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3rd May 2008
27th April 2008
Ask Dan: Cheap 22-inch LCD monitors, and video cards for non-cheap 30-inch LCD monitors.
27th April 2008
It's time for Wi-Fi pirate radio!
11th April 2008
The Photon Light people have yet another of their perennial sales.
This one's pretty good, though. It's billed as an "up to 20% off" sale, which as everyone knows allows for most prices to actually be 0% off. But there are actually 10%-ish discounts on all sorts of things, including the classic Micro-Lights I've written about on so many previous occasions.
As usual, bulk discounts still apply even on already-discounted items. And if you follow this link to the Photon site and then buy something, I'll get a cut!
10th April 2008
I didn't set out to write another of my letters columns all about hoaxes and scams - which are always the most popular ones, not to mention the ones that attract the most entertaining Google ads.
That's just pretty much how it turned out.
10th April 2008
It's been six months since I last passed the hat for donations.
Once again, gentle reader, this lengthy interval will no doubt have caused your bank accounts to become horribly distended.
In these parlous times, a big bank balance just means more money that'll go down the tubes when, inevitably, your bank fails, even as your country's currency plummets to a value slightly less than that of old faux-tortoiseshell buttons.
You don't need that sort of aggravation. Pass it on to me.
Plus, my laptop died, so I just bought a "new" one for a whole four hundred Australian dollars.
It's very nice, but it's left me with nothing at all with which to feed the cats*.
* This is a lie. Not the laptop part - the cat part.
8th April 2008
Ask Dan: Nvidia's nines.
1st April 2008
Even as you read this, another member of a critically endangered species is dying.
We must all do our part to help these fragile creatures to survive.
31st March 2008
29th March 2008
Teeny tiny rechargeable flashlights.
23rd March 2008
27th February 2008
27th February 2008
The Great Apathetic Revolution is in progress.
24th February 2008
19th February 2008
Someone from the colourful fuel-additive company Firepower has ordered Blogsome, who host my blog, to force me to cease linking to the PDF file of their "evidence" which their Australian CEO sent to me.
When he sent it to me, he similarly ordered me to make it available for download.
While the giant brains at Firepower figure out what exactly it is that they want me to do with this file - which is just promotional literature, for Pete's sake, without even a copyright notice on it - I encourage you all to mirror the file wherever you like.
Even if you've not the slightest interest in what it contains. Censorship-attempt equals mirroring; you know the drill.
To get you started, here's the torrent.
(And here it is on The Pirate Bay. And here's a funky anonymised download version! Note that that last one is not the same torrent as the public one; if you want to seed a torrent, make it the public one.)
Drop me a line when you mirror it somewhere else - though I'd venture the opinion that we've probably got about enough mirrors (46 so far, by my count...) and torrent seeds (dozens) to make the point, by now!
But do also contact me if you're this mysterious Firepower complainant who doesn't even have the balls to talk to me directly, preferring to waste the time of my blog hosts with substanceless legal threats. I'm still waiting.
(Mirrors so far: This one at Tantryl Technology, this one at Purdue University, this one at David Lumley Design, this one at Manitu Group, this one at Tinfoil Music, this one at WinForums, this one at nepis.net, this one at egginton.net, this one at Practical Devices, this one at GamersNation, this one and this one where the PDF link currently constitutes pretty much the entire content of the site it's on, not to mention this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one and this one on OptusNet accounts, this one and this one at TPG, this one at WestNet and this one on a Versatel account in Belgium. Also mirrored and blogged about on Colombo Critic, and bjoreman.com, and ILikeJam, and ipsidixit.net, and The Thrill House, and Wyse Guys, and ItGlo.ws, and TechDomain, and TechNFun, and AdamHelp, and The Dord of Darien, and inweb.ch in Switzerland. And the torrent's been downloaded several hundred times. How's that censorship workin' out for you, anonymous Firepower guy?)
If you'd like to chat about this foolishness, I suggest this thread on the Atomic forums. There's a thread running on the SkylinesAustralia forums, too; car forums are obviously where this stuff really needs to be discussed.
11th February 2008
Ask Dan: SATA controllers and trayless bays.
9th February 2008
There's another little Photon Light sale going on. Until the 14th of February, if you buy one or more Photon IIs and enter the coupon code "VALENTINE" on checkout, you'll get 15% off.
There's also a number of mildly hilarious "You Light Up My Life" package deals in which you get a bunch of chocolate hearts as well as a Photon light. Fair enough - it's certainly a more practical gift than a bunch of flowers.
And if you follow this link to the Photon site and then buy something, I'll get a cut!
6th February 2008
Big expensive video cards, little cheap video cards...
31st January 2008
I'm ready for my body upgrade.
31st January 2008
27th January 2008
I always knew wood magnetism was real.
26th January 2008
What parts of Google Pack are actually worth having... and what should you get instead of the other ones?
20th January 2008
I have reviewed the heck out of a little network storage box.
18th January 2008
A special letters column, all about cats!
(Although I still somehow managed to mention arc lamps.)
5th January 2008
3rd January 2008
There's something interesting about a lot of wireless network antennas.
1st January 2008
Ask Dan: More hard-drive hassles.
29th December 2007
12th December 2007
Every home should have a camera you can stick up your nose.
2nd December 2007
An Ask Dan, all about people lost in the video-card jungle.
1st December 2007
29th November 2007
Why do so many computer games have lousy save/load functions?
23rd November 2007
Ask Dan: Is there an alternative to an i-RAM?
14th November 2007
10th November 2007
Yep, it's another Photon Light sale, ideal for desperate Christmas gift hunters the world over. Discounts on absolutely everything; even 5 to 25% further discounts on bulk purchases - which includes as few as five lights.
Photons are the standard key-ring tiny-light for a reason; they're not the cheapest, but they'll last a lifetime.
Everybody can use one, many people don't have one; if that doesn't say "ideal gift" to you, I don't know what would.
(OK, maybe this.)
And if you follow this link to the Photon site and then buy something, I'll get a cut!
1st November 2007
1st November 2007
I done made me a contraption!
31st October 2007
How often should you replace your hard drives?
27th October 2007
Ask Dan: Which chipset for quad-core overclocking?
27th October 2007
19th October 2007
Ask Dan: When is a Xeon not a Xeon?
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