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Thursday, 14-July-2011 01:20:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Our appeal for OCAU member silverbullet, his daughter Charli and family has raised over $18,500 so far, which is just amazing!
Microsoft have promised that if your PC can run Windows 7, it will be able to run Windows 8, thanks Sniper. "In both of our Windows 8 previews, we talked about continuing on with the important trend that we started with Windows 7, keeping system requirements either flat or reducing them over time," said Tami Reller, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, speaking at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
HotHardware compared SATA III SSDs. With all of the new products to hit the SSD market recently, we thought it was a good time to pull together a varied sampling of cutting edge SATA III solid state drives to see how they stack up. We’ve got six drives on tap for this piece, two apiece from OCZ and Corsair, one from Patriot and another from Crucial. On tap are the Corsair Force GT, Corsair Force 3 Series, OCZ Agility 3, Patriot Wildfire, OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS, and the Crucial M4.
Meanwhile HWSecrets continue their thermal paste roundup. We added five new thermal compounds to our previous roundup, for a total of 30 different thermal compounds from major brands. We also tried another "alternative" compound: toothpaste.
Phoronix look at Sandy Bridge graphics performance in Windows and Linux. The new benchmarks going out today on Phoronix are looking at the performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics with the latest Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux drivers. Not only are we using the very latest drivers, but there is also a separate Linux test run with SNA, the "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" architecture enabled.
HardOCP report on PSU labelling, including an explanatory video by Cooler Master that seems to have now been yoinked. To obtain safety certificates, the specification table and associate rating numbers on the power supply label must be accurate. The manufacturers are free to name the power supply any way they like however, so in this case, Cooler Master placed "500" next to the model name to suggest it as a 500W PSU (and sold as a 500W) as opposed to it being a 450W.
VMware have changed their licensing structure, and people aren't happy. The vendor said the new licensing arrangement would offer simplicity, remove constraints and indicated it was a move to a cloud-like on-demand style of charging. However, customers were quick to criticise the arrangement as boosting requirements for additional and potentially more costly licenses to cover existing environments upgraded to vSphere 5.0.
Overclockers.com look at Llano overclocking. Previously we ran the full review of AMD’s Lynx desktop chip, the A8-3850, which is their Llano architecture for desktops. In that review, regrettably, I was not able to explore overclocking this platform. Thankfully, after a bit more time, that has been remedied."
Australia has a newish Criminal Intelligence Fusion Centre which is crunching the numbers on criminals. The Fusion Centre has brought together ACC officers and specialists from a number of government agencies and empowered them with advanced computer technology to examine possible patterns of crime and money flows. Together, they collect, distribute and analyse data from various public and private sources, red-flagging any anomalies for further investigation and compiling an integrated national criminal intelligence picture for traditional law enforcement agencies.
PC Perspective look at bitcoin mining performance. If you want to learn what a Bitcoin is, how the process of this new currency works and even what GPUs perform the best and most efficiently for this mining process, check out our article!
EA have bought PopCap games for a hefty fee. As we initially reported a few weeks ago, EA has acquired PopCap Games. The acquisition price is $650 million plus $100 million stock and a multi-year earn-out. The total acquisition price is as much as $1.3 billion. PopCap Games is the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies, Zuma and Bejeweled. PopCap games have been installed 150 million times worldwide. Last year, approximately 80% of PopCap’s revenue was on digital platforms.
Tarrith reminds us that tomorrow is the last day for making submissions to the classification scheme review. The Issues Paper has been published since May 20 and as yet only 80 public submissions have been made - 80 per cent of them from people who believe in government intervention for the sake of child protection.
Epi spotted this space program game which isn't a web flash thing (it's a Windows download thing) but looks quite fun.
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