• www.hardwarezone.com? Hitachi 7K400 Review. First review of the incredible 400GB drive from Hitachi. Seems like it is super for AV applications. Main issue is that it will run *hot* with 5 platters of 80GB each. Cost is about $400 in limited quantities and there is also a 400GB DVD recorder…

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  • 8x DVD-Burners…

    AnandTech: Spring 2004 DVD Performance Roundup: More DVD Dual 8X . A good roundup. They liked the NuTech DDW-082 the best. Just $85. The major caveat though is that you should wait until this summer to buy a DVD Burner if you can. The new 16x drives are coming and…

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  • King County Fishing Lakes in Washington State. I think I noted this already, but if you want to fish on Lake Washington, here’s the site to check out. The other thing to go is to visit Lincs on Rainer Avenue. We never caught a single fish in Lake Washington until…

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  • Ed Felton

    Freedom to Tinker: What is a Speedbump?. Wow, this guy is sure smart. He’s a Professor at Princeton and I had the privilege of meeting him recently. Good notes on speedbumps as a way to slow down security and privacy issues. _hat tip to Ludwig for that_

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  • Techie links

    a little ludwig goes a long way: Around the web this week. Ludwig has started the tradition of a weekly tour of the web. How useful to see how his mind works. Particularly good references to Ed Felton on security and also the Google file system.

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  • Great phtoographer

    Zagula spells trouble: Great Photographer. Hat tip to Zagula, Tim is a great guy and a good photographer if you need professional portraits and shots done.

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  • MediaWiki Usage

    MediaWiki development. Well, I loaded this up on “Tongfamily”:https://richtong.net/wiki/. Now the question is how to use it. Here are some notes: * “User Guide”:http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User’s_Guide. Naturally, the documentation is itself in Wiki format, so here it is. The main interesting things are that you can edit any page you want. The…

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  • Baseball stuff

    _Hat tip to Darryl on this one_ Most of the equipment is overkill for our guys but I have been looking for a good catch net and came across at “baseballtips.com”:http://www.baseballtips.com/

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  • X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3400 CPU Review Overclocking. A good piece about the latest AMD processor. The net is that the design of the current chip (Newcastle) limits the actual clock frequency to less than 2.4GHz. The folks at Xbit think that this is due to…

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  • AMD $200 PC

    AMD’s Emma: $200 Internet PC :: AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998. . Wow, now that’s an amazing idea. That appliance, when attached to a keyboard and a screen and an Internet connection, could deliver Internet access for less than $200

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