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2009 November 03

Western Digital Is Back In the SCSI Business

Once upon a time, when performance in disk drives meant you had to have a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, developed from the SASI interface, developed by Seagate) add-in card and connected drive, many manufacturers made them. Western Digital never had many offerings, but those it had worked very well.
Then the IDE (integrated drive electronics) [...]

Once Again It’s Become the Story of Cops and Pirates

The MPAA and RIAA are one note wonders. Whenever something goes wrong, the customer is the one to blame. It could never be their ridiculous practices, the poor excuse for quality content, or their own gross stupidity.
Or could it?
This time, it’s actually worse. Not only does paramount Studios want to blame the customers, they want [...]

Pending Lawsuit Indicates the Coming e-Reader Battles

announced not two weeks ago, and not to be released until around Black Friday, the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has already  found itself being attacked as a derivative work, which gives no credit for its feature set.
A story in PC Magazine indicates the challenge to Nook comes from a California based company, that stands [...]

Chrome Gains Speed, “Borrowed” Features

New results indicate that Google Chrome gets faster, always nice, but is also starting to gain features. One of those features is currently an Opera exclusive, which will synchronize bookmarks across all of the user’s machines.
The sync feature is done using the same protocol as Google Talk, which may or may not be better than [...]

Finally, VIA Gives the Intel Atom Some Competition!

Low power lovers for lots of years looked to VIA for solutions for small spaces, or for single use PCs, such as those that might be used for a SmoothWall router, or a small home server.
When Intel released the Atom processor, the world forgot about VIA for awhile, seeming  to be helped by the almost [...]

Dick Cheney – If His Memory Is So Bad, Should Anything He Says Be Believed?

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making quite an after-politics career of going around on the speaking circuit, giving his opinions on why his administration was so great, and why the current one is doomed to failure and disgrace.
Now he seems to have that infamous political selective memory, only recalling the feel of how it [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 Commercials Causing Television BSODs

Say what you will about Windows 7 (I mostly like it, other than the menu problem that you have heard me hammer on), but the company’s commercials suck. There is no nice way of getting around it. I can’t say  I have ever seen a Microsoft commercial I like. The Windows 7 commercial with the [...]

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