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An Indecisive Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that certain P2P companies could be liable for their users’ copyright infringement. What the main decision essentially said was that there are multiple ways you can be found guilty of indirect copyright infringement, and if

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Big Changes In Rustland

Mass storage has rarely been a hotbed of innovative activity. Simply put, innovation in the hard drive field has consisted of making rust particles tinier and tinier and making the platters on which the rust is embedded spin faster. The

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Sempron Yet?

Semprons that have x86-64 enabled are supposedly beginning to show up. The key term here is beginning to show up. Keep in mind there are multiple versions of the Sempron 3300+ out there, as evidenced here. Due to the lack

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Spire SP495S11-U P4 Heatsink

SUMMARY: An OK choice for low-noise, non-aggressive P4 cooling. Size: 100 x 83 x 50 mm. The good guys at Spire were nice enough to send a sample of the SP495S11-U QuieTude VI ™ P4 Heatsink for a test spin.

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Intel Copies AMD Again

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them It’s pretty hard to contest that AMD’s Hammer are better than Intel’s offerings. There’s basically two reasons for that. It would not be too far off to say that today’s Hammers are yesterday’s

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New AMD Stepping Coming

Recently, AMD revised its revisions datasheet to add new steppings (at least publicly) for the first time in a long time. You can find the entire document here. The only page of interest to most of you is reproduced here

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Build Your Own Continuity Tester

The Prologue… (Mysterious, eh?) God… how to start, how to start… I guess the best place is at the end. “And there it is! Completely finished and working!” No? That’s not right you say? OK, once again, from the top.

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Taipei

SUMMARY: Taipei – one of my favorite cities – what New York City may look like in 200 years. Taipei is a great town – lots of good restaurants, not overly expensive, great people and interesting sights. For a PC