Here’s a link: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

The site is officially live now. If you post something there it will stay there. It will not be take down. It’s good to go.

There are a few bugs but it is way more functional than our current forum.

The moral of the story: It’s time to use the superior site. I’ll be converting RTW into a drupal site in a week or two. At that point RTW will be a blog and will share the Tek Syndicate forum.

Here are the specs:

• Omron switches with a guaranteed lifespan of 10,000,000 clicks
• Eight buttons in total, plus the scroll
• 5700 CPI
• “Demon Red” LED’s
• 1mm lift
• Rubberized surface

It seems that most companies are over-complicating things. It’s all about more buttons, more flashing lights, adding LCD screens, etc. I never understood it. Why on earth do I need an LCD screen on my mouse? My hands going to be covering it 95% of the time! Stee Series feels my pain and they have released a mouse to fill a void in the gaming market.

The Kana is simple and to the point. It has a tournament grade optical sensor capable of 3200 cpi, five buttons (plus a cpi button), and that’s about it. No fancy gimicks. Just a gaming mouse for those of us that want something  simple that gets the job done.

It’s not the end all gaming mouse and it’s not the best SteelSeries mouse, but it’s not designed to be.

Check out the video:

Kanye West (the father of intellectualism) has decided to fix the internet.

The problem: Whois is not friendly for Gangstas and Thugs. It’s also not fun to say. He and his crew do not use services unless they are fun to say.

The solution: His company, Donda Media, has created WhoDat.biz. It’s essentially a redundant version of whois, but for people who hate things that are spelled correctly.

There are some problems with the site. First, in reading the copy on the site, we see that Donda Media is trying to pretend that they invented Whois. They say things like, “Stay tuned for more great innovations…” and “Donda Media is pleased to offer this service up to you for free.”  Um… Whois has been around for eons and has always been free. What’s next up for Donda Media, da internetz?

So, idiocy aside, are there any gangstas out there who is gonna switch over to WhoDat? Holler at your boy.

http://teksyndicate.com

First, know that Wendell and I have been writing a ton of code from scratch (several thousand lines now) and we are not using a template. It’s all custom. We have a graphics/ css guy who is going to polish it up and add some embellishments to make it look really clean and professional. He will do that once we decide functionality is finished. Also, I have coded a dark version of the website and there will be a light switch in the top right of the website. I’ll probably be using the darker version.

There are a number of things that are not working yet and we have not integrated the login/ logout button… however, if you want to create an account feel free to do so (you will have to create another one once the site is live):

http://teksyndicate.com/user/login

Lastly, note that the content is total horse feathers. Enjoy the nonsense, lol. Post ideas and questions here.

Update: Video of the new site

How it’s supposed to work: put superconducting maglev trains in an evacuated tube, then accelerate the trains using linear electric engines until the trains reach design velocity.  The capsules can float in the tube with the help of passive superconductors, and eddy currents induced in conducting material would be used to drive the capsules.  The system would require a decent amount of energy for acceleration, but a lot of it could be recaptured during deceleration, so overall the system would be quite energy efficient.

There’s no real drag associated with this type of travel, though the oscillations of the maglev suspension would introduce some (almost trivial inefficiency.  I suppose the bigger question I’d have is: where would one even lay the tubes for this sort of travel?  Not everyone lives on one continent, how would this system cross water?

I guess I’m wondering if the various challenges this design faces (crossing water, surviving an earthquake, emergency stops, etc) are realistically manageable.  Are the things that this design could work around, or will this method of travel be doomed to forever remain an overly-idealistic concept?

http://www.gizmag.com/et3-vacuum-maglev-train/21833/
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-york-to-beijing-in-two-hours-without-leaving-the-ground 

Look, I’m not exactly happy about Obama either (NDAA, the secret interpretation of the Patriot Act, and so on), but this video is coming from Rick Santorum, a man who would be even more horrific on the front of human rights than Obama is.  Anyways, I got a kick out of this and thought you all might appreciate it on some level.

EVGA has uploaded a video showing off the new GTX 680. It looks like it’s going to be a decent card. I’ll reserve judgement until I get my hands on one.

The card supports quad SLI and you can run up to four displays with each GPU. You can also use three monitors

You may not know what “Boost Clock” means. Well, as with most new cpu’s, the GTX 680 can dynamically chance the clock speed depending on the application. This will be good for saving power (and getting a little extra power when you need it).

There are more new technologies as well. Check out their video on Precision X & NVIDIA GPU Boost: