Before the Ides of March
Before the Ides of March
Sure, they're not the kind of things you'd find at the Sharper Image or Dell's Web site, but surfing the tech blogs today, I found (via Endaget) a giant 24-monitor setup at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute running Quake III, driven by 12 Linux servers.
Clearly, this must be matched with the Typhoon Personal Super Computer (via Gizmodo), which can handle up to four Intel Xeon processors or eight AMD Opteron HE processors. Sure, it's aimed at "science, research, and development applications," but imagine the benchmark scores.
For a more realistic birthday wish: in my jacket pocket, I'm still rocking that old fourth-gen iPod, a source of no small embarrassment, let me tell you. Sure, a new model comes out every few months, but I still wouldn't look down on one of the current-gen video iPods. I know the Zen Vision: M is great, too, but I'd probably just end up rubbing my thumb around it in circles in a vain attempt to change the volume.