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Sunday, 2-August-2009 16:38:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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If you're looking around for some burning software, it seems there's a free version of Nero 9 available at the moment. Enjoy basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs from the world's most trusted digital media brand, Nero. Seems to be a bit more cutesy and wizardy than I prefer, but worth a look anyway.
Cory Doctorow has an article about expiring media. It's hilarious that the same yahoos who argue for perpetual copyright (implying that copyrighted works have value forever) also argue for time-limited ownership (implying that people who buy copyrighted works should be content to enjoy them for a few weeks or years until the DRM stops working).
Speaking of which, another enormous fine has been aimed at a file sharer, with a student copping a $675K fine for downloading 30 songs. Joel Tenenbaum, 25, of Providence, RI admitted to a federal court that he downloaded and shared more than 800 songs, but the court case focused only on 30. Tenenbaum's case is just the second of its kind to go to trial in the U.S.
iXBT checked out all the Core i7 LGA1366 CPUs. This family includes five models so far. Two of them are leaving soon. Another one will probably be discontinued later. We've heard some rumors that Core i7 950 won't live through the end of the year either: it may be replaced with the 960. But we decided to test all five processors using our new test method in order to evaluate performance gains of the new models versus old ones.
DriverHeaven have an NVIDIA graphics cards roundup. Today we have one product from each of the mainstream and high-end GeForce families on our test bench to see what performance each offers for its price point. Read on to find out what can be achieved through a simple upgrade as we test each in a selection of the latest games and GPU computing applications.
AMD and HP have proposed some extensions for PCI Express 3.0. Both extensions are aimed at addressing the rising need for I/O subsystems and accelerators to support dozens of functions in systems that are increasingly using multicore processors and virtual machines. Both extensions are designed for use with the 2.5, 5 and 8 GHz versions of PCIe.
The head of the Centos project has gone missing. Wrote Angenendt: "Lance is the only one, who can make active changes to the centos.org domain, as he "owns it". Nobody else in the team is able to add nameservers, for instance. Recently he put an anonymizing service on the domain, so that nobody from the outside can see who that domain belongs to."
HotHardware have an interview with game developer Terminal Reality. After years of delays (including one cancellation), developer change-ups, and a lot of hard work, Terminal Reality succeeded in bringing a Ghostbusters game to market for the PS3, XBox 360, Wii, and PC. Terminal Reality committed to building their own graphics engine—dubbed the Infernal Engine—to facilitate game development; we recently had a chance talk with them about the game, the new engine, and the future of multi-core gaming.
On Good Game this week: Ninja Blade, 'Splosion Man, Madballs in Babo Invasion, plus Rod Humble from EA talks about games as art. Catch Good Game at 8:30pm on ABC2 Monday nights, or late Friday nights on ABC1 just before rage. You can download/stream any episode at www.abc.net.au/goodgame.
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