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I just received the latest Dell advert, they are offering a 22 inch monitor with 1680×1050 resolution for $499 including delivery! This is a great deal, I’ve got the same[...]

At this URL I found a mirror of the Geek Social Fallacies, as they seem difficult to find I decided to mirror them on my blog. Someone please let me[...]

When looking through my Webalizer stats recently I noticed that *.search.live.com is transferring about four times as much data from my domain than *.google.com. This wouldn’t concern me if I[...]

This article has some really interesting pictures of the Gigabyte motherboard and video card factory. Check it out! Related posts: Save Babe There’s an advertising campaign at the moment opposing[...]

In response to my post about buying dinner for developers (as an alternative to “professional networking sessions”) Kris notes that his company has been doing it for years. He goes[...]

Apple has a series of funny commercials comparing the Macintosh with a PC running Windows. They are very well written and presented. I recommend viewing them for the amusement value[...]

On Tuesday my Thinkpad was taken for service to fix the problem described in this post. The problems I described were overheating, wear on the keyboard (from a minimum of[...]

Recently I bought a HP DL385 Opteron server at auction. It has an Opteron 265 1.8GHz dual-core CPU and is designed for SFF (Small Form Factor) SAS disks. A friend[...]

My Thinkpad has started to run hot recently. If I do anything CPU intensive then it will heat up to >80C and then turn itself off. When idling it seems[...]

Leon Brooks linked to this article claiming that sound not electricity travels through nerves. When you put a moderate voltage through your body it will cause muscle action (try putting[...]