Archive for February, 2006

Sun Microbrewsystem’s latest liquid cooled server

February 13, 2006

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Tags: liquid, Microbrewsystem, sun
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Laser turntable plays vinyl records like CDs

February 13, 2006

The ELP laser turntable reads LPs with lasers — the manufacturer claims that the lasers can read “virgin” parts of the grooves that haven’t been touched by needles and produce a better sound, and that the five laser read-head lets you skip forward and back across or within tracks as you would with a CD.

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Tags: analog, Detector, groove, laser, LPs, microprocessor, reader, reproduction, Scanner, Sensitive, tracking, vinyl
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Latest liquid cooled case mod

February 13, 2006

If you’re looking for a unique way of pouring beer at your next soirĂ©e, here’s a dispenser that has just the right mixture of geekitude and originality on tap. There are precious few details about this boozy case mod, but we’re hoping there’s a radically overclocked liquid-cooled computer inside, chilled by the same mechanism that [...]

Tags: beer, boozy, case, computer, dispenser, keg, kegger, mixture, mod
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IFRAME without src attribute on HTTPS in Internet Explorer

February 6, 2006

If you get warnings from IE about mixed security in your HTTPS pages, check this link below:
http://gemal.dk/blog/2005/01/27/iframe_without_src_attribute_on_https_in_internet_explorer/
I would have been stuck on this for hours! Thank god for blogging!
[edit: setting src = javascript:false; also works.]
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Warning: Micro$oft patches can seriously damage your health.

February 2, 2006

For several days now I’ve been struggling with a problem involving Installshield 11.5 integration with Visual Studio 2005. I have been converting some C# projects over to .NET 2.0 and was also having to update their installers. I was using an evaluation copy of Installshield 11.5 which meant that every time you opened the solution [...]

Tags: Bugs, C#, Microsoft, Security
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