2002 September

Ok, maybe not, but I can imagine so many things I would do if I had a 320 GB Hard drive. Yes, that’s right, I said 320 gigabytes of data. I tell you, if these weren’t family sites, I would praise this idea with profanity till red in the face. I will simply say this […]

Ahh, so Chris tossed me this link to a new ad, debuted by Birdhouse Skateboards of Tony Hawk, hawking(pun intended) Mac’s for both home and personal use. It is a cool ad, and I am sure it will be even more so for the skater’s in the world. I am not a fan, and will […]

I found an interesting program. It’s a file sharing program that is powered by Microsoft’s .NET architecture. “Swapper.NET is a real-time search and retrieval system that operating on the Gnutella P2P network. Just as important, there is no spyware, no adware, and does not push 3rd party software on your computer.”
Not that I […]

Ok, so I rushed home after work to catch my usual 2 shows, Call For Help, and The ScreenSavers. Well, I flipped to TechTV Canada only to find Adam Sessler speaking. Thinking he was in the midst of a segment with Chris, I kept it on and went about my to do list, which had […]

“In August 2000, 43 U.S. states and commonwealths said an industry practice called “minimum advertised pricing” (MAP), under which the labels subsidized advertising for retailers that agreed not to sell CD’s below a minimum price determined by the labels, artificially inflated the price of CDs between 1995 and 2000, violating federal and state anti-trust laws.”
Who […]

This site is marketing their soon to be released technology which will allow you to recharge any wireless device without having to actually plug it in. If this is for real, it looks pretty neat. However I remember an article on Slashdot which linked to pictures of a working Tesla Coil. Within the next day […]

This is not the usual over priced hardware that I only dream about being able to afford; no, these are a series of really cool looking over priced desks, that I only dream about being able to afford. On a whim I actually called the site for a price list, I won’t bother posting the […]

This is a fairly interesting site, but (unless it had an unusually high load when I surfed) somewhat slow. The site features articles on everything from, how to modify your browser’s user-agent, to office politics; and a fair amount in between. In addition, I wanted to give credit for the following links:
Hotfreeware.com
Free-programs.com
Freeware-downloads.com
(WARNING: I have barely […]

I know, this has been done a little to death but I felt the need to follow it up (especially since I publicly announced my rapid anticipation). To be perfectly honest I was somewhat disappointed. I feel obligated to point out here that I
only checked out the computer science courses, so I may have […]

Gateway changes its marketing spots
Mooooove over Betsy. Gateway has once again changed its logo and marketing to downplay its heritage. But the cash cow won’t be taken in for slaughter yet.
The new style “G” imprinted on its PC’s is just part of the overall graphic design change at Gateway. It will be […]

If I’m not mistaken this topic has been covered before, but for those of you interested in the topic this article on Tom’s Hardware goes into great detail. (WARNING: spoiler approaching) For those of you not that interested, the article concludes that there is little difference between 98se, Win2K and WinXP.

RedHat Linux 8.0 is now available on the RedHat network. There are many new features, some of which are: “a new interface — a user-friendly desktop with graphical enhancements and improved menu organization; the latest Gnu Compiler Collection, gcc-3.2, and a specially tuned and tested high-performace kernel, 2.4.18; cutting-edge web server technology powered by […]

Digital school bells will ring this week on MIT’s much-anticipated OpenCourseWare Web site when it starts offering free content from dozens of MIT courses. The goal: to share content with researchers, educators, and people who can’t afford tuition.
These first courses cover subjects such as software engineering and economics. You can’t earn an MIT degree via […]

The Windows 2000 operating system, although used by only a few residents, was primarily responsible for hundreds of major problems on UCSB’s residential network during the 2001-2 academic year. Residents’ computers were compromised with several well-known vulnerabilities and used for all manner of unfriendly purposes such as the installation of viruses like Code Red and […]

“One day after the federal government warned consumers that cybersecurity begins at home, Microsoft introduced a series of broadband networking products that it says let consumers extend their broadband connections to multiple in-house devices without compromising security.”
“Microsoft’s Broadband Networking line lets consumers use a single broadband connection to link home PCs and digital-entertainment devices using […]

Verizion brings IM to in-flight phones
Verizon is offering a new service that will let passengers more to do with seatback phones than call mom and tell her your calling from an airplane. JetConnect will allow everyone to plug their laptops into the phone’s jack and spend the rest of the flight sending instant messages, […]

In celebration of the Nuit Blanche art festival in Paris, Tower T2 of the Bibliotheque nationale de France has been turned into what is probably the world’s biggest computer screen. It’s a display that’s a mere 20 x 26 pixel display, but each of those pixels is a grayscale capable 3.6 x 1.8 meter […]

Since Napster’s death, fans of P2P and file sharing have mostly migrated to software like Kazaa and morpheus. The newest version of Kazaa contains code which will rewrite URLs to sites like Amazon.com which allows affiliates to earn commission from sales they refer to Amazon. If you were to have this software installed […]

Microsoft has decided that it may finally be a good idea to support Bluetooth wireless technology in Windows XP. Previously their stance had been that Bluetooth was too new and still struggling to get on its feet when Windows XP was getting ready to ship, so support was not important. Now Microsoft is […]

Some sites last week, MSN included, described a new PC coming out which carried a version of Linux which was capable of running Windows PCs, the Linux version is called Lindows. That is true. The PC they talked about coming out, backed by the mega-giant AOL, is false. AOL denies any connection with Lindows, and […]