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Tuesday, 6-April-2010 00:27:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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New Zealand has moved against software patents in their new Patents Bill. Clause 15 of the draft Bill, as reported back from the Commerce Select Committee, lists a number of classes of invention which should not be patentable and includes the sub-clause “a computer program is not a patentable invention.”
A few people sent word that Quake II has been ported to HTML5 so can play in supported browsers (Chrome and Opera at the moment). We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and a lot of refactoring) to cross-compile it into Javascript. You can see the results in the video above -- we were honestly a bit surprised when we saw it pushing over 30 frames per second on our laptops (your mileage may vary)! More info here and here.
CandG noticed that the One Laptop Per Child project has delivered 200 laptops to kids in the Northern Territory. Globally the organisation has shipped 1 million of its purpose-built budget XO laptops over the past 24 months in 31 countries to disadvantaged children. It began its Australian rollout in May 2009 and is aiming to deliver 15,000 devices domestically in 2010.
Tech Report have a roundup of mini H55 Express boards. The latest mini motherboards use Intel's H55 Express chipset, which is compatible with both dual-core Clarkdale processors and quad-core Lynnfields. Keep reading for a detailed look at microATX mobos from Asus, Gigabyte, and Intel, along with a mini-ITX gem from Zotac.
Phoronix checked out an interesting linux-friendly NAS. The Pogoplug is a network attached storage device that is far more than a basic NAS like the Icy Box NAS4220, but the Pogoplug can integrate with social networks like Twitter along with providing a rich web 2.0 interface for accessing the device from anywhere in the world. The Pogoplug device runs Linux and is built upon popular open-source packages, but Pogoplug does not hide this fact and they actually encourage community developers to work on the Pogoplug with complete support for SSH-ing into these devices and making modifications.
Bjorn3D have a review of Seagate's Savvio 10K.4 HDDs. These drives come in different capacities including 450GB and 600GB, but what makes them so special is that they are 2.5" form factor, which is what you would use in laptop based system. This is the first time we see a 6Gb/s 10,000RPM 600GB SAS hard drive at such small form factor at this capacity. This is interesting because it's the latest generation of the drives we use in OCAU's two servers.
Teddy spotted this photo gallery of Geeky Weddings. I kinda get them all, except number 9..?
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