Bloody hell. PC Power & Cooling have come up with the heaviest power supply I’ve seen for normal desktop systems todate, the Turbo-Cool 850SSI. Features include: 850W continuous and 950W peak power NVIDIA® SLI™ READY component Four +12V rails @ 17A ea. (12V1-V4=54A/62A pk.) Extended ATX form factor fits most std cases High-efficiency design (85%) [...]
Entries from May 4th, 2005
Super Size Me
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, News
A restaurant in Pennsylvania apparantly now offers the worlds biggest hamburger: NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Starting last weekend, a Pennsylvania restaurant put a 15-pound burger on its menu, claiming the largest burger available anywhere. Dennis Liegey, the owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, 120 northeast of Pittsburgh, said the “Beer Barrel Belly Buster” [...]
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Prayer Calls Driving People Mad In Cairo
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, Middle East, Religion
The BBC reports this amusing story: Just before dawn, Cairo resident Muhammad Ahmad is jolted out of his peaceful sleep by a thunderous azan, or call to prayer, roaring out from huge speakers attached to a very modest mosque two streets away. A few moments later a second, even louder muezzin’s voice joins in – [...]
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PDF Redacting Blunder (Again)
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Security
The BBC reports: A Greek medical student at Bologna University who was surfing the web early on Sunday found that with two simple clicks of his computer mouse he could restore censored portions of the report. He passed the details to Italian newspapers which immediately put out the full text on their own websites. The [...]
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Fastest Desktop Computer To Date (I Think) Ships
May 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
The Register reports that Orion Multisystems is shipping the first 96-node desktop cluster. Excerpt: Personal computer. Personal cluster. Call it what you will. Orion Multisystems is pretty sure it has the fastest PC around no matter the moniker. Last week, Orion started shipping its long awaited 96-processor (Transmeta Tinside) deskside cluster. This box is the [...]
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