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Sunday, 16-March-2008 14:35:52 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Spoon69: Spoon69 from the forums here, not sure if this news worthy or not, but my friend, and fellow OCAU user Herbo was flown across to Singapore on Friday to partake in the international Crisis tournament. He was 1 of 6 people representing Australia and he did us proud by coming 2nd overall. For his efforts he won a new pc. Unfortunately that’s all I have information wise at the moment, as he doesn’t return to Australia until very early Monday morning. Nice one! Hopefully we'll see some pics and info soon.
Timbot spotted The VirtuSphere, like a giant hamster exercise ball you play video games in. The Washington-based manufacturers describe it as the ultimate computer games peripheral, but say it could also be used as a unique exercise treadmill or for simulation exercises.
It's all becoming a bit SkyNet-like in Second Life, with a child-like intelligence having been created in-game. The child is a product of logic-based artificial intelligence and complex modelling techniques, and operates on what has been said to be the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world.
CeBIT has been and gone.. but there's some booth babes on TechPowerUp and Guru3D. TechWareLabs meanwhile have Booth Babes from Megacon 2008.
Here's an interesting article about the dirtiest jobs in IT. Closely related to the help desk zombie, but even lower on the totem pole, is the on-site reboot specialist. Unlike help desk or support vampires, the on-site rebootnik must venture out into the physical world and deal with actual people.
From Vic: Here's a cool TF2 case mod I found while browsing youtube. Work log page: here.
HWSecrets wonder how much power a generic 500W PSU can really provide, while TechWareLabs have a PSU purchasing guide. There's also a heap of info on the PSU page in our Wiki.
Intel are looking to unveil a new line of SSDs. During Q2 2008 the company will launch 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. solid-state drives offering between 80GB and 160GB diskless storage.
TechARP have a new benchmark involving x264 HD encoding. Simply put, it is a reproducible measure of fast your machine can encode a short, HD-quality video clip into a high quality x264 video file.
TechReport have the second part of their guide to console classics. Part one of our journey back through console history took us to the 8-bit era of the NES, Sega Master System and PC Engine. However, it was with the 16-bit machines that console gaming really took off in the UK. This was the period when games consoles took the imagination of the kids, teens and twenty somethings by force.
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