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Sans Digital's CS1T and CR2T turn CF cards into 2.5-inch enclosures {Engadget}
May 25th 2008 1:03AM I work in a casino, the Bally games we have use two CF cards one the OS (Linux) and the other for the game.
They have been in constant use for over three and a half years, far more use than a home computer system would use them for although I'd say it's all reads and not writes, but the OS CF card probably is written to at some point.
Only now three and a half years later are some starting to fail, usually with an "MBR read failed" type of failure and nearly always the OS card, although a game card failed once too.
I like the idea of putting two CF cards in a box and off you go. It would be nice to be able to use four or more cards.
UK planning to monitor and record every phone call, web page, and email sent by citizens {Engadget}
May 21st 2008 7:54PM The funny thing is it's all the rage now to record everything, some new so-called web 2.0 websites such as Evernote and Microsoft's project called MyLifeBits. The common saying is 1 Terabyte cold hold an entire lifetime of data, excluding video.
I actually would like to do this but on my own and within my control, everything I save would stay on my own personal NAS or archived somehow and stored off site.
I tried Slogger for saving my web browsing but it failed to work when any non Western characters were in the webpage title, and it only saved the information of where I went and not the actual webpage. Some sort of auto screen capture would be nice, I was thinking of somehow using cron and the screenshot application which would show everytthing not just the web browser. Although it would not be real, just a picture, maybe some sort of OCR could solve that.
Add to that phone calls, audio in my home, TV shows watched, songs listened to, Xbox games played (sort of possible i.e. Halo's theatre).
Anyway it's interesting, but not if the government does it.
Bill Gates gives mother of pearl-clad Xbox 360 to South Korean President {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 8:05PM Wow, you and the Korean president are pretty close buddies.
Bill Gates gives mother of pearl-clad Xbox 360 to South Korean President {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 8:03PM The red rings would compliment the black case and the pearl design.
Sharp reveals world's most densely powerful methanol fuel cell -- still can't buy it {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 12:38PM Isn't pure methanol incredibly toxic? Even in small amounts inhalation of it or getting it on your skin can easily lead to poisoning which, obviously, has some very bad side effects such as blindness.
I wonder how are they going to prevent this, it seems like a huge liability issue. I see in the picture it looks like a closed system but you know some people are going to mess with the stuff once they get a bottle of it.
LCARS-esque touchscreen controls home, excites Trekkies {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 12:23PM I didn't mind it, although you could see the screen very well it showed it actually works.
The heavy breathing and the sound of nylon pant legs rubbing together was a bit creepy though.
He should have worn a Star Trek uniform...but then again we're into wedgie territory.
LCARS-esque touchscreen controls home, excites Trekkies {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 12:16PM I beg your pardon, it's pronounced "basement-living-technology-enthusiast-virgins"
Console numbers released: Xbox 360 tops 10M US sales, 9.2M PS3s sold worldwide last year {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 11:04PM I consider the Xbox360 and PS3 direct competitors, the Wii is not but that's not to say it's not as good - it's just different.
Sure the Wii plays games but its almost a completely different gaming experience, I would buy a Wii and for (better) online multiplayer play a Xbox360 or PS3.
In a way I think that's the secret of the Wii's success, Sony and Microsoft battle for #1 meanwhile Nintendo is happy at #3 (wherever it is now I don't know if it is #3 that's just an example).
Microsoft says no new Xbox 360s in 2009 {Engadget}
May 13th 2008 11:30PM I'll just be happy if they send me a damn box to send back my RRODed Xbox360, it's been 11 days since they said it would only be "3 to 5 days" before I got a box to send back my console.
Moshi's Zefyr MacBook cooler is way hot {Engadget}
May 10th 2008 5:03PM Wouldn't the fact you're using power from the USB port make the power supply work harder because it has to supply power to the fan which is trying to cool the laptop of excess heat which is being generated by the power supply (and heat from the CPU which is power by the PSU) ?
You see them for Xbox360 consoles too, USB powered fans. Is it only me or does this make no sense at all?
