you get things done faster. Wizzard67 noticed that the Intel SSD toolkit and firmware should be fixed and re-released by the end of the month. Intel has confirmed an issue with the firmware update process for 34nm (G2) Intel® X25-M SSDs (80GB and 160GB). This predominantly affected Windows* 7 (64bit) users during or immediately after the upgrade process to 02HA firmware using the firmware update tool (version 1.3). Intel plans to release a fix for this issue by the end of November 2009. Brains spotted this laptop reliability study. Mac fans are often quick to claim superior performance from their Apple laptops, but a study from a warranty supplier in the US has ranked the reliability of their hardware fourth behind Asus, Toshiba and Sony. Thursday Afternoon Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 19-November-2009  13:41:28 (GMT +10) - by Agg Storage: Thermaltake BlacX Duet Dual Hard Drive Docking Station on Tweaknews. Thermaltake BlacX Duet Dual HDD Docking Station on Pro-Clockers. Kingston SSDNow V 40GB on Bjorn3D. Speck TwoZip HDD Case on TestFreaks. Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Desktop Upgrade Kit on TrustedReviews. Motherboards: ASUS P7P55D-E Premium LGA1156 board on Motherboards.org. MSI NF980-G65 Mainboard AM3 board on TechWareLabs. Intel DP55WG LGA1156 board on Motherboards.org. Gigabyte G41M-ES2L LGA775 board on HWSecrets. Cases: IN WIN Maelstrom on OCClub. Antec Sonata Elite Mid Tower on ExtremeOC. Sunbeamtech Automaton on MadShrimps. Audio / Visual: HP DreamScreen 100 digital picture frame on DigitalTrends. LG 50PS7000 50in Plasma TV on TrustedReviews. Samsung LN55B650T1F 55-Inch LCD HDTV on FutureLooks. Canon SX20is 20x Ultrazoom Digital Camera on RamblingThoughts. Bluetrek Bizz Bluetooth Headset on iGadgetLife. Raidsonic Icybox IB-MP305A-B Media Player on RBMods. Insignia NS-BRDVD3 Blu-Ray player on DigitalTrends. Sony Bravia KDL-40Z5800 40in LCD TV on TrustedReviews. ASUS SBC-04D1S-U External Slim Blu-ray Combo Drive on ThinkComputers. Phiaton PS 300 NC headphones on DigitalTrends. Western Digital WD TV HD Live on DigitalTrends. Popcorn Hour C200 Networked Media Tank/HTPC on TechWareLabs. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8 digicam on DigitalTrends. Misc: Asus RT-N16 router on DigitalTrends. Corsair H50 Liquid-Cooling System on XbitLabs. Kingston HyperX 4GB 2133MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory Kit on FutureLooks.

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