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Great deal for superb Canon S3 IS digital camera at Dell Canada

August 7, 2006 – 12:29 pm

Quick lunchtime post for a great deal.
It’s just $521 - which is well below the $549-609 range at most major retailers for the excellent Canon S3 IS digital camera. The best (non-pro / SLR) digital camera out there with 12x zoom, 6MP, and… MMM optical stabilisation.
Check it out at Dell Canada - search for […]

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Google Dalles Data Centre has serious cooling needs…

August 5, 2006 – 12:35 pm

Gotta keep those servers cool (!)
Wonder what the cooling capacity of those units is…

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How To Spot and Test Fake Memory Cards

July 31, 2006 – 9:59 pm

OCAU’s Wiki has an excellent article about the recent spate of fake memory cards.
Le site des overclockers en Australie a un excellent article Wiki concernant les cartes de mémoire et comment détecter des fausses cartes… en ce moment c’est sur le top 10 de Digg, donc.. naturellement leur site est presqu’inaccessible
read more | digg story

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Microsoft to charge $1.50 to download Office 2007 Beta 2 (!)

July 29, 2006 – 5:50 pm

According to a C|Net article, published today, an unidentified Microsoft spokeswoman has stated that Microsoft will start charging US$1.50 to download Office 2007 Beta 2.
Supposedly, it is to offset server and bandwidth costs … 3 million downloads which is 5x what they expected.
Huh? Microsoft is pulling in $1-2B in profit every month and they need […]

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$2,000,000 DiMora SuperCar gets 10 orders from resort owner?

July 25, 2006 – 9:44 pm

This story sounds like total BS… a tiotal fantasy of someone. How come this 1200HP V16 “Volcano” engine powered 4 door ultracar with heat-sensing dynamic paint, video projectors in the headlights etc etc has never been mentioned on any of the serious high end car enthusiast sites I frequent….
Hahaha…

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