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Build your own mean, green computing machine
In honor of Blog Action Day, you can build your own machine in accordance with green principles, such as conserving energy and reducing hazardous materials. The geeks at Extreme Tech accomplished building a nice system, with lots of flexibility, using all lead free components and a green power supply. One take-away from their endeavor was the realization that in many instances the greenest components were more powerful than many less green options, because they're newer and more efficient.
There's step by step instructions if you want to give it a whirl and do something nice and green for the earth.
[via Treehugger]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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gluino said 10:18PM on 10-15-2007
Someone has to mention the tin whisker problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whiskers
Old-style tin-lead solders were better in this regard.
I gather that there are at least 2 challengers for lead-free solder:
- whisker growth
- higher melting point means potential problems for heat-sensitive components, more difficult to hand-solder.
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Wayne' World said 6:25PM on 10-20-2007
On using Green Power I commend you, for the rest of your house there is www.jointhesolution/earn
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Wayne\\\' World said 6:31PM on 10-20-2007
Sorry... www.jointhesolution.com/earn
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Rob Adornato said 7:00PM on 12-17-2007
Would this PC run a linux distro? I know they aren't for everyone, but there's a real cost savings to be had. The second largest expense was Vista! I'm inspired to build something similar myself, if I knew anything about soldering...
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