Sybreon Ones Nought

I passed by Harvey Norman today and decided to drop in to look at the new Compaq Nettop. Let me just say that I am quite taken in by the price of the thing. It is much cheaper than I had expected. Internet reports claim that the price of the high end model (2030) is about US$386 (RM1355) but they are only selling it for RM998 (US$285) here. The ...

Seems like it does not have to cost a bomb to build a decent home theatre system these days. I just returned from the local Carrefour after shopping for sundries and noticed that they were selling a 32" LCD screen at only RM1299 (£256), which is a fairly decent price. It is not a 'branded' product but that is really a non-issue for me. The LCD display market ...

I had the chance to use the Maxis wireless broadband service recently. My sister has subscribed to it and since I was the IT support at home, I took the liberty of setting it up for them and testing it out. I had also been planning on signing up and dumping my Streamyx service if it worked out. I had to test a couple of things: whether the modem ...

The NVIDIA Tesla is a fairly interesting computer from NVIDIA, whom are famous for their graphics chips. The Tesla is a supercomputing workstation that combines a number of graphics chips and a regular processor. The result is a remarkable desktop machine with the total computational power of 933 GFlops at under US$ 10,000. While the computer is being touted towards the scientific and engineering community who have to deal ...

I just read this article in TheStar today that UniTAR (a local private university) graduates will soon be certified as anti-hacker. According to the article, "Information technology students at University Tun Abdul Razak (Unitar) can soon be certified to counter hackers.Those taking the Bachelor of Information Systems (Hons) and Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) at Unitar may graduate with the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification from the E-Commerce ...

I know that most of my readers are not technically inclined. So, I will try to explain things as simple as I can. I have just built a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) prototype at home. My purpose for doing so is to get some performance numbers so that I will know what resources I'll need to design and build my final HTPC. The prototype HTPC is using a small ...

Okay, it's been a while since I stopped writing temporarily. I think that I the short hiatus from blogging was a good one. I can now return to writing about totally random and impersonal stuff like I used to. So, I think that I will kick things off by talking about recent developments on the aeMB processor. A French company had decided to take the aeMB and build a ...

If this is allowed to continue, it is the beginning of the end for us. According to various reports, it seems that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has stepped out of its bounds and ordered Malaysian Internet Service Providers to censor Malaysia Today, an extremely popular anti-establishment blog. Seems like our MSC bill of guarantees is going out the window for political expediency. Well, although I am not ...