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I thought I got a fantastic deal a few months ago when I got 2GB of DDR2 RAM for €50. Komplett are now selling a 4GB pack of OCZ PC6400 RAM with fancy heatspreaders for €85, including VAT! MemoryC have 4GB of fancy G.Skill stuff for a few euros more.

I can’t remember memory ever being cheaper. I CAN remember paying about £200 for 32MB of RAM for my old 486 back in the day though
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When your super special offer advertisement requires some electronically sped up voice to rattle off 60 seconds of terms and conditions, its not all that bloody special.
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My new 1 terabyte hard drive arrived today. Tasty. Although its only got 931GB available once formatted!
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Remember the Danish Mohammed cartoons controversy of 2006? These fuckwits sure do!
According to the BBC News article, several fundamentalist shitheads were arrested for plotting the murder of one of the cartoonists involved. Eh, I may have paraphrased that somewhat.
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing during the week, but Microsoft won’t be pumping it out over Windows Update until March sometime. They’re catching a lot of flak from IT tech types (such as me) over that decision. Naturally, its been leaked all over the Internet already. You can even download it directly through Windows Update with a little registry hacking.
I installed it this evening on my 64-bit machine. It took about an hour and several reboots to complete. Straight off the bat I have noticed that LAN file transfer speeds have improved dramatically – I’m getting nearly twice the throughput over my wireless LAN. That alone makes this a must-have update! UAC prompts seem to be far less annoying now – the screen doesn’t go black for 2-3 seconds like it used to, its more like half a second now in my case.
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The first episode of Ashes to Ashes was screened on BBC1 on Thursday night and it was excellent, as expected. If you’re not familiar with it, Ashes to Ashes is essentially a sequel series to the brilliant Life on Mars, which finished its two-series run last year. You could consider it to be the continued adventures of DCI Gene Hunt, in 1981 . He has moved from Manchester to London and has traded his Ford Cortina for an Audi Quattro.

There was what looked like a Miami Vice tribute going on in there too:

This is well worth watching.

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I love this game. It finally arrived in the post yesterday about 2 weeks after the ebay muppet I got it from was supposed to ship it. I ended up spending 4 hours at it last night. I’m using the Xbox 360 version – its also out for Playstation 3. If you want something to show off that fancy new HDTV, this is it! The graphics look brilliant and it keeps up a high frame rate throughout. Highly recommended!

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I installed OpenSUSE 10.3 on my laptop last night. It had been running Ubuntu 7.04 and then 7.10 successfully for about 8 months. All was going well until I used the nice GUI tools to install nVidia graphics drivers from the repositories. Restart X and bang! Its broken. I seem to recall this exact same thing happening last time I used SUSE, about 3 years ago. Nice to see they’ve not fixed it yet then. I was planning to stick KDE 4 on it too, to see what its like. Maybe not now!
It was late by then so I just shut it down. I’ll attack it again this evening.

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Eircom, the telco everyone loves to hate, has announced that they are upgrading their bitstream broadband products all round… unless you’re on a 1Mb deal, in which case it sucks to be you.

Press release

If you’re on a 2Mb product you’ll be going to 3Mb.
If you’re on 3Mb you’ll be going to 7.6Mb.
If you’re on 4Mb you’ll be going to 10Mb.
If you’re on 6Mb you’ll be going to 12Mb.

All of the above depends on the poxy Eircom copper between you and the exchange being up to the task. They haven’t mentioned if there will be any change in upstream speeds yet. Upgrades are being rolled out between now and June. Apparently this is all part of Eircom’s ADSL2+ rollout.

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