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Monday, 7-September-2009 04:13:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Andrew357 sends a reminder that he is raising money for Multiple Sclerosis by riding in the MS Sydney to the Gong bike ride again this year. This year, if I reach $3000 I will once again advertise OCAU on my legs and arms again, and if we reach $5000 I will shave and razor my head.
The GTA:SA Hot Coffee saga is finally over, it seems. ONE of the most bizarre chapters in video game history has finally ended with a $23 million settlement. The Grand Theft Auto "Hot Coffee" case came to a close this week as games company Take-Two Interactive struck a $US20 million out-of-court deal.
A Chinese company has DDoS'd their opposition, resulting in widespread outages and several arrests. While the national scale of the effects was unusual, such attacks are common among some small Internet businesses competing to draw customers in China, security researchers say.
NASA has released lots of high resolution Mars photos. Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet.
The sales ban on MS Word has been overturned, somewhat unsurprisingly. However, Microsoft has successfully requested a stay against the ban, and has asked for its appeal to be heard as soon as possible because the ruling stood to inflict "irreparable harm" on the company's business by keeping "the centrepiece of its product line out of the market for months".
Bjorn3D have an article on SSD Optimisation & Longevity. With the inherent expense of SSD's recent concerns about longevity and optimization have surfaced. With 1 Million hours MTBF the drives have a pretty good lifespan but if you are interested in longevity and optimizing the drive for maximum performance here's a few tips and tricks you may want to experiment with.
Duffy pointed out an article on the high failure rate of Xbox 360's. In the first two years of ownership, SquareTrade found that 2.7 percent of Wii owners reported a system failure, compared with 23.7 percent of Xbox 360 owners and 10 percent of PS3 owners. Slightly more than half of all Xbox 360 failures were "red ring of death" related, while the remaining 11.7% were "other" failures.
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