Sunday Tech Reading - Illegal prime - tech
(hx) 02:11 PM CEST - Apr,16 2006
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- BitTorrent battles over bandwidth - Recent estimates say that
around a third of all internet
traffic is based around BitTorrent.
- Triple Boot Camp - OSX, XP, Linux -
How about a triple boot using OSX,
XP and Linux?
- Illegal prime -
The first illegal
prime number was generated on March 2001 by Phil Carmody. Its binary
representation corresponds to a compressed version of the C source code of a
computer program implementing the DeCSS decryption scheme.
- Intel Pentium D 805 overclocked by 46% - The reviewer was able to
overclock the Pentium D 805 by a
formidable 46%!
- More 802.11n Routers Revealed -
The key difference with the 802.11n
standard is its increased speed, roughly 540-Mbits/s.
- Advantages of RAID6 Over RAID0 and RAID5 -
Hardware
Secrets take a look at the advantages of RAID6 over RAID0 and RAID5. In
related news, Puget Systems published
a
general article on RAID.
- Firefox Flicks Closes -
The competition, worth $5000 to the winner, involved creating a short
video showing off the benefits of Firefox over other browsers.
- Samsung's SGH-P300 Credit Card Phone review - Battery
life in two separate tests both resulted in over 7 hours of talk time when
used with a 1900MHz GSM signal.
- Sony adds 'live color creation' to Bravia LCD TV's -
The upper-grade V2000 series
comprises 32", 40", and 46-inch models will be equipped with Sony's new
"live color creation" technology, which uses a wide spectrum backlight (Wide
Colour Gamut Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) which used phosphors developed for
the company's Trinitron CRTs.
- 2007 Infiniti G35 the first to get Hard Drive for storing Music -
Infiniti has unveiled the next
generation of its G35 performance sedan, which will woo drivers when it
goes to sale this November by it's 300HP engine, paddle shifters, push-button
ignition, touch-screen navigation and a rear-view monitor.
- Exxon Chief Made $144,573 Per Day - Raymond, who retired from Exxon
in December,
received more than $686 million from 1993 to 2005.
- Will you marry me? -
There's a "Will U Marry Me" written on one of the roofs there!
- Second ice chunk falls in SF area - from a cloudless sky -
First ice chunk created a 2-foot crater in an Oakland park, latest one
busted a hole in a gym roof. On a cloudless day!
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