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Prescott is here!
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Continue reading →: Prescott is here!“Tom’s hardware”:http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040201/. It’s here. February 2, brings the next salvo in the processor wars, the new 90nm Prescott from Intel. The amazing result is that it isn’t faster than the current Northwood Pentium IVs. That’s interesting given they have twice the cache (1MB) and also are 90nm vs. 130nm chips.…
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Wifi Networking Guide
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Continue reading →: Wifi Networking GuideWell, now that 802.11g is out, it seems like a good time to figure out what Wifi network I’d buy. Will be nice to get a network up. Or course, the decisions aren’t easy, because as usual, although we have 802.11g, everyone is in the business of doing proprietary extensions…
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Polar Power s720i output meter is broken…
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Continue reading →: Polar Power s720i output meter is broken…Darn it, I like the monitor, but thing has mysteriously died. I get heart rate and speed, but I don’t get cadence or power anymore. Sent a note to the folks at Polar and they think: _If the Power sensor shows green light, then cadence should work. Have you chosen…
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Diet K lives
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Continue reading →: Diet K lives“Diet K”:http://www.dietk.com/. Now that Kazaa lite has been hammered by Kazaa, Diet K seems like the new replacement. Like Kazaa lite, it removes the spyware. Get it now before it disappears. I’ve also tried E-mule. Smarter protocol, but doesn’t have nearly as much content it seems.
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Printing directly to a CD or DVD
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Continue reading →: Printing directly to a CD or DVD“Tom’s Hardware”:http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040127/index.html. Given that doing the label and then affixing it to a CD and DVD is a pain, maybe the better way is to print directly to the CD. The Epson R800 and a couple of other models do this. Could be the tipping point for me in buying…
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Captcha: Telling humans apart from machines
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Continue reading →: Captcha: Telling humans apart from machines“Captcha”:http://www.captcha.net/. Bill Gate mentioned this in his Davos talk, but the idea is that if you don’t want spam send something back which computational hard for a machine, but easy for a person. Here is the CMU version of this. Ticketmaster uses this as does quite a few bulletin boards…
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Interesting Trends: Knoppix, USB Flash, OceanStore and RDF
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Continue reading →: Interesting Trends: Knoppix, USB Flash, OceanStore and RDFInteresting to see how two trends could make the PC quite different from what we know it. Beside Google, “Citeseer”:http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs is an incredibly useful way to find related academic documents. Give it a try. # “Knoppix”:http://www.knoppix.org/ . Now that modern BIOS let you boot from just about anything. Not just…
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Photo Printers: January Update…
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Continue reading →: Photo Printers: January Update…OK, based on a couple of reviews at popphoto.com and also photo-i.co.uk, here’s a list of printers to consider at the top end: * Epson 2200. $600 street. The grand daddy anmd most folks still love it. * Epson Stylus “R800”:http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%20R800/. $400 street. Brand new, has 8 inks. Can also…
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HP Printer Cartridges…
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Continue reading →: HP Printer Cartridges…We have an old HP Deskjet 970Cse. Printer cartridges are amazingly expensive at $25 for large black (45A) and $50 for large color (78). “Omnipro”: http://store.omni-biz.com/. Trying a place that sells remanfactured cartridges for $10 and $15 respectively a pop. A little bit of a risk, but interested to see…
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Opera Browser
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Continue reading →: Opera BrowserBeen using this browser called Opera. Pretty nice. Very fast. Also allows multiple subpages in the same browser and it restarts from where you left off. Very convenient for us shoppers who close the browser and then want to get back to where we came from. Also has a nice…