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There will be a transit of Venus across the Sun in about a day or so. Venus will pass directly between us and the Sun, being visible as a small black dot across the Sun's surface. This is a rare event - the next one will be in 2012 and then it won't happen again for about 100 years. The last time it happened was in 1882. Of course, staring directly at the Sun to see this phenomenon is a really bad idea, but here is a webcast set up by the CSIRO that will transmit pictures from the event. There is a slashdot story about this, from which I will blatantly steal the following handy links: safe observation, where/when to see it and pictures taken by the SOHO orbiting observatory.
The Cassini-Huygens probe to Saturn and its moon Titan is on approach to the giant planet after 7 years. On July 1 it will speed at 3.2 miles a second between two of the outer rings of Saturn, soar to within 12,500 miles of the cloud tops of the stormy giant, fire its engines for 96 minutes to slow down and then be captured by Saturn's gravitational field.
Kerpal noticed that Windows Media Player 10 is out in Beta form. PCMag have a preview of it.
SpodesAbode have a roundup of low-latency memory from Corsair, OCZ and A-Data.
TechReport have a pile of Computex stories: BTX may not work for Athlon 64. Iwill's dually SFF up close. Shuttle grows the XPC with P-series chassis. Asrock's dual socket wonder bridges the gap. Biostar keeps pace in SFF race with BTX chassis.
Our Folding@HOME Team continues the sprint towards first place in the world. We've closed the gap to less than 700,000 points or approximately 21 days until we pass, thanks Simon.
Microsoft managed to get a patent for the "double click", thanks Enthalpy. On a more positive note, they are offering free licenses to "cold servers" that are used in disaster recovery plans.
Ambush noticed a new copy protection technique on DVD's.
From Murray: THE world's first private-sector space flight is tentatively planned for June 21 from the United States, and aims to reach an altitude of 100 kilometres, the flight's promoter, Scaled Composites, said.
If you fancy a huge ATI Banner you can score one and donate money to breast cancer research by bidding on that auction, thanks Shintaro. This is a funny ebay auction, thanks Sutto.
Xbit report on Alienware's latest tasty high-performance PC's, thanks Tony.
From Mibberz, good news for Optus users: If you havent heard, Optusnet are now mirroring debian, fedora and sourceforge. Downloading from this site still goes towards your datamonitor traffic though. apt-get upgrade now runs at 700kBs. woo!
Interesting Forum Threads:
Really new and lost for words (basic OC and watercooling) in Newbie Lounge.
Xbox: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PICS) in Games.
Digital TV on PC discussion in Audio Visual.
REQ: Help save an Admin's neck (cooking help) in Geek Food.
Questions about current and near future Porsche products? in Motoring.
Is there life without a uni degree? in The Pub.
Give this friendly frog a caption! in Photography.
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