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A group calling itself the Greek Security Team gained access to a system at CERN around the same time the Large Hadron Collider was to be run for the first time. The system the hackers managed to access was CMSMON, which monitors the CMS software system as the vast detector takes data, during collisions between particles to study the energies and physics in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, which created the universe. Discussion in this thread.
Crytek's Crysis and Crysis Warhead can now be pre-purchased at Steam's online store, due to be released next Thursday. Discussion in the Crysis and Crysis Warhead threads.
Hardware Secrets look at the main features offered by Intel's Atom CPUs. Atom is a low-power CPU from Intel with very low power dissipation (less than 3 W), targeted to laptops or handheld devices with internet access – dubbed MIDs, Mobile Internet Devices. In this tutorial we will explore the architecture used on this CPU.
Obi-AB noticed that a university in Belfast will be offering the UK's first Jedi course. According to its publicity material, the course, Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way, teaches the real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks.
Sharky Extreme have published their latest Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide. There have been some noted hardware advancements since our previous guide update, including a few new AMD and Intel chipsets, and a plethora of ATI and NVIDIA enthusiast-level graphics cards. The overall look and feel of both system configurations will not change completely, but there will definitely be some upgrades and improvements in the key performance areas.
Think Computers has a guide to lowering your Radeon card's temperature using the Catalyst Control Center. While researching HD 4850 card prices at NewEgg for a review, a line on a user review caught my eye: "after I did the fan speed mod in CCC.". Huh? Fan speed mod? … After a quick Google, I found out that the fan speeds in Catalyst could be very low, even so low that the fan is spinning just enough to say it is on. There is a fix for this, a band-aid until ATI fixes the problem, but a fix nonetheless.
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