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In an effort to clean out my closets full of stuff, I’m posting random stuff on my blog for free (w00t!). The only thing that you need to do is reply to the post with a comment. Make sure to include your email address, which is kept private, so I can contact you to get your mailing address, pay the shipping and the item is yours.

First up is a 24 port rack-mountable Ethernet 100M switch that I thought I would come in handy one day.. It didn’t in my case but maybe your home looks like a data center and you need one?

Shipping cost is $15.00 to CONUS only through PayPal. The first person to respond gets the switch and I’ll update the post accordingly when the entire process is completed and the money for shipping has cleared on PayPal.

I bought the switch a year or two ago for $99.00: I unpacked it, moved to another apartment, went wireless, and it’s been sitting idle ever since. I hooked up my laptop to it today and some lights are flickering so I guess it’s working, I don’t have the capacity to test it any further than that.

I’ll keep adding more random stuff randomly so keep your eyes peeled.

As you might know, NVIDIA has recently purchased Ageia, makers of the PhysX real-time physics SDK. Since then, NVIDIA has taken over the development of the SDK and a new version of the SDK is now available for free in binary form from the NVIDIA website, click here to go to check it out. A special license for the source code version of the SDK can be acquired for a mere $50K.

In other NVIDIA news: two new free book releases are now available on the NVIDIA website, namely: The Cg Tutorial and GPU Gems 2 which are two incredibly useful books. NVIDIA is on a roll, and looking at the manner in which freebies are coming in lately, I’ll be the last one to stop ‘em.

While reading Betsy Aoki’s blog I stumbled upon her post about Gotdotnet being dead. I’m not crying about it, I barely knew that site, but when you go to the old URL you’ll be presented with what seems to be Microsoft’s implementation of a resource dump: the MSDN Code Gallery — which is pretty neat.

Sure, there are only 4 C++ related things so far but if you’re a .NET programmer this site is pretty nifty, it even allows you to post your own snippets or host your own discussion. Of course there’s a huge license you’ll have to obey to and you have to donate your firstborn to Microsoft before posting anything… but that’s besides the point

NVIDIA has decided to publish the acclaimed GPU Gems book on their website, free of charge. Go to the NVIDIA website to read it. Did I mention it was free? Its free.