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Wednesday Afternoon
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Wednesday, 12-April-2006 14:08:54 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I've gotten a weird "save the animals" email a few times over the last few days. Looks genuine enough, but it comes from a few different addresses and the website attempts (but failed on my PC) to do horrible Javascripy things to your browser. Sooo.. keep an eye out for that one.
AMD have raised A64 prices but lowered Opteron ones. The prices changes came as AMD announced Tuesday it was shipping its last scheduled single-core Opteron processors. The new models run a 3GHz clock speed and are currently available for two- to eight-way servers.
Afie sent in Pandora, which we've mentioned a couple of times before, but it's pretty cool. You put in an artist or song that has a genre you like, it gives you an online radio playlist that will help you to "explore that part of the music universe".
Bolex17 noticed these 10 weird USB drives based on food etc. Weird indeed.
The American TV network ABC will offer some shows free on the web during an upcoming trial. Viewers will be able to pause and move between "chapters" in an episode but will not be able to skip embedded ads.
ArsTechnica rounded up 8 digital audio players from the budget end of town. We tested them, noted their construction and sound qualities. Then we conclude with a "compare and contrast" to see which player offers the best bang for your buck (and yes, we included the iPod Shuffle...)
From IntelInside: TDK beats all others to the finish line in shipping Blu-ray media. TDK Corporation announced today that it has begun shipping Blu-ray recordable media to retailers across the United States. The first wave of media will include 25GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable) media.
Tidbits fom Eroda: Azureus-BitTorrent Client is the most popular open-source software on SourceForge, some HP printer software can be exploited and Microsoft now has a Linux website.
Eroda also spotted this Intel Mac Benchmark Smorgasbord on Macologist. As our focus is with games, we will begin with a series of gaming benchmarks, then move on to other application as well as graphics and computational benchmarks.
Meanwhile Cnet reckon that Apple's Boot Camp isn't going to do much to make Windows users buy Macs. Hasn't made me any more keen, as discussed in our recent podcast.
In space news, the European Venus Express has arrived at our sister planet, NASA aim to blast for water on the Moon and it turns out that "Xena", our disputed 10th planet, might only be slightly larger than Pluto. The fact that Xena is smaller than thought means it must reflect about 86% of the light that falls on it - making it about as bright as fresh snow and brighter than every other solar system body except Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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