I am not a number!

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"Well, the most used bar code, based on the Universal Product Code (UPC) standard, first appeared in 1974 on a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum in Ohio. - However, isn't RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) going to replace bar codes?"

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Intel P965 Showdown - Abit vs. GIGABYTE

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"Gigabyte's GA-965P-DQ6 and Abit's AB9 Pro are both aimed squarely at the enthusiast crowd. Companies with wildly different pasts are now vying for the same piece of the enthusiast pie. Gigabyte coming from the high-end with the DQ6, packed with features galore, Abit coming from the budget segment with the AB9 Pro, a no-nonsense overclocker."

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Linux Computer About the Size of a French Fry

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"The GumStix NetStix 400xm-cf is Linux based and has a 400MHz Intel processor coupled with 64MB of RAM. And that slash you see there is a CompactFlash slot for expanding memory. As far as mini PCs go, this one wins hands down."

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Yikes!! Photos showing Scary Civilian Aircraft Landings in Hong Kong

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"No autopilot stuff here...hand-fly that sucker, and don't screw up...!!!"

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AMD Quad-Father 4X4 Update - Configurations Come Into Focus

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"Recently we spent some time in private conference with AMD down in the lovely city of New York and learned of a few more details with respect to their upcoming "4X4" platform offering and a two-chip, dual-core CPU bundle affectionately dubbed the "Quad Father"."

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VIDEO - Invisible Forcefield System for Military Vehicles

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"General Dynamics has just released a new video demonstrating its Trophy Active Defense System, which is basically an invisible force field for military vehicles that disables incoming RPG rounds. Direct youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jzAupr044"

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The Ultimate Linux Lunchbox!

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"In this article, we describe the construction of the Ultimate Linux Lunchbox, a 16-node cluster that runs from a single IBM ThinkPad power supply but can, as well, run from an N-charge or similar battery. The lunchbox has an Ethernet switch built-in and has only three external connections: one AC plug, one battery connector and one Ethernet cable."

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The clockwork computer

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"An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology"

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Computers and Cat Litter

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"You may think computers and cat litter have absolutely nothing in common, but using the wrong litter in the vicinity of an air-sucking computer can have devastating effects! See which litter works the best in a high-tech envinronment."

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GeForce Go 7950 GTX, Great Graphics for the Gamers on the Go

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"NVIDIA has officially announced their latest high-end killer mobile GPU, branded the GeForce Go 7950 GTX. With 24 pixel shader engines, core speeds of 575MHz, memory speeds up to 1.4GHz with 512MB on board. This preview of the technology goes through features, specifications and performance expectations in detail. Can be configured in SLI."

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Sony to Ship First 50GB Blu-ray Movies This Week

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"Sony has announced that Click, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and Black Hawk Down will be the first Sony films released on 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray disc. Although Blu-ray discs have been available on the market for several months now, these are 50GB dual-layer discs as opposed to the current discs being only 25GB."

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Laser TV unveiled

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"Laser vision... Australian Dr Larry Marshall and France's Jean-Michel Pelaprat pose before the world's first laser television, which they say uses less power, has more colour range and costs half the price of LCD and plasma screens"

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NVIDIA Not a Good Fit for Intel Say Analysts

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"Joe Osha, an analyst for Merril Lynch stated ?We don't think there's a solid rationale for a deal and we don't think it's going to happen." According to sources it would appear other industry players were interested in NVIDIA, though no formal negotiations have occurred."

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Top 10 ways Best Buy/Geek Squad fix computers. Your dog can do better

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"Every day, people flock to Geek Squad in Best Buy looking for help with their computer problems. Here are the top 10 fixes that they are offered by their under payed, under trained staff."

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Apple prepares for Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro ramp

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"Apple has begun this month to slow production of its existing Core Duo MacBook Pro professional notebooks ahead of refreshed models that will sport Intel's higher-performance Core 2 Duo microprocessors"

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The Strangest Speakers I've Ever Seen

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"A picture is truly worth a thousand words here. I can't even begin to explain these."

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A Nationwide, Fiber Optic Network for Gamers Only

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"GameRail is the first of its kind with a nationwide, fiber optic network dedicated exclusively for gamers. Will it work and will it be worth the money? Check out GotFrag's writeup on the service and their verdict on this brand new company and service."

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Wii Kiosks Exclusively at GameStop

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"In stark contrast to an announcement made by Sony committing to have 15,000 PS3 kiosks at retailers in time for this years holiday season, an article in the Dallas Morning News quotes Steve Morgan, president of Gamestop, as saying the Nintendo Wii demo kiosks will be exclusive to Gamestop stores."

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Hilarious beginners guide to RAID

Ever have trouble explaining RAID technologies to new clients? Well if they can't figure this out then nothing will help them!

You can read more about it here.

Possible specs for Nvidia's G80 leak out

Some reasonably detailed specifications along with pricing and naming information for Nvidia's upcoming G80 graphics processor have leaked. The specs were posted by VR-Zone but have since been silently taken down. Luckily, the information was relayed by the folks at X-bit labs and reads as follows:

You can read more about it here.

VisionTek PCI Radeon X1300 256MB

VisionTek?s PCI based RADEON X1300 256 MB graphics card is a unique product that fills a unique niche. Does this PCI graphics card stack up to the PCI-Express competition? What potentials does it hold beyond 3D gaming? The perfect affordable physics acceleration card?

You can read more about it here.

Big Changes in 65nm Athlon 64 X2

The new Athlon 64 X2 4000+/4400+/4800+ re-release models are based on the 65nm Brisbane with 512KB x2 L2 Cache, rather than 1MB. The new clock speeds are 2.1GHz, 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz respectively. All of them are in *65W* TDP. An Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (renamed FX-64) should be released in this November.

You can read more about it here.

Neuros OSD Hackable Linux Video Recorder (Gallery)

Via Gizmodo: Neuros updates their video recorder by leaps and bounds with the OSD. Like the last one, it records analog video sources to flash memory in formats easily read by PSPs and iPods. But this one has a USB port for drives, and ethernet port, so it can also store to network-attached storage. It catches video at 720x480 pixels, at 30 FPS.

You can read more about it here.

USB 2.0-Based RAID 5 Solution

If you?re looking for a low-cost yet reliable RAID 5 solution, check out this custom setup that consists of ?Ubuntu Linux Server (Dapper) using 3x external USB 2.0 drives from Western Digital (320 GB each).?

You can read more about it here.

Reviewed

A positive review by ExtremeTech on Norco's DS-1220 storage box. Twelve SATA drive racks in one box and twelve 750GB drives are included (that's 9TB of space people)!! Quite an amazing device, and somewhat reasonably priced at around $850. Come on you know you want one!

You can read more about it here.

$1195.00 Industrial Keyboard

I think this is the keyboard used by villians from James Bond movies, solely to show off how fiendishly evil they are. "My keyboard costs $1000. Why? Because I am an evil madman!" Even after reading the specs I'm still not sure why it costs so much. Surely stainless steel and silicone rubber aren't THAT expensive?

You can read more about it here.

Core 2-compatible chipsets compared

Intel's Core 2 Duo is clearly the processor to have, but what's the best chipset to pair it with? The Tech Report has explored the features, performance, and power consumption of four of the most popular chipsets from Intel and Nvidia to find out. One turns out to be a dud, another a stud, and the other two reasonable solid options.

You can read more about it here.

Intel quad-core Kentsfield to be named Core 2 Quadro

ntel is expected by the end of this month to officially name its Kentsfield quad-core desktop processor as the "Core 2 Quadro," with the first model to be an Extreme version, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, which will be available starting in mid-November

You can read more about it here.

AMD AM2 worth it?

Between the choice of AMD's AM2 or it's ?old? socket 939 chip, which would you choose? Here's an article that sums up the differences between the two and what you can expect from choosing one over the other.

You can read more about it here.

Students send Camera to the Edge of Space for less than $2000 via Balloon

Carl Morland, Henry Hallam and Robert Fryers attached the tiny camera to a helium balloon, which flew to nearly four times the height of Everest. Throughout the flight it took images which show the curvature of the earth. The flight lasted about three hours, producing more than 800 images

You can read more about it here.

Charge Your Batteries With A Built in USB Plug

Awesome new batteries that can be charged by sticking it in to a USB port. Perfect for people who have their laptop with them at all times!

You can read more about it here.

How Elecom's "gear drive" keyboard prevents typing errors

f you're a connoisseur of keyboards then check the latest from Elecom of Japan. Featuring a new "gear drive system", the TK-U09FG is said to prevent typing errors. Available October in black and white just like Stevie and Paul for a cool ¥5,040 or about $43 when these hit Stateside.

You can read more about it here.

Toshiba to recall Sony laptop batteries

Toshiba is recalling 340,000 laptop batteries worldwide made by Sony Corp , the latest in a series of problems for the company. The defect is not directly related to the problem behind last month's recall of Sony batteries by Dell Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., which cited concerns that the batteries could overheat and catch fire.

You can read more about it here.

How Modern Computing All Began

Supercomputers can handle absolutely enormous processing tasks these days and some will be approaching 1 PFLOPS (1 Peta Floating Point Operations). After a little research I found IBM?s Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) to be considered the first supercomputer. Taking a look back to the beginning of modern computing...

You can read more about it here.

Mac Guy or PC Guy: Which Are You?

The infamous satire gets revised, now with a bit of commentary by the author down below. Digg this quickly -- I think you know why.

You can read more about it here.

AMD K8L Quad Core Discussion

A chat with AMD's CTO about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor gives us some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel's Core 2 Duo and beyond.

You can read more about it here.

The bullet-proof bathroom

Because one time or another some one will shoot while you take a dump in a Chinese bathroom.

You can read more about it here.

Free Email Account with NSFW Domains

This is a bit old, but I recently stumbled across it. Want an email address @AbortionsTickle.com, @FuckShitPussyFuck.com, @DickMySuck.com, or another offensive email? Free sign-up is available via tshirthell.com

You can read more about it here.

Seagate Envisions 2.5 TB Desktop Hard Drives for 2009

Seagate today provided an updated outlook on the future of the hard drive. The company nearly tripled today's highest storage density and believes that 275 GB capacities will be realistic for future Ipods, while desktop computers will be able to store up to 2.5 TB on one drive.

You can read more about it here.

Sony introduces VAIO LA-Series

Experience the latest evolution of home entertainment technology with today?s launch of the VAIO LA-Series. This unique all-in-one media center is not simply a physical convergence of PC and TV but literally the combination of Sony?s commitment to technological innovation, cutting-edge design and consumer insight.

You can read more about it here.

How Plasma TV's Work : Drink Deep, or Taste Not, the Plasma Spring

Ever wonder how plasma TV's work? Well, I did, and decided to figure it out!

You can read more about it here.

Default Password List for Hundred's of WAP's and Routers.

You are entering the lands of packets, brute force and misuse of trust.This is a dark land. Full of problems and choices. Be carefull when you use your knowledge. Be also carefull with your tools and weapons. Never underestimate your enemy.

You can read more about it here.

The Most Innovative DDR2 System Memory Ever: Corsair's Dominator

Thanks to a custom PCB, redesigned heatsinks, meticulously binned chips, a unique cooling apparatus and their patent-pending DHX Technology (Dual Path Heat Xchange), Corsair has created a 2GB memory kit that can run with tight 4-4-4-12-2T timings at an impressive 1.11GHz. This article details the tech and mechanisms at work in this impressive kit.

You can read more about it here.

Optimus Keypad is shipping! (pics inside)

The guy pre-ordered the thing in February, and after waiting through delays, it appears this thing is finally shipping. I for one am waiting anxiously for the full-size keyboard

You can read more about it here.

California to Ban Drivers From Holding Cell Phones

California will become the fourth state to ban motorists from holding cell phones while driving, under legislation Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would sign into law Friday. Under the new law, which does not take effect until July 2008, Californians risk a minimum $20 fine for driving while talking into a phone...

You can read more about it here.

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