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Tuesday, 20-September-2011 16:11:47 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Some IDF catchup: Lucid HyperFormance on PCPerspective, Mooley Eden Keynote and Justin Rattner Keynote on TechReport, Eden Keynote and Tech Showcase Sneak Peek on HotHardware, Dirt 3 EyeFinity on Engadget, Ivy Bridge Details, Love Your PC Keynote and Fundamental Transformations on XbitLabs, GIGABYTE X79 preview, ASUS X21 Ultrabook hands-on, Fanless Sandy Bridge Cooling and Closing Keynote on LegitReviews.
Lots of people sent in this cool story about gamers solving a medical puzzle. After scientists repeatedly failed to piece together the structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus, they called in the Foldit players. The scientists challenged the gamers to produce an accurate model of the enzyme. They did it in only three weeks. More here, here and here, discussion here.
The hard drive turned 55 recently, thanks Sniper. Like much else in our pervasive IT world the disk drive's roots were laid down by IBM, and first appeared in a product called the 305 RAMAC, The Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, launched this week 55 years ago. Ah, those were the days.
People who missed out on Microserver deals will be miffed (or impressed) to see 32 of them clustered together. That gives a total of 64 cpus, 256Gb RAM, 8Tb storage, all for $9,000. They loaded it up with the latest vSphere and vCloud Director versions and it ran great.
Meanwhile BenchmarkReviews have some Touchpad Performance Hacking. In our previous guide: Root Hacking the HP Touchpad Tablet PC, Benchmark Reviews showed you how to enable Developer Mode on the HP Touchpad, and, with the new capabilities this mode enables, to download and install the Preware applications manager. In this installment, we'll show you how to dramatically improve the performance of your Touchpad by disabling excessive logging functions and overclocking its dual-core processor.
The war between Samsung and Apple continues, with Samsung trying to ban the iPhone in various regions, including Korea. It was Apple who launched the patent war, by suing to ban Samsung sales in the U.S., one of the world's most lucrative phone markets. But it was Samsung who escalated the patent dispute, suing Apple in Germany, Japan, and South Korea.
I should probably have posted this yesterday, but OhSmeg spotted piracy selling games. "We thought it’d be funny to leak a pirate version ourselves which is literally all about pirates and pirate hats," company co-founder Alex Nichiporchik told TorrentFreak earlier this month. "I mean, some people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it."
If you're wondering about your salary, the recruitment firm Michael Page have a Salary and Employment Forecast for the Australian technology industry. We’ve just released our annual Salary and Employment Forecast for Australia based on the survey responses of 1,400 hiring managers across the country. You can also find commentary on skills in demand, salary levels and salary expectations.
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