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Friday, 26-October-2007 01:49:47 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sydney is playing host to another large passenger vehicle - this time it's the first commercial flight of an Airbus A380. The SIA plane also has 399 economy seats, 60 business seats, and a "suites" class of 12 compartments with flat-screen televisions about the size of a briefcase, sheets by French designer Givenchy and a full-length bed behind sliding doors. Discussion here.
An internet worm called Storm is apparently fighting back against researchers seeking to destroy it. The worm can figure out which users are trying to probe its command-and-control servers, and it retaliates by launching DDoS attacks against them, shutting down their Internet access for days, says Josh Corman, host-protection architect for IBM/ISS, who led a session on network threats.
Here's an odd one: apparently recent versions of Ubuntu can cause excess hard drive wear. The problem is simply that the drives are spinning up and down too often, and the sliders are being forced to roll on and off the ramp where they’re stored when in off use, causing wear and tear on the slider assembly (not to mention the motor spinning the drive).
DriverHeaven interviewed AMD's VP of GPU and Chipsets, John Byrne. Most of the DX10 games weve seen so far have been rather straightforward ports of DX9 code and that process is fraught with difficulties. If the code was originally written with DX9 in mind then it often doesnt translate well to DX10 and for that reason quite a few games seem to have lackluster performance.
China has launched its first lunar orbiter. China has hailed the lunar orbiter as the third major milestone event for the nation's space program, after developing rockets and satellites since the 1970s and sending men into orbit in 2003 and 2005. This follows on from Japan's first moon explorer launched in September. Is this a new space race? Discussion in this thread.
Quite a few people sent word that Gmail now supports IMAP. More info here. Don't fret if you don't see "IMAP Access" yet under the Settings menu. We're rolling it out to everyone over the next few days.
Paul spotted this Vista update. This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. Sounds good!
LegitReviews report on Intel's lead-free CPUs. With next weeks launch of Intel's 45nm family of microprocessors they will have official removed 100 percent of the lead (Pb) across its entire 45nm series of microprocessors. This is a huge milestone and it has taken Intel six years to strip the lead from the manufacturing process on their microprocessors!
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