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Sunday Afternoon
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Sunday, 6-January-2008 15:57:56 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Eraser: Well this is some fairly big news. Warner and Newline who up untill now have been HD-DVD and blu-ray have sided with blu-ray. It looks as if the HD-DVD group have gone into damage control as they have cancelled their pressmeetings to have a meeting with the other HD-DVD partys. This could be the swing to make blu-ray win over hd-dvd. Info on the Warner side here, Newline here and the press conference cancellation here.
Craig spotted a story about a Solitaire lawsuit. It involves the somewhat infamous patents of Sheldon Goldberg, which got plenty of attention back in 2004 when he started claiming that computer solitaire was covered by his patents. The two key patents are for a network gaming system and a method for playing games on a network.
Marc sent in this video of a mario mod for doom. In this clip, you'll see "a classic Super Mario Bros. level recreated in 3D, using the Doom engine."
Phoronix looked at the AMD Phenom 9500's performance in Linux. Have you recently upgraded to AMD's Spider platform with their quad-core Phenom processor and are running Linux? If so, and are experiencing kernel panics, stability problems, and even a psychedelic Ubuntu logo, you're not alone.
Intel has abandoned the one laptop per child program. Mulloy said the use of AMD chips in the OLPC machines had nothing to do with Intel's decision to withdraw.
Craig also spotted this bluetooth hack for ipods. It replaces the headphone jack and draws power directly from the iPod's battery, giving you a completely wireless and dongle-free audio device.
Driverheaven have an interview with Giuseppe Amato, AMD Technical Director sales and marketing EMEA. In the mobile space AMD had a very strong 2007 and we have our sights set even higher for 2008 with the release of the Puma platform in 1H 2008. Puma will raise the bar in platform performance per watt with more visual computing performance than any other mobile platform.
From stmok: Lenovo goes for entry level notebook jugular. All have facial recognition software called "VeriFace". (Bye bye fingerprint scanner?). More info here and here. The 17inch one has something called "Game Zone" on the right side where the keypad is supposed to be. (Has extra large arrow keys, small LCD display, etc)...Not sure how that works. Anyone know? Looks like they retain the ThinkPad keyboard, but have done away with the TrackPoint (aka: "red nipple") and ThinkLight (aka: bright keyboard LED).
Dan has more letters! In this edition: PC-drowning oil, solar air conditioning, big and little PCIe slots, defragging by copying, and putting magnets in your fingers.
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