Make your PC a TiVo
This is the article I have been waiting for. Although I am a bit skeptic and still want the real deal. You can easily acquire the components needed to make it happen read on! [Business Week]
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Technical
Have a Vinyl Record Laying Around? Play it via your scanner!
Yes the headline is correct. Someone with absolutely to much time on his hands scanned some vinyl records programmed up a decoder and has some samples of his results. The results are mixed. But he should have done what I did a couple of years ago. I have a high end turn-table and I made digital masters of my analog
Beware of Xupiter it will ruin your day.
If you are surfing the net and happen to come across a site that forcefully installs a program called Xupiter you better stop what your doing and immediately download Spybot Search & Destroy as almost nothing else is going to get rid of it. It's a nasty utility that virtually takes over your browser. [Wired]
What the heck does that DLL do
I am sure we have all been searching around our PC's and run into a DLL that has a weird naming convention. Well Microsoft has a site that gives you info on all DLL's that ship with Microsoft Products. [Microsoft]
How the net leaves itself open to attack
Just how many grunged entries are hitting the 13 root servers. Well you are going to be surprised by the crunched data. [BBS News]
HyperTransport Turbo Charged Computers
HyperTransport is an effort initiated by AMD to define a new high-speed technology for connecting PC components. HyperTransport 2.0 will provide data transfers between chips at 20 gigabytes to 40 gigabytes per second, depending on the system architecture. Such speeds will TRIPLE the performance and versatility of servers or desktops. The technology essentially improves performance by eliminating many of the
The Slammer will strike again Monday
It is feared as business fire up there computers on Monday and connect to the net the Slammer Worm will hit these Microsoft SQL servers that have not yet been patched. The Net could see some slow down again. If you want to make some brownie points with your boss prepare a information sheet for him tonight. [Wired]