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Friday, 21-August-2009 04:09:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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This has probably been there for months, but I noticed a few days ago that YouTube now has a cool "Statistics & Data" dropdown thing on each video, and you have to choose to see the comments now. Interesting.
NASA are planning a night launch of Discovery, which I guess will be next Wednesday our time. Commanded by veteran astronaut Rick "C.J." Sturckow, the STS-128 mission crew will deliver refrigerator-sized racks full of equipment, including the COLBERT treadmill, an exercise device named after comedian Stephen Colbert.
Speaking of space stuff, the Stardust project has found an amino acid in a comet. "Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet," said Dr. Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our discovery supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts."
VRZone have an SSD Stackup. The burning question for enthusiasts is: Are the supposed benefits of SSDs worth the added cost? We've rounded up seven solid state drives from various manufacturers to answer this question.
FatMan spotted this article about 37.7 trillion hard drive simulations to determine which RAID configuration best suits various scenarios. If you absolutely, positiviely can never, ever, ever lose your data and have it go offline for a second, you need a 4 disk RAID 1. It never failed in over 1 million simulations.
TheAge have an article about people volunteering CPU time for distributed computing projects. AUSTRALIANS are curing cancer and addressing global warming in their sleep. From classical musicians to council workers, they are donating their idle computer time to science - BOINCing, to be precise. Naturally we'd like you to be Folding for Team 24. :) Discussion here.
PCPerspective compare mid-range GPUs. We will pin Gigabyte's GTS 250 and 9600GT against ATI's first 40nm GPU dubbed the Radeon 4770. Let's see what performance offerings these graphics cards will give us in our gaming and GPGPU benchmarks.
ITNews have pictures inside Equinix's new datacentre in Sydney. Sydney2 has also instituted a 'lights out' policy in the data centre when no one is inside. As network administrators swipe their access cards, a path of sensor lights illuminates a path to their co-location cage. Upon entry, motion sensors trigger light in that area to enable them to carry out their work in normal lighting conditions. I believe OCAU is now hosted in the Sydney1 datacentre, btw.
Not got enough buttons on your mouse? Try this one with a dozen more. The Naga, as it's so beautifully called, gives users a dozen customizable buttons on the side in order to take some of those keyboard macros (or just the 1 - 12 number keys) and put them within thumb's reach. Am I the only person who accidently hits random buttons when picking up his mouse? God knows what I'd end up opening with 12 more buttons to hit.
Mpot spotted this big list of Windows 7 secrets. Few, however, have noticed one small but hopefully appreciated feature: WordPad can now read and write both the Word 2007-compatible Office Open XML file format but also the OpenDocument specification that IBM and Sun have been advocating.
Today's timewaster is this multitasking tester. How well can you multitask? Put your multitasking skills to the test by seeing just how many games you can play at once! Discussion here.
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