The guys at [H]ard|OCP had spend 30 days each using, playing and testing Linux (Ubuntu), Windows Vista and Mac OS X Tiger. Read on each of the article below to find out their experience:
Honestly, I think their findings are rather interesting.
My Transparent Network Cable…
To be exact, it is a transparent Cat5e UTP cable. But kinda looong - 7 meters!.. Well, actually, I saw the cable at Tesco Penang when I went to shop for my groceries and I just had to visit the IT Cable Section and saw the cable… (honestly, I didn’t aspect I’m gonna find cool stuff like the cable there!)
Anyway, sorry, I don’t remember the price anymore.. haha. But, if i’m not mistaken, the price range between RM10 - RM15. So far, I had use it several times but since its too long, I think I will cut it into 2 (each 3.5 meters) and recrimp each end. Most probably, I will leave one at home and the other I will keep it in my bag (so I could use it at work.. ). Well, I won’t take a 7 meter network cable to work anymore - I had the experience of my senior (in fact he’s a CCIE in Routing and Switching) laughed at me jokingly because I was carrying a 7-meter network cable everyday to work! Check out the pics below. It was taken by Raz when he visited my house on Sunday last week (Thanx man! Well, he had come over to my house to learn how to crimp network cables!)
Kill Your Television?
Indeed. Thats the title of the ‘about’ page of Revision3, an internet based media company that blends information with entertainment, providing downloadable technology-related videos mainly to geeks.
There are various different shows ‘airing’ at Revision3:
- Ctrl-Alt-Chicken - cooking where the chef don’t know how to cook
- Diggnation - tech/web culture
- Geekdrome - debate on movies, comics, music & video games
- iFanboy - comic books
- InDigital - latest gadgets & high tech products
- Infected - technology effects on the world
- Mysteries of Science - answers to great mysteries of science
- notmtv - inside the independent music scene
- PixelPerfect - learn the tips and tricks of digital pictures
- Systm - DIY geeky tech projects
- thebroken - underground technology show
- The Totally Rad Show - geek news
- Web Drifter - behind the websites
- XLR8R TV - behind the scenes covered in the pages of XLR8R magazine
The video shows are easily distributed and work in various platform since it can be downloaded directly or downloaded via Bittorrent and encoded in various different format - Quicktime, Theora, WMV, Xvid as well as flash! Cool isn’t it?
Currently I’m downloading systm in Quicktime format. So far, I’ve downloaded 5 episodes and will be downloading all the aired shows as well as subscribe to the upcoming shows. I think everyone interested in technology should take a look at the site and start viewing the shows!
One more thing I should add - If you had watched The Screen Savers, a TV show previously aired on TechTV (shown in Malaysia via Astro’s TVIQ Channel), you would remember some of the faces in the videos. So now you can expect the quality of the presentation and content of the shows rite?
