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New Acer “Predator” desktop looks transformer-like
Faster. Deeper. Harder. Further
At least that’s what Acer wants us to beleive when it comes to their brand new gaming rig, the Aspire G7700 Predator. Apart from looking like something right out of a transformers movie, this beast features an overclocking quad-core, Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 8GB of RAM and three… that’s right, three GeForce 9800 GTX graphics cards. For the full specs, be sure to visit the Predator’s home page.
Unfortunately, Pricing and availability have not been announced yet.
[Via TechEblog]
Free Subscription to Website Magazine
After the PC Magazine offer (which is now expired, sorry for those who missed it), we now have another fantastic promotion involving a free subscription to the Website Magazine. I’m not sure how long this one will last, so if you’re running a website, you better hurry and subscribe to it before it expires.
Until now, there has not been a magazine that caters exclusively to the business of running a website. Website Magazine has tapped premier talent in the Internet industry for their content and each and every issue will contain practical advice and insights for website owners.
Subscribe for free here! (U.S. Only)
Its Mid-2008. The Pentagon Finally Gets Around to Defining CyberSpace
You can only imagine how long this meeting was. After decades of wrangling, the big brains at the Department of Defense finally got around to defining exactly what is meant by the term “cyberspace.” This was distributed in an official memorandum at the Pentagon. All I can say is “It’s about time!”
The definition:
I have a copy of the DoD Memorandum here. It references Presidential directives for Homeland Security and National Security and helpfully clarifies the term for secretaries of the military departments. And this is why contractors make the big bucks in Washington, DC.
Chad Vader strikes back!
By Mark O’Neill
Chad Vader is back in part one of a new series of “customer service training videos for supermarkets”. Absolutely brilliant.
The new web campaign of the day
By Mark O’Neill
I often find it amusing about some of the pointless website campaigns that people start up but this one that I found today is one that I whole-heartedly support. I have a lot of email buddies who send me lots of “forwards” – jokes, pictures, video clips, weblinks and much more. Which is all fine and good but these buddies still haven’t learned the concept of email BCC – Blind Carbon Copy.
All being geeks here, I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you how BCC works. But there’s a lot of people out there who still haven’t worked it out yet. I’m sure you know a few people like that too. So when you get a forwarded email, you normally have to scroll past scores of email addresses first which is a spammer’s wet dream. I keep telling my friends that those email addresses should be in the BCC column but do they listen? Nope.
So I think I’ll now be sending them the BCC Please website and asking them to read it. If you know anyone who mass pastes email addresses in plain sight, maybe you should send along the page to them too? Hopefully they might finally get the message!
Karma Sutra for the Computer Repairman
Because sometimes, a screwdriver simply isn’t enough to get those old beige computer boxes opened.
[Source: Unknown]
Spiceworks 3.0: Taking Network Management to the Next Level
By Rob Dunn
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
If you already are familiar with Spiceworks, then you can skip ahead to “Brief History” – but if not, read on.
Network Inventory for the budget-crunched masses
If you are a systems administrator or IT manager who maintains a small to medium sized shop, you probably don’t have a lot of money to spend (heck, who does these days?) on proactive network monitoring and inventory tools. So, any company that puts out an inexpensive high-quality tool to help you manage your network is a welcome sight.
Of course, if it is a free high-quality tool… well, that’s even better!
Steve Ballmer getting egged in Budapest
Yes folks, Mr. Ballmer can finally join his buddy Bill in the “getting food trown at me” club. In the following video, you’ll see steve about to start talking at a conference at the Hungarian University of Economy in Budapest, when suddenly, an angry student gets up and start throwing eggs at him while yelling something completely unintelligible.
And as a bonus, here’s the video where someone smashes a cream pie on Mr. Gates’ face. Enjoy!
Web games to help computers get smarter
By Mark O’Neill
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have introduced a website with games designed to make peoples computers get better at doing certain tasks.
It’s one of those “for the common good” things, where you play the games and the researchers collect the results together and then use them to improve existing applications for everyone.
To give you an example, one of them is a game where you are shown a picture and you have to give words to describe that picture – you may know it better as Google Image Labeler. So these aren’t silly little league games. Some big money is involved here!
There’s only five games at the moment but I’m sure more will be added in the future. If anyone criticises you for playing the games, just tell them you’re “doing your bit to improve the internet”.