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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 18-January-2008 16:18:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Space nerds alert! NASA have a cool International Space Station calendar for 2008 which you can download in printable form here (8.6MB PDF). I just noticed NASA have a heap of stuff on YouTube, too.
While we're looking up, MESSENGER flew past Mercury recently, the first NASA spacecraft to do so since 1975, and took some cool high-res photos. More info and pics here.
Phoronix checked out an audiophile's dream at Goldmund's media demonstration room. Their systems are so advanced that they simply cannot be built in a day or even a week, but for each of their media rooms they spend extensive time planning and constructing the rooms that are slated to be perfect, even an imperfect world. Uh, right.
Tech Report checked out some new sound cards competing with Creative, under Vista. The Xonar and Prelude both target the high end of the desktop sound card spectrum, so it's only fitting that we face them off against each other in Windows Vista. Read on to see how they fare in a range of gaming, signal quality, and subjective listening tests.
TrustedReviews pine for the days of shoot 'em ups. If you're a long time gamer, you probably get all misty eyed at the thought of R-Type, Nemesis, Defender or even Scramble. If you long for the good old days of mindless shooting and bombing, take heart, the shoot 'em up isn't dead.
Sun Microsystems recently aquired MySQL, the open-source database system that (among other things) powers OCAU. More info and comments on slashdot, thanks mpot.
Ambush noticed an interview with the Media Defender hacker. A teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy - the most daring exploit yet in the escalating war between fans and corporate giants. Guess which side is winning.
Digit-Life have a mid-range heatpipe cooler shootout. Today we'll focus on 21 Mid-End coolers and their tests. They also ponder DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333. We're going to compare performance of two processors in combination with different memory modules: standard DDR2-800 and higher-clocked DDR3-1333.
DriverHeaven meanwhile have a motherboard roundup with the Asus Maximus Extreme, Asus Maximus Formula, MSI P35 Platinum Combo, Asus P5E3 Deluxe and MSI X48 Platinum. Today we will be looking at the mainstream and enthusiast models to identify which boards offer the best value, performance and features.
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