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Ordered

April 23rd, 2008

Dell XPS 630
– Intel® Core蒂2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB)
– 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz -4 DIMMs
– Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
– nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
– 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
– Dell Premium Optical USB Mouse
– Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
– Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
– Microsoft [...]

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My Laptop

March 6th, 2008

Ordered a new laptop the other day. It hasn’t shipped yet, but this is what I’m getting:

Intel® Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 DIMM
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce 8400M GS
160GB Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive, 7200RPM, for Dell Vostro 1500 [...]

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Merry Christmas from China

February 19th, 2008

 
I believe I’ve written in the past about a how a load of Seagate hard drives were found to contain trojans straight from the factory in China. Here’s even more chilling news. LCD photo frames from China have also been found to contain trojans.
According to the San Franciso Chronicle:

"An insidious computer virus recently discovered on [...]

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Trojan Hardware

November 15th, 2007

No, I’m not talking about a giant horse.
If you read sci-fi, or if you have any imagination whatsoever, then this news item should come as no surprise.
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything [...]

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One Pr0n per…

July 24th, 2007

I find it hilarious–yet utterly predictable–that third world school kids are using their free laptops provided by the One Laptop Per Child foundation to view pr0n.
I’m only surprised that they skipped LAN parties and DOOM and went straight to the hard core stuff.
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