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Daryl spotted these amazing pictures of old PC hardware recycled in creative ways. Given the Moore's law that the power of computers doubles every 24 months, we end up with a lot of useless devices and obsolete hardware, that you sure can recycle in a normal way, but it's much more fun to recycle it in a wild and unusual ways! Let's see how to give a new life to the computing zombies of yesteryear.
Rik sent in this page full of printable paper model including motorbikes and animals, some of which are extremely realistic.
CNet have posted about Akihabara in Japan. Welcome to Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood, one of the world's geek culture capitals. Here, you can buy memory cards by the bulk, along with junk food, anime books, cell phones, weird electronic toys, cameras and PCs. Although it has lost some of its luster in recent years, the district is still an interesting place to visit, as CNET News.com editor Michael Kanellos notes in the following photo tour.
A 40Gb PS3 has been announced by Sony. The 40GB will be the cheapest PS3 yet, but no PS2 backwards compatibility will be the price to pay. Putting an end to one of the worst-kept secrets of the year, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today confirmed the existence of a lower-priced 40GB PlayStation 3 model by announcing its availability across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Australasia starting October 10. The new model will retail for €399, or about 20 percent less than the 60GB bundle.
We might be seeing non English domains in the not too distant future. Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the internet's central directories as early as next week, paving the way for web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English. At this point, the 11 domain names are meant primarily for software developers and web site designers to test the new system, but they are the first such names entered in the 13 key domain name directories, known as root servers, after years of discussions and limited-access tests.
Bungie is set to be an independant game devloper. Microsoft said yesterday that it was giving up its controlling ownership of Bungie Software, the video game subsidiary that developed the hugely popular Halo franchise, including its latest iteration, Halo 3. Bungie, based in Kirkland, Wash., said it planned to return to its roots as an independent game studio, a move that eventually will cost Microsoft exclusive ties to one of the most successful and sought-after teams of game developers.
HardwareLogic have posted a guide to sleeving your northbridge fan, I guess this method would also work with other wires in your PC as well. Sleeving, or the act of installing flexible plastic mesh over wire bundles and cabling, has been around for decades. In the not so distant past however, computers were without the benefits of having their cabling sleeved. This led to nasty, messy wiring jobs inside the enclosure which restricted positive airflow throughout the cabinet.
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