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From slick: I was in the process of explaining the concept of LAN parties recently to a work colleague. I headed over to Wikipedia and started explaining what I got up to in high school. I came across this picture that just shocked me... Apparently it's a photo from the world's largest LAN party, DreamHack.
Phoronix have benchmarked the performance of disk encryption in Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6. Unfortunately, the Ubiquity installer in Ubuntu 8.04 continues to lack LVM and encryption support, but using Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 we have looked at the performance cost of this encrypted configuration on Ubuntu Linux.
For those having trouble soldering surface mount components onto printed circuit boards, you might be interested in looking at the technique a certified IPC trainer uses. John Gammell sent this video to me in response to one of my newbie attempts. In it, he shows how a pro approaches an SMT job using the "vertical drag" method. Direct YouTube link.
Driver Heaven looked at Soulstorm, the latest title in the Warhammer 40K series, and questions whether it is any good or if it's just another tired rerun. Soulstorm includes two new armies as well as flying units and more maps, but nothing to rewrite the game history, this is not necessarily a bad thing however as the series has developed into a very playable and enjoyable gaming experience.
If you've been wanting to overclock your PC but were not sure how to do it, have a look at Benchmark Reviews' Introduction to Overclocking Guide for Beginners. I believe that if you learn properly you can overclock without trouble, as long as you know your limits. This tutorial explains how to determine these limits.
Still on the subject of overclocking, circuitREMIX had a go at overclocking Intel's Core 2 Duo E8400 Xeon counterpart, the E3110. For those who don't care about heat, we were able to get our E3110 to run at 4.3GHz at 1.443v, which is still a pretty safe voltage if you have decent air cooling. For those with watercooling or higher end cooling, 4.5GHz and beyond should be easy.
Here's an interesting article from CNET on some of the differences between the flash hard drive in their Dell Latitude D830 and a conventional mechanical hard drive in their T42 ThinkPad. The notebook I'm testing--a Dell Latitude D830 with a 64GB flash hard drive from Samsung--hasn't emitted a sound in three days. … Compare that with my T42 ThinkPad. It sounds like a guinea pig got trapped inside, particularly during the start-up phase.
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