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Saturday, 26-April-2003 14:41:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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GBLS dug up a load more Opteron stuff: Motherboard info from MSI here and here, Opteron 240 and 242 reviewed on AMDZone, Opteron and nForce3 info on ExtremeTech, server products announced by Einux and Arima and some coverage of the launch on TomsHardware.
There wasn't a lot of info in previous stories about the 3 people recently arrested in Sydney for something to do with MP3's. Turns out they allegedly ran one of the biggest MP3-serving websites in the world, so it's not like they were just quietly listening to their iPods when the Feds swooped. Slashdot ran a story on it a couple of days ago, more info there (among the noise).
Meanwhile, an American judge has ruled that Grokster and Streamcast/Morpheus are different to Napster and therefore not liable for people trading copyright-infringing material via their systems. More info here and here, thanks Iroquois.
SharkyExtreme have a high-end gaming PC buyer's guide.
TheInq are making more friends in high places, by reporting that vendors were strong-armed by Intel to not have too much of a presence at the AMD Opteron launch.
TomsHardware have an article about using hard drives for large-scale backups, instead of tapes.. thanks Salim.
I spent a little time reading this month-old slashdot story this morning, about a PCI card that does gzip compression in hardware. We've been experimenting with mod_gzip which does compression of webpages on the fly from our server, with a huge bandwidth saving. The problem is that with more than about 450 users in the forums we start running out of CPU time and have to turn compression off. A PCI card would be a much cheaper solution (but not quite as cool) as upgrading to quad Opterons. :)
Interesting article over on FutureLooks, offering some perspective on being addicted to benchmarking and gaming.
RojakPot have a Car PC project based around a Shuttle mini-PC.
From seth: LamStock is a combined LAN ran by LANstock & Frag the Lam admins at La Trobe Uni (Vic) with a player limit of 110 on May 17 & 18.
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