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Got that latest Service Pack? Running Linux perhaps? YOU ARE NOT SAFE ANY LONGER! Your keyboard - yes, that’s right, your WIRED keyboard - is insecure!

Source: http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
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I am not a Mac user. I have been and will be a PC user - with that said I love mac’s style. Clean, sleek, and simple. For $50 I picked up an Apple keyboard at Best Buy; I am typing on it right now. It has rounded white keys with simple lower-case gray glyphs [...]

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I was apparently hiding under a rock when this happened (as many of us were, I’m sure), but nVidia acquired Ageia. This is excellent! If you don’t know why, read on…
Ageia, if you don’t recall, is that strange little company that designed a really smooth physics engine that many games picked up (approximately 140 give [...]

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Dell has done numerous silly or even stupid things in the past, but this one’s just plain special. Check out this keyboard layout:

And forget trying to actually hit the “\” key. Every time I look at this keyboard I find something else wrong with it. Some sort of foreign layout was shipped across Europe, to an “unspecified” [...]

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Disclaimer: Overclocking can be dangerous. While you should achieve a good overclock by following this guide, I do not take responsibility for any damage that may occur. Overclocking is your choice.

Since this processor is now becoming more than dominant on the market, I thought it only appropriate to share what I’ve gleaned in my long [...]

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How do you instantly hack a Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, MAC, or BSD with the same tool, without bothering to ever crack a password? Why, you just simply plug your box into theirs via Firewire, and run some Python code. That’s right, it’s that easy. With each OS you want to hack, you simply [...]

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The Geforce 9 series is the latest GPU release from nVidia. The only specific card in the series so far is the 9600 GT, compared to the top 8 series card below:

Card
Core Clock
Shader Clock
Memory Clock
Memory Amount
Memory Interface
Memory Bandwidth
Texture Fill Rate

9600
650
1625
900
512MB
256-bit
57.6
20.8

8800
612
1500
1080
768MB
384-bit
103.7
39.2

As you can see from the above data, the GF9 series has improved on [...]

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I’m sure that anyone who’s built their own PC or been in the business of using them for long enough has heard the terms Quadro or FireGL tossed around. If one were to look them up, you’d find that they are typically double the price of an equivalent Geforce or Radeon product. The first thought [...]

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The majority of computer users, engineers, and technicians think they know a great deal about PCs, when they really don’t even scratch the surface. Since day one as a computer engineer, I have yearned to understand every waking component inside of my PCs. I want to know the purpose of every capacitor, resistor, and chip. [...]

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