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Monday, 31-October-2011 18:05:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Google's doodle today marks the 50th anniversary of the Parkes Observatory. An icon of Australian science, the Parkes radio telescope has been in operation since 1961 and continues to be at the forefront of astronomical discovery thanks to regular upgrades. Astronomers from across Australia and around the world utilise the Parkes radio telescope to undertake world-class astronomical science. Of course, it was most famously used for the Apollo 11 moonwalk coverage.
Flooding continues to be an issue in Thailand, and I noticed this story about tugboats being used to accelerate the flow of flood water. Now.. I'm no expert, but surely that isn't going to work? Mr Ong-at raised the proposal yesterday after a test in the Noi River, a subsidiary of the Chao Phraya, found its flow rate increased by 20%, or 57 cubic metres a second, with the help of boat engines. The propellers of eight powerboats anchored by ropes to bridge posts had helped push out the water in a one-day test, he said. Hrm.
Exetel CEO John Linton has apparently made his feelings clear about being approached by copyright enforcement agencies. According to Linton, his company will “almost certainly” invest a serious amount of money in order to render their systems unfriendly to trolls. “So by the end of this week copyright theft by some percentage of our customers will cost Exetel something over $200,000 to ensure blackmailing scum can’t target our law-breaking customers,” added the Exetel chief.
Here's a photo tour of Facebook's new headquarters. From exposing structural steel girders, and offering them up for employee graffiti, to choosing bare plywood as the ceiling material over employee walkways, Facebook's ongoing transformation of the button-down former Sun Microsystems campus is meant to telegraph that the company itself remains a work in progress.
LSI are purchasing Sandforce - there's interviews on HotHardware and TheSSDReview. Yesterday’s announcement that LSI had entered into an agreement to acquire SandForce was interesting to say the least. The two companies have obvious synergy and should be able to leverage each other's resources to produce some powerful and innovative storage products. However, due to LSI’s strong position in the enterprise space and SandForce’s more consumer oriented position, along with the announcement’s minimal discussion of mainstream or desktop-targeted products, some questions lingered as to how LSI planned to market SandForce products moving forward.
RatcHeT-x sent word of a new free multiplayer PC game developed by students in Brisbane. It's called Manastorm: Lust for Guts and there's a thread with more info here.
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