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  1. Cyberman

    Why Engineers HAVE to have a sense of homor (or go insane)

    Now a lot of people probably don't understand that if you think a salesman can be annoying when you are trying to buy something, wait tell you are trying to make a product! I like GOOD feedback however salesman are human and sometimes they have an inflated head (ok it's NOT sometimes its too...
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    PCSX compilation under win32 using mingW or Cygwin?

    Has anyone done this successfully? I suspect it's possible, however I thought I would ask about it before I got buried in details of weirdness this likely will be. Cyb
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    Guts of the IPad2 on display ...

    Sorry this is a brutal set of photos for people who love the 'Apple stuff' but it does give you the guts of the thing on display :) EETimes pictures UBM tech insights analysis Cyb
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    Technical details of Recent Nippon Earthquake

    Seismic events (rolling last 7 days) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php World Map (same data) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/ That says it all. You can download the data base of information they have for various areas if you dig...
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    LG vs Sony patent dispute

    http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20110312a4.html This is an on going battle. It seems when Sony decided to start using litigation to solve it's problems are now going south. Although they have a temporary lift this is a very serious problem. LG is not a small potatoes company, they...
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    Windows mobile on your Nokia? here is WHY ...

    Nokia apparently has been bought to use windows mobile in there phones. Gee is this a surprise? Cyb
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    Sandy Bridge CPU's begin rolling out

    Article regarding the CPUs vague in my opinion.
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    To be sure you are on time, the latest on chronographic technology!

    The PORTABLE ATOMIC clock! woo hoo LOL I read this and said "how much is it?" Note this is a good thing but the cost is likely to be a deterent. (Notice the guy talks about military apps sheesh.) Actually I would love to have one of these for verifying the timing on an Oscilloscope as well...
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    What's inside the ... "MacBook Pro 15" Unibody"

    Interesting article with a tear down of this device, and what makes it interesting is they used an FPGA device in it.
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    The Kinect has just been opened by MS

    Microsoft just announced an SDK to work with the kinect! Now we can drive each other nuts with 3d photos and weird gaming interfaces! :D I just want to use it for 3d scene creation myself, time to get a kinnect. Cyb
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    PSRG (PSuedo Random number Generators) without ordered sequences?

    I'm currently using a simple Galois LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) algorithm for generating an iterative sequence for a locking mechanism (remove accidental and incidental issues in messing with somethings configuration). Keeping it simple is necessary because this is NOT A PC (a IBM XT...
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    More On Intel (hmmm that could be a pun)

    Intel is announcing all sorts of things 14nm Fab http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4213295/Intel-to-build-new-Arizona-fab- 8 IT cores in a chip http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4213317/Intel-packs-eight-cores-into-Itanium-CPU Oversupply! (hmmm)...
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    Warning US political satire at work

    All right you have been warned not to take this too seriously. I was laughing when I read this. I like the ONION news they have some rather humorous stuff on it at times. Cyb
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    Small Stuff or in this case computer

    http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/CompuLab-TrimSlice/ http://www.fit-pc.com/trimslice/
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    New Sony portable game console information

    http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212605/Four-core-ARM-A9-to-run-Sony-game-console I won't state my view of Sony's 'boring' announcement. I will say this, Sony is very likely to continue it's abusive marketing tactic of fake backwards compatibility on all there consoles (essentially they've...
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    Older versions of 3d ripper DX

    Does anyone know where to get these? The author phased out win2K support and has no archival record of the prior versions (typical lazy programmer). I might have to make my own (just for learning and other reasons) I actually have a use for this (not ripping models and textures) for use with...
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    XXTEA and BTEA encryption decryption

    Currently I'm looking at these for short message data that is byte aligned. These algorithms appear to like double word aligned data. They also appear to be sensitive to endianess in some circumstances. I prefer to implement encryption in an encapsulated system (IE data goes in data goes out no...
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    This should provide some interest (why grammar counts)

    This is an engineer who specializes in fixing screwed up projects, and educating development teams on proper methods for keeping projects on time, his commentary on poor grammar usage. :D It elicited quite a laugh from me, that sounds very familiar for some reason. Cyb
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    The iPod and consumer electronics .. :D

    Those who like buying Apple stuff should consider the following article. Other Apple related commentary For Apple in 2010 Against Apple in 2010 Apple is making record profits by the way ... Cyb
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    Interesting Article (Regarding Decompilation) and Security issues

    This article might be quite revealing to some people (or a 'who cares' to others) in understanding what goes into making a processor as well as how you find out if someone stole my code (LOL). A few might also find this interesting about issues regarding compiler optimization (actually there...

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