[H]ardNews 3rd Edition

Google Empire?

Does Google hold the key to success on the internet? This New.com story sure makes it sound that way. I remember just over 18 months ago when Google was just “getting big” no one made these kinds of complaints. Then again…2yrs ago no one ever heard of a “Google Whack” either.

Patrick Ahern has witnessed the power of Google--and the difficulties of trying to do business without it. Data Recovery Group, where he is president, would typically come up around the fourth listing on Google's popular search engine last year. Then in January, when Google removed the company from its listings without explanation, Data Recovery saw a 30 percent drop in business.

Our secret strategy was to name our site HardOCP years before Google came out, and then claim not to know what “The OCP stands for anymore”. That way, when Google came out…people who visited us, would have to search for what OCP stood for, making us the number one hit for OCP in the Google standings. Mwahahahaha!!!

P4 Overclocking:

Dark Tweaker does a little 2.26 P4 OC’ing here at the same time put the pedal to the medal on this 2.2GHz P4 in a separate OC-adventure. Both articles have English links located on the page if you feel the need to read…the rest of us will just gawk at the purdy pictars and grafs.

Cheater Ruins Seti@Home:

Well, it looks like someone might be cheating to get ahead in the Seti@Home project ( does that mean they find aliens faster? ), by posting numbers that some people say are impossible to achieve.

Nealon says that would mean team members producing this much work must have 1250GHz of processing power at their disposal dedicated purely to the project. In human terms, that’s around 1,250 1GHz computers doing nothing but running the SETI@home screensaver. "[SETI Netherlands] number one producer has 618,000 units, that's just one person, it’s just ludicrous," said Nealon.

That is why we actually put our processing power to a good cause, like finding cures for diseases and not looking for aliens…which we all know just want to kill us and take over the planet anyways. Join the number one Folding@Home team on the planet, and help the [H]ardFolders help do some good if you are dying to use them extra CPU cycles.