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Wednesday, 6-February-2008 02:10:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ThePirateBay's leadership are now facing conspiracy charges, and treating them with the usual disregard they seem to enjoy. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We've been here for years and we will be here many more,” writes an unnamed administrator on the site’s official blog, before pointing out that Swedish police could have “saved a hell of a lot of trees” by posting the 4,620 pages of legal documents against Sunde and friends – available for approximately $1000 USD – in a PDF torrent on the site.
From Trevor68: Hi all, just thought I’d post up the results from our Wallpaper Competition. News Post here. And you can check out the actual Wallpapers here. Congratulations to all the entrants, and a BIG thankyou to THQ for supplying the prizes. The Comp was fun to do, and we look forward to seeing all of you in game on release. :)
Anandtech have an editorial about Futuremark, benchmarks and gaming. While there are occasions where the performance metrics generated by the Futuremark tools correlate well to certain real-world games, very few people are going to be interested in purchasing hardware based solely on 3DMark performance.
Bit-Tech checked out three Home Theatre PC motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI. The boards are based on three different IGPs from Intel, AMD and Nvidia and we examine performance in real-world 2D tasks before looking at audio output quality, video playback performance and video image quality.
GillR sent in this quite cool Dutch department store website. Let it load then wait a few seconds. :)
XbitLabs compared 8 GPU coolers on a GeForce 8800 GT. Today we shall examine 8 graphics card coolers from Arctic Cooling, Thermalright, Thermaltake, Zalman, and Zerotherm (including a liquid cooling unit). These will be tested with the reference NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. After that we'll analyze test results from a computer enthusiast's point of view.
From Karl: There's a very popular story on Whirlpool's front page "Telstra pulls ISDN but users unhappy with options". I'm one of the 23,000 regional and rural affected ISDN Home users, who with no other viable alternative even close to 128/128 look like being forced back to a 56K modem in 2009. Telstra's new slogan seems to be "Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow". :(
Phoronix took a look at Sun's Project Indiana. A week ago we reported that a second preview release of Project Indiana, Sun's attempt at creating an operating system for the desktop based upon OpenSolaris and led by Ian Murdock, was on track to be released in the near future. Thursday afternoon that became true with the test image surfacing for Developer Preview 2 of Project Indiana, or what will formally be called OpenSolaris.
For something a little different, Kotaku tried out several energy drinks. I'm borderline addicted to these things. Game harder, faster, and longer with the help of various sugars and herbs in a tiny tin can - but which tiny tin can is the best?
Thermaltake have a survey where you can win stuff. Seems to be open to international entries. This survey will take approximately 3 minutes and 38 seconds to complete. That's a pretty specific approximation. :)
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