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Opteron Dually Mobos…Drool

Tech Report reviews 3 pretty sweet looking dual Opteron mobos.

I coud definitely do some serious number crunching with any of these motherboards. When it comes to working with large datasets, I’ll bet the Tyan Thunder with a suitable NUMA-aware OS and over 9 GB/s memory bandwidth would run circles around most other workstations out there.

I need one for my next computer…Let’s go shopping on Pricewatch

Part Quant Price Total
Tyan Thunder K8W 1 $430.50 $430.50
Opteron 246 2 GHz 2 $675 $1350
512MB Corsair CM72D512RLP 4 $146 $584
Gigabyte 256MB Geforce 5950 Ultra 1 $391 $391
Maxtor 250GB SATA HD 2 $185.70 $371.40
Sony DRU-530A DVD+/-RW 1 $135 $135
Thermaltake V1000D case 1 $128 $128
Samsung 193S 19″ LCD 1 $577 $577
Enermax EG651P-VE Power Supply 1 $133.50 $133.50
Extras   $100 $100

Total cost: $4200.40

I’d better start saving my pennies. Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin.

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Canada RULES hockey!

Yes! We RULE hockey! Team Canada take gold at the Women’s World Championships. A 2-0 shutout over the US team for their 8th championship title in a row!

From Canada.com:

But the American players were angry over an apparent missed goal by officials during their third power play of that period.

and to this I say “Phbphbphbphbpht”. Ya still lost.

Ok, I suppose that wasn’t very nice of me to gloat like that. I’m sorry.

Well, no, not really. We still won. Heehee 🙂

And coming up later this month, the men’s World Hockey Championship.

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Star Wars Ep III coming RSN

According to Slashdot and Starwars.com, Episode III is scheduled for release just over a year from now on May 19, 2005. That makes it almost 18 years after the release of the first Star Wars and 7 years since Episode I were released.

Hope it’s a good one. I’ve waited long enough for it.

Found on Slashdot.org

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Farscape returns!

Woo hoo! Farscape is coming back to SciFi! The SciFi Wire announcement only mentions a 2 part miniseries, so I don’t know if it’s just coming back as a mini-series, or if this mini-series is going to kick off a whole new season of Farscape. Hopefully this means more seasons of Farscape. If so, I can’t wait! Now if only SciFi would re-run Farscape at a more reasonable time…

Found via GeekGrrl and SciFi Wire

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Step. Crunch. Oops

My wife was stepping out of bed after a nap, heard a crunch. This is what she stepped on: her Visor Edge in the pocket of the jeans that were on the floor. The screen can be pretty easily replaced, but I guess this is as good an opportunity as any to upgrade her to a newer PDA. She’ll need something more capable for med school anyway. So now we’re shopping around for a new PDA. A Tungsten C is at the top of the list at the moment. With the recent price drop, it’s looking pretty good.