Feed Editor 18 Jul 2007 18:40:49 GMT Your source for MeetTheGeeks news on Hardware, Modding, Clocking, and much much more! http://www.MeetTheGeeks.org http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://forum.meetthegeeks.org/rss/geeks.jpg http://www.meetthegeeks.org Caffeine & Code, What else is there? When your smoking rights are on trial, how far does it extend or will it be extended too? We take an interesting look at the pro's and cons of this ruling, and how it may only get worse. 7 Aug 2007 12:26:19 GMT http://meetthegeeks.org///product.aspx?id=-1&pid=327 B2D489D7-C9E7-4DEC-A921-6186C2BED198 Anyone who owns an Apple MAc Book or anyone with a MagSafe charger, you really MUST read this for your own safety!! Do NOT ignore this warning 7 Aug 2007 12:22:51 GMT http://meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Miscellaneous/Apple_Mac_MagSafe_can_kill_or_maim??/product.aspx?id=81&pid=326 65AFFE07-CE27-41B0-8052-F2DB640025AC When some one said open source mobile phone I slapped them and let the nice men in white coats haul them away for a nice room with ten rolls of rubber wallpaper! When they showed me I slapped myself and called the men back! Open source mobile phone, use it anywhere, no contracts, no phone company saying how and when you use it, you buy it sim free and its yours. How simple is that? Take a look, its an awesome idea! 7 Aug 2007 12:14:40 GMT http://meetthegeeks.org/Articles/MTG_Articles/Neo1973_Open_Source_Mobile_Phone/product.aspx?id=22&pid=325 48CB5EEA-8626-481F-A85B-EDCE044CABB5 Thermal paste aids transfer of heat from the core to the heatsink then out the system. The timings for that on a clocked system are critical, the better the paste, the faster the transfer, and a cooler rig follows. This new paste offers the best performace I have EVER seen! But what is it, where did it come from and who made it I hear you ask.. read on to find out. 7 Aug 2007 12:03:39 GMT http://meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Thermal_Materials/TC0098_Thermal_Paste/product.aspx?id=86&pid=324 72CA043F-DF25-45DA-A54A-DAC87B6B46AC If you want to talk to like minded computer geeks, nerds, dweebs or what ever you want to call them, the team here or just want some help. There is no better way than IRC, and MeetTheGeeks has its own Efnet Channel. Come along and say hello, have a chat and share some of your skills with the team. 18 Jul 2007 18:40:49 GMT http://www.meetthegeeks.org/pages.aspx?lid=28 Well we knew we had to do it at some point, so we did. MTG is now available as an RSS feed for the main site and the forum. If you dont know what RSS is, how to get it or what to do,. All the latest news, gossip and information straight to you fed live from us. Enjoy! 18 Jul 2007 18:37:58 GMT http://www.meetthegeeks.org/pages.aspx?lid=29 When cases stop moving forward and take a step sideways to make something different, you cant help but admire it. Enlight have taken many side way steps and created a versatile case, offering a good stable platform for a host of uses. Enlight? Yes, and they are back in a big way. Read more. 17 Jul 2007 14:53:35 GMT http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Cases_Accessories/Cases_Steel/Enlight_4113_Case/product.aspx?id=92&pid=311 When we were told we can get our hands on a huge rackmount cabinet. We thought tall. It was huge front to back. In fact so big Im sure we can double its capacity by adding new back plates! This is one of the most secure cabinets you are ever likely to see, with a ton of features. Read more... Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:50:54 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Cases_Accessories/Case_Accessories/Rittal_TS8_24U_Rackmount_server_cabinet/product.aspx?id=93&pid=313 When it comes to the most essential part of any home network there is only one component that can make your network a hare, or a tortoise thats been clamped. The Switch! Which one is the best though? Well we set out to find the best component for your networks backbone. So read on. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:44:40 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Networking_Modems_/Switch_Round_Up/product.aspx?id=83&pid=315 When it comes to computers you have two choices, The MAC arena, or the x86 'Windows' arena. Never the twain shall meet. But when it boils down to it, when you peel back the layers of the two systems which one really does make the grade, and push the boundaries out to new levels? Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:43:18 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org//product.aspx?id=22&pid=316 Google expands on its empire and starts the big road to total global domination. With more services and 'features' you just have to 'buy' into to get anywhere online Googleites, or those that follow the Google law are becoming an expanding problem, people new to computers think there is only google, they think Google 'is' the internet. Can we allow this? Read on for more. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:31:51 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/product.aspx?pid=310 Googlectomy:- To Remove Google and make you life private once more. Now you know that Google wants to know what you do, how you do it, and why you do it. But why do you allow this type of thing to continue? Its time to get a wirebrush and scrub out every part of them and get YOUR life back. Heres how... Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:03:34 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/product.aspx?pid=305 Ever wondered what you can do with a computer, Aston Martin parts, and a whole lot of power tools ? Yeah, so did I Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:55:16 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/product.aspx?pid=291 Well we have a hole in the top of the case, and we need something to go in it. Now this was the start of a creation utilising that. Ever seen a top illuminated display window? In a computer? You can now. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:40:54 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Hardware_Reviews/Cases_Accessories/Cases_Aluminium/Project_Vanquish_Part_II/product.aspx?id=91&pid=292 Tearing parts out leaves a mess, so we start to tidy it up, install some fans and tidy some of those pesky cables away. Its common sense to be fair but everyone has a different approach. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:35:28 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Articles/MTG_Articles/Project_Vanquish_Part_III/product.aspx?id=22&pid=293 Now the basics are done, some wiring is done we can throw some hardware in it. We find problems with the heatsink fitting so want to mod that one up a little. Time for a pillar drill and some big holes to make it all fit. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:09:16 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Articles/MTG_Articles/Project_Vanquish_Part_IV/product.aspx?id=22&pid=294 Part V see's us trying to add a window kit to the computer but we didnt want anything normal. So we looked at making our own type of kit and getting something a little different. Click to find out more Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:09:16 +0100 http://www.meetthegeeks.org/Articles/MTG_Articles/Project_Vanquish_Part_V/product.aspx?id=22&pid=317 More from the Project Vanquish Modding project. This time we add lights and continue to tidy up the internals, its neater, sleeker and far better to look at. 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