tech tv, mags, and forums? Options

[Maccabee]

Just wondering if you guys knew of any other sources to read up on geeky stuff. any good tech magazines worth subscribing to? and are there any geek/tech related tv shows out there?

Advanced or not id like to see em. and what are some other good tech forums? It seems like the only geeks on cb I could count with one hand.

in fact. I will.

CJ,
Mipadi,
illriginal(that douche),
and thats about it. So there is barely a point making threads it tech, when it would practically be more beneficial to pm one of those people.

[mipadi]

Yeah, I mean, there are some cool aspects to hardware design. And my research background is in networking and systems, so low-level hardware is interesting to the extent that I can exploit it to make software run faster (that was the crux of my undergraduate research -- exploiting processor caches and virtual memory for fun and profit) but...I still see it as mundane. I dunno. Hardware is simultaneously boringly simple and agonizingly complex. And I still see software as the way to get useful (and fun) stuff done. Plus the whole science and theory behind programming language design is fascinating. Sure, "boring" languages like C++ aren't terribly interesting, but there's much fun to be had when looking at the underlying concepts on which Lisp is founded, or how closures are implemented in various languages, or how Erlang solves a lot of concurrency issues, or how purely functional programming actually lets us use the full power of multiple processor cores, etc.

tight.
could you make your own hard drive or something?

Sure. If you access to platinum, finely-tuned machinery, and a clean room.