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So I fixed up my Hobbyzone Super Cub today to go flying, charged up my new 3-cell lipo pack, and waited for the wind to die down so I could fly it. 7 hours later the wind was still blowing strong and I was itching to play with some R/C stuff. So I pulled down [...]

And it only took 12 hours to complete with the servers completely slammed all night long. I suppose I could have waited, but even at 25 kb/s (or so), it wasn’t that bad and I’ve been dying to try out the latest version of Ubuntu. Now that it’s up and running all I can say [...]

For my birthday a couple of weeks ago I got the new DEH-6900UB head unit from Pioneer for my GTI. In anticipation of getting the new HU, I bought a new 12″ sub and mounted it in a old Q-Logic box, ran some 4 gauge wire to my hatch, and dug out an old 300W [...]

2007 – Intel released the new pricing plan for their Core 2 CPU’s and come April 22nd the 2.4GHz Quad-Core Q6600 will drop an impressive $320 from $851 to only $531. Though the guys at Anandtech feel this new pricing isn’t terribly aggressive, it finally puts quad-core goodness within the reach of the average consumer. [...]

So last night I took the plunge and updated my Linux box from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10, the Edgy Eft. Even after reading all the problems people seemed to be having with the upgrade, I went ahead and ran it anyway because I wanted to have the latest features and updates. Not just that, but [...]

I’ve gotta say that I’m excited about the announcement made today concerning Apple’s deal with EMI to offer DRM-free downloads. Not only have they stripped the copyright protection that limited the playing of purchased songs to iTunes and iPods, but they’ve doubled the bitrate at which the songs are encoded from 128kbps to 256kbps. The [...]