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usb flash memory looks like ram card: why? why not?

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The last time I tried to jam a DDR RAM card into the side of my laptop, not only did it completely fail to work, I shorted out all of the chips and electrocuted the cat. Thankfully, the guys over at Brando have come up with a solution that should prevent such horrible catastrophes from…

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February 9th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing just plain fun technology

cakes just like your motherboard used to make

We have seen a lot of geeky treats, but these motherboard cakes can’t be beat! Who would think to combine butter, eggs, flour, and sugar into something resembling a motherboard? It turns out there are multiple people who have done just that, with varying results.
You can bust out the full court press with green…

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October 6th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

filed under: computing geek art + craft

ps3 system uses 3x more memory than xbox 360

PS3 and Xbox 360

Even though the Xbox 360 has an arguably much faster and easier to use operating environment than the PlayStation 3, it apparently uses significantly less memory than Sony’s big black box.

According to this post by Ozymandias (who happens to work for Microsoft,) the Xbox 360 reserves approximately 32MB of it’s RAM for the System,…

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March 26th, 2007 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing video games