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DVDInfo
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Continue reading →: DVDInfodvdinfopro.com – Home Page. Great utility for figuring out what DVD you really have and also to figure out what the media code is so you know if the media you have is reliable.
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Cool DVR from Scientific-Atlanta
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Continue reading →: Cool DVR from Scientific-Atlantaa little ludwig goes a long way: Super DVRs. Wow, Ludwig finds an article about DVRs that will let you preview three streams and record a bunch of others in the background.
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Continue reading →: Offshoring
a little ludwig goes a long way: Tom Peters on Offshoring _Hat tip to John Ludwig on this_ Some great thoughts on offshoring that makde tons of sense. All kinds of ideas, but the biggest one is the service jobs that are going away. The Americans’ unearned wage advantage is…
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Best Linux live boot from a CD review
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Continue reading →: Best Linux live boot from a CD review“Linux boot from CD”:http://desktops.linux.com/desktops/04/02/09/1840218.shtml. Great review of different distributions that boot from a CD and then use either the hard disk or a USB key fob for storage. Interesting that Slackware has done a version that boots in less than a minute. It’s called “Slax”:http://slax.linux-live.org. Interesting BTW, that Knoppix is…
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Magic, Magic, Magic everywhere
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Continue reading →: Magic, Magic, Magic everywhere“Magic”:http://www.wizards.com/magic/ has become Alex’s favorite game. I have to say, I can see why, it certainly is addicting. The fact there are so many different decks means that the games are really totally different. Pretty different from other games where they get to be more or less the same. Right…
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KABOOM goes Dad's ACL
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Continue reading →: KABOOM goes Dad's ACLCalvin’s latest stumper while playing hangman. I was totally stumped by the Kaboom word. Grace does a nice imitation of Dad’s groans as he tries to get 120 degrees of flexion.
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Disk Benchmarking
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Continue reading →: Disk BenchmarkingStorageReview.com – Tiki. Now that I’ve got my hard drives lined up, I’m curious how to measure performance. For instance if I go to RAID-0, is it really worth the trouble. The StorageReview.com FAQ at least tells you some benchmarks to avoid. Most are not great, surprising given the impact…
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Blown Power Supplies in Home Networking Hardware
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Continue reading →: Blown Power Supplies in Home Networking HardwareWell, in the last six months, I’ve lost the power supply of all three pieces of network equipment. Not their fault, but a good reminder of where the vulnerabilities are in today’s equipment. Someone at Google told me that their top two failure spots were power supplies and hard drives.…
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Speaker Interconnects
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Continue reading →: Speaker InterconnectsWell, I finally got my Onkyo TX-DS989 back from the shop. I shorted out the speaker cables and blew the amplifier sky high. Had to go back to the authorized service center. Anyway, to prevent this in the future, I’m using banana plugs for all my speaker cables. They won’t…
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Continue reading →: Computer Spending Analytics
Well, we were looking at the macro figures on computer investment and so forth. The Bureau of Economic Analysis has a completely open website for reviewing this, here are some amazing things we found: * “Computer Expenditures”:www.bea.gov/bea/dn/comp-gdp.XLS . They actually pull on in Excel format, the Excel format no less…