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Check out this thread on boards.ie about how some guy’s PC powered itself on at night and tried to kill him, along with itself.

hahahaha

Eurogamer reports that a bunch of white supremacist neo-nazi fuckholes in the USA have secured a publishing deal for their shitty PC game, which goes by the title of “Ethnic Cleansing”. Apparently this “game” has been around for three years before getting published; A testament to its utter shitness.
The publisher they got in the end is a known publisher of white power, racist music, and is wholly owned by America’s largest neo-nazi group, the “National Alliance”.

Click the Eurogamer link for the full story. Like it says in the title, what a bunch of cunts.

Ahh, Dangermaus is entertaining indeed.

12 of July, the birthdate of homosexuality!

The picture of Paisley is the best part

I was generously given a voucher for a particular computer shop today, so I went and put it towards a nice new case for the new PC components I’ve ordered. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the case in question has this very cool LCD display on the front of it, which can be used to monitor temperatures, fans, hard disk activity, etc — and best of all, it is a clock too!

Click for full size version

Well, I went and ordered my new PC bits from Komplett.ie. I look forward to their arrival and cutting my hands on sharp edges of my PC case when I go to put everything together!
In the end, I went for the following parts:
Sapphire Radeon X800 PCI-Express x16, 256 bit memory interface, 256MB GDDR3 memory
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939, 512KB cache
Abit AN8 (non-SLi) Socket 939 motherboard, with PCI-Express, gigabit Ethernet, integrated sound, firewire, USB2.0, etc.

Of the stuff for sale, only the Gameboy Advance SP and Motherboard + CPU are left, and I have offers for the motherboard + CPU

Due to an upgade I’m performing on my PC, I have some bits and pieces for sale.

Abit NF7-S 2.0 ATX motherboard, socket A, with AMD Athlon XP 2800+ CPU, heatsink and fan. Features integrated nvidia SoundStorm 5.1 audio, firewire, 10/100 Ethernet, USB2.0, 2 SATA ports, 2 IDE ports, AGP 8x, 5 PCI slots and probably some other features I’m forgetting about. Noisy northbridge fan removed and replaced with silent Zalman heatsink.

Apple iPod 15GB, 3rd generation, with accessories. (Selling this to part-finance my upgrade. Barely used since I got an MP3-CD head unit in my car)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP, with five games. (Original Tetris gameboy cartridge, Columns Crown, Super Monkey Ball Jr., Wario Ware Inc, Pinball Challenge Deluxe (rare))

Use the links provided if you’re interested in either of these items. Note that the link for the motherboard also mentions an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card — this is already sold.

If you like Half-Life 2, you should find this very amusing.
(40MB, QuickTime).

Can anyone tell me the answer to this?:

PCI-Express ATI Radeon (Sapphire branded) X800 with 256MB GDDR3 & 256-bit interface - €235
PCI-Express nVidia (Club 3D branded) 6600GT with 128MB GDDR3 &128-bit interface - €185

Which one offers the best price/performance ratio? Word has it that the Sapphire X800 with GDDR3 is highly overclockable, as its RAM is rated at 500MHz while it only runs at 370MHz at stock speed.
I’ve also heard good things about the nVidia 6600GT’s, but don’t know a lot about them. I know they can run in SLI, but I don’t think I can really be arsed springing for an SLI motherboard and a new power supply, and an extra 6600GT a while down the line.

Today Smart Telecom and Eircom go to the high court to battle it out over Eircom’s cack handed implementation of local loop unbundling. The main issue is that Eircom don’t seem to have any automated systems for this, so everything must be processed manually, which is time consuming. Eircom, being the lovely organisation that they are, are refusing to let people who switch to LLU telcos like Smart port their telephone numbers, like people can do when they switch mobile phone services.
Looks like a clear attempt from Eircom to put people off switching to other networks, as nobody likes to lose a phone number that they’ve been using for donkey’s years.

Fuck you Eircom, you cum guzzling pricks.

*sigh*

People who don’t know jack shit about technology should not write about it. If you read the International Herald-Tribune/NY Times article above, you’ll see that the writer hasn’t a clue. Titling the article “Video game ‘orgies’ for devoted players” makes the whole practice of LAN parties sound like something that’s done in gimp suits with rubber masks, rather than something with computers and network equipment (gimp suits optional).

The author demonstrates his lack of knowledge several times throughout the article. He seems to think that a LAN is, in fact, a server.

high-powered temporary servers called local area networks, or LANs enable computers in a concentrated area to communicate.

He also thinks a CPU is a whole computer…

Behind a room filled with hoses, award plaques and a gleaming fire truck sat the paraphernalia of the LAN life - rows of snazzy CPUs, oversize monitors and mounds of snaking wires

And he clearly misquotes somebody’s shouts of “Spray and pray”:

“Spray and prey, spray and prey. Beautiful”

So-called “Technology Journalists” suck.