Way back in 2003, I spent in excess of £1,600 ($2,500) to buy my first laptop, which was a Samsung X10. My thinking was naively simple: I wanted a laptop that could do everything and I was prepared to invest heavily to obtain it. The flaw in that plan was that such a laptop didn’t exist back then, and it arguably doesn’t exist today either.

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if only you could do that to a person

I have a spare Intel fan (e97378-001). Does anyone have a use for it?

Origin’s On the House program now offers Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and the Yuri’s Revenge expansion for the classic real-time strategy sequel as free downloads (thanks PC Invasion). The only requirement is a free Origin account to get them during this offer and they will be yours to keep.

Here’s the description of the game, in case you don’t recall it from when it was released in 2000:
The world erupts in conflict as Soviet forces invade American soil in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. Time travel has helped to eliminate the German threat, and now the Soviets are expanding into the West unchecked. You are the Supreme Commander. Arm yourself to the teeth with top-secret technologies and lead the Soviet or Allied troops to victory.

Plus, defeat an army of mind-controlled Soviet forces in the expansion Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge.

Funnily enough, I stumbled across Space War while looking for this:
http://www.squakenet.com/download/operation-inner-space/5134/