http://www.nonpcgeeks.com Calling hardware like it is... Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:02:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the geeks day job recently got moved to a new office where we're now part of a cube farm rather than the individual offices that we had before. Let me tell you, it's a BIG change, especially when you work with some rather loud people who don't get that ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/04/16/review-shure-se210-headphones/ So, we've been living with the ATX motherboard specification for what? 10? 12 years now? This specification lays out things like size of the board, placement and size of the slots, the power supply connection and ratings and such to the motherboard, location of the screw down mounts and so ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/09/when-oh-when-will-motherboard-connections-get-standardized/ So, you have this huge irreplaceable collection of digital photos of your kids, video of their first steps, tons of MP3s, that Great American Novel you've been working on since you were in college and it's all sitting on your hard drive with no backup. According to this article that ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/03/02/hard-drives-arent-as-safe-as-you-think/ According to this article CompUSA is planning to close more than half of their stores in the next 60-90 days. They're citing increasingly shrinking margins on flat panel TV's and monitors as one of the various reasons why their stores have been losing money. Personally, I haven't set foot in a ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/compusa-closing-more-than-50-of-their-stores-nationwide/ Computer gaming has come a long way over the last 3 decades. We've seen the evolution from dedicated game consoles such as the original Atari 2600, to the 8 bit computer craze of the 1980's and then back to consoles. This pendulum has swung back and forth over and over, ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/28/gaming-pcs-vs-consoles/ In the early morning hours of Wednesday, team AVSim was making it's final push. We had finished our final requirements, and just needed to make our way from Cork, Ireland down to the Canaries and then complete a quick dash to each of the islands before finishing in Grand Canaria. ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/23/race-finale-and-wrap-up/ The "Round the World" race in Flight Simulator is coming into it's home stretch as the teams are finishing up their way across the Atlantic. This was not without drama however. Mad Mike was pulling a late night due to a serious drop off of available pilots. Handing off the ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/21/coming-to-the-home-stretch/ It's coming up on three and a half days straight of racing for the Flight Simulator Geeks... Earlier today the race around the world was extremely close as SimOuthouse pulled a surprise manuever by interpreting the rules differently than other teams and used a jet to get to an Atlantic corridor ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/20/2007-round-the-world-flight-simulator-race-update-a-day-of-surprise-and-heartache/ The race is starting to get interesting as the teams reached the Pacific Ocean last night. There were a number of different "corridors" that were available. Inside a corridor, subsonic jets are allowed, and the leg distance/time restrictions are waved, but you must hit all the airports listed in ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/19/2007-round-the-world-flight-simulator-race-update/ Mad Mike has taken a break from the NonPCGeeks site for this week while he's flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and ... http://www.nonpcgeeks.com/2007/02/18/2007-round-the-world-flight-simulator-race/