I'm building a budget rig a friend of mine who has lived off of his graphic designer father's old Macs for his entire life currently. He gave me a 700$ budget, and so with 750 I went out and bought these parts from NCIX.

Everything went fine when ordering, except for two small mishaps, the first one being that it took like a friggin week to even get the stuff in the mail, and the other being that the power supply I ordered was back ordered.

I get the parts, throw it...

I've finished building my server just recently, and despite running 2 active projects, one rebuild and another involving a Rocketfish, I still feel the need to chuck out more of my money at computers. Not necessarily super high end equipment, and certainly not to upgrade any current machine, unless it's an easy upgrade like SLI. To build the PC I would really want to build, I'd just buy super high end hardware and water cooling for Bloody Bridget, but I have tons of things to buy before that, car,...

This weekend, I went through a broad range of emotions. On one side, I was pretty happy because attended not one but two interesting social happenings, one of which was very well stocked up in booze and therefor very entertaining. I also was very proud of myself, because over the previous week, I had received about 5 cheques in recognition for my work on a forum I built for a small RV community, but despite all this, something happened on Sunday that totally broke all my weekend, and even continues...

Why? Well actually, I don't think I do hate it that much; if you were to give me a 900 right now, I'd surely go ahead and take a look at it, try a rig in it, appreciate it's craftsmanship that everybody seems to be raving about, then get rid of it before anybody sees me with it. It's not because of the product itself, it's more about how disturbingly popular it is. Demonstration:

Member: I'm thinking about getting a Lian-Li but I don't know what model would fit my needs. I'll be doing (this

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If there is one thing on the tech scene that pisses me off, it's those silly proprietary format wars that keep raging on for everything. It's seems that companies don't get together to talk about how to solve problems and make formats standard, but rather how to make them as different and incompatible as possible in order to give the end user a bigger headache.

Everybody can recall at least one of the famous format wars that have been going on in the past decades: PPC vs x86, USB...