Archive for August 26, 2007

Google’s Newest Data Center [Pics]

Massive air-cooling systems rise above two data center buildings, which are so close to The Dalles’ dam you can almost hear the water roar. An industrial-strength power grid connects the dam to Google’s energy-sucking, heat-spewing Linux servers.

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Apple Seeds Mac OS X Leopard (9A527/9A528a)

Apple appears to be accelerating seeds of Mac OS X Leopard to developers. After only 5 days since the last seed (9A500n), Apple has issued a new version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to developers.

The latest seed is listed at build 9A527 (client) and 9A528a (server), and reportedly list a number of …

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Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users

A company that tracked thousands of users sharing anime via BitTorrent has lost its legal battle to force an ISP to reveal its customer’s details. The company would’ve used the information to demand $3,500 in compensation from each person they tracked - a plan which now lies in ruins.

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BioShock Installs Rootkit, Including Demo

BioShock installs a rootkit on your computer system, which is also included with the demo.

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Uniquephones’s iPhone unlock release ’slowed’ by AT&T lawyers

Seems AT&T is a bit annoyed at the idea. A middle of the night phone call from a Silicon Valley law firm is slowing down the release of the software to you.

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A Fantastic 6G iPod ‘Touch’ Concept Design // pic

What do you guys think of this concept design? It’s kind of a mix between the new iMac and the iPhone, I like it even though it looks a little too wide.

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer Beta Launch

We’ve been playing the Call of Duty 4 beta all week here at Gaming Today, and it definitely exceeded our expectations. The “multiplayer beta will launch via Xbox LIVE™ on Monday, August 27 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

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Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux

Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.

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Geek To Live: Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD

You’ve reinstalled Windows from scratch again but this time you want to preserve your sparkling clean setup for instant restoration down the road. Instead of dropping cash on Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, burn yourself a free, bootable Linux-based System Rescue CD. The System Rescue CD includes open source tools GParted

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