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Western Digital developing 20,000RPM Raptor to take on SSDs?
I really don't see the need for solid state storage when hard drives are so cheap, so large, and keep getting faster. Western Digital developing 20,000RPM Raptor to take on SSDs? You read that right. Bit-tech has it from "several sources close to the hard drive industry" that Western Digital is working on a 20,000RPM followup to its new [...]
Goosh: The Unofficial Google Shell
The first thing I typed was uname -a and I didn't know what to expect... (more...)
Women In Bikinis Make Men Spend Stupidly… On Everything
It's no surprise that a woman in a bikini can increase a man's sexual appetite but research in the Journal of Consumer Research says that men who watched sexy videos or even handled lingerie had more appetite for everything - and it impacted their decisions about soda, candy and even money. Authors Bram Van den Bergh, Siegfried DeWitte, and Luk [...]
A Linux render cluster inside an IKEA cabinet
This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.... 3D computer rendering are very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers. Render farms are usually very large, expensive and run using A LOT of energy. I wanted to build something that could be put [...]
Yamaha wearable motorcycle concept will likely remain just that
It's not often that you see devices huddled under the transportation and wearables categories, but you can certainly consider the above pictured contraption a proud member of each. Created by transportation design student Jake Loniak, the Yamaha Deus Ex Machina is an "electric, single passenger, vertically parking, wearable motorcycle, and the [...]
Zappos.com is an awesome company. They actually pay new employees to quit.
A friend of mine actually works for Zappos in Las Vegas. He loves his job. Maybe it's time to move. It’s a hard job, answering phones and talking to customers for hours at a time. So when Zappos hires new employees, it provides a four-week training period that immerses them in the company’s strategy, culture, and obsession with [...]
Lamborghini Reventon #01 of 20 arrives at Las Vegas dealership
In that box is Lamborghini Reventon number one of twenty. Apparently, it's the only example which will be sold privately via a traditional dealership -- in this case, Lamborghini of Las Vegas. The other nineteen were all spoken for before ever leaving the factory. We've attached a sampling of photos here, but to see the complete, step-by-step [...]
Ultimate htaccess Blacklist 2 (Compressed Version)
From perishablepress.com... In our original htaccess blacklist article, we provide an extensive list of bad user agents. This so-called "Ultimate htaccess Blacklist" works great at blocking many different online villains: spammers, scammers, scrapers, scrappers, rippers, leechers” you name it. Yet, despite its usefulness, there is always room [...]
Revolution OS: Documentary of Linux
My favorite quote: Giving the Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is like giving the Han Solo award to the rebel fleet. I think many of you are not aware of how deep that analogy goes. http://video.google.com
Geekiest song ever: A Cryptography song entitled “Crypto”
"I looked through my mp3 collection and found some really geeky and funny songs. I thought, why not add a little more fun to my blog! The songs are really geeky and my readers might like them. I’ll be posting a song each Friday until I run out of songs (I have 6 songs at the moment, and maybe I find some more). I’ll also try to [...]
60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES!
So here it is… the one week results from our previous poll on software piracy. In that short time, we’ve had nearly 500 photographers cast their votes and the outcome is quite interesting. It looks like Adobe’s high-end photo editing software packages (like Photoshop and Lightroom) are hot items in the pirated software [...]
Ever wanted to download the internet?
Good god... If I did the math right, it comes to 13,996 GB. Source
HOWTO: Find a Job with RSS Feeds
The Productivity Portfolio has a great walk-through on how to create a collection of personalized RSS feeds to show any new jobs that pop up on eight popular or specialized job search sites, including Craigslist, CareerBuilder.com, and Indeed. Even if RSS feeds are old news for you, you might not know just what each of the major job-finding sites [...]
Hold the phone. Did anyone ever know that “Hadouken” fireballs had hands in them?
I loaded up Steet Fighter II Champion Edition, they are there too but the hadouken sprite disappears when you try to pause the game. The hands are NOT there in The New Challengers or Super Turbo (neither red nor blue hadoukens). Seriously, did anyone ever notice this before? Now it sorta of feels like that damned FedEx arrow or those identical [...]
SEGA updates Dreamcast.com for DC’s 10th anniversary!
It seems that SEGA of Japan just updated Dreamcast.com. By clicking on the banner, you'll be taken to: http://www.dreamcast.com/apps/ucp.php This is where Dreamcast users can register here with a user account for their console's serial number and will get an account @user.dreamcast.com. Seems that SEGA is preparing for the DC's 10th [...]
Aiborne Settles Lawsuit
I love this stuff and for me it works great. When I feel like a cold is coming, I down these like crazy. Nine out of ten times I don't get sick. I'll probably continue to buy it. But I did make a claim on six boxes, this stuff is expensive. "Airborne - the herbal supplement company that once claimed to help fight off colds - will pay $23.3 [...]
7 Sites You Can Only Find On The “Gopher Internet”
Yes, I said the Gopher Internet. No, I don’t mean little rodent things.You see, way back before these new-fangled graphical web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer were invented, there were two Webs. There was the world wide web, and then there was the Gopher web. The World Wide Web has, obviously, gotten pretty popular. [...]
Stanford Waives Tuition for Middle-Class Students
Morning Edition, February 21, 2008 · Stanford University says it will no longer charge tuition to undergraduates whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year. For students whose parents make less than $60,000, the university will also waive room and board costs. Source
