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Pc Motherboard Top Of The Range Brand new, in the box with all the wires, manuals. Never been used (London, Price: £75)	01 January 0001
Cost £120 in Pc World.Also includes free Sata cables(seen on top of box in pics) Hope to hear from you soon Here is the full specification The Gigabyte Ds3 motherboard delivers high performance with great tuning facilities for Diy and power users. The board s complete performance tuning facility enables power users to customize system performance according to their individual needs. Boasting solid capacitors this platform is specifically designed for enhanced durability ensuring a longer system operation lifetime and boosting system stability under extreme conditions. World s First Natively supported 1333MHz Fsb Gigabyte Rev 3.3 P Series motherboards were designed to take full advantage of the blistering performance inherent in the new generation Intel Core 2 Duo processors featuring 1333MHz Fsb. As 1333MHz Fsb is natively supported no overclocking is need to unlock the performance benefits of these powerful processors. The Gigabyte Rev 3.3 P965 Series motherboards also feature flexible memory support options in the Bios greatly extending the overclocking potential of the boards especially when using a 1333MHz Fsb processor. With memory multiplier settings including x2.0 x2.5 x3.33 and x4.0 users who overclock will be able to see a marked improvement in memory performance with even slight overclocking reaching a more than 5 increase in performance. Quad Core Optimized The Ds3 (rev.3.3) supports latest Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors manufactured using a 65nm silicon technology Intel s latest high performance Cpu delivers the most energy-efficient performance available today. Based on Intel s Micro Architecture the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors with 4 cores and two shared L2 caches provide the best capability-per-watt solutions and are an ideal choice for multi-media enthusiasts and intensive multi-tasking environments. This cutting-edge processor offers significant performance boosts and provides an overall more energy efficient platform. Windows Vista Premium Logo Certified Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing experience designed to fundamentally change how users view find and organize their digital information. With P965 G965 946 945 solutions all enabling support for Vista Premium Gigabyte offers a fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative intuitive and completely new.more The Industry s Leading All-Solid Capacitor motherboard Design To ensure a longer for systems in daily operation and boost system stability under extreme conditions this platform adopts cutting-edge Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors from the world s leading vendors. With these high-quality components users can take advantage of better electronic conductivity and excellent heat resistance for enhanced system durability. Speed The Speed compliant motherboards of Gigabyte S-series provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through both hardware and software design.more Smart The Smart featured motherboards of Gigabyte S-series provide Gigabyte proprietary innovative software such as Download Center Bios Q-Flash Xpress Install Boot menu and Smart Fan. Bios and driver management now becomes much easier and user friendly through Gigabyte Smart features .more Safe Safe is the key feature of Gigabyte S-series motherboards with the following elements Excellent hardware design reinforced Bios protection through Gigabyte Virtual Dual Bios Technology and Gigabyte Bios Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2 Pc Health Monitor Hdd S.M.A.R.T. and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your Pc .more Intel Next-Generation Core 2 Duo Processor Leading the silicon process technology from 90nm to 65nm the Intel new-generation Cpu transistors deliver more energy-efficient performance than anyone. Based on the Intel s next generation Micro Architecture the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors with 4 cores and two shared L2 caches provides the best capability-per-watt solutions. The cutting-edge processor the significant performance boosts and better energy efficient platform. Intel P965 Express Chipset The Intel P965 Express chipset brings crossing-aged improvement on performance with supporting of various innovation technology including the latest Core 2 Extreme processors dual-channel Ddr2 memory with Intel Fast Memory Access technology dual Pci-Express graphics interface and Microsoft Vista operation system as well. Dual Channel Ddr2 800 Get a jump in memory performance with the advanced technology of Ddr2 800 memory architecture which delivers superior performance for the most demanding applications. Sata 3gb s storage interface Sata 3gb s is the latest generation of Serial Ata interface speed that doubles bus bandwidth from 1.5gb s to 3gb s. Sata 3gb s facilitates bandwidth aggregation for multiple devices enabling max through put as well as higher cache through put performance in single drive configurations. Due to add Gigabyte Sata2(Jmicron363) chip on board the model can be able to support Ncq (Native Command Queuing) and Hot Plug. Gigabit Lan connectivity The Gigabit network interface delivers a high speed Lan connection with data transfer rate up to 1000Mb s providing new generation connectivity for the broadband era. Gigabit Lan is ideally for seamless internet connection such as streaming audio and video contents. Intel High Definition Audio Intel High Definition Audio enables 8 channel premium digital sound in the Pc for an immersive surround sound experience. In addition Intel Hd Audio delivers multiple audio channels in your Pc so you can listen to two different streams simultaneously in two separate rooms.
Amadeus to provide travel booking data to the United Nations	28 November 2007
Statistics will be used to monitor and predict global trends
Weak orders hit US firms	28 November 2007
US factory orders fell for the third month in a row, a further sign of the slowing economy, government data shows. a survey shows.
Discs 'worth £1.5bn' to criminals	28 November 2007
Two missing discs containing personal data of 25 million people could be worth £1.5bn to criminals, say the Lib Dems.
Programming less	28 November 2007
A programming lesson I keep relearning. The design of the central data structure of an app determines the quality of the app, in every way. Any extra thought that goes into this, will pay off in: 1. Maintainability of the code. 2. Size of the code (you'll write less code with a well thought-out central data structure). 3. Simplicity of the user interface (the structure inevitably shows through in the UI). 4. Ability to respond to feature requests. 5. Adapt to new hardware, OS changes, other apps. 6. More "it just works" experiences. This is why it's sometimes the right thing to start over from scratch. Programmers often want to start over because they look at the code and it looks complicated, and they think they can make it simpler if they start over. They're right, of course, it will be simpler when they start over, because it won't do nearly as much as the mature product does. Once they finish building out the feature set, it may well be just as complicated. It's a judgement call. I remember looking at the source of Unix kernel for the first time as a grad student in Wisconsin, and being amazed at the simplicity and obviousness of the code. I couldn't believe something so simple actually worked. Your code at its kernel level must have this simplicity. But at the edges, where you're accomdating the minds of users, inevitably it gets a little messy. The key thing to look for is how hard is it to add a completely new feature. It should be easy to do that. If it's not, it's likely because of a poorly organized (and therefore not well-understood) central data structure. I've rewritten apps many times, over many years, because when I wrote the first or second versions, I didn't understand the problem well enough, and the code had turned into a morass of patches and workarounds. Right now I'm recoding the internals of a special-purpose aggregator. I've written many of these, over the years, always quickly, trying to get something running fast, and then lived with data structures that resulted. This time I'm going slowly and carefully, with an installed base of one (me) and ripping up the pavement whenever I find even a slightly better way of doing something. I have other users who are waiting, but that's life. 5/7/97: "When a programmer catches fire it's because he or she groks the system, its underlying truth has been revealed."
Google service uses cell towers to locate users	28 November 2007
Google launched a location service for mobile users on Wednesday that doesn't rely on GPS.Google Maps with My Location, currently in beta, locates users who don't have GPS-enabled phones based on their location to nearby cell towers. The result isn't as accurate as GPS but works for people who lack the positioning technology in their phones."It helps users speed up search by showing the general neighborhood they're in," said Steve Lee, product manager at Google for the service. Without the location service, users must type in their address or neighborhood in order to find nearby businesses using Google Maps.Google Maps with My Location will use GPS data to locate the user if the phone has the capability. But even for users of GPS-enabled phones, the cell location service might be useful, Lee said. That's because the cell tower feature works better indoors than GPS, it doesn't drain the phone battery as quickly and can bring up a result quicker, he said.The service could be useful to a person who might be traveling in an unfamiliar city and looking for restaurants or other businesses. A user pulls up Google Maps and hits the zero key on the phone. A blue dot will appear on the map in the user's location. If the service used GPS in the phone, the blue dot will be solid. If the service used cell towers to determine the location, the blue dot will have a halo around it, indicating that the location isn't precise. The user can then search for nearby businesses.Google says the cell tower technique will locate the user within about 1000 meters. It doesn't use triangulation, which calculates a user location based on the user's distance to three nearby towers. Instead, it essentially shows the range of the tower that the user's phone is connecting to.But the accuracy should improve as more people use the service, Lee said. That's because Google is keeping a database of location queries, minus any personal information like individual phone numbers or names. That will allow Google to learn more precise information about the range of each tower so that it can deliver a more accurate location area to users. The coverage area of cell towers can vary from about a quarter of a mile to several miles based on whether the tower is in an urban or rural area.For now, Google Maps with My Location doesn't feature any advertising, but it could in the future. "This product makes a lot of sense for advertising," Lee said.In order to use the service, phone owners must download a free application from Google. The application will work on BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian phones as well as many phones that support Java. A few notable exceptions include the Samsung Blackjack, Moto Q, and Palm Treo 700W, which don't support the APIs Google requires to find cell towers, Lee said.
Micron exec: SSDs to reach portable devices in 2008	28 November 2007
Memory maker Micron Technology on Wednesday introduced a line of solid-state drives (SSDs) and said it would plug the technology into portable storage devices by mid- to end 2008.Micron's new RealSSD hard drive, announced at an event in San Francisco, will come in sizes of 1.8 inches and 2.5 inches with storage capacities of 32GB and 64GB. Micron also announced embedded SSD modules for blade servers with storage capacities of 1GB to 8GB.Purported by many to be the future replacement of hard drives, the growth of SSDs has been stymied by high pricing, longevity, and storage issues. However, the power-efficient and ruggedness of SSDs may attract users, said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron.RealSSD is 50 percent lighter than standard hard drives, and at under 2 watts of power consumption, the drives will be ideal for laptops, Klein said. The drives also support the SATA II interface, a standard typically used to connect hard drives to computer systems.With no moving parts, RealSSD drives also have a rugged design and store data reliably. They handle vibrations and resist shock better than rotating media, Klein said.Despite multiple advantages, SSDs may not replace hard drives as storage devices in the near future, he said. SSD technology is under development, and some markets are sensitive to price-per-gigabyte of SSDs, Klein said.SSDs currently cost between $7 and $10 per gigabyte, making them much more expensive than hard drives, which cost $0.20 to $0.30 per gigabyte, according to data from research firm iSuppli.Initial consumers for RealSSD could be OEMs or enterprises, which look for reliability and high data throughput, and laptop consumers, which require portability and power efficiency, Klein said.RealSSD drives could reach consumers in the form of portable storage devices or ExpressCards by mid- to end 2008, depending on consumer demand, Mark Adams, Micron's vice president of digital media said in an interview. An ExpressCard fits in a laptop's PCMCIA slot.Sending SSDs to consumers immediately is questionable as the emerging technology hasn't proven itself yet, Adams said. There is a risk in being first-to-market if the product doesn't sell, which will build up unnecessary inventory of SSDs. Instead, Micron will try to get feedback from OEMs that include SSDs in their products and develop devices accordingly, Adams said.Micron sells portable consumer storage devices through Lexar Media, which it acquired last year.There are already a few vendors that include SSDs in their hardware. Aurora, a gaming systems manufacturer, includes them in its Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktop PCs, and Toshiba includes SSDs in its laptops.
Micron unveils first solid state drive offerings	28 November 2007
Micron Technology plunged headfirst into the nascent solid state drive marketplace Wednesday with the unveiling of its RealSSD family of storage devices.The RealSSD portfolio features serial ATA II-enabled 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB capacities. Early next year, the company will start mass producing the drives, which are currently being "sampled," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Boise, Idaho-based Micron.Micron's RealSSD drives, noted Klein, require less than 2 watts of power during active mode and are about 50 percent lighter than hard disk drives of similar capacities. The devices do not require a SATA bridge chip but rather rely on a single-chip controller (optimized for four-channel control of NAND flash) directly targeting the solid state drive application, he added.The new RealSSD line also includes the Embedded USB and Module products. The RealSSD Embedded USB can be plugged into a PC or blade server system to provide operating system storage and boot capabilities via a USB 2.0 interface. The RealSSD Module is a SATA-enabled solid state drive for server-based applications that measures 25mm high by 133.5mm long and less than 4mm thick.Klein acknowledged that adoption of solid state drives for corporate users has been very slow, mostly because of the technology's high price tag. However, he predicted that declining prices of NAND flash technology and the inevitable development of applications for solid state systems will accelerate demand."Technology is going to make [solid state] real. The cost of the NAND components will be a large determining factor in terms of acceptance," said Klein. "Even if we could bring speed of light performance to these devices, there's a lot of applications that still won't take them because the cost is too high or the density isn't high enough."Of the many first-generation solid state drive devices currently available, Klein remarked, "benchmarks have proven them to be fairly lame in terms of performance." Going a step further, he panned BitMicro Networks' 1.6TB solid state drive unveiled this month as a "pricey piece of art." Samsung Electronics and SanDisk are considered two established leaders currently providing solid state drive offerings, analysts noted.Although initially focused on providing solid state drives for the notebook audience -- a natural fit, said Klein, because solid state is lightweight, and offers power savings and a small size -- Micron does have interest in examining larger-capacity solid state products for the desktop and enterprise industry.Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, said his IT research firm has forecast that demand for solid state technology will "substantially" increase over the next few years. An IDC report released in July predicted that sales of solid state drives will grow from $373 million in 2006 to a total of $5.4 billion in 2011.While notebook computing will fuel solid state adoption, Janukowicz said he expects the need for improved performance and specialized applications in servers, blade servers, and enterprise storage systems to attract growing solid state interest over time.Janukowicz said Micron's decision to debut an entire family of solid state products with RealSSD and its established NAND and flash memory expertise could prove to be a key differentiator with OEMs. But much work still needs to be done, he noted."Micron needs to work well with PC OEMs that deliver solutions acceptable for the PC market," he said. "The challenge there is [a traditional] usage model of using hard disks in notebook PCs. There is a bit of education process in terms of using solid state disks as primary storage in network computing that needs to take place."Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
Firefox Fixes Three Security Flaws, Though More Remain (TechWeb)	27 November 2007
TechWeb - The vulnerabilities could be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, Mozilla said.