Archive for March, 2006

How to build your own powerbook in 2 minutes

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

I made a video demonstrating the upgrade and reassembly of an Apple 12″ Powerbook G4. Upgrades include a 16X Dual Layer DVD burner, a 100GB hard drive, new speakers with a louder bass response, and a new Apple rainbow logo on the lid. All of this in about a minute and a half! [...]

Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Perhaps one of the most interesting things I have ever had the pleasure of reading on the internet.
Kinda freaky too!
M

AnandTech: Sun’s T2000 “Coolthreads” Server: First Impressions and Experiences

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

AnandTech: Sun’s T2000 “Coolthreads” Server: First Impressions and Experiences
An interesting article regarding the T2000 from Sun running Solaris 10. (This CPU is an 8 core 32 thread processor that consumes ~ 72W). This machine even with a 1GHz CPU is still capable of keeping up (or near) to a quad core opteron server. Some other [...]

AutoSpies.com - Photos: Audi wins with diesel

Monday, March 27th, 2006

AutoSpies.com - Photos: Audi wins with diesel
PUFF PUFF Soot power - Race proven diesel does it better :P, well Audi wins a race and they had a diesel engine, make of it what you will
M

www.centos.org - News - CentOS in the News - It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System - Stupidity Reigns Supreme

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

www.centos.org - News - CentOS in the News - It’s L-i-n-u-x, that is an Operating System
I cannot believe that people this stupid ever got to managment level positions. I can understand why someone might conceieve that the default CentOS apache page were perhaps some form of hacking or spyware attempt, espeically someone who was not [...]

Boycott Starforce

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

Boycott Starforce
My recommendation is to support the companies who support you! Don’t buy games that have the protection and seriously consider those companies who via official patches unstarforced their games.

R-FORCE.ORG - Starforce Admin; Not happy with posting warez, now they resort to libel.

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

R-FORCE.ORG - Starforce Admin; Not happy with posting warez, now they resort to libel.
What truly scares me is not the way in which they are handling this matter, but the way that it runs around dumping itself all over the network. Very scary indeed

IGN Boards - “ElderScrolls IV - Oblivion” Get As Much Gold As You Could Ever Want, You WILL LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

IGN Boards - Get As Much Gold As You Could Ever Want, You WILL LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!
XBox 360 only, but sweet sweet glitch.

Klantenservice: Serienummers (Apple Serial Numbers - Decoded to display product information)

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Klantenservice: Serienummers
The above website will allow you to decode hidden meanings behind your apple product - model, name and even date of manuf. can be determined by entering the serial number at the site.

Poll: nVidia XFX 7900GT Extreme Edition for $370 - Forums (malliemcg)

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Poll: nVidia XFX 7900GT Extreme Edition for $370 - Forums (malliemcg)
This is perhaps the cheapest price I have seen for 7900GT EE cards. It is a group buy and will go ahead if enough people are willing to commit to it, have a think and see if you really want that SLI rig, go on [...]