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Wednesday, 8-August-2007 01:31:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Troy spotted some nasty pictures of a burnt-out datacentre.. scroll down for toasted XServes. There was a large fire that broke out at about 5:15pm Monday evening 23rd July 2007. It unfortunately quickly destroyed most of the Designwyse offices, service department and showroom. Fortunately all the staff were able to evacuate the building safely and no-one was hurt.
Speaking of burnt things, it turns out storing your laptop in the oven isn't such a great idea. What a shocker! I just got home from class have tons of work to do before we leave for the Thanksgiving holiday and I nearly lost my computer. It was cooked. In the oven. At roughly 300 degrees. For about five minutes.
Teddy sent in this amusing ebay auction of a rock. I can only assume Ebay have put in some new rule about firearm sales, because this is an obvious protest against it.
Dan ponders water-cooled PSUs and why you probably shouldn't bother with them. If your PSU's losing more than 50 watts as heat when driving a 200W load, it's a very bad PSU. 25 watts lost should be perfectly achievable. And you can get rid of a few tens of watts of heat from a device the size of a PSU - plus all of the leftover heat from the extra components in a PC - with plain heat sinks and a fan that's considerably quieter than the ones that most water cooled PCs have on their radiators.
What is it about engineers and beer? Thanks BFM. Bubbles growing and shrinking and floating to the top of a glass of beer, water washing around buildings in a flooded street, two liquids mixing together, and smoke wafting through the air - all these can be described by mathematical equations. These equations are called smooth particle hydrodynamics algorithms (SPH). Hmm, can't make the movies play here.
SilentPCReview checked out some of Gigabyte's test facilities. Gigabyte arranged an exclusive tour for SPCR of its impressive anechoic and thermal testing chambers in Taipei during Computex 2007. These are among the ultimate tools for acoustic/thermal analysis.
Lenovo will be selling laptops with Linux soon, thanks Chris. The laptops are slated to go on sale in the fourth quarter of this year and will be sold to Lenovo's business customers as well as to consumers.
Craig sent in this interesting LCD screen technology. The Taiwanese researchers have developed a prototype display connected to a miniature camera that tracks the location of a viewer. Software then calculates how to adjust the liquid crystals within the display to produce the clearest possible image.
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