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Thursday, 22-January-2009 22:02:58 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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P0lyM0rpH sent in a worrying story about Sun employees being denied business visas to Australia. Flights have had to be cancelled, and are now either full or horrendously expensive. So the harm has been done (for whatever the reason may be) and Sun / MySQL won’t be represented at linux.conf.au at the level originally intended.
LegitReviews have a 6-way Intel Core i7 CPU Cooler Roundup posted. Join us as we see how coolers from ASUS, Cooler Master, Intel, Noctua, Thermalright, and Vigor Gaming stack up to one another.
Tweaktown set about building an AMD-powered HTPC that can do Blu-Ray HD Audio. So, we contacted our friends at AMD to see if they would hook us up with a processor to use in our new HTPC build. They obliged rather nicely with not only one, but four of their latest processors to try out - ranging from dual-core all the way up to quad-core - we'll pick one today based on a range of tests.
TCMag checked out ambient occlusion lighting, a feature that arrived with a recent GeForce driver. Also coming with a rather high number jump - from 180.70/87/88 to 185.20, the driver features support for every GeForce desktop card from the 6 series up and adds a new tab in the Nvidia Control Panel that enables Ambient Occlusion, a lighting model that's supposed to bring more realism to 3D games.
Phoronix consider Intel Atom 2GB Memory Performance. Most netbooks currently on the market offer 512MB or 1GB of system memory and only a single DDR2 SO-DIMM slot. However, with most of the netbooks a 2GB memory module could be easily installed, but what performance benefits does that yield for an Intel Atom powered device?
From BFM: If you’ve got some legacy third-party and/or custom Windows apps you’ve been unable to get to run on Vista, you’ll soon have access to a new tool that may help: Microsoft’s Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V).
Soon you might have a remote-controlled security robot keeping intruders out, or catching them in a net. Please put down your weapon. You have fifteen seconds to comply..
Here's a cool Atari table retro unboxing from von Stalheim. The next time you use your shiny new Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop CS4, think back to a time before time - a time before blends, morphs, heal brushes, and 10-megapixel images. A time like 1984, which, for computer graphics, was darker than the Dark Ages.
Metku have an article on lapping your CPU. Usually this copper plate is more or less crooked when the processor leaves the factory and this leads to a bad contact between the CPU and the cooler. Good to see not that much has changed in nearly 10 years. :)
Tonight's timewaster is The Bailout Game, from slipkord.
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