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How much does your computer cost to run?
The following equation will help work out the cost to run your computer, if, you know how many Watts it is using and how much you pay per unit of electricity:
((Watts x Hours Used) / 1000) x Cost per kilowatt-hour = Total Cost
Here in the UK at the [...]

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Firmware update 3.00 was released for the PS3 today.
The playstation firmware site hasn’t updated yet with all the changes, but, some of them are below.  This article “PlayStation 3 Firmware (v3.00) Update” says:
Additional highlights from update 3.00 include:

“What’s New” – The “Information Board” will be replaced with a “What’s New” section, which allows you to [...]

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Sony have announced that the Playstation 3 Slim will be released on the 1st of September 2009.
LINK: Entertainment on PS3 has a new look
In an interesting move, Sony, will be removing the ability to install other operating systems on the unit to focus on just playing games and entertainment.

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I reset the configuration on one of these old switches and obviously it changed the password.  The default password was: admin

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Previously when I tried to rip one of my Blu Ray disks to a .m2ts file on the DS209+ and tried to view it via the PS3 (uPNP on Synology 209+) I had to contact Synology support as it broke indexing completely on the DS209+.
I thought I had done something wrong ripping the blu ray, [...]

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