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Entries from August 2004

Hauppage DVR-250 for $90 After Rebate

August 31st, 2004 · Comments Off

Jumpin’ Frogs!!  That’s a good deal.  And I was *JUST* about to get another one. J 

Circuit City has the Hauppage WinTV Personal Video Recorder 250 add-in card for $150, which isn’t that hot, but with two mail-in rebates it drops the price to just $90. The PVR-250 is one of the better cards to use [...]

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Sweet, sweet RAM

August 30th, 2004 · Comments Off

Yep, I have to agree.  I added a Gig to my Dell and I *love* it!!!! 

I’m now sporting 1 gigabyte of memory in my Thinkpad. It was a lot cheaper than I expected; the last time I was shopping for laptop RAM it was mostly proprietary, super-expensive stuff. The gig I just bought only cost [...]

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Can’t sleep again

August 30th, 2004 · Comments Off

Argh.  But at least there is a football game on. J
 
One of the advantages of having BeyondTV is that I can catch up on all the Latenight and Primetime in the AM stuff. J
If the game gets too boring, I could just watch the Nextel Cup race again…  I was glad to see Jr. win [...]

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Command & Conquer laser weapons becoming reality

August 30th, 2004 · Comments Off

“speed-of-light”?  What does that mean? 

The US Army’s Tactical High Energy Laser successfully shot down a series of mortar attacks using speed-of-light bursts to destroy the incoming targets. [Ars Technica]

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New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte

August 27th, 2004 · Comments Off

Cool!!  This looks awesome! 

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world’s first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware’s revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for commercializing holographic data storage system.
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New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte

August 27th, 2004 · Comments Off

Cool!!  This looks awesome! 

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world’s first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware’s revolutionary Collinear Holography. This is a major milestone for commercializing holographic data storage system.
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Aluminum Beer Bottles

August 25th, 2004 · Comments Off

Hey this is cool.  I worked as a contractor for Alcoa for almost a year installing a new enterprise wide exchange server network.  Kind of neat! 

Alcoa has teamed up with Pittsburgh Brewing Company to produce and package Iron City beer in a new aluminum bottle. Their pushing it as “unbreakable,” which is certainly true compared [...]

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Motorola MPx 220 Reviewed

August 25th, 2004 · Comments Off

This is an awesome review of the new phone.  Be warned though.  It will make you want one bad. 

Howard Forums’ infamous Mark Morrow is at it again, this time dumping an insiders look at the Motorola MPx 220, the quad-band clamshell packing a dual-core processor running Windows Smartphone 2003 SE Operating System. And in typical [...]

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Philips and Interbrew’s PerfectDraft

August 24th, 2004 · 1 Comment

OK, forget the pocketpc phone.  I want one of *these* for my birthday!!! 

Is this why we fought WWII? So the Amsterdammers can have superior home beer technology? Clearly, the introduction for Interbrew and Philips’ new “PerfectDraft” system is cause to wage the bloodiest, hoppiest, deliciously frothiest war ever waged. The €200 (about $240) machine accepts [...]

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pt Picks Up An iPAQ 6315

August 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off

Man I want one of these SOOOOO bad.  Doesn’t someone want to get me one for my birthday?  It’s tomorrow but I won’t mind if it doesn’t get here till Fri. J 

Looks like most people have had success getting iPAQ 6315s from CompUSA. The inimitable pt picked one up and put up some very nice [...]

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