Category Archives: Geeky Computers

Like my friend Darana said this is Nerds R Us. Somebody compiled hard drive costs from Newegg and plotted a graph of GB/dollar across various drive sizes and came up with a basic point graph here. Looks like right now … Continue reading →

One of my buddies linked to a story on Engadget that ultimately pointed back to this thread at the JoeCustoms web site. This guy basically hollowed out an old holographic Cobra Commander action figure and inserted a small USB memory … Continue reading →

Holy hell, this prototype DLP monitor from Alienware for gaming looks awesome. It displays at 2880×900 resolution and the curve is supposed to simulate peripheral vision. I can only imagine that it will cost something like $1000 if it ever … Continue reading →

A guy at work pointed out this story so I wen and found this story at Computerworld that is almost identical to his e-mail. November 12, 2007 (Computerworld) — Seagate Technology LLC has shipped Maxtor disk drives that contain Trojan … Continue reading →

The new gOS motherboard seems like a great idea to me. It’s a mainboard designed specifically for gOS, a Linux distro based on Ubuntu but with embedded Google applications. The evil empire (oops, I mean WalMart) is selling a $200 … Continue reading →

Alpine$sun posted this on a BBS I frequent and I thought it was worth sharing. I presented at a security confrence last week and the speaker after me was taking about Vista and IPv6. Basically Vista is about as secure … Continue reading →

Damn, when I finally get around to building my own home theater PC I hope I can afford one of these… See the details here. The bottom of the front panel flips open to expose ports like USB, Firewire etc.

I wiped my home file/print server that was running Fedora Core 3 a couple of months ago since I broke my Firefox install while trying to upgrade it. I decided to try another distro and chose Ubuntu version 6.06 (Dapper … Continue reading →

I am scared that there are now consumer-level kilowatt power supplies. Remember when 250W was plenty? Now you can get 1000 watts of screaming power (and for only $370). To be fair this one has the cool new modular power … Continue reading →

Holy moly, there are some serious kick-ass computer case mods in this contest. Being a car guy I like the Boss but the BF2142 is cool too and the WMD is just amazing. I don’t know which one I will … Continue reading →

There were close to 200,000 headers to download for one of the binary groups and it’s taking a long time to get them so I think that means that the retention in that binary group must be much better than … Continue reading →

Well, almost. Here’s a news story on their site about how they are working to improve newsgroups. I don’t want to pay for a premium news service (since I wouldn’t use it every month) but it was frustrating because Cox’s … Continue reading →

Wow, the Cox automated IVR system for cable internet kicks ass. I was having very spotty connectivity since Friday. On Monday morning our connection went away entirely and the TV went, too. I called support and got a recording that … Continue reading →

Ah, a new extension for Firefox. This one allows me to post sites here using the sidebar instead of the link on my toolbar. I like this better than the built-in WordPress tool/URL that I used in my link bar … Continue reading →

Use HISTIGNORE in bash – prevents duplicate entries Boot a CD image in Qemu – for mounting ISO images in software before burning CLI file transfer over SSH Copy a file to host: cat FILE|ssh HOST “cat ->FILE’S-LOCATION-ON-HOST” Copy a … Continue reading →