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Wednesday, 10-October-2007 19:00:43 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I managed to cut the tip off my right middle finger on Monday night, so I've lost my main method of communicating when driving. Also forgive any typos due to bandage+key issues. :)
Chris spotted this interesing bolt-onto-monitor PC from VIA. VIA's VESA mounted vm7700 PC in fact, which converts any standard VESA display into a make-shift all-in-one PC. Completely fanless, the PC sports your choice of VIA C7 1GHz or Eden ULV 1.5GHz processors, up to 1GB of memory, optional 802.11b/g WiFi, and choice of standard 2.5-inch SATA disk or DOM (Disk on Module) supporting Linux or WinXP/XPe pre-loads. Thread here.
Wired have an article about terrorists using the internet, and the (bungling) intelligence community snooping on them. As we've noted before, today's jihadists don't just use the Internet, occasionally. "They don't exist without the Web," says Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla. Everything from recruiting to training to propaganda is handled online.
You're probably enjoying the benefits of "giant magnetoresistance" without realising it, and you have these fellows to thank for it. They were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. Their discovery that ultra-thin slices of metal have different electrical properties in a magnetic field not only changed the musical and computing habits of the entire planet but also altered the very landscape of how people think about information, and the ways in which music, movies and ideas can be shared.
HotHardware have published their thoughts on Intel's X38 chipset, with reviews of Gigabyte's offering on Techgage and here on PCPerspective.
Mindee sent in an interesting problem, how does a Muslim astronaut face Mecca in space? Malaysia's space agency, Angkasa, convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists and scholars last year to wrestle with these and other questions. While there I spotted this article about what's in toothpaste, too.
Interesting Forum Threads:
QX9650 Smashes records in Intel Hardware.
Can you hear a difference in "pro audio" cables? $1 million for you! in Audio / Visual.
NAS box mod in Modding.
Classical Gas in Musicians.
Energy-guzzling TV's may be banned in the future in Current Events.
Do comp techies know what they are doing? in The Pub.
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