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Happy birthday, your majesty! Even though it's not really your birthday.
Sun are talking about including MySQL-optimised SSDs in future servers, thanks Sniper. The drives will start shipping in the second half of this year. Pricing information or storage capacity of the SSD drives was not immediately available. Sun said users will be able to try the drive for 60 days before buying it.
Weezer have a new music video featuring lots of recent internet memes. Cullen hatched the idea for the video five weeks ago and shot it in early May, he told technology website Wired. "For people who aren't on the internet, this is like a web CliffsNotes to getting into internet culture," he said.
There's a battle brewing over USB 3.0. AMD and Nvidia aim to wrest control of a crucial PC specification from Intel, arguing that the chip giant is trying to box them out as they move to a new era of faster peripherals.
LostCircuits are the latest to check out OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator. Brain Computer Interfaces are the trend of the year. After almost one year of development, OCZ Technology's Neural Impulse Actuator is finally shipping. We have some of the inside scoop on the nia relating to the hardware and software development, as well as some glimpses at the more advanced possibilities of the device.
It turns out video game addicts aren't all shy nerds. Well, golly. However, they might be death threat sending nutters, sadly. Infinite Interactive, based in Melbourne, received threatening emails from gamers frustrated by a battle malfunction in Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords.
Dan has more letters. In this edition: Electricity from exhaust heat, AA-cell enlargers, the Power Conditioner of Mystery, unorthodox Spotlight charging, powering an emergency services office, hurting yourself with magnets, and hurting magnets back.
Phoronix looked at some desktop Linux performance. Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall receive. Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1.
Today's timewaster is this fairly silly egg attack game from Radon. Life as a CEO is not easy. Especially when your company is Microsoft. Last week Steve Ballmer was egged by an angry student during a speech at a Hungarian University. Ballmer showed great reflexes and dodged the attack, hiding behind the desk.
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