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  1. Rob Williams

    Super-Talent Announces PCI-Express SSD, "RAIDDrive"

    From our front-page news:You may recall last October when when we first found out about Fusion-io and their PCI-Express-based SSD. At the time, it was hard to gauge the true worth of such a product, but it's becoming a lot easier to do so now. Months later, the same company followed-up with...
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    Despite an ISP Shutdown, Spam back to Ultra-High Levels

    From our front-page news: Once in a while, we're hear news of something that should affect how much spam we receive, but by now, we've learned that that's never the case. Whether is a huge spam dealer being murdered, or an entire ISP being shut down, spam will usually decrease for a while, but...
  3. Rob Williams

    10 Operating Systems We'll Never Forget

    Commodore BASIC was the OS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC
  4. Rob Williams

    Are Macs Really More Expensive than PCs?

    I agree for the most part, but Apple did the same thing, or even worse. They pointed out issues about Vista that really were no longer issues. I use Vista a fair bit and I sure don't experience half of the issues they point out on their commercials. I guess it's fair game that Microsoft give...
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    Want to save cash? Carry around $100 bills!

    I like to use the booze excuse. As long as you aren't an alcoholic, are people going to look down on you because you got a gut thanks to the juice? Not bloody likely!
  6. Rob Williams

    Gigabyte EX58-UD4P

    The UD4P, for the most part, is a slightly scaled-down version of the UD5. It loses some peripheral connectivity, including the hardware RAID and also a LAN port, and also has a less-robust cooling solution. Other than that, not too much has changed, but the board is less-expensive. As for the...
  7. Rob Williams

    10 Operating Systems We'll Never Forget

    Sadly, I never was one for the King's Quest series. It could have been due to the fact that we simply didn't own it, so I really didn't know what I was missing. Aside from Snake and a few other random games on the C64, the first PC game I ever got addicted to (which was bundled on the 286) was a...
  8. Rob Williams

    Seagate Unveils BlackArmor 440 - Great Design, Huge Storage

    See, when taking a look at NAS boxes, I tend to think, "You might as well build your own server", and for the most part, I believe that would be a better idea, if space wasn't a real issue. Nowadays, you can build a modest SFF machine with a small Dual-Core CPU and a copy of WHS, and still...
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