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I have to say, the response to our call for donations to silverbullet has been really amazing. So far over $4000 has been raised. You've done yourselves proud, OCAU!
OCZ have a new PCI Express SSD, the RevoDrive 3 X2. This is the third version of this product and looks pretty wicked on paper. There's coverage on HotHardware, LegitReviews, PC Perspective, TheSSDReview and Guru3D.
I'm not entirely sure how this'll work, but there's a competition to overclock hard drives, with $10k cash as the prize. So, what we want to know is, can you modify a traditional mechanical hard drive so that we can pull data off it more quickly than those conservative hard drive manufacturers want us to. So, for example, if it currently takes 2 hours to read an entire 500GB hard drive, we want to be able to do it in 1 hour. Your job is to come up with a method which allows us to read data as fast as possible, which can be reversed afterwards.
ArsTechnica report on expensive Thunderbolt cables. Promise's RAIDs do not come supplied with a Thunderbolt cable. Instead, users are directed to buy a Thunderbolt cable directly from Apple, which costs $49 for two-meter length. We contacted Promise to find out why a Mini DisplayPort cable could not be used in its stead, since the Thunderbolt port is based on Mini DisplayPort. A support technician told Ars that Apple's cable is a "smart" cable that "has firmware in it."
Ricoh has bought Pentax, in a move sure to strike fear into the hearts of die-hard Pentax fans. The Pentax Imaging Systems Division will be spun-out as a new company and its shares transfered to Ricoh on October 1st. The deal will also include the Pentax camera manufacturing subsidiary in Vietnam. Discussion here.
A chess computer team have been caught using performance-enhancing injections.. of code. An organization known as the International Computer Games Association (ICGA), which pits computers against each other in tournaments of Chess, Go, and other games, has found [press release] by a 5-0 vote that one of its grand champions was a cheater. The vote follows a lengthy investigation that included reverse-engineering of source code, to prove the digital "doping".
BitTorrent is 10 years old. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Bram Cohen wrote on a Yahoo! message board on July 2, 2001. It was the first time a working copy of the BitTorrent code had been made available to the public, but the initial response wasn’t exactly overwhelming. “What’s BitTorrent, Bram?” was the one reply he received on the board.
HWHeaven have an article about building a stylish Z68 ITX system. Therefore today we are going to look at building a compact, stylish system based on Intel's Z68 chipset in ITX form (The Zotac Z68-ITX) and the Core i3-2100.
Matt sends word that Telstra have begun filtering with Interpol's list. The Interpol list is believed to have been in use for a number of years, with telcos such as BT, O2 and Virgin having blocked addresses on it from reaching customers for some time. For a site to get onto the list, law enforcement agencies in at least two separate jurisdictions have to validate the entry as being illegal and not just potentially offensive.
Australia's Attorney-General's Department has some information on protecting your identity. Identity security is central to Australia’s national security, law enforcement and economic interests. It is vital in protecting Australian citizens from the theft or misuse of their identities.
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