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This is not true. No SPEC benchmark offers up the source code except for CPU2006, and that's due to the nature of the test. It's to get support from companies who would like their program to be included in a workstation benchmark that's industry-respected. For example, if Autodesk wanted to...

This is a quick news post, but one I'm making just in case anyone out there can help. Our good friends at SPEC are on the lookout for another company (or companies) to contribute to an upcoming workstation benchmark (likely SPECviewperf), and are in need of a workload that won't require a...

01/04/2012- Happy New Year everyone! To celebrate the holidays and welcome Thecus’s new mascot, NAStty the NAS, into the world, Thecus is throwing a Facebook competition giving away NAStty flash drives and Thecus gear. Just fill in your own (funny!) caption for the pic to be entered to win one...

Yes, yes you are. Given how this candle is burning so far, it might well take 200 hours, unless it kills itself due to implosion (it's burning like 90% of the top surface, leaving the outer edge it seems).

Where on earth are you getting music sources as WMA? WMA tends to be a low bit-rate option which is why I ask. Clementine can do a lot. I've copied over my FLAC music to my iPod before (it converts it as it does it) and have never had an issue. I use the program religiously for Last.fm and...

Were any consoles part of your gaming history? You seem to mostly emulate machines I ended up not having a chance to try at all, unfortunately. I grew up on both the PC and console for gaming, but ended up playing on the console a lot more because that's what we owned the most games for (and the...

I've written about many cool gadgets, pieces of PC hardware and technology in general over the course of this site's existence, but what I'm about to talk about might just be one of the coolest of them all - at least for old-school console gamers. The product is called Retrode, a small dock that...

Clementine is the best audio player on the planet (according to me), but since I don't think I've ever talked about it on the site before, I can't think of a better time to do so than right now as version 1.0 just got released. Based on Amarok 1.4, Clementine was born after Amarok 2.0 came out...

Dude, that made me laugh so hard :D It's an expensive chassis, but it's meant to house expensive equipment. This sort of chassis looks to be seriously drool-worthy for benchmarking, though I am still content with the HAF X. Wait for Ryan's review and that question will be answered ;-)

I haven't seen that, but I want to. Looks gooood.

Since the introduction of the original, Cooler Master's Cosmos series has been regarded as one of the best for full-tower offerings. The chassis models are large, offer lots of cooling capability, has aesthetics to please and something that helps the models to stand apart from the rest, handles...

As odd as it might seem, no one has been as anxious to see the demise of Internet Explorer 6 than Microsoft itself. Last March, the company launched a webpage called Internet Explorer 6 Countdown that monitors the decline of IE6 usage. Microsoft's goal was to see usage dip below 1% worldwide...

The much-hyped ASUS Eee Transformer Prime might have launched later than originally planned, but it's now finding itself in the hands of consumers all over and the response has for the most part been good. That said, there have been some notable issues that prove that tablets are a tough thing...

Can't I get a single fact right? First the coins and now this. *slaps head*

Ooh, the classic Wheel of Fortune dick move of going one number lower. Nice :D

Star run then, didn't pay enough attention.

That's not so much a guess as it is a lure for someone to make a "That's what she said" joke.

Our digital lives have us spending a ton of time in front of screens, and sometimes eye strain can occur as a result. GUNNER Optiks has been producing glasses for some time to help counter this problem, and SteelSeries, seeing an obvious advantage for gamers, has teamed up with the company to...

So I've had this foot tall candle in the closet for a while, and rediscovered it over the weekend as I was cleaning up. I decided to burn it instead of letting it rot, so for a fun challenge, I am taking guesses as to how long it'll take to burn straight through. I'm going to light it every...

Did you seriously watch the entire thing? I could only make it 5 minutes in before I realized I had work to do :D