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Dangerfield sent word that Electronic Frontiers Australia are unhappy about the Government wasting money in the new federal budget, to fund the mandatory "clean-feed" Internet. In fact, in a survey of 18,000 Internet users, only 13% agreed with the policy. That’s why we feel it is a shame, when the Government has identified real needs for better education and policing, that their approach to Internet policy is so skewed towards the filter initiative. There are greater risks to Australian children online, and real steps can be taken to mitigate these risks. That’s where the funding should be going.
Frostytech have listed their top heatsinks for AMD and Intel. Quickly find your way to the current Top 5 heatsinks according to FrostyTech. The first pair of lists is for Intel Heatsinks, broken down by lowest temperature and quietest operation. The second set of lists are for AMD Heatsinks. Lifespan indicates if the heatsink is new, old or end of life.
Tech Report checked out some P45 boards from Gigabyte. Intel has yet to formally introduce the P45 Express, but given the success of the P35 chipset, we were naturally eager to get a glimpse of its successor. Gigabyte had no less than five different P45 models on display, including a new Extreme board that may well live up to its name, at least as far as overclocking is concerned.
From quertylesh: there's a known problem with XP SP3 when installed onto HP AMD machines, and on other AMD based OEM PC's. here's one source. a more detailed explanation shows that the problem is because OEMs like HP were too slack to create images for different hardware configurations when they build their systems, causing a registry fault when XP SP3 is installed onto one of the systems which has an incorrect XP image pre loaded onto it.
Guru3D looked at game performance scaling with quad-core CPUs. Guru3D takes 10 modern dual & quad core processors and then fires off a dozen of games at them in combo with a high-end graphics card.
VIAArena have a naked Pico challenge competition. To demonstrate the remarkable power and thermal-efficiency of the VIA EPIA PX5000EG board, VIA welcomes you to take part in the 'Naked Pico Challenge' where we will push the one watt VIA Eden ULV processor and in fact the whole board to it's absolute limits by running a system under full load without any cooling whatsoever! Simply guess how long the VIA EPIA PX5000EG board can take the strain and win a VIA ARTiGO Builder Kit.
I've heard about this from a few different sources now.. apparently some freaky ants are eating computers in Houston, Texas. "I think they go into everything and they don't follow any kind of structured line," said Rasberry. "If you open a computer, you would find a cluster of ants on the motherboard and all over. You'd get 3,000 or 4,000 ants inside and they create arcs. They'll wipe out any computer." NASA's Johnson Space Center is in Houston and they're getting worried. :)
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