computing

"After a year of domination by Core2, it seems more like business as usual" that Intel's latest CPUs smash AMD's even further. Not only are they easier to maintain (driver-wise), more compatible generally, but even more so outperform the competition: Intel Core 2 refreshed - QX6850 and E6750.

A Storage Device I Want that as far as I know doesn't exist. I want one box, with a bunch of bays, into which I can place any HDD I have lying around and have that drive contribute to the overall size/parity of an array.

Anyone know where I can get something like that?

I know Ubuntu can't quite hold a candle to Windows or Macintosh for the common user, but still it's a pretty momentous day: Dell selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux.

Anyone here ever mess with clustering? I'm trying to come up with a good reason to do so.  It seems that there are a lot of technologies that come on LiveCD now and use Linux / FreeBSD to allow for distributed computing.  Things that come to mind:

- Rendering
- Music production
- Searching for aliens

Some links:

When you see movies set in the wild west, you always see the traveling salesman, the schister doctor, the small carnivals, and so on.  And one thing you might see as you get into more developed t

I currently am testing out Ryan's MacBook vs.

I have a new 4GB USB flash drive (with KEWL BLNKIGN LITE!!!1!), and I wasn't sure what to do with all that space.

Can someone point me in the right direction to an article or study that describes how the relationship between traditional media and consumers is changing?  For example, which resource do people

One thing that keeps me yelling at my phone instead of feeling good about it is the closed nature of the beast.  In just about any other device that you can own, you have the ability to get in th

If you had a very large pot of money, what would be the top 5 things you'd put in your ideal office besides the obvious computer / desk / chair?