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UK Vents Spleen At Broadband Frustrations
News Firing up fat pipes is inducing anger in many UK broadband customers, according to a survey commissioned by O2 Broadband. More than half (56 percent) of Britons polled admitted broadband issues have made them lose their temper with their hardware.
[January 28, 2008, 8:14]
Case Study: Headrick Building Products, Inc.
White Papers HBP provides innovative, quality ventilation products, including shingle over and aluminum ridge vents and continuous soffit and foundation vents. Headrick Building Products (HBP) needed to upgrade their existing network to improve speed and...
[October 6, 2008, 1:21]
Kyocera Suspends Shipments After Mobile Explodes
News Hathaway also speculates that vents built into the exploding phones may have been covered as well. Such vents release gasses or heat, but only after a number of other safety precautions fail. Covering those vents, perhaps by jamming a phone into a...
[October 10, 2003, 9:05]
Apple IMac 800MHz PowerPC G4 review
Reviews The base is topped with large cooling vents. The power switch and all connection ports sit at the rear. The base sports three USB ports (up from two in the previous model), two FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports, plus Ethernet and modem connections.
[January 13, 2002, 23:00]
Marble Arena
Downloads Control your marble around easy to intricate levels, up and down slippery slopes, mastering physics contraptions such as jumppads, air vents and vortexes. Zap your way to the top in this exciting new game.
[December 3, 2007, 2:16]
Suits A College Student's Need, Watch Out For Overheating!
Member Review However, this is easily fixable by blowing compressed air through the vents/taking it to an expert to clean out the dust on the heatsink. I've had this laptop for about 4 years now, upgraded to 512mb memory and a wireless card but otherwise with...
[November 16, 2005, 14:15]
Nvidia: GeForce FX Cooler Than Ever
News It occupies two ports on the PC's board, side by side, one of which is taken up by air vents. Nvidia on Monday officially launched its long-awaited next-generation graphics processor, the GeForce FX, claiming a power boost of four times over the...
[November 19, 2002, 10:24]
Sanyo PLC-XW20 review
Reviews There's an infrared receiver and an air exhaust vent on the front panel, access to the lamp compartment on the underside, with air intake vents on the sides, back and bottom of the unit. Built around a magnesium alloy chassis, the XW20 combines...
[November 26, 2001, 23:00]
Cisco's 'factory Floor' Switch
News On Monday, it will begin selling the Catalyst 2955 line of switches, which have vents to dissipate the potentially system-crashing heat of a "factory floor in Georgia in summer," said Cisco Vice President Larry Birenbaum.
[March 3, 2003, 9:11]
Camel Sacrificed By Airline Workers
Blog Comment And please, no jokes about vole-a-vents. I'll tell you what I want to eat. The Orkney Vole. It came to the Orkneys with the first neolithic settlers after the last ice age - imported, like them, from the south-west Mediterranean - and was a food...
[December 13, 2006, 13:36]
Creative Uses For Dead PCs
News Expansion slots make good exhaust vents, it would seem. New legislation means that any business looking to dispose of more than the smallest amount of dead hardware will need to register with the Environment Agency, or face the government's wrath.
[September 2, 2005, 14:25]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook P7010 review
Reviews The P7010, with its ultra-low-voltage (ULV) Pentium M processor, has a much quieter fan, which is ingeniously built into the hinge at the back -- what you see is a largish, wire-mesh cylinder with six vents at the back right.
[August 16, 2004, 10:35]
Dell SmartPC 250N review
Reviews It is relatively bulky (32.6 x 27.5 x 4.59cm) and heavy (3.6kg without the AC adapter), and has plenty of cooling vents scattered around the silver-effect casing. The reason for using desktop chips in notebooks is clear enough: a 2GHz mobile...
[August 14, 2002, 10:13]
Anatomy Of A Server-room Meltdown
News As this moitsure condensed, there was only one place for it to go: down the pipes, through the vents and onto the server-room floor. The following story is a cautionary tale for anyone who runs a server room.
[August 2, 2004, 16:35]
Photos: The Birth Of A Supercomputer
News The vents to the left are an important part of the process. The man who developed both, IBM chief scientist Frank Soltis, believes that the weather in chilly Rochester helps to develop better engineers and scientists.
[January 23, 2006, 9:55]
Hi-Grade Ultinote M6500-2000 review
Reviews When we reviewed the 1.8GHz M6400, we noted that it had more fans and cooling vents than the average notebook, but didn’t find the system especially noisy. Despite Intel’s reservations about the practice of using desktop CPUs -- which lack the...
[June 25, 2002, 16:08]
Tiny Pipes Deliver The Big Chill
News Rightley said that people living in colder climates could buy systems designed to dump heat into well-placed vents that would act as hand warmers. A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat...
[January 23, 2003, 9:26]
It's Not All The Systems Fault.
Talkback Whilst people really should be told the realities of contention and not 'up to's' I think that a lot of the problem is in third parties putting up content that requires a lot more bandwidth that most people can (reliably) get.
[January 28, 2008, 16:58]
Speed Is Subjective
Talkback I agree with James on his comments. I'm with VirginMedia (ex NTL) cable. I have 4 Mbps service. I run the Broadband Speed Tester championed by ComputerActive magazine and average download speeds of around 3.5Mbps.
[January 28, 2008, 13:44]
PlusNet Is One Of The Best.....
Talkback .even though its now owned by BT. But concentrating on pure download speed is probabaly misleading. Your enjoyment of just surfing the web is going to be just as dependent on the the speed of your own computer, the speed at which the server you are...
[January 28, 2008, 12:24]
