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Thursday Morning
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Thursday, 23-August-2007 04:18:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Forensic: Not sure how many people know but World Cyber Games is on at Luna Park on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. There'll be game demos and prizes and an overclocking competition run there. The overclocking competition is being run by Asus and all the parts are provided. The Command & Conquer 3 tournament running on the Saturday is open for registrations on the day.
Sciby let me know about wikiHow, which is like a regular Wiki in that everyone can edit it, but focussing on DIY projects. Beware, severe time suckage imminent!
Funnily enough, it was Lemming who pointed out this teenager who seems to misunderstand watercooling, with near-disastrous results. Local media reports suggest that the teenager took the power supply, wrapped it in plastic and tape, and submerged it into a bowl of water while it was still plugged in. This caused an electrical shock and knocked the boy unconscious.
Which leads us nicely to a Watercooling 101 guide on Bit-Tech. There's a quick guide in our Wiki, as well as a more general extreme cooling section. And of course, our Extreme Cooling Forum.
Endeavour landed successfully. The perfect landing capped a construction and supply mission to the International Space Station.
Data from the Parkes radio telescope will be fed into a beefed-up supercomputer at Swinburne University, thanks Andrew. The new cluster runs CentOS Linux on more than a thousand Intel Clovertown quad-core processors, equipped with 2 terabytes of RAM.
Dan from DansData has extra-large letters. In this double-sized edition: More confusion about the "3Gb barrier", RAM for Photoshop, the b-or-B deBate, NiMH cells that don't go flat, USB 2 devices that aren't, a levitating helicopter, outdoor LED lighting, mangled FireWire ports, mysterious voltages, and more electroquackery!
Meanwhile XSReviews interviewed Dan Forster from AGEIA. Gaming has come along way in the last few years, however most of the improvements have been geared towards graphics; visual imprpvemenrs. If you look back to early FPS games, although modern games are more complex than back then, the gameplay itself hasn't significantly changed. I think that's where the general idea of advancing physics in games is coming from, you can really change the way a game plays, not just the way it looks.
Sniper spotted a new 64-core processor from a company called Tilera. Tilera says that each core can run its own operating system, such as Linux, and will first be used in the "advanced networking and digital multimedia space" by at least a dozen customers including 3Com, Codian and GoBackTV.
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