Ok I think I just got passed the funkiest setup. I don’t know what someone would want a ruggerized mac mini. But if you do, here is a company out for your buck. Hell they could even resell that ruggerized thumb drive to go with it . Hell the thumbdrive is only [...]
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RUSirius over at the the Playstation 3 Forums wrote this post, and it was so informational, I thought I’d share. First off, the information is pretty much common sense if you think about it. But I didn’t write this, so sure go ahead and debate it if you want, but I’m not going [...]
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Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school 10 miles outside Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to deploy the company’s first child-friendly laptops in the region.
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I’ve been following the OLPC (or $100 Laptop) for a while, and I’ve been impressed on how close they’ve kept to the original specs. The current short run development costs are $148 each. Plus the specs that Paul will get into are pretty impressive, for that small cost.
Last week at the Game Developer’s [...]
Ok, a client has his old USB printer die and decides to pick up a new machine from Epson. He follows the steps to install it, but it refuses to work. When print jobs are sent to it, it shows that its printing but then the spool throws up warnings and says it [...]
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I had seen pictures of this keyboard a number of times last week. But there where no write ups. So after seeing the upteenth note about it on a site or blog, I’m happy to point you to a nice detailed write up on how it was made. Complete with videos this [...]
When your server farm is in the hundreds of thousands and you’re using cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives as your primary means of storage, you’ve probably good a pretty damned good data set for looking at the health and failure patterns of hard drives. Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 [...]
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Custom PC case made from Canery wood, copper, lead, and stained glass.
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Amazing work. I’ve worked witha few stained glass artists when I was doing the Pipe Organ Work, and that’s a hard job. Especially repair. I wonder how fragile the case is, considering the heat. [...]
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When debating projects to do around the house it’s easy to find many home improvement projects. But when you don’t own the home, but rather rent. It’s much easier to find projects to create. I’ve been working on an Arcade (MAME) Cabinet for a while as one such project. In doing the [...]
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If there’s anything that improves just about any party, it’s a jukebox. We’re not talking about those wannabe media players that call themselves jukeboxes — we’re talking the bona fide curvaceous red-blooded American ones. Well, grab your quarters, because Rock-Ola — one of the classic makers of such fine hardware — has now brought its [...]
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