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If you use an iPod with Vista, beware, it may be corrupted even if you use the "Safely Remove Hardware" feature. But fear not, Microsoft have released a patch to fix the problem.
Wayne spotted Pac-Man's skeleton.. original artist's site is here but kinda annoying to navigate. More pics here.
Craig spotted an experimental breakthrough that could be appearing in a hard drive near you at some point. Guido Meier at the University of Hamburg in Germany and colleagues used nanosecond pulses of electric current to push magnetic regions along a wire at 110 metres per second - a hundred times faster than was previously possible. There's also another new tech that could boost hard drive storage density, too. Drive prototypes have demonstrated a magnetoresistance ratio that's twice as large as current read heads (140 percent at room temperature), as well as decreased resistances that should allow for further miniaturization of drive read heads.
After all the Airbus A380 hubbub has kinda died down, Boeing's first 787 Dreamliner is being assembled. The medium-sized 787 is Boeing's first all-new commercial plane in more than 10 years, and has so far attracted 568 orders from 44 airlines.
PCPerspective have an editorial about what they're calling the DX10 Benchmark Fiasco between NVIDIA and ATI, involving Lost Planet and Call of Juarez. BootDaily have published their thoughts about DX10 and Lost Planet, too.
Bit-Tech went to a modding expo in China recently. Some of the world's top modders gathered in Beijing last week for Intel's big push into the Chinese PC enthusiast community. Four of bit-tech's top modders were at the event and we were also there to report on the media frenzy. Who would have thought a case modder would be treated like a rockstar?
Meanwhile TheTechZone attended the 2007 AMD Microsoft Tech Tour in Canada. What do you get when you combine two of the biggest names in the computer industry, one tackling things from the hardware side of things and the other taking care of all the software the average computer user may ever be interested in?
BonaFideReviews have an editorial about virtual lives and reality. In fact the line is so blurred that at last years Anime USA there was a dance event that was simulcast between the real world and the virtual world. The real world had a window into the virtual reality of second life, and second life had a window (through a camera) to the real world, and creatures and citizens of both worlds were able to converse with each other freely.
XbitLabs continue their closer look at 19" monitor features, now up to part 6. We would like to introduce to you 8 new widescreen 19” monitors that have an aspect ratio of 16:10 and a native resolution of 1440x900 pixels. Today we will look at solutions from ASUS, BenQ, Proview, Samsung and Viewsonic.
More from Craig, on Dell and Linux: We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24. We expect these systems to be less than 1% of our OS mix for the entire year which is ~20,000 systems annually. ... Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering.
A timewaster from Blair: Really fun game where you have to control a cat that shoots arrows and hit targets. Easy at first, but it becomes harder.
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