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Wednesday, 31-March-2010 12:56:11 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Large Hadron collider is a smashing success at last. After two false starts due to electrical failures, protons that were whipped to more than 99 percent of the speed of light and to record-high energy levels of 3.5 trillion electron volts apiece raced around a 17-mile underground magnetic track outside Geneva a little after 1 p.m. local time. They crashed together inside apartment-building-size detectors designed to capture every evanescent flash and fragment from microscopic fireballs thought to hold insights into the beginning of the universe.
Anandtech check out RAID SSDs. Using the same Intel X58 testbed I've been using for all of my SSD tests, I created a 74.5GB RAID-0 array out of the two drives and quickly ran them through almost all of our benchmarks. At a total cost of $250, a pair of X25-Vs will set you back more than a single 80GB X25-M and you do give up TRIM, but is the performance worth it?
Novell have won again in their case against SCO. Novell is very pleased with the jury’s decision confirming Novell’s ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux. Novell remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front.
Meanwhile a Usenet indexing site has lost its High Court battle in the UK, which is worrying because it implies that indexing content is as legally dubious as hosting the content. Newzbin developed a now widely-used indexing format called NZB, which uses XML code to compile the message numbers of multi-part newsgroup posts into a single file that, with an appropriate software client, can be automatically downloaded and reassembled.
Shamino has cranked a GeForce GTX 480 to 1156MHz using LN2, thanks enigma. By using LN2 cooling on a GeForce GTX 480 video card he was able to take the core clock from 700MHz up to 1165MHz, which is an amazing 66% overclock! He then used an Intel Xeon E5640 processor at 4GHz and was able to score just shy of 30,000 3DMarks in the Performance test of 3DMark Vantage.
From stmok: Looks like Microsoft has just released a series of "out-of-band" patches to cover Internet Explorer, Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Office Excel. All of the patches largely cover "Remote Code Execution" issues; so it would be wise to update ASAP.
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