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The power behind LucasFilm

Excellent article on the computing power that drives LucasFilm. It goes into detail of all the hardware, storage and networks they use. Apparently when it was built in 2004, it was the world’s largest 10-gigabit backbone network in the world and today boasts more than… Read more »

Getting a DVD Recorder

So, after much deliberation, we’ve decided to buy an HD/DVD Recorder. I’ve been wanting these for a while, but I’ve been watching the price come down and now can feel I can justify the cost. It’s not that I’m not a fan of TV, but… Read more »

Fix your broken laptop

I came across an interesting site while browsing through LifeHacker (which is pretty interesting itself). Anyway, Instructables has an article on how to fix your laptop LCD if it’s broken. It’s pretty easy to follow, has pictures of every step, though you might want to… Read more »

Clearcube Blades

We’re looking into blade servers at the moment at work for our consolidated dev environment, primarily because of the amount of computing power you can get in a small space (the plan is then to run Virtual Servers on them), so I was just pottering… Read more »

Wireless Card blue-screening my laptop

Windows throwing a blue-screen has finally a relatively rare event since Windows XP, and is usually caused by hardware drivers. I’ve had the occassional blue screen on my new laptop when trying to go to Standby or once, even when I switched to battery. I… Read more »

Finished Leisure Suit Larry !

This weekend I finished Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude. The game was quite enjoyable, but I had got stuck in the end, because the graphics card on my Rock laptop was jumbling up the graphics on 2 rooms, and crashing when I got to… Read more »