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Tuesday Afternoon
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(link) Tuesday, 24-August-2010 16:42:57 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A non-profit group called Copenhagen Suborbitals are working towards being the first private organisation to put a human into space. More info here, thanks Steven. A group of engineers in Denmark are preparing to do just that - launch a home-built rocket, along with a human passenger, more than 100km into the sky. Dubbed HEAT1X, the rocket will be launched from a floating barge in the sea just outside the Danish border, 12 nautical miles from shore. And it will be towed out there by a submarine built by one of the men behind the rocket project. There's a SomethingAwful thread with lots of info along the way here.
AMD have deprecated 3DNow!. 3DNow! instructions are being deprecated and will not be supported in certain upcoming AMD processors. In those processors, the 3DNow! Instructions feature flag bit will not be set. This is indicated by EDX bit 31 of CPUID function 8000_0001h. This is a good time to remind developers just how important it is to check for features supported at runtime before using them.
Anandtech checked out the world's first 3TB HDD. It's in an external enclosure but to confirm no trickery they cracked it open. Inside the GoFlex Desk 3TB was a standard 3.5” Seagate Barracuda XT drive. There are rubber squares installed where the mounting screwholes are and the drive is in a metal tray, but other than that this is a run of the mill SATA HDD.
NeoSeeker compared some i7 CPU coolers. It's the battle of value oriented CPU coolers in our latest roundup, pitting the Evercool Transformer 4, Evercool Buffalo and Gelid Tranquillo against each other. While we test them in an Intel Core i7 environment, they actually support a variety of socket types. Their heatsink designs and fan setups are just as varied, but what do they really offer for consumers?
MadShrimps have some memory overclocking charts based on HWBot data. One of the perks of having a database like this is not only to amuse (and annoy) overclockers globally, but mainly to analyze the results afterwards and have a better understanding of how the overclocking game really works. Processor and video card charts are scattered around the website, but memory overclocking charts is something we have not touched before.
MWP and Sabz both spotted that the Nmap group have made an icons of the web composite image. A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) was performed in early 2010 using the Nmap Security Scanner and its scripting engine. We retrieved each site's icon by first parsing the HTML for a link tag and then falling back to /favicon.ico if that failed. 328,427 unique icons were collected, of which 288,945 were proper images. OCAU appears here in the image. Reminds me of the Avatar Mosaic that Yoink made for OCAU.
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