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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 10-March-2006 16:46:00 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Digitimes report on claims that Intel is cutting prices for Dell, to make them re-think adopting AMD CPUs. For example, the Dell PowerEdge SC430 server, which adopts the Intel Pentium D 820 CPU, is currently specially priced at NT$7,900 (US$243) in Taiwan, while the Pentium D 820 CPU itself is listed on the Intel website selling for US$241 (in 1000-unit lots). If this is true, then in some way the people grabbing cheap servers in this thread are helping to keep Dell away from AMD. :)
A few people sent word that Novell has signed a deal with the New South Wales Department of Commerce to become an approved supplier of Open Source software and Solutions. This is the first panel contract of its kind by an Australian jurisdiction that contains provisions specific to open source software, giving government agencies and departments formal access to Linux solutions. There's a thread with opinions on this here in our Other Operating Systems forum.
I linked this blog a fair while ago but rediscovered it recently.. Someone Else's Life is an interesting insight into the life of a freelance journalist and photographer.
Microsoft have unveiled an Ultra-Mobile PC nicknamed Origami. Apparently this irritatingly flashy website is related to it also.
Sciby spotted some very hot things being created at Sandia National Laboratories. This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.
A few other people sent in this very fast thing on Australia's Lake Gairdner salt flats. "I was only looking at the GPS dial," he said. His on-board system showed a top speed of 236mph (380km/h) but the timing lights are official.
Meanwhile, there's a very pointless thing going on in space soon. Russia plans to hit a golf ball into Earth orbit from the International Space Station.
Finally, Timbot sends word of a 24-monitor display project. Fancy playing Quake III in 10240x3072?
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