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Nov 09, 2005

Matrox DualHead2Go + More

Fascinating device from Matrox that allows you to span a single video connection to two monitors. Nice writeup on the DualHead2Go at ArsTechnica.

Empire magazine have a list of the Top 50 Independent Films. I'm not entirely sold on the top 5 - they're all good films but I'm sure there are better picks...

ArsTechnica are also lamenting the Fall of SGI. Although IRIX is quirky and some of SGI's hardware was horrible (it was either massively over engineered or totally cheap and nasty) they came out with some pretty definitive UNIX workstations and servers. The article links to this more detailed eWeek piece on SGI's demise.

Another plug via Adminfoo - EventlogXP is a freeware tool which essentially takes Microsofts anaemic Event Viewer and kicks it into the 21st century. Generally faster with more feedback and more features (eg it lets you save a list of servers rather than opening them one at a time or having to come up with a custom mmc).

To much link goodness - OpenGear Terminal Server. Open Source hardware. Not the Microsoft Terminal Server of course but the far more useful kind - lets you hook up to Unix/Cisco gear for serial console goodness. I would have loved one of these in my last job - hunting for cables, gender changers and adaptors used to drive me mental (all to fix a headless unit that needed a fsck or someone to type 'boot'). Only $149US and it comes with a web interface - no need to poke around in HyperTerminal.

Unix Guru Universe has some good daily Unix tips - you can even get them mailed to you.

Ilikejam derides Audiophile paraphenalia. The $30k speaker leads and $450 'wooden knob' definitely take a the cake.

Found via BoingBoing - some fantastic sculptures of hand-made machines which don't do much of anything by Arthur Ganson.

Robert Cringely discusses Microsofts shift to Web Services. You can see what they're trying to do over at Live.com.

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