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Wednesday, 13-May-2009 19:41:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The world's first tweet from space has occurred, with astronaut Mike Massimino reporting from Earth orbit, thanks John. From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!
Apparently the small business investment allowance I mentioned recently has been enlarged and extended in the Federal Budget. It's now 50% until 31 Dec 2009. Confirm with your accountant, of course! More Budget discussion here.
Iro spotted this beer-cooled system which looks to be pretty oldschool. Conclusions: with the current state of the computer industry, unfortunately, beer cannot be used as the ultimate cooling solution due to the very rapid rate of the coolant depletion.
Issue #5 of TheOverclocker is out now. In this issue we examine how live overclocking is getting more and more like poker. Discussion here. Edit: seems to be asking for a login at the moment, so check back later maybe.
Engadget have the latest volley in the Mac vs PC videos. According to Apple, there aren't any PCs with fast processors and big screens that work without viruses, crashes or headaches. But folks, this isn't reality, this is advertising. In fact, this is Apple's first jab since Microsoft took off the gloves with its Laptop Hunters series of pokes against Apple.
MadShrimps compare the Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk vs OCZ Vertex 30Gb SSD. We take a comparative look at the ACARD ANS-9010 ramdisk drive versus the OCZ Vertex 30Gb Drive in this video enhanced head to head shoot-out!
Tweaktown meanwhile wonder if upgrading a laptop to SSD is worthwhile. We decided to run some tests and see if it would be worthwhile or not upgrading our notebook from a standard notebook hard disk drive to a shiny new SSD - in particular, the Intel X25-M 80GB SATA drive. And don't worry, we upgraded to the latest Intel firmware for its X18 and X25 series of SSD drives, which is designed to improve performance.
Tonight's timewaster is ConFusebox 2, pointed out by Tony_L. Join up the links in three different modes.
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