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Apple continues to search for more board members. Al Gore is bad enough already.

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The announcements on Thursday come after the company said the previous day that Al Gore, the former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, had joined the board. Apple's board now has six members.

The makers of the Rio MP3 player and ReplayTV goes chap 11. This is protection bankrupcy. It still sucks if you own their products though.

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The bankruptcy notice, filed Friday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Jose, Calif., is intended to let Sonicblue continue operations long enough to sell its main subsidiaries. The company plans to complete those sales by April and then to open the bidding for its remaining assets.

I wouldn't hardly call this a feature. I remember back in the day when I was running Celerons at 100Mhz FSB, that is what overclocking is. Anyway, whatever.

[QUOTE]Though the 845PE is cheaper than the Springdale chipset, to be launched in May, the sales prospects of 845PE, 800MHz-supporting motherboards are still unclear, as the 845PE lacks dual-channel DDR support and 800MHz FSB Pentium 4 processors are more expensive than 533MHz versions. Unlike its current 845 series, which supports a 533MHz FSB and DDR333 memory, Intel’s Springdale chipset supports an 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400.[/QUOTE

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If you run Windows or Linux, there are some patches out for both. Head over to the roundup.

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roundup Flaws in various operating systems put computer users at risk, including the U.S. military and everyone who uses a Windows-based machine.

A mere $500 million buys Linksys. Pretty cheap given the brand name.

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Cisco will issue common stock worth about $500 million to acquire Linksys, and it expects the deal to close in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2003, which ends in July. Cisco also expects charges for the acquisition to subtract no more than 1 cent per share from its fiscal 2004 profit. After charges, the company said it would add about 1 cent to 2004 earnings per share.

Well, we got another review for you. Nivram checks out this cool looking program that promises to increase the speed and stability of your Windows PC.



Check it out. We have more interesting stuff soon also!

You know how WWII was called the radio war and Veitnam was the TV war and the Gulf the Cable TV war? People are calling this the internet war.

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But the limited nature of the assault, and the timing of the strike--which came late on Wednesday evening in the United States when many Americans were at home watching television rather than in front of their computers at work--meant that any fears of Internet gridlock and outages appeared to be unfounded. Yahoo's news site saw about three times more traffic than it would have in a typical hour directly after President Bush told Americans in a speech that the United States had launched a war with Iraq, according to spokeswoman Joanna Stevens.

Guidelines for building robots ehh? Not really, just focusing on the internal stuff like chips.

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Under the Robotics Engineering Task Force, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker is devising reference designs for relatively small robots based around its silicon. The company's designs don't focus on the mechanical aspects of robots--such as the wheels and motors--but on the internal electronics, Jim Butler, director of the project at Intel Labs, said Wednesday during a press presentation on ongoing research efforts at the company.

Check this out. Speed up your PC with a proggie. What will they think of next? Okay, we'll it wasn't that remarkable .

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Wonder about your PCs CPU and RAM usage? Wonder how to help manage them better? Read on about just such a helpful utility program.Next Page »

We are at war. Support our troops. Come home safe, and tell terrorists that we will not back down anymore! You are the bravest, you are our heros. We all wish you luck during this time of War. Cnet, CNN.

Hopefully this will last no longer than a month. We have just seen Saddam Huessen speak that America has commited a crime and more to that nature and that this all comes from Israel (basically). He is trying to get the other Arab nations to band against America it would seem. What do you think?

I found this over at ZDnet Australia, it's a very interesting article page of that links to tests they performed on 4 different Centrino notebooks. Seems like the battery life extension plan worked, since on average they have about a 5 hour battery life. Incredible.

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Acer TravelMate 803LCi
A big screen and great performance combine to make this wide body a winner, with top performance and nearly five hours of battery life.

Dell Latitude D600
This thin-and-light for the office makes its mark with exceptional graphics and a unique fold-up docking station that makes it great for travelers and desk jockeys alike.

IBM ThinkPad T40
How does seven hours of battery life, great performance, and a 2.5kg weight sound to you? That's what we thought.

Toshiba Tecra M1/S1
This performance notebook means business, with one of the first mobile DVD burners that can read multiple formats, along with a five-hour battery life.

Well well, some things in the tech sector I do like. The Intel Centrino brings true mobile technology to the table. I wrote a brief piece on my thoughts. It is a one pager, coffee break reading.



Check it out and tell me what you think. Mobile computing still has awhile to go.

Lately I've been more and more critical in the news I post. I always seem to find something stupid or critical. VIA is now up to a KT600. Marketing a bigger number, even though only supporting a 400FSB Athlon is pretty weird hmm?

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Following the recent launch of its K7-based KT400A chipset, VIA is planning to release one more product, the KT600, for the AMD platform in May. According to sources, the KT600 (codenamed KT400A-CE) is pin-to-pin compatible with the KT400A (codenamed KT400A-CD), but is designed to support a 400MHz FSB. The KT400A only supports a 333MHz FSB.

With the launch of the new Centrino mobile chip, mobile computing can finally make strides away from the desktop counterparts. I have some brief thoughts on the new CPU, plus mobile computing in general.Next Page »

The overall market has been steady though. But the tech sector lost over 500 thousand jobs.

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The American Electronics Association (AEA), a trade group that represents 3,000 technology companies, said the U.S. high-tech industry shed about 560,000 jobs, reducing the number of jobs from a high of 5.7 million in January 2001 to 5.1 million in December 2002.

Ahh the joy of school. Wait, what am I talking about? Ahh crap. I have an editorial I'm going to post later about the Intel Centrino and mobile computing in general.

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With the site back on track, time for some space news.

Seti@Home produces 150 signal to inspect.

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The California researchers plan to head to Puerto Rico this month to use one of the world's most powerful telescopes to more closely investigate the signals that might be from extra terrestrials, a university spokeswoman said. "They are homing in on interesting signals," said Sarah Yang, a spokeswoman at the University of California, Berkeley where the SETI+home research project is based. "They have not said they found anything."

Finding photosyntheticable planets.

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Before the development of photosynthesis and the subsequent rise of oxygen, life on Earth remained single-celled. Oxygen is largely seen as necessary for the development of multi-cellular complex life – in other words, higher plants and animals (including humans). The question of complex life on other worlds, therefore, is tied to the possibility of photosynthesis development. But could photosynthesis develop on worlds orbiting stars different from our sun?

Alpha Centauri measured.
[QUOTE]On Saturday, March 15, astronomers announced that Alpha Centauri A is now calculated to be 1,061,000 miles wide (1,708,000 kilometers), or 1.227 times the size of the Sun. The B-star is 748,100 miles across (1,204,000 kilometers), or 0.865 times the Sun's diameter.[/QUOTE

Fight the power! An older ex-employee is fighting back against people taking over American jobs.

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The case is likely to fuel the fire over H-1B visas, which allow skilled workers into the United States for up to six years. Some tech workers have long questioned the need for such visas, claiming skilled Americans could fill the jobs and companies are just looking for cheaper workers. Tech companies, which successfully lobbied Congress for a higher H-1B cap during boom times, argue that they still need the workers for certain tasks. Although it's not illegal to hire or retain H-1B workers in lieu of American workers in most cases, employers must pay the "prevailing" wages for specific jobs in a region and the process cannot adversely impact a specific population of workers.

Yes! I want one of these so bad! Uhh, the price tag is a bit off I think. Over $3000. OMG!

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"The 3D monitor should be launched commercially before the end of this year," a Sharp representative said. It is expected to cost about $3,190 (3,000 euros). The prototype on display is a 15-inch flat-panel display. Sharp explained that the screen contains a "parallax barrier" thin-film transistor (TFT) panel that splits the light generated by the monitor in such a way that alternate columns of pixels are seen by each eye. Thus, each eye sees a slightly different image.

I bet you we can jury rig something, just rip two TFTs and smash them together. Simple and effective .

Within the next two days, America will be at war with Iraq. Here are my thoughts on what might happen.

Like in the early 90s, the regular army will just up and surrender when war is declared. This was even seen before war started. The only people that will fight is the republican guards. These are the elites, and will put up a moderate fight, but we have a great deal more of troops. I expect that war will not last a month.

Now, everyone is scared of chemical weapons or other mass destruction weapons. Let me tell you something, even though Saddam can use these weapons on our troops, or on our soil, he won't. I'll let you in on a little theory I had. If he doesn't use any weapons that we said he has, we look like the bad guy, and ever other little fart country will be pointing fingers at us saying we told you so. Of course, when we do get in and comb the country, we will find something.

Inspections are over, now is the time to act. I support President Bush all the time. I hope that the troops all return safely, you are our heros.

If your running Samba over the internet, that is pretty weird. Anyway, might want to patch up Samba.

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The flaw occurs in the code that reassembles data that the software receives from the Internet, according to the advisory. By sending the server a specially crafted data packet, an attacker could overload the memory used by the Samba software and cause the application to run code of the intruder's choice.

We're in a slight downtime here due to the server move. Everything should be back to normal by the end of the week. If you spot any errors, give me a pm or email.

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Square should've abandoned this franchise after FF7. The story looks extremely lame by what's given away in the review.

[QUOTE]Overall, I’m thinking this: FFX-2 is as conceptualized: a quickie, cheap way to make some cash by reusing the graphics sets from FFX and most of the levels. Half the development time, half the staff.[/QUOTE

Anyone else think that cable lines should be open like phone lines? I look and see Comcast as the only cable provider here, but there are many people that offer local and long distance calling...

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As it keeps both wholesale and retail prices for Internet service high, Comcast says its pretax operating profit margins are nearly 50 percent. That margin does not include any accounting for the $10 billion it will ultimately cost Comcast and AT&T to update their systems. But the main purpose of that renovation--which involved running high-capacity fiber optic cables into each neighborhood--was to offer hundreds of television channels and interactive services like pay-per-view movies. Internet service uses less than 1 percent of the capacity of these systems.

We are getting ripped off here as consumers without choices.

You know the basic deal. sacrific your privacy and be secure. Those new GPRS phones aren't safe with their packets anymore. Ohh well, better to be safe then killed somehow right?

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Several police agencies are now testing the NetDiscovery service and getting a first glimpse into whether criminals are among the approximately 10 million people using advanced wireless data services like photo-sharing or high-speed wireless Internet access, which all five wireless carriers now offer. Crime fighters suspect that criminals are among the earliest users of the technologies, having already made pagers and other earlier generations of wireless devices into tools of their trade, according to a VeriSign executive.

I don't know how selling a mere 72,000 units/quarter is a good start. Sales are expected to pick up. Meanwhile laptops are selling in the millions.

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The United States was the biggest market for tablet PC shipments, accounting for about half the total volume, IDC found. But Western Europe, Japan and the Asia-Pacific region also have strong potential for the product, said IDC analyst Alan Promisel. In Asia, that's partly because of the way tablet PCs make it easier to enter Asian language into a computer, he suggested. "Handwriting is a quicker input method than the keyboard for that region," Promisel said.

The successor to regular PCI is much faster. It will replace the current spec sooner or later. Too bad PCI-Expess is a competing tech.

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IBM and Hewlett-Packard will start incorporating PCI-X into their servers in 2004, according the companies' top Intel server technologists. The move will be possible through the use of new chipsets, which join processors to memory and input-output systems such as PCI, from Broadcom subsidiary ServerWorks.

Back on schedule here, I just need to fix some stuff and we'll have reviews flowing once again. I'm back in NJ, that's good.

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