[H]ardNews 1st Edition

Love Hate Relationship:

What do you do when scummy bastards do something you love? Thanks Adam Gavel.

Linux Gain Ground:

Linux is catching on bigtime and not just with the smaller hardware users like us. Thanks Tree.

If commercial Unix vendors weren’t already worried about Linux, they should be now. Linux has seen wide deployment in datacenters, generally as a Web server or a file server, or to handle network tasks such as DNS and DHCP, but not as a platform for running mission-critical enterprise applications. Solaris, AIX, or HP/UX typically get the nod when an application demands the highest levels of performance and scalability. The recent release of a new Linux kernel, v2.6, promises to change that.

Another Sad Day:

We give Apple a hard time around here, well because, we can...and it is fun. But seeing another "joke" being made of a dually G5 is just sad. Obviously, these people have more money than brains. Maybe they just need a good whack on the head? Thanks MacLuvah for the link and thanks to Angelo Godbey for the smooth follow-up.

What would it take to run Halo on a Mac without dropping frames or having to sacrifice the eyecandy?

Here is how we did our Apple G4 conversion back in 2002. Yes we started with an empty case. No sense in wasting perfectly good hardware.

Simplicity:

Chris shows us that wasting time does not always have to be hi-tech. If moving around blocks is not enough for you, then how about brutalizing penguins for fun? 316.3 was my longest in three tries. Thanks Tom McLendon.