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I've updated our OCAU Server Hardware wiki page with current info, for those who were wondering. More pics etc soon. BTW, I've moved all services off the USA servers now, so if you notice anything weird, let me know. :)
NASA's Shuttle Discovery is launching in about 12 hours from now, Tuesday afternoon our time. Space shuttle Discovery is in the final stages of preparation before its flight to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Not many of these launches left before the Shuttles are all retired, and this one will be a night launch, so worth catching on NASA TV.
A printed magazine will have a video advertisement in September, the first ever. The slim-line screens - around the size of a mobile phone display - also have rechargeable batteries. The chip technology used to store the video - described as similar to that used in singing greeting cards - is activated when the page is turned. What's the bet someone finds a way to hack these little gadgets into something useful. :)
The ACCC has proposed a revamp of Telstra wholesale pricing. Announcing the changes, ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said: "we aim to give a direction to industry about the level of price the ACCC considers is a reasonable starting point for negotiations between Telstra and its wholesale customers over the next three years."
Top Gear fans might get a chuckle out of this lego version of the show's hosts. Legoland designers were so impressed when the car scooped BBC TV's Top Gear Car of the Year that they captured the moment in the famous plastic bricks.
The Pirate Bay's woes continue, with their ISP being ordered to disconnect them, thanks Chris. The court ordered the site's major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600). The ISP complied, saying that it had no choice but to uphold the law. They are apparently back up on a different connection now, though.
There's been a few conferences on recently. LegitReviews report on vendor booths and babes & cosplayers of BlizzCon, while DVHardware have booth babes and case modding from Gamescom. PC Perspective report on days 2 and 3 of Quakecon, (with a DX 11 preview in DiRT 2), while Futurelooks went to Fragapalooza in Canada.
Bjorn3D attended a Lynnfield Core i5/i7 demo, as did HotHardware. The affair promised to provide an informative look at Intel's Lynnfield processor, along with the P55 platform. Representatives from Gigabyte, Intel, and Kingston were available to provide demonstrations and answer questions on their upcoming technology and product line-ups.
Wolfenstein was released recently, and Techspot have a graphics performance report. As with any new game release there is always the chance it may not run on your current setup, or at the very least, not run well. That's the reason we like to bring you a complete set of tests based on new games such as Wolfenstein using a range of current graphics cards and some other not so current ones.
Tweaktown checked out CPU & memory performance in Windows 7 and Vista. Today we'll be looking at two core components; the memory and the CPU. We’ll be using a triple channel memory configuration with our Core i7 920 processor clocked at 4GHz. We'll be running our testbed through our standard memory benchmark line-up which does a good job of testing both the memory and CPU.
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