Here’s an interesting concept board from Asus that is going to be shown at CeBIT 2009. “Marine” could refer to a form of water cooling solution, but Asus isn’t giving up the details yet. I do know that this awesome looking board gives an air of steampunk… which will certainly receive mixed reviews.

This upcoming board will feature a new back plate that utilizes “micro-porous ceramic” that will give it a sturdy structure as well as help dissipate heat.

Photos: anandtech

What happens when your kid’s addicted to “ultraviolent brainwashing videogames”? Ask them to follow the Geneva Conventions.

I asked Evan to google the Geneva Convention. Then he had to read it and then we had to discuss it. This we did. So the deal is that Evan has to fight according to the rules of the Geneva Convention. If his team-mates violate the Convention then play stops and Call of Duty goes away for a while.

The convention basics:

1. Medical teams on the battlefield must help all injured, not just those of the same party.
2. Similar to the first convention, but for battles that happen at sea.
3. A prisoner of war has certain rights.
4. Civilians must be protected in some ways.

There are also three additional protocols (think amendments) that have even less to do with Call of Duty than the first four. I think it’s a nice sentiment, but maybe they parent should have researched a little more himself before making these terms. Maybe Bushido would have been a better fit… any way to keep your kids from running off into the woods to freeze to death when you take away their xbox

CoD5 Linux bins are finally available (416MB):

http://67.19.173.163/linux/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://www.1pst.com/codww/linux/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://extreme.planetcallofduty.gamespy.com/codww/linux/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://www.epicfailz.net/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://www.ventriloservers.biz/cod5-server/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://ufo-st.frrsh.co.uk/cod5/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://mirror.gunah.eu/cod5/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://dl.127001.org/servers/codwaw/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

http://www.beneluxgaming.nl/codwaw-lnxded-1.2-02082009.tar.bz2

Thanks to the many fine people on the CoD mailing lists for providing so many mirrors!