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(link) Wednesday, 24-October-2007 16:43:00 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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V8R notes that this weekend there's the 2007 Defence Air Show happening at RAAF Edinburgh near Adelaide. Come and see: * Air Force F-111s, Hornets, Orions, Hercules, the big new C-17 Globemaster and more * Navy Seahawk and Sea King helicopters, plus the famous Dancing Squirrels aerobatic helicopters * Army Black Hawk and the new Tiger armed reconnaissance helicopters
Sydney has welcomed the largest ever ship to pass under the Harbour Bridge today. Weighing 77,441 tonnes, 49m high and nearly three football fields in length, the luxury 1950-passenger superliner passed under Sydney's iconic bridge with just 2.5m to spare.
A few people sent word that certain device drivers can cause Vista to deactivate. They sent me some special utilities to run which gathered the history of hardware changes on that machine since activation, and it turns out that my disk controller had changed, so the graphics card change was the final change which tripped deactivation. The only problem? I had never changed my disk controller at any point.
A Melbourne PhD student has worked out how to make broadband internet up to 200x faster by reducing line interference. Telephone wiring was poor quality and was not designed for high-speed internet when it was created, Dr Papandriopoulos said.
Apparently one of the world's biggest online sources of pirated music has been shut down. The invitation-only OiNK website specialized in distributing albums leaked before their official release by record companies, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said.
HardOCP looked at performance and image quality in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Team Fortress 2 and Portal.
BenchMarkReviews have a high-speed DDR3 overclocking and review series on the way. Over the course of the next few weeks, Benchmark Reviews will be releasing nearly a dozen reviews covering nearly every speed of DDR3 make by almost every memory manufacturer on the market. This article introduces the technology, and offers a glimpse at what we've secured for testing.
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