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You may notice the adsense banner I have added to the sidebar. I keep getting this feeling that I am selling out but I try to validate this move by thinking perhaps I can recover some of the money I have spent setting this place up. If I make any extra money from the advertising it will be devoted towards buying more equipment to further my overclocking and you know that will mean more amazing articles involving sparks and dead hardware. With Conroe launching soon I will be attempting to pick up one of the “budget” processors and beat it to death hopefully with some stunning results.

On a similar topic I will once again start pursuing products for reviews for this website. I would like to keep my focus mainly on computer hardware since that is the main focus of this website. If you know of any contacts that could help me on my quest for hardware reviews please drop me a line by either my contact form or with a comment. While I won’t turn anything down, I would like to stick to my main topic of hardware.

I have been trying to ramp up my “content production” but summer classes are kicking my butt so my time has been stretched thin. I am trying to average around 1 post per day so that the daily readers will have something to read but finding material can be difficult. If I miss a day, chalk it up to lack of content. Usually if I can’t find anything to write about then there will be a few tweaks performed to the website. The archives pages has been changed up a bit with the last 10 posts in the sidebar being placed in the actual page so that the sidebar wouldn’t extend so far down and make the page really tall. I will continue to tweak this place and hopefully it’ll end up being beautiful and I can then stop writing and just admire it’s beauty =D Thanks for reading guys, rock on.

When I first heard this I laughed. Hard. When looking over how AMD and Intel have evolved over the last 6 years I could almost safely say AMD and Intel have swapped play books. Intel used to claim their processors would scale to 10GHz, now we are looking at a top of 4GHz. AMD used to work on more efficient processor cycles, now they are just scaling their processors higher and higher with new manufacturing processes. Intel has decided to completely drop its old plans by creating an entirely new line of processors that are based around a new architecture while AMD will continue to optimize and scale their processors. Talk about a complete reversal of roles.

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I feel that I have neglected the gamer within me lately. This has mainly been due to this website consuming every spare second from my life. I did however have a chance to fire up a game of Serious Sam 2 the other day when I was severely stressed out and I noticed how terrible this game played on my machine. My desktop has been converted from a gaming machine to a web development and distributed computing machine so I have over 30 processes running with tons of crap running when I’m not even using it. Now there are multiple ways to go about fixing this issue and I am going to highlight my personal favorite, hard drive partitions.

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For those that didn’t know this was coming, the newest version of Digg.com is up and running. The team at Digg.com has decided that branching out would be necessary and I must admit they did a wonderful job in trying to keep the design simple and clean. With Digg.com’s estimate readership near 8 million users a month, this new version could easily triple traffic and more. One of the main concerns that I heard from users would be “Am I going to get business news in my tech feed?” and I believe Digg.com has managed to solve that issue. The frontpage contains top diggs from every section while each section has its own mini frontpage. I can only imagine was frontpaging the main page will do for a websites traffic but only time will tell. In the previous version around 40 diggs would “frontpage” an article however I think now to frontpage the requirement will be much more stringent. This new Digg should be interesting to see as it settles into a larger niche while competing with the new Netscape Digg ripoff.

On a more personal note, I have been slammed with work for the last two days with a huge project coming up in about a week. I’ll get back to writing on a more normal basis once July 4th rolls around and the second round of exams for school are over. I hate to say it but school comes first. Thanks for all the readers that pushed up the Opera article on Digg and thanks for reading what I write. Now back to the books.

Over the last week or so a lot of interesting things have popped up over the internet in regards to computing and overclocking. Some of these things we will see within 6 months and some of them we won’t see for a few years, but the fact is that they are around.

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A little while back I wrote an article about Opera and how it could potentially be a Firefox replacement. Even though Opera had so many extra features compared to Firefox I still wasn’t impressed enough to make the switch from my beloved Firefox. Recent the Beta version of Flock was released to much acclaim and a great review was published by my friend Paul. With this new wave of browsers the average internet user has some great browsers to choose from with each offering different features that really benefit certain niches. No matter what though I can guarantee that you are better off using any browser besides Internet Explorer with its track record in regards to hackers.

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I’ve had a few people ask me about my sidebar and how I managed to get the recent articles and comments to be viewable for every page. Since PHP is just like every other language on the planet, if you can understand the basics then you can do more than just hack it up like I’m about to show you. First let’s cover the article plug on every page.

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For the next 48 hours or so this website may either not respond, look ugly, or point to another website. I’m sorry that this website keeps having to be brought down but I swear this is the last time till atleast July when I start playing with a bit of ajax. Hopefully I can manage to get this all done with nobody being the wiser.

I have spent the last 3 hours trying to fix the major boo-boo I made. Some how I ended up screwing up how the database was accessed and it has just been a huge headache. I’m putting this thing down till the nameservers are finished doing their job. Be back in 16 hours, I need a break and I’ve got a test coming up.