Yeesh, I’m falling behind on all the tech news. I only just found out about the BTX form factor which is supposed to be available fairly soon.
It sounds great on paper, allowing smaller cases, better cooling of components, more silent operation, etc., but already my hands are cringing in fear. Why? Because every time I open one of my cases to work on the internals, I wind up getting cuts on my hands from *somewhere*. I’m still not entirely sure where and I may not even notice until hours later, but something inside those cases is trying to murder me. Or cut my fingers off, at least. Smaller cases are just going to make it even worse!
I don’t think this is what they meant by progress sometimes requiring the sacrifice of blood…
Actually, it seems even technology can’t keep up with technology…
I have a burner capable of doing 52x CDR burns, and 24x CDRW burns. I can’t find any CDRs that do faster than 48x, and the CDRWs are even worse at only being 10x. I’m not really complaining, it’s just that it seems silly to improve speeds of a writeable device, but not have the media capable of the upgrade. Dumb. :-)
Oh, and check my hands out sometime. You’re not alone. And as if cases aren’t bad enough… Most of the permanent scars on my hands are from rackmount units. I love how the entire visible surface of a rack is polished and sandblasted, but the inside corners are left so rough they could cut diamond…