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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Courtesy of The Inqurier:
(The article is useless without pictures, so I didn't bother with copy and pasting)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32550
It goes to show how dangerous electronic devices can be, Dell or non-Dell...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
I read on a HK computer hardware forum that some guys need to buy and install new computer hardware in secret because they're afraid that their wives would know. Some commented that some wives would get their husbands to open up the computer case (no, no, no, the wives won't ...
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Saturday, January 7th, 2006
I've seen videos of burning CPU before, but none as dramatic:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054
What I'm most impressed with is that the guy took away the heatsink with his bare hand...
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
Ed just sent me this... I think I should find a way to model this in my project...
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
Random thoughts:
I hate it when people says "I don't care about security" when I told them about how some software may be more secure/insecure than others. I hate it not because I care about whether their credit card numbers get stolen (if they don't take the basic measures to protect ...
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Sunday, May 15th, 2005
The ceiling light just flashed once, and my Winamp paused unexpectedly twice, and everything went back to normal... Should I be getting a surge protector?
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
I believe that's what Gary was talking about:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22550
Jeremy Stribling and two fellow MIT graduate students wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with "context-free grammar," charts and diagrams.
They submitted two of the randomly assembled papers to the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI).
One of the papers, ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
AMD CAUSED something of a ruckus last night by winning the Computer Trade Show award for Best CPU Manufacturer at a shindig sponsored by Intel.Awards, presented by Intel, were given out throughout the night. However, the Intel lady left the AMD award until last, and walked off the stage rather ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
Stupid MSN 7.0 kept freezing after getting connected... Just don't have the patience to try to locate the problem and fix it now...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
Just to see how many people who are into computers check this blog...
6600 GT vs. X800 XL, which has a better bang for buck?
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