The “Break it Down” Blog
Archive | January, 2007
IBM, Intel, HP + Community Form ‘Linux Foundation’
Interesting… it looks like the big commercial Linux folks are getting together and forming the Linux Foundation, not unlike what happened with IBM and the Eclipse Foundation. It will be nice to see more competition on this front for everyone.
Continue reading...Netflix Throttling
20. January 2007
So we’ve been customers of Netflix for a while now and always liked the service. In fact, we bumped our plan from the 3-at-a-time to the 5-at-a-time just because we were consistently not having movies for the weekend and were getting angry about it. Now after having the 5-at-a-time for a little over a year I [...]
Continue reading...More eBay Auctions for Gaming Rig Up
20. January 2007
Ok so I just did my 2nd round of tearing down the ultimate gaming rig and the parts are all up on eBay now (the only thing left now is the case): Mushkin 2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200) Mushkin 2 GB (2×1 GB) 184-Pin DDR (PC3200) Thermaltake CL-P0071 4 in 1 Heatpipe CPU Cooler AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ [...]
Continue reading...Who Will Win the HD Media Wars?
19. January 2007
HD-DVD or BluRay? I have no idea. But ‘zzap64‘ over on AVS has an awesomely detailed analysis of the current situation including all announced movies for both formats and declares BluRay the winner. Check out a snippet: Blu-ray has 72 movies scheduled to be released with 60 of those being exclusive HD DVD has 24 movies scheduled to be [...]
Continue reading...Google Switch (iPhone-like Device)
18. January 2007
Engadget has the scoop as usual… the idea being that we are all skeptical at this point and are assuming this is a photoshoped hoax, but if it’s not… that’s a slick device! Lemmings HO! They also mention that the device has GPS built in (for Google Maps) and also streams apps, contacts, information, etc. all on [...]
Continue reading...Flash Player 9 for Linux Arrives
18. January 2007
I completely blanked on covering this yesterday. It seems that Adobe came through and released Flash 9 for Linux which has apparently been quite an undertaking for about a team of 3 or 4 guys internally for the last year to do. We appreciate it Adobe! Here is a tutorial on how to install it and [...]
Continue reading...Applied Geometry: Costco Shopping Carts
18. January 2007
How long does something like this even TAKE to put together? It’s not just a circle, but a damn nice looking one too:
Continue reading...Wii Sports: Golf, Strange Congratulations for Hole-In-One
18. January 2007
This is apparently the German version of Wii Sports: Golf, but still… what does “Ass” mean in German? Update #1: I’ve been spelling “Congratulations” wrong for about 6 years now… I need to get smarter…
Continue reading...Nokia Aeon: iPhone Sexiness With RAZR-ish Form Factor
18. January 2007
Techfresh has the scoop on this story. It looks like Nokia unveiled a concept phone called the “Aeon” recently, but have a look at this beauty: The key thing to recognize in the screenshots above is in the green version of the phone, notice how you have a “keypad” on the bottom then on the [...]
Continue reading...Best Buy Scams More Customers
18. January 2007
In my years reading AVS I have seen time and time and time again the basic theme of “Best Buy screwed me…” reiterated throughout the posts. Wether it’s a service call that they won’t honor, or a warranty (most popular), or a unit replacement or anything else, this store runs on the corporate policy of [...]
Continue reading...MySQL Windows Binaries No Longer Free
16. January 2007
Interesting. It seems the MySQL group is continuing to shrink the binaries they provide for platforms, now Windows, with the excuse of “Hey, it’s open source, go build your own binary”. I think this will give a much-deserved shot in the arm to the PostgreSQL folks for the hell of a Oracle-clone database they have created.
Continue reading...Netflix Starts Internet Rentals This Week
16. January 2007
I guess the rollout will take a few months (250k per month up to their 6 million subscribers… that’s it?), but it looks like renting online at Netflix will start this week. The way it works is depending on your account level, you get a certain number of hours of content you can rent, you [...]
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Humor & Funny
- Are You Pregnant Ref? Cause You Missed the Last 2 Periods!
- Dwight, from The Office, Undergoes Serious Nerd-Torture
- Let’s All Pray for the Stupid People…
- Britney “Southern Gut” Spears is… Looking Good? New “Womanizer” Music Video
- Creepy Gay Kid Happy Birthday
- 82-year-old Hugh Hefner’s Heart Broken by GF Who’s, Like, “OMG what?? We won’t have kids!?”
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22. January 2007
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