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Thursday, 11-March-2010 11:49:54 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Victoria is expanding their use of Linux-powered voting kiosks, thanks mazzanet. However, in tender documents released last week, the state revealed it would expand its use of the machines. About one hundred kiosks will be deployed to early voting centres (including mobile facilities) around the state as well as in the United Kingdom.
You and I might not think too much of the iPad, but a certain Fat Kid from St Albans really wants one. Now I'll be doing it again, but 17,000km away - in New York City, a small place somewhere in the USA, which is a whole different country. The iPad is being released a month earlier in the USA than in Australia, which bums me out, as I'm an impatient nerd with too much time on his hands. I can't explain it, but gadgets are what I live for. I don't drink, don't smoke, don't gamble, don't stay out all night and don't have any other vices except for a terrible technology addiction. Plus it's a great excuse to see one of the world's most amazing cities - so why not!?
Someon3 sent in an interesting article about somewhat dodgy SD cards. Armed with this evidence, we confronted Kingston — both the distributor in China as well as the US sales rep. First, we wanted to know if these were real cards, and second, if they were real cards, why were the serialization codes irregular? One of our most popular Wiki pages is still the fake memory cards guide from a few years ago.
Bizarrely, there's a reports of a USB battery charger with a trojan. The charger at fault is the Energizer Duo USB Battery Charger, you’re only at risk if you’re a windows user and downloaded the software for the charger from the Energizer site. Energizer have released more info about the problem. In addition, the company is directing consumers that downloaded the Windows version of the software to uninstall or otherwise remove the software from your computer. This will eliminate the vulnerability. In addition CERT and Energizer recommend that users remove a file that may remain after the software has been removed. The file name is Arucer.dll, which can be found in the Window system32 directory.
LegionHW have a Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire CPU Scaling article. The time has come once again for us to take a pair of the gaming industry’s fastest performance graphics cards and couple then with a range of processors from both AMD and Intel. In this first part, which will be just one of many, we are taking the Core i7, Core i3, Phenom II X4, Phenom II X2 processors and testing them with Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire graphics cards at frequencies from 2.0GHz through to 4.0GHz.
Meanwhile TechSpot checked out Battlefield: Bad Company 2 GPU Performance. Any game that looks this good is going to be demanding. What we experienced is that tuning down visual settings along with the resolution still hurt budget and even some mid-range graphics cards. DICE recommends at least a GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4780 graphics card to play Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and it is rare to find this kind of high performance GPUs falling under the recommended specifications. Read on for our in-depth findings on GPU performance and CPU scaling.
The Large Hadron Collider's woes continue, with the operators now admitting there are design issues which require the machine to be shut down for a year while they are addressed. He said: "The standard phrase is that the LHC is its own prototype. We are pushing technologies towards their limits." ... "You don't hear about the thousands or hundreds of thousands of other areas that have gone incredibly well."
Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man, having been pushed down a spot by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu. That massive hoard of scratch puts him ahead of Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) cofounder Bill Gates, who had held the title of world's richest 14 of the past 15 years.
There's more CeBIT 2010 coverage on Guru3D and MadShrimps.
Today's timewaster is a Lynx ad game (possibly NSFW, ish) called Keeping Keeley, with discussion here.
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