Here’s an email I received… it’s exactly like the pyramid schemes that used snail mail and were promoted over usenet, message boards, and chain emails. It’s simply been revised to use PayPal – quite an inevitable next step, I suppose..
Today Intel released a 3.46 GHz version of the gamer-tageted Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. Here’s a quote from C|Net: “One snag, however, has already arisen for the new Extreme Edition Pentium 4. Reviews of the chip–an important consideration for would-be buyers–are fairly scathing. Many conclude that the new chip brings little in the way of…Continue Reading…
Having a computer in my room reminds me of a huge phase of my life which I’d almost forgotten. Before I used AOL (I think), I used Prodigy. It wasn’t even an internet service – it was their own Prodigy software and their own services and content. It had online games and stuff. I used…Continue Reading…
So I’m now on a new computer with XP SP2 (from CD). Interestingly, it never asked me for the product key. Anyway, here are the updates since SP2. I hope they’re safe to install. 816093: Security Update for Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Service Pack 2
I’ve finally put a computer in my room. We’ve got tons of computers (about 12) lying around. The one I’m using is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC server. Bought it almost a year ago for $199. 2 GHz Celeron, 128 MB RAM. Still, a great deal for the price. I stayed up last night using an…Continue Reading…
My Uncle Ted visited today. He’s amazing – went to MIT and Brown, worked for Apple, and now he works for the OSAF. One thing we talked about was how it doesn’t matter, in the grand scheme of things, where you go for college. What matters, when you go out to make a name for…Continue Reading…