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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]
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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