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Woohoo, the Huygens probe has landed on Titan! Cassini-Huygens Mission Isn't it cool what you can do with computers and a few gajillion pieces of eight?

My local retailer of choice tells me that the Seagate 10k.6 drives are discontinued. However, Seagate's web page shows them, and the few online retailers I checked show them too. This guy has been always been good (I followed him from one shop to another because of service), but this somehow...

What the heck is this pattern? It's the bolt holding a HDD to an SCA tray for an IBM server. Looks like a torx with the addition of a pin in the middle to defeat simple replacement! Is this a standard head pattern? Grrr....What's wrong with a bloody phillips head??? :evil:

A friend just sold his mtn bike online, and has agreed to take payment via Paypal. My reaction to this form of payment (based, I admit, on an old and vaguely-recalled memory of it being a bit if a bear to get one's $s out of Paypal) has made him a little anxious. I'm feeling a little bad about...

Help! I was, until recently, a happy user of Quicken 99. Use it to track everything financial in my little world. Intuit, no doubt angry that I haven't upgraded, recently dropped downloads of stock quotes for Quicken versions pre-2001. I have been expecting this for a while, so I'm not...

I was complaining about the abysmal quality of the Viewsonic P90f "Professional" series monitor here and Dïscfärm recommended the Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB. I'm looking at one now as I type this, and it's wonderful. Crisp text edge to edge, colour is consistent, and lots of controls to...

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