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  1. Rob Williams

    Hilarious place names and road signs around England

    Ever take a look at someone's name, or a place name, and laugh? Of course, there are some humorous names out there, for both, like "Toilet" as a last name. Well, I don't think anyone has anything on England where this is concerned. What can be found in the southwest portion of the country? Why...
  2. Rob Williams

    If Half-Life 2 became a movie...

    ... it would look something like this: <object height="385" width="640"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q1UPMEmCqZo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></object>...
  3. Rob Williams

    Happy 1234567890!

    Unix-based operating systems may allow users to check for the system time in a human-readable format, but deep-down, its clock is relatively simple. The Unix internal clock officially began at midnight on January 1, 1970. Since that date, it's been on a quest to reach 1234567890, and yes, that...
  4. Rob Williams

    Intel's Gulftown to Use Native Hexa-Core Design

    From our front-page news: Earlier this week, we posted an article that took a look at Intel's current CPU roadmap, which included desktop, mobile and server products. In case you haven't taken the time to look through, I recommend you do, since there are some extremely interesting products in...
  5. Rob Williams

    Silverlight Plugin for Linux, Moonlight, Sees Version 1.0

    From our front-page news: As a Linux user, I can state that it's at times frustrating to have to wait so long to see a technology become available for the OS, namely, web-based technologies. Adobe's Flash technology, for example, took a while to mature on the platform, especially if you ran a...
  6. Rob Williams

    Windows 7 a free upgrade, but...

    News has exploded around the web this morning regarding the fact that Windows 7 will be a "free" upgrade to Vista users, as posted at TechARP. What I think most people are overlooking though, is the fact that this is not new, and the same exact thing was done with Windows Vista. This is not for...
  7. Rob Williams

    Intel Decides to Include SLI Support on the DX58SO

    From our front-page news: When we posted about Core i7 preview back in November, one complaint we had with regards to Intel's own DX58SO motherboard was the lack of NVIDIA SLI support. The reasons behind this were laid out in an article we posted a few months prior to that, stating that NVIDIA...
  8. Rob Williams

    Tribute to fallen sodas!

    Hah, after reading the title to this article, I just had to take a look. If you are not a huge soda buff (like me), there are countless flavors that might pass you by. Taking a look at this list, I couldn't BELIEVE how many different variants of Coca Cola and Pepsi there's been over the years...
  9. Rob Williams

    Thermaltake Spedo Advance Full-Tower

    Thermaltake has quite an offering on their hands with the Spedo Advance full-tower, and it might be one of the most robust chassis' we've had on our bench to date. Noticeable R&D went into this one, with cool features such as a wireless door fan, an "advanced" thermal chamber, pure black...
  10. Rob Williams

    Would You Purchase an Xbox Live Gamertag?

    From our front-page news: Own an Xbox 360? Subscribe to Xbox Live? Have a cool gamertag that wasn't forced onto you because a thousand variations of the same nickname already existed? Well, Xbox live user "Hitman" sure does, and he realizes it - so much so that he's working on getting it sold...
  11. Rob Williams

    Getting the Most Out of an SSD

    From our front-page news: With there being so much solid-state disk talk all over the place, there are also countless myths floating about as well. Thanks to these, many have the wrong idea about SSD's, and how owning one will make their lives better. Information Week takes a look at a few...
  12. Rob Williams

    Intel Reveals Westmere 32nm Roadmap

    Intel has unveiled most of what we wanted to know about their 32nm "Westmere" processors, and it looks like we have a fair amount to look forward to. In addition to the fact that we'll be seeing GPU/CPU processors later this year, the company also threw in a few other surprises, such as the...
  13. Rob Williams

    EVGA's GPU Voltage Tuner Tool Released

    From our front-page news:Overclocking. Hobby for some, life for others. In the past, I used to take overclocking seriously to a certain degree, but to become truly successful at it, you have no choice but to devote a lot of time and energy to studying up and sometimes even modding whatever...
  14. Rob Williams

    Windows XP's Mainstream Support Ends Soon

    From our front-page news: We've been hearing about a supposed death of Windows XP for quite a while, but up to this point, not too much has happened that proved that the OS was really on its way out. Well, that's until now, since Microsoft will be moving to pull all mainstream support for the OS...
  15. Rob Williams

    Synology DS209+ 2-Bay Disk Station

    Synology has become well-known over the years for producing some of the highest-quality NAS boxes on the planet, some of which we've taken a look at in the past, and the new DS209+ is no exception. Though expensive, it has a huge feature-set and superb performance to back it up, which makes it a...
  16. Rob Williams

    AMD Launches Five AM3-based Processors

    From our front-page news:AMD has today announced five new AM3-based processors that we've been expecting to see for a few months now. These new chips perfectly follow-up to the company's Phenom II launch last month, which featured two Quad-Cores, the X4 940 and X920. Today's releases feature...
  17. Rob Williams

    Virtualization is for More than Just IT Departments

    From our front-page news: Given my position here at Techgage, I tend to be familiar with many aspects of technology, but sometimes, there are areas that I don't pay too much attention to, for various reasons. Take virtualization, for example. It's a technology that's been around forever (even...
  18. Rob Williams

    Q9400S & Q8200S: Intel's 65W Quad-Cores

    The benefits of a low-TDP processor are obvious, but a usual downside is also obvious: low clock speeds. Intel's changing that thinking with their Core 2 Quad "S" series, which includes the Q9550S, Q9400S and also the Q8200S. Compared to their non-"S" variants, they draw less power and run...
  19. Rob Williams

    Texas "Hackers" Start Something, Hoosiers and Illinois Scream "Me Too!"

    From our front-page news: When road signs in Texas warned of Nazi zombies last week, we all collectively had a good laugh. When "hackers" pulled the same stunt a few days later in my beloved home state of Indiana, I could barely muster the energy to defend the copy cat "crime". In all due...
  20. Rob Williams

    Steve Wozniak Joins Fusion-io as Chief Scientist

    From our front-page news: This past fall, we first found out about Fusion-io, a company that aimed to essentially produce an SSD within a PCI-E card. As we found out soon after, it definitely has some bragging rights. Given the incredible bandwidth of the PCI-E bus, the top-end speeds were...
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