From the archive

June 2004

81 posts

Hotmail makes move to offer more e-mail storage

Let me see pay Hotmail $19.95 a year for 2 gigs of storage or get 150 megs for free so long as I login once every 30 days to make sure the account does not get deleted or have virtually unlimited free storage on Gmail. Seems like a no brainer to me. Nice try in playing catch up. I think

Seti@Home updates client

The Gang at SETI who are using un-used processor cycles on millions of home computers worldwide in the search for ET have updated their home client software. Which runs under something they are calling BOINC which will make it software upgrades and various other things less cumbersome on the participants. [SETI]

Yahoo blocking Trillian again!

I Love Trillian and I am not real Happy with Yahoo at this moment seems the idiots over their are blocking those of us using Trillian as our IM client. Who in their right mind wants 4-5 Instant Message clients sitting on their taskbar especially when the can run one program and have them all. It is a beautiful thing

Comdex Canceled

What used to be the world's greatest premier technology trade-show Comdex has canceled the show this year. It's really to bad but I suppose vendors are re-directing their focus to shows that are devoted to their particular product line. [www.comdex.com]

Gmail account Winners!

I have sent 2 email's to the readers of the site who provided what I considered the best 2 tech link submissions. All of the submissions where great, I will be starting another round of gmail give aways All of the entries where good and I appreciate your particpation. Here are the URL's that the 2 winners submitted. IT Related

Running Cracked software don’t expect the author to play nice

Seems a recent upgrade to FeedDemon has a payload that dumps users out of the program that are running hacked versions. Seems some of those users who where running the cracked versions have been bitching publicly about the latest upgrade. I think his move was absolutely brilliant. [Nick Bradbury]

NT4 Support Days still numbered

After reading the following article I walked into the office and gave my faithful NT server a pat and told her that her days where numbered. I am not really into upgrading computers that are working as they are supposed to do. I think Microsoft does this just to make companies upgrade. Well I have decided the the server sitting

SpaceShipOne flight not Perfect

Seems the ride into space had a few major pucker moments. The team is happy with the flight but the anomalies with the flight control system and a big bang will have them looking at their telemetry data to figure out what happened. [www.newscientist.com]

Tom’s Hardware Guide

If you are a hardware junkie and looking for the inside scoop on Motherboards and new computer components Tom's Hardware Guide website has a lot of great information. For you overclockers their is a wealth of information on the site also. [www.tomshardware.com]

Cascading Style Sheets

It has been a significant amount of time since I have designed any websites and being I have nothing but time on my hands I decided to teach myself how to use CSS in my new website designs. I have always relied on Hotmetal Pro and the last version that Softquad put out before being taken over by Corel was

Shareware Collection CD’s Wanted

As many of you know I have been running a old school BBS for a very long time and it's home on the Internet is at www.bbsnets.com the site has one of the largest shareware collections on the Internet dating from present back a significant number of years. One of my hobbies is collecting old shareware CD's. My current collection

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