From the archive

November 2002

67 posts

DVD Copying Software released

I ordered the software immediately upon it's release. For 2 reasons I want a integrated professional package to backup my DVD's to CDR and I wanted to support this company. They are going to be in a legal fight from hell over the next few months. I encourage you to support this company any way you can. [Silicon Valley]

Earth’s Magnetic Poll flip possible!

Well first it was Asteroids hitting the earth causing massive casualties. Well now real scientist are saying that the world's magnetic poles are about to flip and in the process we could end up getting fried. If you did not have enough to keep you up at night here is a eye popping article that made me go HMMMMMM. [Guardian]

Space Shuttle Grounded

Well a pound per minute oxygen leak forced the scrub of the launch of Endeavour from the cape which was scheduled to go down about now. Pure Oxygen and electronics do not mix as we all sadly know. So technicians are going to go into the cargo bay were the unit is at and figure out what's leaking and get

No More AOL CD’s Campaign

A couple of guys out in California are trying to collect over 1 million AOL CD's to return to AOL HQ. It appears they have about 80,000 so far. I know I have about 500 here myself. But I am keeping mine as I am going to have my wife make me a costume out of the damn things we

Homeless-Guy Blog’s but can’t work

I am probably going to be attacked on this comment. But I have debated over the past several weeks if I was going to say anything about it. But being there is a bit of a technological twist to this I am going to go ahead. There is something wrong when a man has the knowledge to create a weblog

Identity Theft

We all worry about it and if you have as big a on-line presence as I do there are steps you have to take to protect yourself. Recently a guy was arrested and in his possession he had approx 20 of his victims information loaded in his PDA. If someone wants to make your life miserable and they work at

Links For Trade “Sucks”

We played around with Links For trade for about 4 months and I can tell you it is 100% a waste of any advertising dollars that you spend. We will be cutting the service at the end of the billing cycle. This is one service that I do not recommend.

Motivating Site

I am not the type of person to go out and buy motivating books I get pumped up enough as it is. But when you Mom sends you a Link to a site ya got to give it a plug. [Motivational Site]

Free Wi-Fi Networks

The thing I like about Wi-Fi is the endless possibilities. I have been searching around for a group that basically publishes information about companies and individuals that run open WI-Fi connections. The source of that information is www.freenetworks.org get connected today when you are on the move for Free. I have thought about forming a small local network with the

Geek News Central Mini Facelift!

Every once in a while we have our highly valued web designer Kristine from Love-Productions make some changes to the site. We are happy to Pay her for here services and she does great work so any of you running Blogs particularly Movable Type we highly encourage you to send her some business. I am not a graphics artist and

Big Cable’s Package-Pricing Ploy

I am so sick and tired of my cable company trying to sell me these movie channel packages. I like a few of the premium channels but could care less about the rest. Never did I give it a thought to pick and choose the programming I wanted and tell them to give me a price. Well there is a

Copy Protection on CD’s Worthless

A Princenton Univeristy Scientist is going to show some people at a Digital Copyright conference in DC next week how worthless the copy protection schemes are. [NewScientist.com]

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