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Friday, 20-August-2010 01:22:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I had no idea this was on the cards, but apparently the last US combat brigade has left Iraq. Some 50,000 US troops will remain until the end of 2011 to advise Iraqi forces and protect US interests. A further 6,000 support troops will be in Iraq until the end of the month, when US combat operations will end.
Scrantic spotted this peek inside the ABC's MediaHub. MediaHub is one of the only facilities of its type in Australia and the rest of the world, broadcasting digital television across different parts of Australia. The facility is responsible for services like ABC's 24-hour news channel and the children's channel ABC3.
Intel have acquired McAfee for $7.68B. It’s a huge deal for Intel, primarily a hardware company, to acquire a security-oriented software company, especially one as big as McAfee. However, Intel believes that security has become an integral part of computing, which makes it their business, too. More info here, thanks dasuperham.
The OpenSolaris distro is apparently dead, thanks Jason. Although the OpenSolaris project never really had the potential to deliver a practical mainstream desktop platform, it arguably succeeded in producing a compelling workstation environment for developers and system administrators. Due to the ease with which it could be installed, it significantly lowered the barrier to entry for technology enthusiasts who wanted to try out unique Solaris capabilities such as ZFS and DTrace. Discussion here.
Here's an interesting one: Hungarian ISPs are required to advertise the lowest speed of an internet service, not just a theoretical maximum. For instance, Deutsche Telekom's Hungarian subsidiary T-Home sells its products by both maximum and minimum line speeds—and those minimums vary by technology. The 5Mbps package guarantees a mere 500Kbps when ordered on a cable line, while the same package guarantees a 2.5Mbps minimum on fiber. Sounds familiar, my 8Mb/s ADSL is hobbled by a 300KB/s-per-connection cap on my exchange. :(
Timbot sent word that things seem to be not going well for BFG. PC Perspective look at their card that never was. It became readily apparent after the Fermi launch that BFG did not actually have any Fermi cards (though they were listed on the site), and they had announced in May that they were exiting the graphics business.
Rob noticed that two major Microsoft games franchises are returning: Age of Empires and their Flight Simulator product. Of course, the "Simulator" bit has been removed, so now it's just Flight. Let's take a look at the trailers, and discuss what little we know about these games. Trailers: Flight and Age of Empires.
There's a new DX11 / OpenGL4 benchmark, TessMark, thanks Sniper. Developed by JeGX (FurMark, GPU Caps Viewer, GPU-Shark), TessMark is a compact tool with two synthetic tests showing off tessellation that can run either in a benchmark or a stability mode. You can choose the resolution of the test and the level of tessellation, plus the AA setting, which should ensure hours of fun for enthusiasts.
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