VIA Announces Aristo Pico 840 Mini-Note For Poland

VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today introduced the new Aristo Pico 840 mini-note, the latest model in the Aristo Pico Series to be based on the ultra low power VIA C7-M processor platform. Building on the success of the Aristo Pico 640 and 740, the Aristo Pico 840 has been custom designed for both the professional on the go and the digital traveler looking for on-line entertainment on the move.

EADS Chooses IBM and Dassault Systèmes

IBM and Dassault Systèmes today announced EADS’ commitment to IBM and Dassault Systèmes’ product lifecycle management (PLM), for 3D collaborative design and manufacturing applications and services. EADS, a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services, is streamlining product design and manufacturing processes through the use of collaboration tools to make key product information more easily accessible to suppliers and partners worldwide.

Thanksgiving Day Parade Gets Rickrolled

It’s bad enough when you click a link and get Rickrolled but now you can’t even watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade without having it happen. Somehow it makes you feel so much dirtier when you get Rickrolled live. Thanks to Jason Zweibeck for the video.

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How To Cook A Turkey

You can bake a turkey. You can deep fry a turkey. Hell, you can even microwave a turkey but the best way to cook a turkey has to be this one:

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Thanksgiving Day [H]ardware Round-Up

Cases & Modding

Aerocool AeroRacer Pro Enclosure @ Virtual Hideout

Cooling

NorthQ FlexQ Combo Cooler @ Driver Heaven

ETC.

Kingston 32GB SDHC Memory Card @ ThinkComputers

Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player @ Tweaknews

Motherboards

Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition @ Overclockers Club

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Ultra Durable 3 @ HotHardware

Video

Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 OC Edition @ PlanetX64

Thanksgiving Day

We want to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at [H]ard|OCP. Today is the one day of the year that we all acknowledge the many things we are thankful for so we think it is important to let you know that one of the “many things” we are thankful for is you, our readers. From all of us here at the [H], have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Patch That POS PC!!

Microsoft says they are seeing another wave of attacks that are targeting an exploit patched last month. You know what that means, there are a bunch of people out there with unpatched boxes and most of us know who they are. So, let’s all do our civic duty and when we visit relatives tomorrow on Turkey Day…patch their POS PC. We will all benefit from your act of kindness.

It is also interesting to note that the worm patches the vulnerable API in memory so the machine will not be vulnerable anymore. It is not that the malware authors care so much about the computer as they want to make sure that other malware will not take it over too... More details are available in our encyclopedia write up.

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[H]ard|OCP [H]oliday [H]otDeals

Welcome to the Wednesday edition of [H]ard|OCP [H]otDeals! Why wait for Black Friday when there are a lot of places starting their deals today! How about a 22” Acer Widescreen LCD for $159.99 or this deal on the BFG GeForce 9800 GT OC+ for only $89.99. This 4GB G.SKILL PI Black DDR2 800 kit is $44.99 with free shipping and this GeForce 9500 GT $512MB is just $22.99 after price breaks and [H] discount. Finally, the world’s greatest stocking stuffers, the RatPadz GS and RatPadz XT are still $5 off + free shipping (in North America) while supplies last!

7 Lame Deals to Avoid on Black Friday

We all know where the good Black Friday deals are (here) but what about all the crappy deals we should avoid? Electronic House has put together a handy list of 7 lame deals to avoid on Black Friday. A good list to e-mail your less tech savvy friends and loved ones.

Sadly, we also found a lot of deals that turned out to be duds. In most cases, prices were exactly the same as what many retailers are offering right now. However, we even found a few sale prices were a few dollars higher than normal.

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Courts Convicts Mom in MySpace Suicide Trial

A federal jury in the MySpace suicide trial has found the defendant guilty on three of the charges against her but a mistrial was declared on one count. The defendant faces one year in jail and a $100,000 fine for each of the counts she was found guilty of.

Drew was not directly charged with causing Megan's death. Instead, prosecutors indicted her under the federal Computer Use and Fraud Act, which in the past has been used in hacking and trademark theft cases. Among other things, Drew was charged with conspiring to violate the fine print in MySpace's terms-of-service agreement, which prohibits the use of phony names and harassment of other MySpace members.

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Gaming News

Eidos Responds To Wii Tomb Raider Bug @ Kotaku

F.E.A.R. 2 Blocked in Australia @ Shacknews

Grand Theft Auto IV PC Screenshots @ VE3D

Mirror's Edge Dev Bummed Over Curvier Faith @ Joystiq

StarCraft: Brood War Retail 1.16 Patch @ FileShack

Xbox LIVE Marketplace Black Friday Sale @ Major Nelson

Microsoft Now 5th Most Spam Friendly ISP

Microsoft is the fifth most spam-friendly ISP? What the!?! That can’t be good for the ol’ company image. I guarantee you this, now that this is making headlines the problem will be solved ASAP.

"We have been notifying Microsoft about this for some months now at a high level that the abuse at livefilestore.com we believe now exceeds any genuine use of that service that may exist," Cox said. He added that while Spamhaus has not yet listed any major Microsoft properties on its block list, it has listed a couple of smaller Microsoft domains to get their attention.

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