January 15, 2007 by Brad.

If you’ve been curious about whether, how, and when media center PCs would gain the ability to tune and record high-definition digital cable TV, this year’s CES looks to be bringing some answers. AMD has just announced a new product in its ATI TV Wonder lineup, the TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner.

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

For better or for worse, today’s official launch of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 puts us well into the quad-core era. Not even Hennessy and Patterson, much less the coders at the world’s largest software company, can think of enough ways to keep all four cores busy, but here we are nonetheless…

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

“It’s built using a mix of new and not-new sever technology, but whereas we previously believed it was based on a client OS, Windows Home Server is in fact based off of Windows Server 2003. Dropped behind a suitable firewall, this should be a strong server product that meets many emerging needs in the computing household.”

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

This is picture of AT&T Headquarters Network Monitoring room. It features 144 screens monitoring all of AT&T’s voice and data lines worldwide. If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was a movie set or fake but it’s real. Pretty amazing, I wonder what the overall screen resolution of their screens is? 1,000,000,000×100,000?!?!?

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

Sapphire expects to launch this in the next month or so but we having feeling it will be a limited release type of product. Word is a $399 price point is being targeted. And as you can see, there are CrossFire edge connectors on the top side of the card, so quad CrossFire is a possibility.

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

Hilarious way of doing a print screen. This guy completely looses it!

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

Although soldering can seem daunting at first, once you give it a try you will see that in most applications it’s quite simple to do.

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

As if two hi-def formats aren’t enough, a British tech developer is readying a third for market over the next few months.
HD VMD boasts the capacity of HD DVD and Blu-ray discs, but uses existing DVD technology, making for much lower costs.

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January 15, 2007 by Brad.

“It’s only 2×2×2.2 inch!”. Superb.

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