Apple has officially announced the release date for the controversial iPad mobile device.

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The world’s fastest SATA drive is here, and it’s the first to require the new SATA 3 6Gbps bus for full performance.

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USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gbps, and OS support for high-performance Solid State Disks (SSDs) are already available to Windows 7 users with several new motherboards. Mac users need to be aware of these advances and decide which are important to them before upgrading, as many Mac models will lock them out of some of these features – in some cases permanently.

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Windows 7 users who prefer a solid color desktop are suffering from a very significant and easily avoidable boot delay.

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The worst part of Windows for me is *activation*.
Activation is the secret mojo in Windows which gets all pissy if you change hardware in your computer too often and makes you disgrace yourself by literally making a phone call to Microsoft headquarters and asking their permission to keep using it.
First, you have to read off [...]

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About 12 years ago I went to my first of (admittedly few) Linux User Groups Meetings in Silicon Valley.
I was new to the Valley, and a bit bright-eyed (that would fade FAST). For a new transplant, I was looking forward to visiting the holy Cisco campus and hanging out with other developers of the first [...]

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Recently I have been looking at ways to reduce energy usage around the house.
One long overdue way was to put my always-on loaded 300w PC Desktop to sleep and migrate its server duties to an always-on Mac Mini, which probably idles around 16w.
Despite all the cool stuff it does, the mini is still stock, 1.86 [...]

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