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Wednesday, 19-July-2006 04:14:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sciby spotted this cool Media Mirror project. Media Mirror is an interactive video installation, in which over 200+ channels of live cable television are continuously arranged in real-time to form a mosaic representation of the person that stands in front of it.
Apparently not everyone liked the IT Girls calendar we mentioned a few days ago.. there was a US-based DDoS attack on their website. A separate aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of women in IT and highlight their diversity, but it is on these points that many critics are divided.
Anandtech recently checked out Intel's Woodcrest, their new server CPU. The new processor features a 4MB L2 cache shared between each of its two cores and a 1333MHz Dual-Independent Bus architecture. Clock speeds for the Woodcrest launch will start at 1.6GHz and top out at 3.0GHz, and power consumption for the parts will range from 65W to 85W for the top bin part (3.0Ghz).
Meanwhile THG reported on Intel's 32-core project, thanks Chris. Although it was designed to come up with architecture to beat the pants off Sun in the server market by 2010, Keifer may easily be the technical basis for future server and mainstream processors as well.
Extremetech have a series of articles talking to the people behind DX10. In Part 2, we turned our attention to the GPU manufacturers, interviewing ATI's CTO of the PC Business Group, Bob Drebin. Of course, asking one GPU manufacturer about its DX10 ideas is only getting half the story, so today we present an interview with Nvidia's Vice President of Technical Marketing, Tony Tamasi.
From Luke: I'm not sure if this has been covered at all - and it is kinda old news but I found it to be pretty interesting and handy. Its a tutorial on how to turn an iPod into a universal remote.
TechReport compared nForce 590 SLI boards from ASUS and Foxconn. The C51XEM2AA and M2N32-SLI Deluxe represent opposite ends of the nForce 590 SLI motherboard spectrum, but are they really so different?
Lithium-based batteries are getting more bad press, with suspicions they caused a UPS cargo aircraft fire last February. FAA official William Wilkening testified that there have been 60 incidents since 1991 that involved batteries catching on fire, smoking or getting hot. According to Wilkening, most of the batteries were lithium or lithium-ion.
Phoronix looked at Linux vs Windows performance with ATI drivers. Even for the Linux drivers being based upon the ATI Windows Catalyst suite, the frame-rate performance under Linux is one of the critical areas for improvement in this graphics battle.
The "multi-GPU world tour" continues on Bjorn3D, where they are picking out motherboards. Many concentrate on picking a good CPU and video card but forget that the road to a stable and fast system starts with the motherboard.
Dan's had enough of megapixels. If you pay extra for more resolution in a digital camera, you may be buying less than nothing.
From Murray, info on a tiny wireless "memory spot" that can store up to 100 pages of text. Developed over four years by HP Labs in Bristol, the chip is about the size of the head of a match and could potentially store a patient's medical chart on a hospital band, said Howard Taub, associate director at HP Labs.
Also from Murray, Microsoft releasing Virtual PC 2004 as a free download. The PC emulation package allows users to run multiple operating systems on a host PC, making it suitable for software developers and testers. The software previously cost around £90.
Hexus visited FSP Group, a PSU manufacturer. Over the course of four days in sweaty Taoyuan, I got a good picture of just how FSP Group go about producing a new model for retail, how their R&D group works to make it happen, how they self certify and how that all fits in to their overall product strategy for the supplies they expect you guys, the PC mainstream and enthusiast, to buy.
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