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Forecast Warning + Brick + New Macbook = netbook killer

There's all these rumours on the web about the rumoured apple 'brick'. One of them is that upcoming new Macbooks are machined out of a solid block of aluminum, to be revealed to the world on October 14th. As rumours go, I think this is quite possible, and makes total sense, but think there is more to it....

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How to solve freeview signal problems and retune your humax freeview box successfully

read on to sort out your signal problems and retune your humax digi box if you live between zones.

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• Brief history about some of the Bletchley park machines: Max Newman called in the help of Tommy Flowers, a brilliant Post Office Electronics Engineer. Flowers went on to design and build ‘Colossus’, a much faster and more reliable machine that used 1,500 thermionic valves (vacuum tubes). The first Colossus machine arrived at Bletchley in December 1943. This was the world’s first practical electronic digital information processing machine - a forerunner of today’s computers. Lorenz had to be cracked by carrying out complex statistical analyses on the intercepted messages. Colossus could read paper tape at 5,000 characters per second and the paper tape in its wheels travelled at 30 miles per hour. Pretty amazing stuff. #
• In which COOP discusses his Leica M6 and going from digital to analog. #
• McCain understands the economy. #
• Nice ad, shame about the game http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii #
• Hands on with Canon's new full frame camera - looks very nice! #