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Feb 8 2005

Quarter Pounder Mac mini Cluster (now with cheese)

After the great worldwide success of Virginia Tech’s Big Mac , a new Macintosh cluster has taken everybody in the Mac community by storm. The Quarter Pounder Mac mini Cluster is turning heads in the low-performance computing world because it has been built for just over $2,000, from off-the-shelf Mac mini, in about six hours. Recently the cluster was super sized with a Google Search Appliance (AKA “cheese box”) Clustering, which involves linking hundreds or thousands of computers to take on massive projects.

4461235 9d6ab675ef Quarter Pounder Mac mini Cluster (now with cheese)

Note:Very strange submission. Do you believe it?

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Feb 7 2005

iPod People of the Lego Universe

PodBrix has come up with a unique and charming take on Apple’s iPod people that plays off a geek’s natural love for Lego. They sell modified “minifigs” inspired by the popular iPod ad campaign complete with 4G iPod and earbuds.

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Feb 2 2005

Get out the spray–Microsoft campus infested with iPods

According to a source for Leander Kahney’s latest Wired News article, Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill, more than just a few employees on the Microsoft campus are rocking out like silhouettes in an Apple iPod commercial. Reads the article, “About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod…This irks the management team no end.” I don’t see this as a vulnerability in Microsoft’s corporate code, but it will be interesting to see if any measures are taken to ensure that “Softies” adopt a player with WMA support and drop the iPod.

Note:Paul Thurrott, Robert Scoble
 and Ed Bott say this article is crap, so it must be.

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