HTPC

The HTPC is fully assembled and working. Parts list:

• CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) TWIN2X4096-6400C5C
• 2x Seagate Barracuda LP ST31000520AS 1TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" HDD in RAID1
• ZOTAC IONITX-D-E Intel Atom N330 Dual Core (w/ hyperthreading) 1.6 GHz 441 NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo w/ 16 CUDA cores
• Antec Silver Aluminum / Steel Fusion Remote Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
• LITE-ON Black 8X BD-ROM SATA Internal BD-COMBO Model ihes108-29
• SeaSonic S12II 330 Bronze 330W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
  

Mocks, Stubs and other Unit Testing stuff

http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2008/06/tott-friends-you-can-depend-on.html

Cuckoo Hashing

http://www.it-c.dk/people/pagh/papers/cuckoo-undergrad.pdf

Technologies to research

New stuff:
thrift - http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/
hadoop - http://hadoop.apache.org/core/

Learn more about (used it, need more details on advanced configuration and uses):
ehcache - http://ehcache.sourceforge.net/
memcached - http://www.danga.com/memcached/