From the archive

June 2003

147 posts

The Ultimate Homegrown Flight Simulator

Geeks are the best and they come up with some crazy stuff. The referenced page makes me want to go out and build the same thing. [Wideview Demonstration]

Geek News Central Welcomes BlogShares Participants

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Sony FSV-PGX1 Portable Linux File Server

Sony makes some cool stuff gosh I love that company. Their latest cool product has me excited. I am going to have to get one of these to play around with. I travel a lot to Japan so I will be able to score one soon. I always travel with a group of people and we all have laptops being

Apple gets a taste for speed

I'm back again fellow Geeknewsers! I haven't been posting the latest Personal Tech news lately since I've been on vacation. But I'm back and came home to this article from News.com, which excites me. "Apple Computer appears poised to boost its Power Mac line in what could be a much-needed overhaul of its high-end desktops. Apple is preparing to introduce

The Amazing Brain

Don't you sometimes wish that you could remember more of the things you have learned in the past. I remember going through the torture of some very grueling math courses and kept many of the notes. I look at them from time to time and now 10 years later they make my brain hurt just looking at them. I can't

Knock Knock open up this is the FBI

A new bill introduced in congress would give the FBI a greater roll in hunting down copyright infringer's. The RIAA is salivating at the mouth with the prospect of having G-Men prosecuting people who are sharing music. Where will the madness end. [ZDNet]

Laptop Trends!

I guess my purchase of a Sony Laptop designed as a desktop replacement is following a trend that is causing Laptop manufactures to build bigger and more powerful notebooks. [Silicon Valley]

Mini Disk and the Sony Success Story

When I travel to Japan I see the majority of people with portable music players using MD players. I get a lot of questions about my MP3 player. You would think that the electronics haven of the world there would be wider adoption of MP3's by now but they really haven't taken off. So I was surprised today to see

RIAA Sends Cease and Desist Letters

Four out of the Five people who's names were released thru the Verizon litigation have bee sent cease-and-desist letters. This is only the beginning. Now that the RIAA has legal precedence they will be much harder to stop when they want user information in the future. [Cnet]

Best Buy Fraud E-Mail is BOGUS!!!

If you receive a e-mail purporting to be from best buy fraud alert . Do not respond and if you have immediately call your bank. Best Buy is aware of the e-mail scam. The email will link you to this site "Do-Not-Go-Here://www.your-instant-credit-reporter.org/fraud.html". I talked with a best buy representative this evening and they are working to have the site taken

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