My desktop computer at home is about five years old, so I thought it's time to buy myself a new computer. There are two features I'm particularly interested in new computer: media center PC and AMD 64-bit CPU. So I looked around for a Media Center PC...

The benefit of having your own office, or at least one of them, is that you can have your own $29 IKEA armchar:

If you know a good book or more on performance, please recommend. I'm aware of the following books which have some topics related to software performance: Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques , 2000. This...