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A lot of us in IRC the other night were exploring Google Maps thanks to this page. It's an amazingly detailed satellite-photo view of North America (and some other regions) with some interesting things highlighted. Be warned, I experienced severe time suckage when playing around with this.
Sciby spotted a human centrifuge being used to simulate artificial gravity, to counter the effects of extended weight loss. Didn't someone try to kill James Bond with one of these? For the initial study this summer, 32 test subjects will be placed in a six-degree, head-down, bed-rest position for 21 days to simulate the effects of microgravity on the body. Gibbon reckons that's his kind of job.
Hopefully it won't be too long until dual-core Opterons make their way to the desktop in Socket939. Digitimes report Q3 2005 is when they'll arrive.
HardOCP looked at 64-bit gaming, seeing if the move from 32-bit Windows to 64-bit Windows is going to improve your gaming experience.
Overclockerz made some parabolic antennae to improve wireless networking.
From Simon: Interesting article on New Scientist about a company NanoCoolers which makes a liquid gallium filled chip cooler "The system draws heat away from a circuit by pumping liquid gallium alloy through a series of pipes... Furthermore, it can be pumped away from a heat source more efficiently by means of electromagnetic pumps, instead of hydraulic ones." It will be interesting to see how these shape up.
Apparently the Sober Worm is spreading like wildfire. More info from a sysadmin's perspective here.
3DVelocity have a socket478 cooling roundup. If you're researching for a new P4 cooler, check out our recent Five Large Coolers and Six Smaller Coolers roundups.
From Dinuc: The top ten of the April challenge have now been picked and it's time to vote for the April Iron Photographer. April's theme was Power and there were some great entries.
Iroquois put together an interesting Guide to DShield in our Networking and Internet Forum. DShield.org is an attempt to collect data about cracker activity from all over the internet. This data will be cataloged and summarized. It can be used to discover trends in activity and prepare better firewall rules.
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