Category Archive: NetBeat

Jan
23

The one with the missing graphic card [UPDATED]

HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-1120-Desktop-Computer-Black

Right, straight to the point. I bought a PC yesterday in PC World. It’s a pretty high-spec machine from HP, looks like this: The machine comes equipped with an i7 chip at 3.4 GHz, is quad-core. It comes with 2 TB harddrive and 8 GB RAM. Among these features, it is supposed to have this …

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Dec
13

Tip Of The Day

Great tip

First “Tip of the day” in Code::Blocks, a C++ development tool

Dec
07

M-Class planet confirmed 600 light years away

Kepler-22b

tl;dr – NASA’s Kepler mission has found the first planet that’s much like our own (average temperature: 22 degrees Celsius), AND is in the habitable zone (also known as “Green Zone”) around it’s star. This find should put an immediate end to non-believers and skeptics who are in doubt whether or not another planet like …

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Dec
05

WIN in my office

Not Lost

Just found this on a board in the small canteen:

Oct
25

Floody hell!

Metro Flood Cover

Last night, one month’s volume of rain came down in some hours. As a result, Dublin is flooded and an emergency was declared. This is how the Metro sees it.

Oct
18

Aperture investment opportunity: Quantum Levitation

Cave Johnson here! We got a bit bored of quantum tunneling, so we thought we’d give levitation a try. Turns out the lab boys have gotten quite good at it. We’re not gonna release this stuff until it’s damn and well ready. The lab boys also told me that we’re now trying to combine this …

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Oct
11

Read-Only: Amazon Kindle

Delete Facebook (or read less of it)

I mostly do reviews of animes around here, but let’s give a gadget review a go, shall we? First you need to know that, while I have a good apartment, I don’t have THAT much space for shelves. So what options does one have if you still want to read books, but don’t have the …

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Sep
07

Wham Bam

Bam Wham

Why is something like this on the cap of a multivitamin drink? Bonus: “Open By Hand”

Aug
31

Archos 70 tablet unboxing

I needed a tablet. One that isn’t bad at what it does but also does not cost something like the Xoom or Galaxy Tab 10. I found the Archos 7o Internet tablet. A VERY NICE device, the thinnest around, for just 229 Euro. Most notable features: – 1 GHz chip – Multitouch display – 720p …

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Aug
26

Goddamn it man, the MOON!!

Holy bananas

Source Copyright ‘The Onion’. Pg. 113 from “OUR DUMB CENTURY”.

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