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Now this is impressive, a massive 45,000+ foot Firefox crop circle.

 

A 45,000+ square foot crop circle might do it. This past weekend, they descended on a field in beautiful Amity, Oregon for two days of plotting and stomping. By Sunday, over an acre of oats was emblazoned with the Firefox logo. To get the pictures, they pulled out the planes and the helicopters.

Nvidia today launched the nForce Pro 3000 chipset family for servers and workstations based on AMD’s recently announced DDR 2 SDRAM-supporting dual-core Opteron processors. The chipsets are aimed at machines containing one to eight or more CPUs.

The line-up comprises the 3050, 3400 and 3600 MCP chips. All three chipsets support SLI - they’re pitched at servers and workstations used by content creation, and science and engineering professionals. The 3400 is aimed at one-way systems, and has 28 PCI Express lanes for mobo makers to play with. It can support six 3Gbps SATA drives and two parallel ATA peripherals in RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 configurations. The chipset has an on-board Gigabit Ethernet controller with support for two MACs and TCP/IP acceleration. It can operate up to ten USB 2.0 ports, too.

News source: The Reg

My 350 watts Enermax PSU died all of a sudden, maybe because it wasn’t able to handle the load for a long period of time. I’m looking for a new one right now and I’m thinking on getting either an Enermax, Task or HEC PSU.

I just saw an ad in Manila Bulletin about PLDT’s new DSL plans. Definitely a good news for their subscribers.

Here are the new bandwidth speeds:

myDSL Xperience
Php 999/month
from 384Kbps to 512 Kbps

myDSL Xcite
Php 1,995/month
from 768 Kbps to 1.2Mbps

myDSL Xcel
Php 3,000/month
from 2Mbps to 3 Mbps

While it is purely speculative, at the moment, word has been spreading that AMD may decide to drop the ATI brand name and label all products under the singular AMD label. Want to know what’s spurring the talk? Well, marketing manager for AMD, Richard Baker, has made it clear that AMD took over ATI and that it was not a merging of two companies. On top of that, the head P.R. guy at ATI, Chris Hook, has been quoted saying that he has “no emotional attachment” to the ATI brand. Are we about to see the end of the ATI brand? Only time will tell.
Source: Engadget.com

The Internet Explorer product team today announced a change in their planned naming scheme for Internet Explorer 7 after concerns from the wider community.

In late May, a post on the team’s blog stated that the name “IE7+” was to be used to refer to the version of Internet Explorer 7 that ran on Windows Vista. This was to differentiate between the differing feature set offered by Microsoft’s latest browser when used on Windows XP and on Windows Vista. A backlash from the wider community ensued, many stating that such a name would cause confusion for users, particularly when it could be interpreted as “IE7 or above”.

Responding to these concerns, the product team announced that the new version would be known simply as Internet Explorer 7, regardless of the operating system it was run on.  For documentation describing platform-specific features, the term “Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista” is to be used.

The move has both surprised and pleased testers of the popular web browser, which is to be released later this year.

Source: Internet Explorer development blog

As Microsoft outlined the upcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server program manager Ward Ralston says SP2 will be much less painful than SP1. “I know SP1 to Windows Server 2003 made some pretty big changes to the way we do security and it introduced a cycle of application testing and some compatibility issues….this was, however, a necessary evil needed to address server security,” Ralston wrote on his team’s blog. Now that the groundwork has been laid with SP1, Microsoft is planning a more conventional service pack for SP2. It will consist of all security updates, all individual hotfixes released to customers and fixes to reduce top customer support issues.

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