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Today at work I had to make a DOS boot disk so I could secure erase the hard disk in a really old PC before it got disposed of. I had to call upon knowledge and experience I haven’t used in years and that I’d rather hoped I would never have to again. [...] Before I owned an iPhone, and a Nokia E61 before that, and a BlackBerry 7290 before THAT, I briefly owned a Danger HipTop on the FIDO network. I returned it and went with a BlackBerry mostly because of the sheer size of the HipTop. I just couldn’t justify carrying that brick around. [...] Holy penguins Batman! Terra Soft Solutions has just announced plans to release Yellow Dog Linux for the Sony Playstation 3! For those not familiar, Terra Soft got it’s claim to fame for it’s Yellow Dog Linux distribution for PowerPC based Macintosh computers, and even did some good business selling Macs with Linux pre-installed–the [...] Something strange is going on at Apple these days. First there was that un-Job’s like shared performance at WWDC’06, then Apple releases a new high-end 24″ iMac with little fanfare a week before a scheduled press event. Now we have Steve Jobs trotting out on stage wearing a black dress shirt? [...] Tom’s Hardware has posted detailed benchmarks and comparisons of the upcoming Intel Core 2 Quadro quad-core cpu vs. the Core 2 Duo/Extreme, Pentium Extreme Edition and AMD Athlon 64 FX. In addition to the benchmarks, they have some interesting observations about the state of the x86 CPU war between Intel and AMD. While the unreleased [...] |
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