Thermalright Ultra-90 K8 Aluminum Heatpipe Heatsink for AMD K8

Thermalright Ultra-90 K8 Aluminum Heatpipe Heatsink for AMD K8

Following the XP series and the HR series comes the “Ultra” from Thermalright, Inc! The Ultra-90 takes a little bit of the features from the two previous successful series. The new Ultra-90 continues the the tradition of XP’s light & easy: light in weight and even easier to install. Now you don’t even have to remove your motherboard to install the LGA775 or K8 adapter. From the HR-series, Ultra-90 takes the tower form with 3 dual heatpipes and the capacity to cool the hottest dual-core CPU currently circulating the market, capable of cooling both AMD K8 and Intel 775. As for performance…when it’s from Thermalright, you know it’s all about performance!

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The Gadgeteer - Inka Pen

The Gadgeteer - Inka Pen

So what's a non-purse carrying girl to do? We find a solution like the Inka Pen from Inka Corporation of Boulder, Colorado. Available in stainless steel or Titanium ($89.95) versions. I was sent the stainless steel version to review.

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Srinivas Sampath's Blog : NHibernate Intellisense in VS 2005

Srinivas Sampath's Blog : NHibernate Intellisense in VS 2005:

Turns out that this location is different in VS 2005. The location to place schema files to enable intellisense in VS 2005 is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas. The locations and drive letter can change depending on where you installed VS 2005, but once you put in your schema here, you get full intellisense.

Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK

Wired News: The Wikipedia FAQK:

What is Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a new paradigm in human discourse. It's a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument. In fact, Wikipedia is the largest and most comprehensive collection of arguments in human history, incorporating spats and vendettas on subjects ranging from Suleiman the Magnificent to Dan the Automator. As an unexpected side effect of being the perfect argument space, it's also a pretty good place to find information about all the characters from Battlestar: Galactica.

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Sign: unattended-children

Cool .NET Tools

Cool .NET Tools:

While I haven't been blogging, my RSS reader (Omea Reader) has been building up with a bunch of flagged entries that I wanted to mention. Some cool tools that I wanted to share: * Wink - It's a freeware app that allows you to record screenshots, etc. and bundle them into a tutorial (exports to Flash) with bubbles and explanations. Via Sean McCormack * SWExplorerAutomation - It allows to create an object model for any Web application developed with HTML and DHTML. It can be easily used for the Unit Testing. It has a good “movie“ to show you how it's used. Via Roy Osherove * BlueWhaleCRM - An open source customer relationship management solution. Demo here. Via Darrell Norton. * Lithium - An open source tree diagramming control. Via Darrell Norton - who has a good list of features and screenshot. * RUnit - Which allows you to run your NUnit Tests from within a ASP.Net web app. Via The Daily Grind and Mike Gunderloy.

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Amazon.com: CLR via C#, Second Edition: Explore similar items

Amazon.com: CLR via C#, Second Edition: Explore similar items:

In this new edition of Jeffrey Richter’s popular APPLIED MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMING, you get focused, pragmatic guidance on how to exploit the common language runtime (CLR) functionality in .NET Framework 2.0 for applications of all types—from Web Forms, Windows� Forms, and.

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Coollaboratory Liquid Pro Thermal Interface Material

Coollaboratory Liquid Pro Thermal Interface Material:

Cool Laboratory Liquid Pro is the first heat thermal conductive compound which truly earns this title. Cool Laboratory Liquid Pro consists of 100% liquid metal! It is liquid at ambient temperature (very cool!). CoolLaboratory has a heat transfer rate over eight times that of conventional thermal compounds.

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Man clobbered with £126 trillion phone bill | The Register

Man clobbered with �126 trillion phone bill | The Register:

Publican Jack Harding got the shock of his life when he received his monthly phone bill from BT demanding more than £616,000.

But if you think that's bad, spare a thought for Yahaya Wahab, a 63-year-old meat importer from Malaysia. He's just been sent a bill for 806 trillion Ringgit - about £126 trillion.

According to Malaysia's New Straits Times, he's been given 10 days to cough up or face legal action.

He told the paper: "If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it. In fact, I can't wait to face it."

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b3ta.com board: if 24 was real...

b3ta.com board: If 24 was real...

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Ask A Ninja | You Got Questions, Ninja Got Answers.

Ask A Ninja | You Got Questions, Ninja Got Answers.:

You got questions, Ninja got answers.
Remember to send your questions to askaninja@gmail.com.

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Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too | The Register

Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too | The Register:

"Your ISP is a communication service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or destination of any communication from your ISP would be illegal -- with no exceptions. "If you send or receive your email via an encrypted connection, you're in violation, because the 'To' and 'From' lines of the emails are concealed from your ISP by encryption. (The encryption conceals the destinations of outgoing messages, and the sources of incoming messages.) "Worse yet, Network Address Translation (NAT), a technology widely used for enterprise security, operates by translating the 'from' and 'to' fields of Internet packets, thereby concealing the source or destination of each packet, and hence violating these bills. Most security 'firewalls' use NAT, so if you use a firewall, you're in violation.

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Can You Bank on Wal-Mart? [Fool.com: Commentary] April 11, 2006

Can You Bank on Wal-Mart? [Fool.com: Commentary] April 11, 2006:

Wal-Mart says it wants a banking license so that it can keep all fees that it pays other banks to process its customers' credit and debit card payments "in-house." That's true, as far as it goes, and there's plenty of money to be saved there. But when the retail behemoth goes on to say "and that's all we plan to do," the statement rings as hollow as Hillary Clinton hemming and hawing over whether she will run for president. The key, you see, is for Wal-Mart to get the banking license now. Once it has it, the company will be free to change the "plan" and go into the retail banking business full-scale.

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Ballerina Dad: My Crazy Diabetes Fundraiser

Ballerina Dad: My Crazy Diabetes Fundraiser

SQL Server 2005: Synonyms and non-clustered index included columns

SQL Server 2005: Two Little Known Features That Matter Big! > Synonyms:

SQL Server 2005 introduces a host of new features, some well-known; some not as familiar. This article introduces you to two exciting options: synonyms and non-clustered index included columns.

Synonyms help you create aliases for your objects. They simplify the naming of remote objects as well as objects that are in another database or another schema. They can also help you create a layer of abstraction for the database objects—thus allowing you to swap the underlying objects without affecting any code that references the objects.

Non-clustered index included columns help improve query performance. This feature is totally new and (as far as I know) does not exist in other database products. It is similar to the indexed view feature of SQL Server 2000, but is much easier to plan implement and maintain.

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Discovery Channel :: News :: Multi-Car Elevator Moves in a Circle

Discovery Channel :: News :: Multi-Car Elevator Moves in a Circle

April 6, 2006— A new elevator system can circulate six to eight cars in a vertical loop within the same space previously reserved for just two cars.

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First Look: PC World Installs Windows XP on a 20-Inch iMac With Boot Camp - Yahoo! News

First Look: PC World Installs Windows XP on a 20-Inch iMac With Boot Camp - Yahoo! News:

It works. Impressively well. With games, even. That's our first impression of Windows XP running under Apple's Boot Camp on our 20-inch iMac. And that's more than you could say a couple of days ago about the promising-but-hacked-together WinXPonMac effort. (You can download Boot Camp here.) ADVERTISEMENT XP on a Mac is refreshing, but Microsoft's idea of an "exciting new look" feels a little last century.Eager to get our hands on a real, dual-booting Apple/Windows hybrid, we ran the Boot Camp installer on a 20-inch iMac and found the process amazingly smooth. It took about an hour. Graphics drivers--the major remaining performance hurdle under WinXPonMac--were solid and responsive under limited testing on our iMac.

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Saab breathalizer immobilizer

Saab breathlizer immobilizer

Before you start the car you have to provide a breathalizer sample that is analysed by the car. If you blow over the car won't start

Whether it's design, technology or pure functionality, innovation has always been our philosophy, and the Alcokey is no exception. There's never been any doubt that we're absolutely committed to safety, but putting our hearts and souls into building the safest cars that money can buy isn't always enough.

Last year, 15% of deaths on British roads involved drivers who were over the legal limit, so we've taken it upon ourselves to try and help reduce this figure by means of the Saab Alcokey. This cutting-edge development is based on existing Saab anti-theft technology, the Alcokey comprises of a small mouthpiece in the key fob and an electronic control unit inside the car. The driver breathes into the mouthpiece and, if the breath sample contains more alcohol than the legal limit, the engine is immobilised.

A prototype of the Alcokey is currently being tested in the Saab 9-5, and once reliability and accuracy has been verified, a pocket-sized version will be produced. President and CEO of Saab, Peter Augustsson, says "we are an innovative brand and in that tradition the Alcokey concept is a very practical and efficient solution. It will help those who want to be sure they only get behind the wheel when they are fit to drive."

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