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  <title><![CDATA[Eric's Blog]]></title>
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    <name>Eric Hokanson</name>
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  <updated>2026-03-17T09:27:02-06:00</updated>
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    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/378</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Xbox Project Scorpio's Full Specs Revealed - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2017-04-07T01:12:04-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/378"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[Microsoft unveiled last year that it will be launching a super-specced Xbox One variant -- codenamed Project Scorpio -- soon. Now the company has shared what those hardware modules look like. According to a report on Eurogamer, which visited Microsoft campus at the company's invitation, the specs of...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Microsoft unveiled last year that it will be launching a super-specced Xbox One variant -- codenamed Project Scorpio -- soon. Now the company has shared what those hardware modules look like. According to a report on Eurogamer, which visited Microsoft campus at the company's invitation, the specs of...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/376</id>
    <title><![CDATA[AMD Launches Ryzen, Claims To Beat Intel's Core i7 Offering At Half the Price - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2017-02-23T04:56:04-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/376"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[Reader MojoKid writes: AMD CEO, Dr. Lisu Su took to the stage at AMD's Ryzen tech day yesterday and opened the event with official speeds, feeds, pricing, and benchmark scores for the company's upcoming Ryzen series processors. AMD's goal with Ryzen, which is based on its Zen microarchitecture, was ...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Reader MojoKid writes: AMD CEO, Dr. Lisu Su took to the stage at AMD's Ryzen tech day yesterday and opened the event with official speeds, feeds, pricing, and benchmark scores for the company's upcoming Ryzen series processors. AMD's goal with Ryzen, which is based on its Zen microarchitecture, was ...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/377</id>
    <title><![CDATA[New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2017-02-23T04:53:41-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/377"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[The HDMI Licensing Group has unveiled the HDMI 2.1 spec, adding support for dynamic HDR, 8K60, and 4K120. From a report on TechHive: To take full advantage of the new HDMI spec, you'll need a new 48-gigabit-per-second cable. That cable will also work with older HDMI 1.3 (10.2Gbps) and HDMI 2.0a (16G...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The HDMI Licensing Group has unveiled the HDMI 2.1 spec, adding support for dynamic HDR, 8K60, and 4K120. From a report on TechHive: To take full advantage of the new HDMI spec, you'll need a new 48-gigabit-per-second cable. That cable will also work with older HDMI 1.3 (10.2Gbps) and HDMI 2.0a (16G...]]></content>
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    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/375</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Tesla Unveils Residential 'Solar Roof' With Updated Battery Storage System - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-11-20T02:56:40-07:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk today unveiled the "residential roof" -- pegged as a roofing replacement -- with solar energy gathering powers. Unlike other solar systems which must be mounted on top of a traditional roof, these new panels are actually integrated within glass roof tiles, replacing a...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk today unveiled the "residential roof" -- pegged as a roofing replacement -- with solar energy gathering powers. Unlike other solar systems which must be mounted on top of a traditional roof, these new panels are actually integrated within glass roof tiles, replacing a...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/374</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Let’s Encrypt To Become A Trusted Root Certificate Authority In Firefox 50]]></title>
    <updated>2016-08-06T15:47:00-06:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[The Let's Encrypt automated certificate authority crosses a major milestone by becoming accepted into Mozilla's certificate root store.]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Let's Encrypt automated certificate authority crosses a major milestone by becoming accepted into Mozilla's certificate root store.]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/372</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Assembly Code That Took America to the Moon Now Published On GitHub - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-07-10T21:15:49-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/372"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule," reports Quartz.  Two lines of code include the comment "# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE," and there's also a quote from Shakespeare's play Henry VI.   In addi...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule," reports Quartz.  Two lines of code include the comment "# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE," and there's also a quote from Shakespeare's play Henry VI.   In addi...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/373</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Samsung Unveils World's First UFS Storage Cards, Could Replace MicroSD - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-07-10T21:14:59-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/373"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: Samsung has unveiled the world's first UFS card that could one day replace microSD cards in devices. The UFS card is based on the Universal Flash Storage 1.0 Card Extension standard and will be available in capacities from 32GB to 256GB. With a UFS card, users will be abl...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: Samsung has unveiled the world's first UFS card that could one day replace microSD cards in devices. The UFS card is based on the Universal Flash Storage 1.0 Card Extension standard and will be available in capacities from 32GB to 256GB. With a UFS card, users will be abl...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/371</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Zend Framework - Blog - Zend Framework 3 Released!]]></title>
    <updated>2016-06-29T01:07:14-06:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Zend Framework project official website]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Zend Framework project official website]]></content>
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    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/370</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Bluetooth 5 With 2x More Range and 4x Better Speed Coming Next Week - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-06-13T00:37:41-06:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Bluetooth is about to get more powerful. Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group noted in a newsletter that Bluetooth 5 will debut on June 16. The new incarnation of wireless standard offers "double the range and quadruple the speed of low energy Bluetooth transmissio...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Bluetooth is about to get more powerful. Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group noted in a newsletter that Bluetooth 5 will debut on June 16. The new incarnation of wireless standard offers "double the range and quadruple the speed of low energy Bluetooth transmissio...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/369</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Australia Engineers Set New Solar Energy World Record With 34.5% Sunlight To Energy Efficiency - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-05-21T19:33:45-06:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: Australian engineers have edged closer to the theoretical limits of sunlight-to-electricity conversion by photovoltaic cells with a device that sets a new world efficiency record. A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales h...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: Australian engineers have edged closer to the theoretical limits of sunlight-to-electricity conversion by photovoltaic cells with a device that sets a new world efficiency record. A new solar cell configuration developed by engineers at the University of New South Wales h...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/368</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Certbot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-05-16T19:14:09-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/368"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with EFF's Certbot, deploying Let's Encrypt certificates.]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with EFF's Certbot, deploying Let's Encrypt certificates.]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/367</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Lian-Li's Adjustable Motorized Standing Desk Is Also a High-End PC Chassis - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-05-04T03:29:22-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/367"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[MojoKid quotes a report from HotHardware: It looks as though Lian-Li took the term desktop computer a bit too literally with its new DK-04 system, which is literally a desk that doubles as an enclosure for your PC components. The DK-04 has a clean, industrial design and even has an electrically actu...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[MojoKid quotes a report from HotHardware: It looks as though Lian-Li took the term desktop computer a bit too literally with its new DK-04 system, which is literally a desk that doubles as an enclosure for your PC components. The DK-04 has a clean, industrial design and even has an electrically actu...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/366</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-03-29T03:01:05-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/366"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Red Hat just became the first open-source company to make a cool 2 billion bucks. Not bad considering Red Hat became the first billion dollar Linux company only four years ago. Red Hat did it the old-fashioned way: They earned the money instead of play...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Red Hat just became the first open-source company to make a cool 2 billion bucks. Not bad considering Red Hat became the first billion dollar Linux company only four years ago. Red Hat did it the old-fashioned way: They earned the money instead of play...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/365</id>
    <title><![CDATA[OpenWrt Turns a $14 Card Reader Into the Smallest Wireless AP - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2016-01-29T03:49:17-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/365"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: The Zsun Wifi card reader is a tiny micro SD card reader with WiFi connectivity. While people managed to access the device's serial console a few months ago, the plan was to eventually run OpenWrt since it's based on the popular Atheros AR9331 WiSoC combined with 64MB RAM...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: The Zsun Wifi card reader is a tiny micro SD card reader with WiFi connectivity. While people managed to access the device's serial console a few months ago, the plan was to eventually run OpenWrt since it's based on the popular Atheros AR9331 WiSoC combined with 64MB RAM...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/364</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Officially Released, Adds 3D Support in the Virtual GPU Driver]]></title>
    <updated>2016-01-12T03:40:35-07:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Open-Channel SSDs are now supported via LightNVM]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Open-Channel SSDs are now supported via LightNVM]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/363</id>
    <title><![CDATA[802.11ah Wi-Fi standard approved, will underpin Internet of Things]]></title>
    <updated>2016-01-09T07:37:12-07:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[A new wireless standard that extends Wi-Fi’s reach down into the 900MHz band will keep the 802.11 family at the center of the developing Internet of Things, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today.]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[A new wireless standard that extends Wi-Fi’s reach down into the 900MHz band will keep the 802.11 family at the center of the developing Internet of Things, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today.]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/362</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2015-11-22T22:14:00-07:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/362"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[itwbennett writes: Last week a new piece of ransomware was discovered that targets Linux servers. Yesterday, researchers at Bitdefender discovered a critical flaw in how the ransomware (dubbed Linux.Encoder.1) operates while testing a sample in their lab and released a free tool that will automatica...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[itwbennett writes: Last week a new piece of ransomware was discovered that targets Linux servers. Yesterday, researchers at Bitdefender discovered a critical flaw in how the ransomware (dubbed Linux.Encoder.1) operates while testing a sample in their lab and released a free tool that will automatica...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/361</id>
    <title><![CDATA[MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2015-10-27T18:26:47-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/361"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[New submitter AmericaCounterweight writes: Polygon is reporting that the MAME development team has unearthed and emulated one of the most obscure pieces of Sonic heritage: a popcorn machine.  MAME developer David Haywood reports that contributors "purchased the PCB for another novelty Sonic item, th...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[New submitter AmericaCounterweight writes: Polygon is reporting that the MAME development team has unearthed and emulated one of the most obscure pieces of Sonic heritage: a popcorn machine.  MAME developer David Haywood reports that contributors "purchased the PCB for another novelty Sonic item, th...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/360</id>
    <title><![CDATA[Open source typeface “Hack” brings design to source code | Ars Technica]]></title>
    <updated>2015-09-03T04:59:08-06:00</updated>
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    <summary><![CDATA[Sweet spot is 8px-12px, but you can tell the difference between I and 1 at 6px.]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Sweet spot is 8px-12px, but you can tell the difference between I and 1 at 6px.]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <id>http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/359</id>
    <title><![CDATA[ Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow - Slashdot]]></title>
    <updated>2015-08-18T02:42:09-06:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://blog.allthingsgeek.com/news/index/index/type/reader/id/359"/>
    <summary><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: As they've done in the past, Google has revealed the name for the upcoming version of Android with a new statue in front of its headquarters. Android's sixth version will be called Marshmallow. Dave Burke, Android's VP of engineering, unveiled the statue on Twitter.
Googl...]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes: As they've done in the past, Google has revealed the name for the upcoming version of Android with a new statue in front of its headquarters. Android's sixth version will be called Marshmallow. Dave Burke, Android's VP of engineering, unveiled the statue on Twitter.
Googl...]]></content>
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