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Xbox 360 hardware on sale at NewEgg, Xbox Live at Wal-Mart. If Santa didn’t bring you that Xbox 360 Elite bundle for Christmas like you wanted, well, good news: NewEgg has it on sale for just $299, and it includes a $50 gift card (final …
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Nashville – Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee – The opportunity to buy fastening systems and hardware online has never been easier or more beneficial according to IndustrialSAVER.
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IndustrialSAVER Introduces Its Metric Fasteners, Industrial Fasteners and Hardware Guide (dBusinessNews.com)
Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 2 2010. How Much is Downtime Costing You? Find out How to Reduce Downtime by 85%… Troubleshooting the Not-So-Obvious (by Tony Fortunato) Looking Back at Business Service Management (BSM) in 2009 – a review of 2009 from a Business Service Management perspective Data Centers understaffed, says Symantic poll – not enough people manning data centres according to a poll by Symantic.
As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities.
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Wii Hardware Upgrade Won’t Happen Soon (Slashdot)
Nintendo is back to printing money, with a blockbuster December that might make you forget about the recession. At 3.8 million, the Wii set a new industry record, both for hardware units sold and revenue generated in a month. The DS came in close to the Wii’s numbers, making it the second-place holder for that same record
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December NPDs: Nintendo Sells 7M in Combined Hardware (1up.com)
A two-year odyssey to relocate the beloved family hardware store Corbet’s is over. The Larkspur City Council, which voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the merits of the project, in a 3-2 vote also adopted the environmental findings and approved an amendment to the administrative professional district to allow retail at 800 Magnolia Ave.
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Corbet’s hardware store move wins Larkspur council approval (Marin Independent Journal)
International Business Machines Corp., is expected to issue on Jan. 19 a fourth-quarter report that will highlight signs of stabilization in the U.S.
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Earnings Outlook: Hardware sales likely to highlight IBM’s earnings (Market Watch)
Nyko didn’t show us many things at CES that we would consider sexy, and certainly nothing that matches the OMGWTF styling of the R.A.T. mice from Mad Catz . What the company had on display was simply a better solution to the Wiimote and Motion Plus monstrosity Nintendo has created.
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Smaller, cheaper, rubber: Nyko’s gift to the Wii
Recently, Google made a very bold and very public threat that they would pull out of China due to concerns over increased censorship and sophisticated hacker attacks that they have traced to China. If it happens, it will come as a shock to business analysts everywhere, since China is the #1 growing market for something Google covets – internet users.
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Google Threatens to Pull out of China, Citing Censorship and Cyberhacking
The facts of life are that your computer is going to have a hissy fit and misbehave eventually It’s a frightening and stressful experience as you contemplate losing all your work, hefty repair bills and major loss of time…not to mention the inconvenience of being without it Most of the stress is caused by not knowing what is going on and as you hand over your life’s work to a Swahili speaking technician, you are at his/her mercy Well, knowledge is power and like it or not you need to learn a leetle bit of techy talk to alleviate your pain It is my mission to help you understand in the simplest terms what you need to know as a computer owner/operator in order for you to take back some control and save you that imminent nervous breakdown, stroke, heart attack and major financial set back Computers really aren’t all that mysterious. All types of computers consist of two basic parts: Hardware and Software Anything you buy for your computer can be classified as either hardware or software 1. Hardware is any part of your computer that has a physical structure , e.g
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Computers Behaving Badly: Part 1
[Thijs] has an iPod dock with an LCD display in it that allows you to watch videos without having to squint quite as much. Unfortunately, the iPod classic wouldn’t play videos on it because it’s not an Apple approved product. He figured out that an authentication chip is included in docks and cables that Apple has approved and set out to retrofit his device with one
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Tricking an iPod into trusting your dock
Is Apple rattled by Google’s Nexus One? Apple Korea and several mobile operators are leaking rumors about an “iPhone 4G” due for release as early as April. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers can’t quite believe it, despite the breadth and caliber of the sources
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iPhone 4G rumors: Apple Korea leaking? Release date in Q2 2010?
The folks at Novarum, who include two of the pioneers of Wi-Fi, offer a free report on outdoor Wi-Fi network building: The recommendations aren’t surprising to anyone who has followed this site. Novarum recommends a whopping 60 access points per square mile to exceed 90 percent coverage for 802.11n laptops at rates higher than expected 4G cellular network speeds.
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Novarum Offers Guidance for Outdoor Wi-Fi Networks
Another week; another set of Apple tablet ‘PC’ rumors. As speculation seemingly reaches fever-pitch, new nuggets of information continue to get dug out of the frozen ground. In IT Blogwatch , bloggers ponder Apple’s acquisition of FingerWorks, ARM’s Cortex A9, and an apparent lapsus-de-langue by a Frenchman.
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Apple tablet ‘PC’ rumors: FingerWorks, A9, Orange, and more…
CES is a daunting show to cover, filled with emerging technologies, new products hoping to change the world, and a few goofy surprises here and there. What you don’t often see is what goes on around the fringes of the show: the products that don’t get written about, the booth designs intended to draw your eye and get you to walk in, and the weird tricks companies try to get your attention. This year every major player wanted you to put on glasses to look at content, you could get your picture taken with Elvis at a few different places, and if you knew were to look you could sit in Captain Kirk’s chair.
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feature: CES in pictures: the good, the bad, the Elvis
Printer News: Network-Ready Dell 3330dn Prints Up to 40 Pages Per Minute When you work in an office that prints primarily black-and-white documents, you need a printer with two attributes — sharp text and speedy output. The Dell 3330dn monochrome laser printer offers you a text-focused office workhorse. Fittingly, it ships in a black finish.
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Dell 3330dn Laser Printer Offers Fast Black-and-White Printing
With about $64 billion of inventory in Iraq the challenges of withdrawing military hardware comes in all sizes.
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US military hardware leaving Iraq
Highlights from Planet Network Management + Planet Sys Admin for Week 1 2010. Working with check_http and check_bigip_pool to monitor web sites – a tip on how we used the check_http and check_bigip_pool Nagios plugins to eliminate the need for WebTrends Reflecting on a Year of Growth for WUG – a summary of the happenings to the What’s Up Gold product during 2009 Pandora FMS 3.0 is finally here ! – Pandora FMS version 3 has been released after a number of delays The 2009 Cloudies Awards – John M Willis hands out some cloud related awards Heisenberg & Monitoring – how measuring the performace of computer systems changes the system itself making highly accurate measurements very difficult On living as Root – the temptations sys admins face given their elevated access to computer systems
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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 1
In a much hyped keynote address at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made no mention of the fabled Courier, the tablet computer that would rival the as yet unannounced Apple tablet. Did Microsoft just miss the boat, or is the world not yet ready for fantastic concepts of slate computing?
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Microsoft’s Courier Fails to Deliver at Keynote, Apple Rejoices
During his CES 2010 keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will show off an Hewlett-Packard tablet with multitouch, e-reader, and multimedia functionalities. At least that’s what the The New York Times is reporting, citing unnamed sources. The “slate-type computer” is supposed to be “available by mid-year” and we may already have heard the name publicly.
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Steve Ballmer reportedly set to preempt Apple tablet at CES