Just recieved another newsletter from Tomshardware, it includes charts for the latest CPU's.
Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-2010/benchmarks,112.html
The prices for six cores is much more than most people pay for a computer.
Carl2

20 must have downloads for Win 7, from Tomshardware.

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/540-windows-7-free-download-application.html

Carl2

A set of benchmark charts at Tomshardware, includes 17 models.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2010/benchmarks,110.html

Interesting for someone buying or just trying to keep up.
Carl2

Best argument yet...

Now I have my lovely shiney new monitor working am installing starcraft 2.

Anyone else played/playing it?

Hints and tips welcome.

The sun has finally come out of solar minimum, by far the longest time of no sun spots in recent history (last 100 years).

Space weather is a good site for what's going on and this site has live data of the solar wind near Earth. The bottom graph is the KP level of aurora. This denotes how much power they have and how far south you can see them. KP 7-9 to be able to see it from UK (Scotland most likely).
It appears there is a coronal mass ejection (CME) event going on now (02/09/10).