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Let's see if we can do a little better than last year. Packers over Baltimore; Farve retires on top. Eli will be the Giants' starting QB after their bye-week (Week 6), and they'll finish 7-9.

I have a couple of Gmail invites to give away. First come, first serve. Just give me your email address here or in a pm.

Microsoft has released an updated version of the beta 64-bit version of Windows XP. It's time-limited to 360 days, and available for download here.

Lavasoft released Ad-Aware SE, yesterday, which is supposed to be faster, and have more protection against spyware trying to stop it. I haven't had a chance to try it on infected computers yet. A complete list of new features is here.

or lawnmower, as Merc. would prefer. The 6800 Ultra takes up a PCI slot, has two power connectors, and they recommend a 480watt power supply as a minimum. All for the bargain price of US$500. That's just ridiculous. The press release is here, and all the reviews can be found at the usual places.

Last night, I had trouble sleeping, and I was tossing and turning all night. When I got up in the morning, the left side of my jaw was bothering me. I didn't think much of it until the pain didn't go away - instead it got worse. I finally looked in a mirror, and the entire top half of my bottom...

I recently installed Gentoo on an old Celeron 400. The install went fine and it's actually fairly responsive. The problem I have is that the fonts in KDE on non-KDE apps, such as Firefox, are microscopic, but in Gnome, they display the proper size. I search Google, and found this, and it helped...

In just over two years, SF has had 50,000 posts (this is 50,001). And the 50,000th? blakewry gets the honors with this post:

Now that all the local stations are back broadcasting OTA (albeit some at low power, but I'm close enough that it shouldn't matter), I'm looking into getting an HDTV card, and was wondering if anyone here had experiences with them, especially the software they come with. If it has an easy way to...

In yet another name change, Firebird has been renamed to Firefox, and 0.8 has been released. Any guesses on when the next name change will be?

Microsoft has made the beta 64-bit version of Windows XP available to general public for a free download or CD (for cost of shipping). You previously had to have an MSDN subscription to get it. The website is here.

I got my parents a Netgear MR814 wireless router, so my mom can get online without having to go up and down the stairs, but I can't seem to be able to get a signal from it. Checking with Netstumbler, it'll find the router for a couple of seconds, then drops it for about a second. This is from...

DVD Shrink 3.1.1 was released yesterday, and now, if you have Nero installed, it will burn the DVD directly from the program. And best of all, it's Freeware.

OK, this is a stupid question, but I'm not feeling well and I don't have much patience right now. I have a Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse that is double-clicking about 50% of the time instead of single clicking. I can hear what sounds like a spring bouncing when I click the left mouse button, and...

As seen on Slashdot, the source code for Half-Life 2 has been leaked. This is bad news, and I'm not sure how it'll affect the release of the game, or if it'll make cheating more prevalent. Here is Gabe Newell's statement on the leak.

I recently purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB PATA 8MB cache drive, thinking it had a three year warranty. But after shmorg posted a comment in the article feedback that said his drive came with a one year warranty, I checked my own drive with Seagate's warranty validator. Sure enough, I...

NY Man Ships Self in Air Crate to Dallas :o

Microsoft has said that they won't be developing a new version of Outlook Express, and instead will be focusing on Hotmail and MSN. Full Story.

What it does: Scan a single computer, or multiple computers, on your network for possible security problems and missing security updates in several Microsoft products. Runs on: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 Checks: Windows NT (w/SP4 or later), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows...

Why are there no 100+ disc CD/DVD-ROM changers for PCs? I'd love to hook one up to my PC and be able to use a cataloging program, which would let me search for what I want, and automatically load the correct CD/DVD. It'd be much easier and faster than looking through all the CDs I have on and...

I get a call from someone saying they can't get online, so I go check it out. Of course they're using AOL, and when I try to start it up, Windows gives a rather strange error message: "Your computer cannot display this feature due to low memory, please close one or more applications or free...

Does anyone know if it's possible to update the firmware on the DW-U10A (the OEM version of the DRU-500A)? There's nothing listed for it under the Sony site, and the updater for the DRU-500A doesn't detect the drive.

The national do-not-call list, which goes into effect on October 1, is open for registration. To sign up, go here, and it last for five years. It won't stop all calls, however, and the list of exemptions is here, which unfortunately covers many of the companies that use telemarketers. It's still...

Microsoft agreed to pay AOL $750 million and, more importantly, licensed Internet Explorer to them for 7 years, royalty free. Now, it seems very unlikely that AOL will switch to Mozilla, which would have been a big boost for alternate browsers. The complete story is here.

ATI has released new drivers for their cards, with a long list of fixes: They've also released MMC 8.5, which has a new "Easylook" interface. Get them here.

Here's a strange one: I have 1 256MB PC-133, 1 128MB PC-133, and 1 64MB PC-100 DIMM in my ASUS A7V133. I'm trying to take out the 64MB, and add it to a spare PC I'm building, but when I take it out, the computer won't boot. It'll power up, and the drives will spin up, but there's no video, and...

Summer is approaching, and I'll probably be spending a good amount of time at the shore this year, and I'd like to at least have a chance at meeting women. But first, I need to get in shape, and for me, that means gaining weight (I'm the stereotypical skinny computer geek, as opposed to the...

My mom, my sister, and I bought my dad a Sony DRU-500AX for his birthday, and I need to find a good place to get the blanks. Also, does anyone have any recommendations on which brands are the best, and which to avoid? Their stand-alone player plays both DVD-R and DVD+R, and I'm looking for at...

ATI is charging $9.99 + shipping to get the latest MMC 8.1 on a CD, except for those with a Radeon 9x00 series card (who get to download if for free). :evil: Why do companies do this? http://www.ati.com/shopati/promotions/mmc81.html

Finally, the snow has stopped here! Over the past two days, most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast in the U.S. received between 18-36 inches of snow (my town received about 23"), which made many roads in the area impassable and affected air travel all across the country. It was snowing at the...

For those of you that want to benchmark your video card, the new 3DMark03 from Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) has been released today. It's available for download here and comes in at a whopping 171MBs. It also needs to have DirectX 9 installed to run.

I woke up to this bad news today. The Space Shuttle, with 7 aboard, appears to have broken up during landing someplace around the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. It was travelling at 12,500 MPH at 200,000 feet in altitude at the time. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.landing.ap/index.html

AOL Time Warner posted the largest ever loss in U.S. corporate history for 2002, including $44.9 Billion in the last quarter alone. Most of the loss is a write down for the devaluation of AOL since the merger. Ted Turner is also stepping down as Vice Chairman, and he's rumored to want to buy CNN...

I don't like either of these teams, but it still should be an interesting game.

Microsoft, sitting on US$43.4 billion in cash, will start giving some of it back to stock holders on March 9. They also announced a stock split to take place on January 27. Even with the dividend, analysts still expects its cash pile to grow: The full story can be found at Reuters.

Somes scientists from France are claiming that two fungal diseases could wipe out bananas worldwide within 10 years unless something drastic is done. Because the bananas grown are sterile, they can't reproduce to mutate and fight off the diseases. The whole story is here. What will Tea find to eat?

Eugene finally put up the review for the SATA Barracuda here. Other than the fact that it's their first SATA drive reviewed, it's not a particularly exciting drive. Hopefully, it won't take too much longer before other SATA drives arrive on the market. Steve

HardOCP is giving away 1 $500 and 10 $100 Best Buy gift cards right here. It's only for U.S. residents and the contest lasts until Saturday.

On Friday, my cousin gave birth to her first child, a 7lb. 8oz. boy named Diego. It's particularly special because she spent almost three years battling non-hodgekins lymphoma, and at one point the doctors gave her less than 10 percent chance of surviving. They even told her not to make any long...

I picked up an AIW8500DV card this week, and I've spent way too much time trying to get this thing to work. Everything is fine except playing and recording MPEG-2 files. It installed the Ravisent Cinemaster MPEG-2 codec, but whenever I try to play an MPEG-2 file in either Windows Media Player or...

Home entertainment systems are not my forté, so this is probably a stupid question. I just got digital cable, and the digital audio out on the cable box is an RCA connector, while on my receiver, it's a Toslink. I can't seem to find any Toslink-RCA cables anywhere, and I was wondering if they...

Does anyone have any experience with Sampo LCD monitors, specifically the LME-17S1? It's a 17.4" model with built-in TV tuner and 1280x1024 resolution. My Dad wants to get an LCD monitor, and this one is currently US$600 at Costco. The specs seem pretty good for the price, but I don't know about...

According to The Inquirer, AMD said it's delaying the Clawhammer (desktop) until the second half of next year. The Sledgehammer (server) is still scheduled for the 1st half however. How much is this going to hurt them, and will it give Intel a big advantage? Steve

I have an interesting problem I just discovered. I have a D-Link DI-704 Cable/DSL Router that whenever it's hooked up to my cable modem, the activity light on the modem and the WAN light on the router flash almost constantly. The LAN light going to the PCs doesn't flash. This happens even if I...

Continuing the trend of Linux stories here, Mandrake released 9.0 today. It's 3 CDs, so bring you broadband connection. The list of mirrors. Steve

These pictures were taken the Friday before 9/11 by my dad. These first two were taken from Battery Park, just south of the WTC. This picture shows 1 WTC in the background with 3 World Financial Center (WFC) on the left, and 2 WFC on the right. In the middle is what is known as the Winter...

Does anyone have about 300k of server space I could use? I have 3 pictures of the World Trade Center my dad took on September 7, 2001 that I want to post. He's not the best photographer, but one of them turned out really well. Steve

Microsoft has put out the beta version of Media Player 9 and Media Encoder 9 here. I haven't tried it yet, but I would strongly suggest you read the EULA before you install it, in case they put some surprises in there. Steve

I just saw this on Slashdot. A 14-year old girl in England had a small meteorite fall on her foot. The odds of a meteorite hitting a person are 1 billion to 1. My favorite quote from the article: " This does not happen very often in Northallerton." Here is the whole article. Steve

Hi Everyone, I'm thinking about getting a UPS for my main system, since it's now more reliable than my power company. The power usually goes out about once a month for a second or two, just long enough for me to lose whatever it is I'm working on. My PC is nothing special: Duron 850 Geforce 2 2...