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Wednesday, 28-January-2009 15:38:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Jay has been working hard to keep our Internet Filtering Wiki Page updated with news links and other info. Also check out these pages: Information about Electric Shocks, Aquariums and Swapping a HDD.
Tech-Report, not content with having Intel's X25-E SSD, probably the fastest SATA drive ever, have whacked four of them onto a RAID controller. Armed with a high-end RAID card and four X25-Es, we've set out to see just how fast a RAID 0 array can be. This is easily the most exotic storage configuration we've ever tested, but can it live up to our unavoidably lofty expectations? Let's find out.
From Polski Radon: KDE 4.2, codename "The Answer", has finally been released! A year and a half after the first KDE 4.0 preview, the user-friendly GPLv3/LGPL licensed desktop environment is ready for the majority of end users on Desktop, Laptop and Netbook computers. Visit the Release Announcement to see videos of KDE 4.2, or try it out on your system by burning a LiveCD. There's a screenshot here.
Phoronix looked at the boot times of Moblin, which is Intel's software for netbooks. Originally, the Moblin core was based upon Ubuntu, but Intel ended up rebasing off Fedora last year and they have been preparing for the second version of their core operating system. Just this week they released Moblin V2 Core Alpha, which we are looking at in this article. Specifically, we are looking at how fast this Intel software is able to boot!
Spore has an expansion pack on the way, called Spore: Galactic Adventures. Bit-Tech wonder if it will bring people back to the game or not. Built to capitalise on the strengths of Spore’s almost evilly intelligent editors while also tackling the fundamental flaws many people find with the end-game, Galactic Adventures’ main new feature is a new creation tool that lets players craft their own adventures.
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