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windows 7 runs on a pentium 2 [how low can you go?]

windows_7_ultimate_pentium_2

Some expert computer technician crazy person has managed to get Windows 7 to run on a ridiculously underpowered Pentium II PC. Why? I say, why not?

Amazingly enough, PC enthusiast Hackerman1 got his old 266 MHz Pentium II machine loaded up with Windows 7 Ultimate. The machine has a paltry 96MB of RAM, and a…

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June 23rd, 2009 comments (12) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing retro technology

slow day on technabob… please bear with us

Sorry Beagle

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last 24 hours or so. Not only have I been traveling, my hosting provider decided to blow up our server infrastructure overnight, which kept Technabob offline for about 10 hours.

Everything is back up and running, but there was a little nervewracking to say the least.
Regular…

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May 3rd, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: technology

lifetime clock slows time to a crawl

Life Clock by Bertrand Planes

This clock tells time not in hours, minutes or seconds, but in years. It’s designed to very, very slowly make its way around the dial as you age.

Each number on the dial corresponds to a 7-year period of your life. By taking a standard clock mechanism and slowing it to 1/61320th of the speed…

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March 13th, 2008 comments (11) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods timepieces

windows vista dvd burn: got 130 years to kill?

Vista Wait Dialog

Ah, the power of Windows Vista. Check out this recent screen capture of the progress dialog that appeared when an unsuspecting Vista user tried to burn 15 megabytes of files to a DVD RW drive.

So if I’m doing my math right, the disk will be completed in 2138, a little over 130 years from…

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December 1st, 2007 comments (8) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing just plain fun

sonic the hedgehog abysmal load times

Check out this video clip of some of the horrifically painful load times for the new Sonic the Hedgehog game, running on the Xbox 360.

Not only are the load times terrible, the shear quantity of load screens that occur to complete even a simple task are ridiculous. What the hell was Sega thinking releasing…

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January 1st, 2007 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games

mail delivered by actual snails

Real Snail Mail

Real Snail Mail is an art and technology project being conducted by the technological artists collective of Boredom Research.

The project has real snails delivering electronic messages via tiny RFID tags attached to their shells. The messages are delivered literally “at a snails pace.” to their destinations. At the Real Snail Mail website you can…

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October 11th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful