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I've been toying with the idea of building a very small, custom box to act as a firewall. I'll probably go with something like a micro-ATX motherboard. Space is going to be at a premium in the case, so I'm thinking of using a 2.5" (notebook) hard drive. Will I be able to connect it to a...

Dammit. I just bought 64MB of that stuff last week for $80.

Cyrix 6x86 133 -> 150 (ouch.. talk about heat) Celeron 300A -> 450 (the good ol' days of overclocking)

I had the pleasure of seeing one of my co-workers install Mac OS X on his G4 today. Has anyone else out there gotten a peek at OS X yet? I'm really starting to think Apple is cool again. The UI is simply beautiful and it actually feels like a modern OS (previous versions of Mac OS we're...

Ok, well that was easy. I just used a pressurized can and blew the crap out of everything. I know I should have listened to tweakr's advice about the fans, but I couldn't help myself.. blowing compressed air onto the fan makes to coolest sound ;). I used a Q-tip to loosen the really stubborn...

When working inside my case today, I realized my fans were in dire need of a cleaning. I was planning to buy one of those pressurized air can thingies tomorrow. I'm planning to clean my CPU heatsink, my 3 fans, and probably the inside of my power supply. The goal is to restore my 300A to its...