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Wednesday, 17-November-2010 22:21:14 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The draft legislation to separate Telstra's wholesale and retail businesses has passed the lower house of parliament, thanks Sniper. Draft laws which will pave the way for the rollout of the NBN through the structural separation of Telstra, have passed the lower house of parliament. The changes will require Telstra to conduct network operations and wholesale functions at arm's length.
BenchmarkReviews has a Intel CPU cooler roundup. Heatsink manufacters haven't made much noise recently, holding back CPU cooler anouncements until after Intel's Sandy Bridge LGA1155 socket is launched. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests a few newcomer heatsinks against a collection of solid past performers in this Best CPU Cooler Performance: Intel Heatsinks Q3-2010 article.
Callan spotted this amazing CGI film. Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh is a montage of enchanting slow motion shots of cameras, chairs, space shuttles, explosions, stairwells, bulbous water drops, and a trillion other things. It's all computer generated and will blow your mind. Watch! Is it really all computer-generated?
From AIVAS: I hit your site every day to check out the news, and thought I'd submit some I found that I can't recall being posted before. At least, I don't remember any games being made with Unigine. :) Just found these while downloading Unigine's benchmarks... First one is Syndicates of Arkon, a MMORPG here and the second I found which is still unavailable but looks interesting is OilRush.
Dasuperham sent in this story about a tiny cube PC, although there's not much real info. The Xi3 modular computer is a 3 and a half inch cube and weighs just 1 pound, 4 ounces. It does everything that those large computer towers do -- the ones that take up all that space under your desk at home and work. "What people have really said is, ‘I want it to be instant, I want it to be small, I want it to use as little power that can be,' and that's what we've built," says Jason Sullivan, founder and CEO of Xi3 Corporation.
SilentPCReview report on SSDs and tinnitis. This article is in response to a recent email from a sophisticated technology user who suffers from tinnitus. The writer refers specifically to electronic noise from second generation Intel SSDs triggering his tinnitus symtoms in such an upsetting way that he was compelled to seek help from Intel directly. The kind of electronic noise Richard describes is not normally audible to most people, but there is little question that it is all around us, emanating from just about every type of electronic gizmo that is part and parcel of modern living.
Here's an odd one from JC, and to me it read like an oddly serious article from cracked.com. It's about why Star Wars stormtroopers miss. These are supposedly squads of cold, calculating, efficient murder machines, professional soldiers literally bred for the purpose. Yet, the second you put an Alderaan Princess in front of them, you've got five Stormtroopers missing a stationary target roughly eight feet away, three firing their guns wildly into the sky, and one ... trying to ride his blaster rifle like a pony -- and none making the shot.
Phoronix have info about a so-called miracle patch to the Linux kernel that improves desktop interactivity under load. The patch being talked about is designed to automatically create task groups per TTY in an effort to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain. Mike Galbraith wrote the patch, which is currently in its third version in recent weeks, after Linus Torvalds inspired this idea. In its third form (patch), this patch only adds 224 lines of code to the kernel's scheduler while stripping away nine lines of code, thus only 233 lines of code are in play.
Nick sends word that Solaris 11 Express has been released. Info here and here. Oracle Solaris 11 Express provides access to advanced Oracle Solaris features that have been in development for more than five years. It allows customers to deploy the latest Oracle Solaris features today while preparing their environments to take advantage of Oracle Solaris 11.
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