Archive for November 8, 2006

10 Reasons to Buy a DSLR Camera

If you’re planning on getting a digital camera for yourself this holiday season, read 10 reasons why you should choose a DSLR camera over a point-n-shoot.

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NVIDIA calls back new GeForce 8800 cards before they even launch

As many of you know, NVIDIA is launching its next-generation GeForce 8-series products later this week. However, there has been a manufacturing problem with a batch of the GeForce 8800 GTX cards. Clearly someone has made a mistake during the manufacturing process and NVIDIA is going to have to pull out all of the stops to meet its launch date.

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HowTo: Set up a RAID mirror under OS X for the ultimate hard drivebackup

Back in November I wrote about setting up a RAID array on my new Mac using a bunch of external hard drives I had sitting around. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, and is a way to bind together multiple disks into one larger and/or more reliable virtual disk.

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A VERY full featured pre-built MythTV DVR - NICE!

The most feature complete DVRs ever. It uses MythTV, can rip DVDs, built in torrent support, 7.1 Dolby,native 1080i output, wireless out of the box, and play any media format all using the remote!

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BFG, XFX and EVGA Discuss GF 8800 GTX Problems

The guys at HardOCP asked BFG, EVGA and XFX about the recent 8800GTX capacitor problems and what it means to tomorrows launch. The answers are pretty surprising considering a problem like this was found so late in the production cycle.

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How to make a computer controlled light show for less than 40$

Simple step by step instructions on how to make your ever own computer controlled light show (think Christmas and Halloween) for under 40$. Includes source for software to do it yourself as well as GUI software for those faint of heart with compilers. Linux source included!

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