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Nick sends word of US$30 Win 7 for students. "Students in Australia can participate in this offer on October 22nd. In most markets, the offer ends on January 3rd, however in Australia the offer has been extended until March 31st."
COBOL is celebrating its 50th birthday. Excuse me while I go scream in horror at the memory of the small amount of COBOL programming I've done. Not many people know that COBOL, for a long time the most widely-used programming language, was largely created by Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a female US Navy officer.
Microsoft have issued a fix for the SMB flaw reported recently. The one-click fix, which was added to a Microsoft security advisory, has been designed to provide users' machines with temporary respite from any remote code execution attacks targeting the known vulnerability, by disabling SMBv2 and then stopping and starting the Server service. Hrm, not really a full fix yet then.
TBreak have an article on breaking 20k in 3DMark Vantage. After hours of tuning to see what the optimum voltage setting would be with best clock speed so I don't throttle the GPU and bring down the scores, I managed to stick with 1.5v on the GPU running at 1050MHz and 1200MHz on memory.
To combat the problem of silent electric cars running people over because they can't be heard, Nissan is adding noise. The company consulted Japanese composers of film scores. What Tabata and his six-member team came up with is a high- pitched sound reminiscent of the flying cars in "Blade Runner," the 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott portraying his dystopian vision of 2019.
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