Tomshardware has an excellent (and somewhat funny) roundup of all the different drinks you can have to “overclock” yourself: As IT professionals, we all appreciate the value of optimized hardware, the best, tweaked software, and the cleanest code. When a computer is slow, we inject it with a new lease on life by giving it [...]
Entries from August 28th, 2005
The Decline Of The Geek Blogs
August 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Blogs, Internet
A good article has been written at The Blog Herald about the decline of geek bloggers: Duncan Riley> I’m never one to mince words, so I’m getting straight to it: the geek bloggers are in decline and there is very little they can do about it. But before the flames start let me explain further [...]
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The Coming Of The Poker Bots
August 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Crime, Internet, Video Games
Wired has a piece on how people are using poker bots to make easy money: It’s late one Wednesday afternoon, and CptPokr is logged on to PartyPoker.com and ready to play. Onscreen, the captain exudes a certain brash charisma – broad shoulders, immaculate brown hair, restless animatronic eyes. He looks like he should be playing [...]
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