Why is it that Apples always brings up strong emotions up in everyone they come into contact with? At a recent iBook sale an actual stampede was caused: No, you aren’t reading The Onion. Yes, there really was a stampede. No one was seriously injured, but this morning’s $50 iBook sale was an insane mob [...]
Entries from August 17th, 2005
Out With The Clock Speed, In With The Watts
August 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Intel
Seeing the recent trend in processors (what with dual core and all) Intel thinks (righty so) that the time of measuring a chips speed by its clock speed is over. They now want to measure it by performance per watt: Intel, which next week is expected to announce plans to move to a new processor [...]
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Build Your Own PBX
August 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Telephony
This guy has built his own PBX. Nothing special you might say, but this guy did it like a man’s man. Not just using an old computer and a certain popular PBX software, but with his bare hands: I’ve been fascinated with telecommunications from an early age. When I was twelve or so I had [...]
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The Future Of MMORPGs
August 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Video Games
Pointlesswasteoftime has written an interesting (and funny piece) about where the MMORPG is going to take us in the future: There are more people playing World of Warcraft in the U.S. today (two million) than had indoor plumbing 100 years ago. There are more people with blogs today (31 million) than had internet connections ten [...]
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The Ultimate Linux Based Car PC
August 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cars & Tuning, Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Somebody has built The Ultimate Linux Car PC: I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating [...]
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Interview With An Exorcist – Part 1
August 10th, 2005 · 5 Comments · Paranormal
In what will be a multi part posting I will post a number of interviews with exorcists on this blog. The Interviews come from the Jinn Mailing List and should prove fascinating to those interested in the subject: Interview NO. 1 Location: Cairo, Egypt Date 9/8/88 Name Shaykh Muhammad Taahir ` Abdul- Muhsin Date of [...]
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Man Dies After 50 Hours Of Gaming
August 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Video Games
Some people just don’t know when to stop. Some guy in South Korea has died after gaming consecutively for 50 hours: SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. [...]
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Doom Ported To iPod
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets, Video Games
Some crazy dude has ported Doom to the iPod. Of course you first have to install Linux to run it. The controls are clunky and the framerate is probably shitty but this is a really cool hack nontheless.
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A Day In The Life Of A Nigerian Scammer
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime
iWon has an article on what it’s actually like to be a Nigerian 419 scammer: LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Day in, day out, a strapping, amiable 24-year-old who calls himself Kele B. heads to an Internet cafe, hunkers down at a computer and casts his net upon the cyber-waters. Blithely oblivious to signs on the [...]
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Top 10 Dot-Com Flops
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
C|NET has written an article in what according to them are the top 10 dot-com flops. This after the top 10 web fads. An Excerpt: The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent. Zealous venture capitalists fell over themselves to invest millions in Internet start-ups; dot-coms [...]
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