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Rasmus.com auction of Ruckus gear is almost over

I am stunned at some of the prices a few of these old pieces of gear are fetching… $700+ for old dual G5 XServes!? $1000 for old Dell Poweredge servers!? nearly $500 each for Dell Latitude D630 laptops!? On the other hand, $851 for a Sun V440 with four processors and 16GB of memory is […]

Marketing Fail!

Doh! Apparently, every Intel based Mac since early 2006 has had a new feature that Apple has completely failed to market. I have owned a few of these Macs and never knew about this feature, and others have probably skipped Apple products not knowing it was available. The feature I am referring to is the […]

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Apple has an event next Tuesday (17th)

Looks like it is some sort of announcement/preview of a new iPhone SDK or perhaps a new iPhone OS upgrade/update. I gotta say, if they are considering releasing a new major revision (iPhone OS 3.0) without global search, cut and paste, the ability to synchronize notes between iPhone and Mac desktop; they need to delay. […]

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Wow, this is quite stunning

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

The old Ruckus gear is on auction now

Rasmus.com is the official auctioneer and reseller of all the old Server, laptop, and desktop gear I was talking about – now they own it all. http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?rasmus324/category/ALL I have no idea what this stuff will finally go for – but it’s sad to see it all online.

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Wow, new Mac Mini is much better

The new Apple Mac Mini is much better than previous models. It’s improvements are subtle, and anyone making a quick glance might miss the changes, but here is a summary: The switch from embedded Intel graphics to NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is a huge energy savings; the new Mini uses only half the power of the […]

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15″ MacBook Pro for sale

Erci has a 15″ MacBook Pro with 2.16GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB memory (2 sticks of 1GB DDR2 memory at 667MHz), ATI Radeon X1600 graphics (128MB VRAM), 112GB SATA drive, and Mac OS X 10.5 cleanly installed. Her machine is pretty mint, having never really traveled outside the family room. She’d love to hear from […]

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Fifth Element still rocks, so does Boxee

Last night we watched The Fifth Element again rather than waste time on the Oscars, and I do not regret that decision. The Fifth Element is stunning and spectacular, and I finally got to hear the Dolby Digital surround soundtrack as some recent EBay acquisitions all work together (our copy of the movie is on […]

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Quest to reduce monthly bills produces interesting results

I am on a bit of a personal quest to reduce monthly bills where possible. I realized that between two mobile phones, Vonage, broadband internet via Comcast, and television via Comcast and DISH network we were spending a lot on communications. At first I went to reduce redundancy; but my partner and I each like […]

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Company selling off old Sun servers

Update: too late, resellers have picked up all the old Sun gear, and everything else as well. =========== If you are interested in picking up some Sun server gear, contact me before we send it all to a reseller: Four SunFire V440 servers (4u) two servers have 4 drives (72GB, 10,000 rpm); two processors, 4GB […]

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