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Apparently downloading TV shows is a regular activity for one in four Australians online. The research shows 19 per cent of downloaders don't want to wait for local networks to screen their favourite overseas programs, a further 18 per cent time-shift their viewing to watch programs on demand, and another 17 per cent are accessing programs not screened here.
TomsHardware checked out a few PCI Express SATA RAID controllers. AMCC, Areca, HighPoint, LSI Logic and Promise Technology offer PCI Express add-on cards that run up to four hard drives to create fast and secure storage array.
Tweakers meanwhile see how Intel's Clovertown Xeon X5355 works with databases. Although the chip is technically pretty much identical to the desktop version which we looked at earlier, it runs on a different platform and is meant for other tasks. In this article we look at the influence of the step from dual-core to quad-core on Intel's position and how Clovertown holds up in our database test.
There's now a downloadable lie detector for Skype. The use of voice stress analysis (VSA) as a lie detector became popular in the late 1970s and 80s.
RegHW compared Intel vs AMD in an integrated graphics shootout. Desktop integrated graphics are 60 per cent of the desktop market and discrete graphics are 40 per cent.
Anandtech have a sneak peek at AMD's 65nm "Brisbane" core. The most energy efficient AMD CPU to date.
Meanwhile TGDaily report that AMD is questioning the current multi-core trend. "In the early 2000s, we became side-tracked with the Gigahertz race, which has been a mistake." The same could happen with multi-core processors, Hester stated: "The industry can be side-tracked by the number of cores in CPUs."
This Tower Defence timewaster from MudBlood is a serious time-sucker, beware! I got to wave 74 once.
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