I just built a low-end server for testing and backup purposes, out of an old motherboard, an Antec case and a 640gb hard disk. I made a decision to not include an optical drive in my system, not necessarily because of price (a Pioneer SATA DVD-RW is $35 at CentreCom right now! </shameless-plug>) but because [...]

It can if you want it to. The Synapse socket library for Pascal makes it quite easy to create a Wake On LAN program, which can be used to turn your computers on over the network. By sending a special packet via UDP, you can turn on any modern computer remotely, as long as it [...]

Recently I’ve been looking at DivX’s Stage6 video portal, and I have to say, it’s good! I think I like it more than YouTube right now, for a few simple reasons which make it a much more usable and useful site.
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Let’s accept something: 320×240 videos suck a bit. They’re not all that bad, it’s [...]

MacBook Air: Very thin. You could probably stack two of these on top of each other and get the thickness of my Dell. That’s really really nice. So is the use of Solid State Drives, meaning there’s no moving parts. The multitouch touchpad (or is that multitouch pad?) looks nice too, the zooming of photos [...]