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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 7-August-2009 14:45:28 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few people pointed out that not long ago it was 12:34:56pm on the 7/8/9. :)
Twitter and some other social networking sites are being DDoS'd recently. As you know, a DDoS is where millions of PCs submit tiny useless bits of information to a service.. hey.. sounds like Twitter's normal traffic!
The National Broadband Network company has named its directors. A part-time productivity commissioner, an ex-Freehills law chief and finance executives from Westpac and Wesfarmers are among five directors appointed to the NBN Co board today. People are saying the chosen board lacks net smarts, however.
Gazza spotted this article about driving the Warthog from Halo. "And really," I reasoned, "what’s the worst that could happen?" Actually, I already knew the answer to that one, thanks to a YouTube video of Bungie producer Curtis Creamer putting the same vehicle into a wall during Bungie’s trip to New Zealand.
XbitLabs compared 500GB 2.5" drives. Some time ago we already reviewed the first 2.5-inch models with 500 GB storage capacity. Now time has come to compare side by side the solutions from all manufacturers that are currently available in the market.
Qwertylesh spotted a snippet about SLI hacked onto older chipsets. A member of Expreview's Chinese enthusiast community has successfully enabled SLI on an Intel chipset based LGA-775 motherboard, the first feat of its kind since much older attempts on i975 platforms using much older GeForce hardware.
Gavinnorthants sent word that one of the oldest BitTorrent communities has been targeted in the UK. But Geeker soon discovered that things were different in his case. "I asked again as I was put in the cell, if I could contact someone or make a phone call, I was told no I couldn’t do that, I asked why and was told that the Inspector had put a block on any and all communication from me to anyone."
Win7 was RTM via TechNet and MSDN recently thanks AB, and TechReviewSource have a roundup of its new features. Many new features have been included in Windows 7, some big and some small. We have listed some of the more major and noticeable changes to help you make the switch to Windows 7.
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour has joined the battle to free Gary McKinnon, the UK-based alleged hacker who recently lost his appeal to avoid extradition to the USA. There's a new single featuring David, Gary, Bob Geldorf and others, appealing to President Obama, and hoping to raise donations to Aspergers and Autism causes, and to help Gary's continuing battle.
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