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Agg has sent in this strange movie trailer, Youtube link here for those who want to keep Quicktime away.
Ben has sent in this device that captures 3D objects and puts them into a program like Maya or 3DStudioMax. According to Ben it will cost around $30k but still, it does some pretty awesome things. FastSCAN is lightweight and portable, with the ability to scan objects in their natural environment, onsite. This is particularly useful for physiological scanning applications since the device allows free form handheld scanning with no mechanical constraints.
David has sent in these pics of a laptop after it was struck by a bullet in a mugging incident. So kids, use this as an excuse to get your parents to buy you a laptop - body armor.
Hexus has interviewed John Fruehe of AMD. I find it ironic that at the start of the video there is a ad for Intel Core 2 Duo. In a HEXUS.tv first, we pit Armari's Technical Director Dan Goldsmith against AMD's John Fruehe, who builds AMD's channel business for Opteron. How does AMD plan to keep its customers?
Hardware Secrets has posted an article about creating small networks with only crossover cable. You can build a small network between two computers using a very cheap networking cable, called cross-over cable. This can be a terrific solution if you are looking for an inexpensive way of putting together only two computers for allowing them to share files, printers and Internet access. In this tutorial we will teach you in details how this can be done.
TechARP has posted part 2 in their security boot camp series, part one I linked a little while back. Ahh.. The age old art of hijacking your PC. In less techie terms, it generally means an attacker who gains full control of your PC to make it do something that he wants (and generally what you don't want). It could be anything from using your PC to attack another PC or a server, sending out spam, modifying the contents of your own PC, etc. Your PC is practically at his command once he hijacks it.
TechReport have compared 5 quad core systems based on AMD and Intel offerings. What we found, in a nutshell, is that four processor cores is a wonderful thing to have, but only if you have some heavy multitasking to do or you happen to make extensive use of one of the few applications out there capable of taking full advantage of four cores simultaneously. But things have changed somewhat since our last dance with quad-core systems, and so we're gathered here today to take another look.
Hexus has reported that Vista's activation process has been cracked, now after the last report of a Vista crack I suggest you take this with a grain of salt :). A quick bit of background. Late last week news of a 'brute force' keygen for Vista proliferated across the Internet. There were reports that after a few hours it could return a number of valid keys. Turns out the excitement drummed up was premature. It's too slow to be a practical route around Microsoft's activation technology. Before everyone knew it was naff, however, the thieves cheered at the prospect of free Vista, while journos chuntered at how activation only hassles legit users.
Todays we actually have a timewaster, it is from Nicholas with Google Image Labeler. You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session.
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