Many have heard about the fake CPUs accidentally sent by newegg. (Newegg had a supplier distribute them, who they got rid of.) Now presented by Gearlog is the unboxing of a fake CPU.

It was recently revealed that years ago Steve Jobs threatened Schwartz (Sun Microsystems) and Schwartz reminded Steve about Sun’s own patient portfolio, and the fact that they take from others too....

As recently pointed out by Juixe, the US government has given a patent on the linked list to LSI Logic Corp who filed for the patent in 2002. According to Wikipedia, the linked list was first used ...

It looks like many of these recipes are most likely from my grandmother, not my mom. Kirsten thinks my mom kept her own recipes elsewhere, especially since we couldn’t find some of hers that we kne...

Those who know me know how much I love to bake bread. Most do not know why though. I had originally learned to bake bread because it was one thing my mom felt she couldn’t do that well. She taught ...

With the Olympics being broadcast in HD on NBC, we wanted to get all of it on the TiVo. But our HD TiVo is basically out of room with the digital feed already on it. (We get OTA HD) So, I wanted to...

Facebook pretends to be twitter, and now so does Google Mail via Buzz. If these microblogs, public status notifications, or whatever you want to call it is something people really use, then it need...

If you are using a database with your ActiveMQ installation, you may want to set useDatabaseLock to “false” in the journaledJDBC element of your configuration. This is there so that you can have a ...

Here is something that will only interest a few people. I’ve restarted my ‘Migo Experiment’ tonight. This is a variation of my ‘bees’, swarm AI project. First goal, 1K neurons on one computer.

While I watch my kitchen being remodels (which is a nice way to say, destroyed and rebuild) I decided on two projects that I want to work on in the new year, completely unrelated to my kitchen. The...