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External Hard Drive Reviews
X-bit labs – Articles – Three External Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity (page 8). Well these USB 2.0 drives will never be as fast as IDE drives, but it isn’t bad. The WD1200JB stuffed into an external enclosure for $200 vs. $80 if it comes as a internal drive, so there is a…
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Tour de France Diaries
How do these guys have time to do it. Here are a collection of daily rider diaries from folks actually on the TdF: * “Tyler Hamilton et al”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/diaries/. Velonews has Tyler Hamilton blogging away. * Floyd Landis. Of US Postal fame. * “Paolo Bettini”:http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/tour04/features/diaries/paolo.php?id=paolo0411. The Quck.Step-Davitamon rider. * “Chris Carmichael”:http://www.velonews.com/tour2004/carmicha/ and “OLN Version”: . He’s…
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Bike Lust
After a few years of relative stability, the new bikes are pretty amazingly cool. Here are some highlights for lusting: * Giant get lighter with TCR Advanced. These are super popular frames from Taiwan. The new TCR Advanced has a new seat tube design that eliminates the need for seat post. It just clamps to…
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Linksys Network Storage Link
Product Review. A very clever product from Linksys. This is basically a small computer that takes USB 2.0 drives, runs Linux on an Intel Network processor and comes out on TCP/IP as a SAMBA server. It’s an incredibly cheap way to build a Network Attached Storage system for a home. Only $75, this means that…
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Guide to Moviemaking
Tom’s Hardware Guide Video: Making Digital Home Movies, Part 1 – Software. Finally a decent guide to all the software you need for video editing. I agree with them that Sony Vegas (formerly Sonicfoundry, I got mine as Video Explosion Deluxe), but it is all the same package is very nice. They have a bunch…
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Tour de France on the Web
OK, some amazing ways to catch the Tour de France other than on a TV: * Wireless Sign-Up 2004 Tour de France – 14:28:42 GMT. This gets you results texted to your cell phone * “Listen Live”:mms://adv.mirrorimage.net/event/mimg/evt20040702/audio. This link works if you have Media Player. It uses the mms: link so it doesn’t work in…
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Camera Bags
Been looking for a good camera bag that will fit a 35mm SLR and a long lense. Lowepro seems to have many good choices here including according to: * “Photo.net”:http://www.photo.net/equipment/bags/. As usual, the best reviews are here. Phil really likes the Tamrac bags though. Loves the huge Lowepro Trekker AW. * “Photography Review”:http://www.photographyreview.com/pscCamera,Cases/Backpacks/PLS_3139_912crx.aspx. Main issue…
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PC Buying Guide
These Anandtech buying guides are just awesome. Rather than writing my own, I’ll just do the difference in opinion I have compared with their analysis: h2. High end See AnandTech: Buyer’s Guide: High End System – July 2004 for base recommendations. Here are the deltas to get a machine cost (without monitor) of $2200 but…
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No RAID-0 needed for desktops
AnandTech: Western Digital’s Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?. I was going to get a pair of 74GB 10Krpm drives in a RAID-0 to just get screaming desktop performance. Indeed, it does look like that RAID-0 double actual disk throughput, but because a single drive also has caching and lookahead, the real…
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Laptop Lust
Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP Review. So it costs $3,700. This is the utlimate machine. Thinner than a quarter, it has DVD, 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB Ram.