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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 3-September-2009 14:23:33 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Drayzen and Scoobth sent word that Opera 10 has been released. Coverage on NeoWin and OS News. The main major improvement seems to be a speed increase.
Rage noticed that the Internet Archive now contains films that are in the Public Domain, usually due to their age. This is paradise for fans of classic sci-fi/horror. Cat-Women of the Moon! Invasion of the Bee Girls! Grave of the Vampire!
I linked this in "Interesting Forum Threads" earlier but it's worth a closer look. A cheap online storage company called BackBlaze have developed their own cheap rack storage system. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867. It's an interesting read, with discussion here.
Timbot sent in this article showing how CPUs are made, with lots of CGI pictures showing each stage. This fraction of a ready wafer is being put to a first functionality test. In this stage test patterns are fed into every single chip and the response from the chip monitored and compared to "the right answer".
Telstra had a major international outage this morning. The outage - which occurred between 7.50am and 8.50am - affected all Telstra home and business ADSL broadband, cable and mobile internet customers nationwide, the company said. It is unclear if Telstra wholesale customers were also affected by the outage. Telstra said it had fixed the problem but was unaware of its cause.
HardOCP have an article on Wolfenstein Gameplay Performance and IQ. This incarnation of Wolfenstein is powered by id Tech 4, which used to be known as the Doom 3 engine, and has also powered such games as Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, and Prey. This generation of id Tech was first seen powering Doom 3, which was released on August 3rd of 2004. So, while the engine has certainly been updated and modified for Wolfenstein, the underlying technology is five years old.
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