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Wednesday, 31-October-2007 21:36:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Craig spotted this fun little hack to change the message on HP printers. Reminds me of this picture. :)
Phoronix have a Linux graphics survey underway, with some preliminary findings posted. If you add up the ATI drivers (Radeon, fglrx, Avivo, and RadeonHD) the total percentage is 32.98%. On the NVIDIA side with their binary driver, the 2D NV driver, and Nouveau their percentage leads at 47.45%.
How do spammers get around those CAPTCHA image-recognition systems? Well, one way is to get foolish humans to do it for them for the promise of a glimpse of cyber-skin. Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.
Dunebuggy sent word of an Australian weekly tech podcast: You may have heard of it, it's called BRAN Podcast and it's a typically of Aussie productions with light, witty and insightful discussions and opinions on Tech News from Australian and abroad. Probably much more interesting than the OCAU podcast. :)
Digit-Life have a somewhat esoteric article about The Spiral of Technology. Many historians and sci-fi writers support the idea that human evolution resembles a spiral, not a straight line drawn by optimistic progress advocates. That, in fact, most events repeat, each time on some higher level. So it may look like linear motion, when viewed from a great distance.
A few people mentioned that Seagate is offering refunds following a lawsuit over the difference between advertised and formatted capacities of hard drives. Last I heard it was only available to US customers, but it's an interesting precedent.
From Mitchee: Just letting you know there was a gmail update a couple of days ago. Theres a few added features, but the speed of the service is a lot better now. See here for details.
YouGamers ponder Crysis in 32bit and 64bit. We took two extremes to see what the results would churn up: 800 x 600, running in DX9 with all detail settings at Low, and 1680 x 1050, running DX10 with all detail settings on Very High.
Here's an interesting one from Craig: Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur. ... The first of these experiments is based on Webrunner, which we’ve moved into the Mozilla Labs code repository and renamed to Prism. Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.
PenStarSys consider the state of 3D in Q4 2007. The next few months are going to be pretty terrific from any point of view, as long as you are a consumer. The pressure will weigh mightily on both AMD and NVIDIA though, as the products we will soon be seeing will feature as much parity in terms of performance and features than we have seen in years.
NordicHW spent a little time overclocking the QX9650 CPU. Intel invited us back to its lab in Stockholm do some serious and hardcore overclocking of the now launch processor based on the Penryn architecture. This ten page diary/article tells the story of how the best overclockers in Northern Europe gathers and have some fun with the then not yet lauched processor.
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