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This evening Formula One races in the United States. You might remember last year's shambles where all but 6 cars (only 2 competitive ones) pulled out of the race due to tyre issues. Anyway, there's discussion about this year's round in this thread in the forums. NOTE: some TV guides are saying a 3:45AM start for Ch10's coverage, while others are claiming live coverage, which would start at 3AM AEST. So if you're recording it, bear that in mind!
IBM have once again dominated the supercomputer rankings, with four of the top 10 computers on the list and almost half of the top 500. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., remained in the top position with the Blue Gene/L system installed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif. The system's peak performance on a Linpack benchmark was 280.6 teraflops, or 280.6 trillion calculations per second. Because it so easily outdistances the rest of the field - no other supercomputer has exceeded 100 teraflops - organizers expect the system to remain at the top of the list for at least the next few editions.
Another giant rock will fly close by the Earth tomorrow. The latest calculations show that 2004 XP14 will pass closest to Earth at 04:25 UT on July 3 (12:25 a.m. EDT or 9:25 p.m. PDT on July 2). The asteroid's distance from Earth at that moment will be 268,624-miles (432,308 km), or just 1.1 times the Moon's average distance from Earth.
RM sent in this amusing (but depressing) blog about a US Senator's view of Net Neutrality. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.
Dan has more letters! Fancy RAM that nobody seems to need, speaker loudness, TV licenses, making pretty pictures, cheap(er) photo batteries, and CD burning in the olden days.
From Ken: A Night in Fantasia is back again this year. This year it is travelling to Melbourne Town Hall as well as the Sydney Town Hall. Its a symphony orchestra playing music from video games and anime. Being showcased this year are pieces from Shadow of the Colossus, Katamari Damacy, Final Fantasy series including Final Fantasy XII, and from anime such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle just to name a few. More information here.
From Petercr: Love him or hate him but the Free Software Foundation is petitioning U2's frontman and social activist Bono to take a stand against copy-protection technologies used by the music industry according to this article on the SMH website. Strangely though no sign of the petition or mention of this over at www.fsf.org.
From sleator: I recently order a AMD AM2 X2 Athlon 4000+ with the 1mb L2 Cache, I got a email this morning as follows: "Ben, Looks like the distributor has made our minds up for us. It appears the 4000+ AM2 is now EOL (End of Life) and no longer avaialble." Just to confirm that AMD are no longer making non-FX cores with 1mb l2 cache. Bummer!
XbitLabs give us their thoughts on Intel's Core 2 Duo or Conroe microarchitecture. Our article contains all the info on Core microarchitecture that will give you to understand why AMD is going to have really hard times.
Phoronix meanwhile checked out a Core Duo under Linux. We have taken a look at the Intel Core Duo T2400 in conjunction with the Lenovo ThinkPad T60, and have comparison results today against the previous Pentium M 750 1.83GHz.
Motherboards.org explain some power-supply buzzwords. Well, now's your chance to finally become a power supply guru. I am going to try to explain it all to you. Hopefully, in the end, your brain will not be a buzz of over-information.
Interesting Forum Threads:
Video Card Ownership Poll, H2 2006 in Video Cards.
Spindle + cases OR Disks in cases? in Storage, Backup & Memory.
7200.10 Perpendicular worth the upgrade? in Storage, Backup & Memory.
Core 2 delayed by 4 days in Intel Hardware.
The Big iPod Sticky! in Apple Hardware.
The world *STILL* doesn't understand free software in Other Operating Systems.
Urban Exploration Visit in Photography.
My Nitro Truggy movies (Part 1 + 2) in Other Toys.
Westfield SE-W Clubman in Motoring: Worklogs.
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