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Misc Pics (45 Comments) (link)  Friday, 3-February-2012  14:09:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to Kie and Sciby this week! And if you're after more, check out this Wiki page which lists ALL "misc pics" news posts from the archive. Thursday Night (5 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 2-February-2012  23:37:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg The upcoming Facebook IPO is going to make some millionaires - even some billionaires. Even the guy who painted the offices is set to do pretty well out of it, thanks somedood. The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year. People are queuing at Foxconn for a job, probably working on an upcoming iPhone. Previously, we reported that Foxconn is working with the city of Zhengzhou to double the size of the workforce at its facility there, recruiting an additional 100,000 employees. Well, these people saw the job advertisement posted by the Zhengzhou government in the city which showed the salary at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory is 1650 yuan (US$261) for basic salary, and the salary would be increased to 2400 – 3200 yuan (US$379-$506) after the appraisal. What’s more, workers do not need to pay additional money for dormitory and food. Meanwhile a fake Apple TV salesman has been nabbed in Sydney. A forensic analysis of the USB stick found it offered “proxied and peer to peer access to restricted sites” hosted within China and the United States, which host “several pay TV stations as well as streaming videos and other copyright materials.” Ashfield Police seized several counterfeit Apple devices in the raid today, plus documents and records detailing past sales of the device and subscription sales. There's a new Humble Bundle of games, this time supporting Android. As usual, you decide how much you want to pay, and how much goes to the developers and/or charity. There's a video here showing gameplay. Here's another one of those PC hardware playing a song videos, but I found it oddly hypnotic. My last couple of videos I built a couple of robot bands (yeah! machines that play actual instruments). These videos didn't fair as well so i decided to go back to the basics and create a video staring my trustly old HP Scanner and a scrappy old hard drive which was converted into a robotic drum machine. Meanwhile here's a video of swarming nano quadrotors. Bits of it remind me of Space Invaders, but overall, it's kinda terrifying. As is this new guided bullet from Sandia. Sandia’s design for the four-inch-long bullet includes an optical sensor in the nose to detect a laser beam on a target. The sensor sends information to guidance and control electronics that use an algorithm in an eight-bit central processing unit to command electromagnetic actuators. These actuators steer tiny fins that guide the bullet to the target. Wednesday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 1-February-2012  23:51:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg Portable & Prebuilt: Dell XPS 15z Notebook on Futurelooks. Sony VAIO VPC-F23BFX on TechReviewSource. ASUS UX31 Zenbook on TBreak. Audio Visual: Olympus PEN E-PL3 digicam on TechReviewSource. Monster Clarity HD Model One Speakers on TBreak. ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor 3D Vision-2 Kit on BenchmarkReviews. Edimax WD-1000TR Wireless WHDI Caster on eTeknix. Storage: Kingston SSDNow V+200 120GB Upgrade Kit on RWLabs. Synology DS212 2-Bay NAS on Tweaktown. ADATA S511 120GB SSD on PureOC. Plextor PX-LB950UE External 12x Blu-ray Writer on PCStats. Verbatim Store'n'Go 1 TB USB3.0 Portable Hard Drive on Metku. ADATA S396 30GB Value Solid State Drive on Tweaktown. Samsung SSD SM825 400GB Enterprise SSD on TheSSDReview. Motherboard & CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K vs Core i7-3820 vs FX-8150 vs 990X vs 2700K on HWHeaven. Gigabyte X79-UD5 on PureOC. GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 AM3+ on Futurelooks. Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4 Intel Z68 on ThinkComputers. Sapphire PURE Black X79N (Intel X79) on Tweaktown. ASUS Maxiumus GeneZ Motherboard on TechReaction. Cases: Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 Full Tower on Bjorn3D. Thermaltake Commander MS-I Mid Tower on Pro-Clockers. Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus (RC-431P) Mid Tower on OCOnline. MSI Nighthawk on TechWareLabs. NZXT Phantom 410 on Tweaktown. NZXT Source 220 on APHNetworks. Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III 600W on APHNetworks. Kingwin Lazer Platinum 1000W on ThinkComputers. Thermaltake Dr. Power II ATX Power Supply Tester on Tweaknews. Thermaltake Smart Series 730W on Pro-Clockers. ThermalTake Smart 430W on FunkyKit. Cooling: Danger Den DD-M6 Waterblock on NinjaLane. Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler on CircuitRemix. Cooler Master GeminII M4 CPU Cooler on XSReviews. Deepcool Gamer Storm Dracula VGA Cooler on HWSecrets. Kingpin F1 Extreme Dark Cooling Pot on Overclockers.com. Xigmatek Prime CPU cooler on OC3D. NZXT Havik 120 CPU cooler on OCClub. Input Etc: QPad MK-80 Mechanical Keyboard on eTeknix. Roccat Isku Keyboard on RBMods. SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Gaming Mouse: Legendary Edition on LegitReviews. QPAD MK-85 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard on TechPowerUp. Software: CyberLink PowerDVD 12 on MissingRemote. Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.7.2 Performance on Phoronix. Misc: GeIL Enhance Corsa PC3-12800 1600MHz 16GB Quad Channel Memory Kit on MadShrimps. AMD Radeon HD7950 (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 1-February-2012  20:38:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg AMD have unveiled their Radeon HD7950 high-end video card. DiGiTaL MoNkEY has as usual done an excellent job listing all the reviews out there, as part of the 7000-series thread. Inside the AMD Radeon HD 7950 is the GPU core, part of the Southern Islands series of cards, known as Tahiti Pro. The XT version in the AMD Radeon HD 7970 is the fully enabled, no missing elements design, whereas the Pro is subtly modified to hit the target performance profile AMD want. Additionally, AMD are allowing Add-In Board (AIB) partners to ship products with customized PCB's from the launch, as happened with certain previous generation Pro variants (6950, 5750, for example). Expect to see some variety of size and cooler for the HD 7950 in the stores. Check out the list of reviews here! Interesting Forum Threads (0 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 31-January-2012  16:33:48 (GMT +10) - by Agg Here's a snapshot of what's going on in some of the forums. You can also find new interesting things you might have missed via the Who's Online page, the New Posts page and the Live forum view. Also try the Today's Posts link (find it on the Quick Links menu) and the handy Who Quoted Me? feature. Emporer 1510 Workstation in Overclocking & Hardware. Team[AU] AMD Extreme Overclocking Demo - KLCC PC Fair Dec 4th in Overclocking & Hardware. Thermaltake and BMW Designworks Level 10 M Mouse in Overclocking & Hardware. Setting up 3x3 monitors with two AMD HD6990's in Video Cards. Audit who has accessed and modified files in Business & Enterprise Computing. Inverter Mayhem in Newbie Lounge. RCAware HDMI CEC bridge experiences in HTPC. South Park RPG from Obsidian in PC Games. Things I learned from games in PC Games. AVerMedia DarkCrystal HD Capture Station - USB2.0 vid cap in Game Consoles. Memory card speed vs camera write speed in Photography & Video. The future energy grid is not the grid in Science. Sharpening your own Knives - tell us your experience in Geek Food. Mini tank (worklog) in Pets & Animals. My Synchronised Christmas Lights in Lifestyle. Living under an airport in Lifestyle. How can I be more fuel efficient!? in Motoring. I am 100% debt free! in Career, Education & Finance. Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus With The Potential To Kill Millions in Current Events. US military marks end of its Iraq war in Current Events. No wonder they manufacture in China in Politics & Policies. 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