“Dell Studio Hybrid: Small, Stylish... but Quiet?” and other links…
Mike Chin: “The Dell Studio Hybrid is a disappointment. On the one hand, it’s one of the most visually attractive consumer propositions Dell has ever created. The look and style of the SH is undeniably cool. But that isn’t quite enough to compensate for its relatively lackluster performance or its annoying acoustics, not at the asking price of our sample. Our cobbled-together DIY mini-ITX system clearly outperforms the SH in almost every way, and it could easily be assembled into a case with much better acoustics, although not one nearly as small or stylish as the SH. The less capable but much more affordable Asus Eee Box provides equally attractive cosmetics in an even smaller box; for most of the functions that the SH is intended to do, the Eee Box is probably its equal. The much bigger but still small Anitec SilenT3 provides at least as good performance, and its acoustics are so far superior that the two machines aren’t even in the same ball park.”
Wikipedia.org Moment: Zinc Air Battery
Wikipedia.org: “Zinc-air batteries (non-rechargeable), and zinc-air fuel cells, (mechanically-rechargeable) are electro-chemical batteries powered by the oxidation of zinc with oxygen from the air. These batteries have high energy densities and are relatively inexpensive to produce. They are used in hearing aids and in experimental electric vehicles. They may be an important part of a future zinc economy.”
Gendarme
“Gendarme is [an] extensible rule-based tool to find problems in .NET applications and libraries. Gendarme inspects programs and libraries that contain code in ECMA CIL format (Mono and .NET) and looks for common problems with the code, problems that compiler do not typically check or have not historically checked.”