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Dell USA is accepting orders for their Ubuntu based systems. I wonder if they will do the same in Australia and if this will improve driver support for users of current Dell systems. It’s finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook. These systems are now available at www.dell.com/open. Starting price for the E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook is $599; the XPS 410n starts at $849.
SilentNight spotted this article about an attack on the ABC island in Second Life. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's expensive virtual island in the online game Second Life has been left a "bombed, cratered mess" by hackers.
Fester2001 spotted that Google are offering their mail services to ISP's. APC thinks there might be a dark side to this. In a characteristically Google-esque move, Google announced the new program in a posting on its blog. "This new version, which we're calling the Partner Edition, makes it easy for large and small service providers to offer your subscribers the latest versions of powerful tools, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, without having to worry about hosting, updating, or maintaining any of the services yourself," product manager Hunter Middleton wrote.
Microsoft are banning hacked consoles from Xbox Live. If you have made any modifications beyond cosmetic changes to your case, you might not want to connect your 360 to Xbox Live. You might get an unpleasant message from your friends at Microsoft.
One particular maker of adware is suing an anti spyware vendor over the rating the anti spyware tools gives of their software. Adware maker Zango has sued PC Tools, makers of the popular Spyware Doctor software, in a dispute over the way the antispyware program flags and removes Zango's technology. Representatives from both Zango and PC Tools confirmed that Zango had filed suit against the antispyware vendor. However they declined to provide details on the lawsuit except to say that it involved a dispute over the way Spyware Doctor rated Zango's software.
It is official, Starcraft 2 is coming and there is thread discussing this here. StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.
He also sent in this update to Anandtech's P35 benchmarks. We recently reviewed the Intel P35 chipset in depth and found it to be a worthy successor to the P965 and competitor to the Intel 975X and NVIDIA 680i LT. Today's article will provide a quick performance peek at two areas that we received feedback on after the P35 article went live.
Robert noted this article that claims an 8 core Intel system is faster than a 16 core AMD one. If you take 16 cores at 1.8Ghz, divided by 2 and add 60% to get to 3.0Ghz, it gives POV-Ray score of 3600 for 8 cores. Meaning that at 3.0GHz, Barcelona still lose by quite some compare to an 8 cores Clowertown system.
HardcoreWare have posted a whole bunch of stuff about the new PS3 1.8 firmware which can stream files from Windows natively, streams Windows Media to your PSP and allows Blu-Ray movies to be played at 720P. We all know about the PS3's new ability to upsample DVD movies and old Playstation 1 & 2 video games. But in this undocumented feature of the 1.8 update, the PS3 can now downsample Blu-Ray movies to 720p. For people with a native 720p television, this is a great feature to have! We checked with Sony, and this is indeed an official feature of the update. This just keeps getting better and better!
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