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		<title>So computer and part prices may be on the rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently computers and computer parts are too cheap. DDR2 memory bottomed out a while ago and at some points was actually being sold under cost. Prices have risen slightly over the last month or two and is continuing upward. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest contract chip foundry making chips for Via, Nvidia, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=29</link>
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		<title>Havok now offers free non-commercial licenses&#8230; too little, too late?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Havok, now owned by Intel, is one of the leading providers of physics APIs for games and applications and is now planning to offer it for free for non-commercial use and to &#8220;approved game developers on the PC platform&#8221; starting in March. It&#8217;s unclear why someone would go with Havok though at this point when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=28</link>
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		<title>HD DVD is dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Toshiba hasn&#8217;t officially announced it but Reuters is saying a source is saying that Toshiba has &#8220;entered the final stage of planning to make our exit from the next generation DVD business,&#8221; and that an official announcement may come next week. It&#8217;s unfortunate that the better technology lost. Feature wise, HD DVD&#8217;s current spec [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=27</link>
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		<title>Who needs graphics inside a CPU?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMD is currently developing a CPU with integrated graphics named the AMD Fusion, with the first chip codenamed Swift. That&#8217;s all well and good but what&#8217;s the target market for this CPU? Who needs this feature? I mean, you&#8217;re still going to have to have a motherboard chipset for the PCI Express slots, PCI, IDE, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=25</link>
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		<title>Am I the only one who doesn&#8217;t get the MacBook Air?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get it&#8230; Why does anyone need a laptop that&#8217;s the regular 13.3&#8243; notebook&#8217;s footprint but &#8220;0.16&#8243; at its thinnest point, 0.76&#8243; at its thickest point&#8221;? And to get this (non)feature you have to pay big ($1,799 base price) and sacrifice insanely. I mean come on, it has ONE USB2.0 port! Yes, you read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=24</link>
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		<title>Electronics Powered By Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to joke about wireless power with buddies of mine when I&#8217;d occasionally forget to plug the power for a hard drive or a fan, &#8220;When are they going to make wireless power!&#8221; and we&#8217;d all laugh&#8230; Apparently multiple companies are working on wireless power! They&#8217;re currently talking about using it for charging laptops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=23</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t necessarily disagree with his message on datacenter security but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The owner of C I Host, a datacenter/server co-location company, is currently talking up the fact that most datacenters don&#8217;t have a good plan for armed robbery. While I don&#8217;t necessarily disagree with his message, if you read this article here it makes it sound like this hit C I Host out of the blue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=22</link>
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		<title>hardware accelerated audio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was checking out the press release for this Asus Xonar sound cards and was reminded just how odd I found the term hardware accelerated audio. It&#8217;s been what 10+ years since Aureal (RIP) introduced their first card and started touting it as being hardware accelerated but it still sounds odd. What&#8217;s that supposed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=21</link>
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		<title>How are G92-based 8800 GTS 512MB cards are still all in stock but the 8800 GT is hard to get?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean seriously, not one card is listed as out of stock and some cards that were out of stock the day of the release are now in stock! How can all manufacturers and all stores sell out of the 8800 GT within days of its release and only sporatic cards showing up here and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=20</link>
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		<title>and they put it in the Dictionary&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The geniuses at Merriam-Webster have added &#8220;w00t&#8221; to their dictionary&#8230;  yes, they even went with zeros&#8230; closer to downfall of the English language +1.]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=19</link>
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		<title>Dell&#8217;s to be sold at Best Buy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You had to expect Dell to be selling systems at Best Buy at some point, they&#8217;re a retail giant. What is surprising is that they&#8217;re only now announcing selling systems in Best Buy, is it me or are they likely to take too long and miss Christmas sales? If you want more info check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=18</link>
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		<title>Responses to Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;assault&#8221; on Linux/Open Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago this topic blew up, and I typed this up but I&#8217;m not sure what happened since I somehow managed to not post it on my blog. Anyway, I found it today and decided to go ahead and post it. As you probably know, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith recently said in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=17</link>
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		<title>Apparently the sounds a mouse makes are a problem for some</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn&#8217;t really have guessed it, but apparently mice that make any kind of noise is a problem for some&#8230; For those people, their&#8217;s the Thanko Silent Mouse.]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=16</link>
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		<title>Playstation 3 getting Divx support, Xbox 360 probably getting it too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unclear if they mean just for game support (like in game cut scenes and whatnot) or if it&#8217;s for downloadable content or if it will mean you can just put a disc in the drive or copy a Divx file over the network but it has been announced that DivX, Inc is working with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=15</link>
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		<title>Kingdom Elemental Tactics is half price on Nov 12th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there is a woot-style page for indie PC games named Game du Jour and Kingdom Elemental Tactics, which we reviewed recently, is going to be available on Game Du Jour&#8230; *checks time then webpage* is now available from Game Du Jour for half price. That means it&#8217;s $9.95. Anyone who likes strategy games should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=14</link>
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		<title>HD DVD player may not stay as low as $200</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks as though the $200 price for the Toshiba HD-A2 may just be because Toshiba was blowing out the old model before coming out with the HD-A3. BestBuy is going to be giving customers that ordered the HD-A2 on backorder an HD-A3 instead because &#8220;Unfortunately, the manufacturer has discontinued this item and we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=13</link>
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		<title>ya, Trend Micro Interenet Security 2008, not so much with the working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trend Micro Internet Security and Panda Antivirus + Firewall are the two antivirus packages we suggest in the store I work at. We&#8217;ve been using and suggesting Panda since the 2004 version. Trend Micro we&#8217;ve been using and suggesting since 2006 version (though we may have sold a few copies of 2005 but only a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=12</link>
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		<title>Power Supplies in eMachines are junk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have an eMachine or know someone that does, especially one that&#8217;s a couple years old, replace the power supply before you end up having to replace more parts when it fails and fries your motherboard or maybe more. In the computer store I work at, all of a sudden about 6 months to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=11</link>
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		<title>as it turns out, it&#8217;s not hard to get e-mails and contacts out of AOL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My parents have been using AOL since we put a 14.4k baud modem in our 386 running windows 3.1. So needless to say it&#8217;s been a while. They kept it because they didn&#8217;t want to deal with having to switch e-mail addresses and loosing all his e-mails inside AOL&#8217;s program. They&#8217;ve had DSL for at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=10</link>
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		<title>and apparently it was the monitor&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few days when I had a chance I&#8217;ve been assembling a new computer for my folks. Their P4 2.2GHz was starting to be cranky, so they decided to replace it rather than have me try and track down what the cause of the problems. Well, after assembling their computer, I ran memtest86+ on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=9</link>
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		<title>And now the brown Zune is $99.99 at buy.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, buy.com has lowered their price for the brown Zune yet again, and it&#8217;s now $99.99. They currently out of stock but it says &#8220;In Stock soon: Usually Ships in 4 to 6 Weeks&#8221; and the page will allow you to order one it seems. Man that price is nuts. Anyway, if you can wait [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=8</link>
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		<title>And now the brown Zune 30 can be had for $139.99</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buy.com and Newegg.com both have Zune 30&#8242;s for $139.99 plus shipping. So I apparently paid a little more than I had too. Also, since walmart is in all states, you have to pay tax on them if you order them from walmart.com. While $20 isn&#8217;t THAT much, it&#8217;s still a decent amount of money. Anyway, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=7</link>
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		<title>So I ordered a Zune 30&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was already kinda thinking of getting a Zune after learning about the cool stuff Microsoft is doing for the new Zunes and that the old Zune was getting all the cool new firmware upgrades. The final thing that sealed the deal was that Walmart.com has the brown Zune for $150! I&#8217;ve always thought that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=6</link>
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		<title>Microsoft doing small closed beta for Vista SP1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft seems to be focusing on the right things for Vista Service Pack 1. Nick White&#8217;s post on Microsoft&#8217;s WindowsVistaBlog.com said, &#8220;SP1 will contain changes focused on addressing specific reliability and performance issues we’ve identified via customer feedback, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards&#8230; We didn’t design SP1 as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aberrantech.com/mrblob9000/p=4</link>
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		<title>the iPod Touch is &#8220;very similar&#8221; to the iPhone, who could have guessed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so multiple sites are reporting that the iPod touch is &#8220;very similar&#8221; to the iPhone. Is anyone surprised by this? It has the same interface, similar physical form factor, and has the same feature set except the no cell phone. Why was this news? To me it&#8217;d be more of a shock if it [...]]]></description>
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