Another VIA EPIA CL10000 review. (read mine at epiacenter.com if you want) :)

Mr Bean, depressed because his film didn't make much money in the US and was laughed at by critics. He continues to recover in his mansions in Chelsea and Oxfordshire.

digital cameras. (yes again!) another potentially good camera is the Minolta Dimage E223 from £117 2mp, 3xopt and Video with sound makes it tempting (more info and links), but is it worth the extra £17 (bad reviews of e223) over getting a Fuji A203, A204, a205 which don't have sound and can be bought for £99? Or would it be better to just get an Olympus C-350 (3mp, 3xopt) for the extra money at £139 from amazon.co.uk?

another camera is the Che-ez D'Zign, £79.99 Jacobs, just like a Casio EX-S2 / AGFA / Oregan Scientific (£99 jacobs/gadget shop), 2mp, but the Che-ex apparently does 20cm macro according to the jacobs catalogue.

grrr windows xp is craptastic!. click start, because you want to get to your programs, you have to go to "all programs", ok that's minor, go to control panel, it's got all the different things in different sections, click "switch to classic view" to get the usual view - why not just have this as the default anyway? want to find a file? click start and then search, a stupid dog comes up and says "what do you want to search for? pictures, music or video, documents, etc etc" when I actually just want to search! I don't want a stupid dog coming up and asking me what I want to search for, I just want to search - if I wanted to search for a specific thing such as images, I'd put the .jpg extension! Another thing, they don't have the "My Computer" icon on the desktop as a default - why not?! Grrr - everything they've added to WinXP is just another step in slowing you down when you're trying to use the computer - and yes I know you can customise it so it's just like Win2000 - but I shouldn't have to - I just don't get what Microsoft were thinking when they made Windows XP - they've made it slower and more difficult to use! They even removed the "quicklaunch" thing from the toolbar (yes i know you can turn it on) - but why remove it from being there as default? It makes using the computer easier! //end rant...

no wait - Windows XP and the stupid Activation! Yes I've just changed the motherboard on the computer - what you want me to re-activate windows!!! WHY!?!? Ok, lets try this then, yes I'd like to do it over the internet - oh but wait, windows doesn't let you get to the desktop to configure you network card and internet connection settings - so you can't activate it over the internet, you have to phone up microsoft and tell them or type in a 50-digit long number, and then they'll tell you another 50-digit number you have to type into the computer...! and then if you change some other stuff in the computer again (like the motherboard, because it might have been faulty) you have to go through ALL this again and this time you manage to try and get onto the internet to activate windows, and it pretends to be working, you think great, this'll be easy, but then after it's checked on the internet it says you have to ring someone up!! GRRR Windows XP I hate you!!

thank yous to all those who've sent happy christmas cards, or presents etc.

in the word's of a great philosopher "i am a material girl, living in a material world" Fuji M603 3mp (super ccd), 2x optical (also does VGA (640x480) 30fps movie recording with sound) £199 seems like a very good deal (review), as another camera (Minolta Digame Z1) that does that is £299 (link) - other good deals i've seen: a203 2mp, 3x opt £99 Jessops, a204 2mp, 3x opt £99 dixons - and the A405 2mp, 3xopt which was £99 before christmas from pcworld, is now £149! haven't really seen any other great deals / sales etc. have you? update amazon have the c-350, 3mp, 3x opt for £139 inc vat now the a205 (2mp, 3x opt) is also £99 (review) according to dealtime.co.uk (eg internetcamerasdirect.co.uk) another deal seems to be the Casio QV-R40 4mp, 3x opt £169 dixons. also saw the AGFA S2 2.0MP rrp £99, for £69 in dixons - also on dixons.co.uk (basically the same as a Casio EX-S2 I think - which was £169, and then it vanished, they don't have macro though),

Merry Christmas chaps, and a Happy New Year!

B3TA : FEATURES : BEST OF B3TA 2003 hooray. long live b3ta. obvisouly avoid the "man milk vs moo milk" one, and others that may be offensive / wrong etc

Love Actually what other people said "that was light hearted" - "it was a bit corny" - "they were all so perfect" (the people). my thoughts, yes it was a fairly lighthearted film, with some deeper issues they just sort of skimmed over. it was a bit political too (a fake english prime minister and a fake american president were in it) in a pretty naff way, some bits were funny, some were just a bit too stupid. it was quite predictable. heather thought it was good but a bit rude. there were 2 people in it pretending to be porn stars but it wasn't really that funny. could have been funnier i think.

InfoWorld: Open-source group issues Microsoft patch: December 19, 2003: "An open-source software development group posted a file on its Web site this week it claims will patch a recently disclosed security hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that allows online scam artists to fake Web page addresses."

snake but in 3d, pretty good. remember those sony mavica digital cameras that took a disk!? brilliant but flawed, excellent idea, but the disks didn't fit enough images and the cameras were too big :) expensive at the time, but still available on ebay, and still too expensive, yep, especially compared to a fuji 2600 buy now £86 s/h 2mp,3x opt or a Fuji A405 for £99 new from dixons/pcworld (2mp,3x opt). although an old 1.5mp fuji may be the cheapest way of getting a "proper" digital camera (with CCD rather than CMOS) - currently £21 with 5 hours left, or perhaps an old 2.1mp fuji currently £31 with 12 hours left. or perhaps an MX-1700, 1.5mp, 3x optical currently £37 with 3hrs left... or perhaps a 1.3mp, 3x opt olympus?

Shop for Fuji FinePix A204. at Argos.co.uk £99 on sale, 2mp, 3x optical. so equivelant to the newer A405 from dixons for the same price.

The world's gone mad! postman SUES lecturer for posting TOO MANY letters in a mailbox!. Now what do you think, is this the fault of:

a) the lecturer for putting too many letters in a letterbox
b) the postman for picking up a bag that was too heavy
c) the postal service for having bags that are too large, and expecting post men to pick them up

? hmmm I think it's pretty obvious it's the postal service that's at fault, they shouldn't have such big mailboxes if they don't want their postmen to injure themselves! there's NO rules on a letterbox saying "please don't put too much in me" !!

Fotopic.Net :: Cameras & Equipment Fuji Finepix A405 is still only £99 at pcworld.co.uk, for 2mp, 3x optical camera. There's sample photos in the link.

Play.com: Precision Mini Digital Camera on Gadgets £14.99 for a mini digital camera. (keyring size). Play also sell a lot of other digital cameras too but the prices don't seem very competitive really.

JillaJang Photos - Life Photos - Joshua Waller - All Ages Have a look at this new page I've done.

Hidden Costs of Mac Ownership: "Still, while many of the applications are cost equivalent, Apple users who want to stay current with the latest Mac operating system release have needed to pay $129 on a regular basis. When Apple released version 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, each one of the releases cost $129. If Mac software can be expensive, or if tech help is costly, Mac users do not seem swayed from their affection"

Brown Knose: "VIA VP Richard Brown's insights on the IT industry" - good info on DDR2

some more bad pr for apple's ipod's and the faulty batteries.

good stuff about 2003

1. nelsoncolne, josh for spending so much time finding things to put on it :-)
   
2. josh's webserver, /flashcom, webcams, text messages, blogging
   
3. flash / shockwave (and beta), simcity is abandonware,
   
4. those pictures by that guy : http://www.toothpastefordinner.com | rathergood.com | one word, 60 seconds
   
5. computers keep getting bigger (hard drives) faster and cheaper (special mention to toshiba (small hard drives (and even smaller next year)) epia / via (small motherboards)) and quieter and better at using less power.
   
6. processors get even more confusing: p4m? amd opteron/athlon 64? ibm g5/970? itanium? All have speeds ranging from 1ghz to just over 2 and perform very well.
   
7. anyone just using computers for interesting reasons

Exciting new stuff coming soon:

• that sony playstation that records to dvd is a good thing. and the other people that make a dvd recorder for quite cheap in a shops like wh smiths, or was it woolworths or superdrug. ok, so far I've found : Philips DVDR70 for under £250 Panasonic DMRE50 for about the same price
  
• 3d screens

not so good stuff that happened in 2003 in no particular order
1 microsoft are still one big company with too much power despite losing lots of court cases.
1.1 the virus that created tonnes of work for tech support people and alot of annoyance for average computer users.
1.5 lots of other court cases and patents that restrict the use of really obvious technology, like plugins and erm..
2. Tube crashes, tube strikes, royal mail strike, uk rail travel, power failures.
3. computers don't get any more reliable (your hard drive still dies) (although win xp does have some nice features) (but re-starting and recovering from an unbootable machine seems more difficult) : who are currently the hdd manufactures you rate most? samsung?
4. apple: mac os 10.3 (hello, now no one knows how to use your operating system) mac os X (10.2) (hello, you completely changed how everything works and we can't customise screen fonts or the apple menu) why is the Close button right next to the Maximize button / why is apple w (close window) next to apple q (quit), apple designed laptops (just plain do not last), apple lies (the fastest what for maybe a day, when for the last 2-3 years you've just been telling us that mhz don't matter)
5. mobile phones (inconsistent / illogical user interfaces, poor software, unreliable stuff 'given' to me, really poor support contracts)
5.5 what, it's over? my birthday was just the other day. scary.
just missed out: ebay (fees high, buyers/bidders poor, no customer support)

B3TA : NEWSLETTER : ISSUE 116: "SOD WORK. READ OUR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL" hooray - featured in the b3ta newsletter. my life is complete :) - and in the same day - i get a "frontpage" where my picture is put on the frontpage of b3ta!!

Top 5 Websites (or things) of 2003.
(please make your own post with your own list(s))

1. StrongBad (this guy rocks!)
2. b3ta
3. Cheap Digital cameras, eg Fuji A405, 2mp,3xopt, only £99!
4. Simpsons still going strong (And available on DVD)
5. no hands (rate my kitten)

other cool things of 2003: those robotic vacuum cleaners that vacuum your house while you're out.

Top 5 worst things of 2003:

1. Pop Idol
2. Fame Academy
3. The fact that it's already over, it was only like yesturday that it was january.
4. SCO suing the world for making Linux
5. RIAA suing people for downloading music off kazaa etc. (and walking all over human rights / and privacy) this was a step in the right direction though.

This site rocks! Check out the other stuff to. Fun for ALL the family, ALL OF THE FAMILY! Gossip...What people were overheard saying on the London Underground: "4. If someone falls into a bath, you fish them out... you don't suffocate their friend."

powerbook 15 inch lemon
white spots:
PowerBook's white spots have owners seeing red
in depth article on white spots .. "not due to technology specific to this generation of Powerbooks, but must be inherent in the LCD screen assembly itself."
[design features: 25-27% faster processor, shorter battery life, weighs more than a 1ghz 15.2inch powerbook]

if you have a webcam, go to my site joshwaller.tk, and click "Flashcom", type in a name, and click login.

a-blast game very good.

500,000 PowerMac G5s.
ibook lemon: logicboard failures (screen glitches, no boot), keyboard magnet, latches, noisy drives..
hits the news
discussion whining hard drive? another class-action?
dual-usb lemon logicboard failure find zach brown they fix his problems. Apple discussions, ibook - displays has endless stories. Some people have more in-depth info on the screen problem, and know what needs fixing

WOW - Watch these little robots! these are very cool!. more info. sony site, very cool!

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Protest Santas cause traffic jams Liverpool.

Review of MUSH (on boringworld.co.uk) "It's not in widescreen, and the sound levels are a bit low, if you don't have amplified speakers, but it is quite high quality compared to your average divx stuff. The mash music was cool, if a little short, probably the highlight, as well as the cat, that cat was cool. It's only 9.05 minutes long but seems longer. it does feature live maggots, i won't spoil what happens to them, and yes you probably should ring the RSPCA about it. There is quite a bit of product placement in the form of PG adverts, i don't know how much PG are paying them, but I'm not sure it was worth it. They tried to gross us out, but they didn't go far enough, there was no eating of maggots shown or drinking of urine. It also features "Hilter" so if you're not that keen on him, you might want to avoid it, it wasn't as amusing as the Hilter featured in Little Nicky."

Found these 2 bits of music on a program (PC), so recorded them to wav and made em into mp3's. sorry about the distortion. but they reminded me of a) c64/ST type chip music, and b) ST/amiga mod's so check em out:

http://82.42.131.178/zabutom.mp3 (1.8mb)
http://82.42.131.178/maktone.mp3 (.9mb)

eBay item 2448756945 (Ends Dec-21-03 10:21:29 PST) - Honda CB500T rolling chassis - horrible "There are mental defectives on Ebay who will pay for anything." hooray for someone telling it like it is. anyone who's used ebay to sell stuff will know, there are lots AND lots of MUPPETS out there who like to waste sellers time!! honestly, there should be some kind of test people have to pass in order to get an ebay account!!

merry christmas

pcworld website on a pc is not bad : browsing digital cameras:

price	megapixels	make / model
41+	1.3, 16meg	BenQ 1300 (CMOS) (more info)
67+	2.1, 8meg SD	Kodak CX6200 (review)
69.89	2.1, 8meg memory	JENOPTIK JDC2-1LCD (CMOS!)
71	1.9, 8meg xd	FUJI Q1 (black/silver 74) CMOS (more info)
78.99	2, 8meg	KODAK EASYSHARE CX6200
78.89	2, 16meg	Olympus D390 (same as C150)
89.89	3.1, 16meg SD card	JENOPTIK 3.1LCD
90+	2, 16meg XD	Olympus C-150
99.99	2, 16meg XD	FUJI A405 (3x opt)
99.99	2, SD	AGFA S2 2.0MP
99.99	2, 8meg smartmedia	OLYMPUS C220Z (3x opt) out of stock
104.99	2, 16meg SD-MMC	KODAK CX6230 (3x opt)
142.05	2, 8meg ?	Nikon 2100 (3x opt)*
152.05	3.2, 16meg XD	Olympus C350 (3x opt)

Make sure you check dealtime.co.uk, or reviewcentre, or kelkoo.co.uk to make sure you're getting the best price. (ignore HP, Packard Bell, cameras as they're not real) More digital cameras between 40 and 170 quid.

Best Digital Cameras of 2003. (they recommend the Fuji 2650, which is the A204 in europe, from �136 dealtime, which is probably an older version of the a205, which is probably replaced by the a405 (which has "super ccd", whereas the a204,205 doesn't have super CCD) by dixons/pcworld)

* Nikon 2100 seems expensive since it's been out a while.

did i mention that i find the www.royalmail.com website to be the most annoying website i have encountered all year. did i mention that i have found it to be very annoying on two separate occasions this week? Still waiting for login to work to check a postcode.. royalmail sucks dot com.
More annoying than the odeon. (the odeon will claim they have tickets available online and then not sell you that ticket for love actually, thank you very much)
More annoying than microwarehouse's new website, more annoying than the pcworld.co.uk website, more annoying than the HP website (maybe)
.. still wating for royalmail to log in.. this page cannot be displayed - our servers cannot handle more than one request per year.
Ah, the trick is to push the back button. 'You are currently logged on.. you have 5 minutes to select an option, at which point you will be logged off again'.. got there in the end.

britney spears does not appear in theis video. neither does justin timberlake, elton john, Donald Rumsfelt, Madonna, christine aguilera, ron jeremy, david blaine, ryan adams, Brian addams, johnny cash, goldie, tricky or twiggy.

Microsoft Revamps for Next Major Windows Release Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday that it is reshuffling its Windows business and creating a new group that would dedicate more of its efforts into developing Windows, the world's largest software maker's core operating system - makes sense as they are facing more competition.

Power Macintosh Dual G5 versus Dual Opteron by that site that did all those other comparisons i think.

Play with DNA in the comfort of your own home. more details (Those of you who want to do more advanced work will have to buy your own thermocycler, primers, colour labelled dntp's)

Statistics about clover hill, Nelson

OhDear.net - Christmas Single 2003 merry christmas chaps! don't use your credit cards! they are EVIL!!

"free" �800 PCs from IBM and BT - the specs make them sound more like sub �400 PCs though. (if you look at IBM's "thinkcentre", from �411inc vat for a same spec pc as the "�800" pc!) All you have to do is watch adverts every 20minutes, surf the net, and stick a fresh advert cd in every month. wow sounds like fun (not!). come on people out there, wake up! getting your own second hand pc from ebay.co.uk would be better than this! slashdot blah blah blah

part of the terms and conditions: 4) The PC must be connected to the internet at least once a month, and you must maintain an [a crappy] ISP dial-up account throughout the term of the agreement.

400 mice missing - Rescued we presume, by some super intelligent rats.

Powerpoint makes you stupid [NYTimes]: The Cognitive Power of powerpoint Presented in the Form of a PowerPoint Presentation
40 words: Displaying greater-than 40 words per slide / complex data dificult in ppt, due to low resolution, while (traditional) slides can be more complex. therefore rate of information transfer lower. "PowerPoint is uniquely suited to our modern age of obfuscation": say nothing, make it look great.
best slashdot comment

ABCNEWS.com : Commentary: Apple Macs Are Vulnerable, Too [ed by matt: slashdotters reply]

- and there's new pictures on my site at joshwaller.tk, so go have a look :)

What Kind of Metalhead Are You? - Quizilla hmmmm??

Saddam Hussien captured! bbc news, live realmedia news24. note b3ta's, tribute.

Ultra small PCs as small as an orange! (functional as well, 400mhz, etc) link (english version), link, link to pic.

Waller Seti Effort: "1) Ben Waller (KiwiNetCafe Nelson) 19096 - 20.183 years9 hr 15 min 31.5 secSun Dec 14 13:05:53 2003New Zealand
2) Matt 2732 - 3.944 years12 hr 38 min 42.1 secSun Dec 14 02:12:25 2003United Kingdom
3) J Waller - www.josh.org.uk 2714 - 4.262 years13 hr 45 min 21.0 secSun Dec 7 22:34:50 2003United Kingdom"

wahey - congratulations matt ! you've over taken me :)

Items matching ( cube ) seem to be about 4 G4 Cube's on ebay.co.uk at the moment! 2d 15h left, for spares or repair!, 1ghz! G4 cube, and another!.


Pouring coke on the computer didn't kill! it still works! what can i do next? i tried to freeze it overnight, but it STILL works!!

Win 98 Users should upgrade says study.

The largest potential risk to corporations is the probability of an Internet-based security exploit being discovered after January 2004 that can affect a Win9X PC.
Typically, security exploits �due to a code issue within the Operating System and/or the Internet Browser � are reviewed and remedied by Microsoft via their monthly hotfix releases. After January 2004, Microsoft is no longer obligated to supply any security based Hotfixes for Windows 98 users.
Thus, Windows 98 users become increasingly prone to any new security exploits, as security patches may not be supplied. Virus authors & hackers will certainly view any Windows 98 PC as a more vulnerable entry-point into the network infrastructure, being able to exploit security holes that have been subsequently �patched� on PCs with Windows 2000, Windows XP, etc.
As time progresses � and the number of security exploits increases � any Internet-facing Windows 98 PC increases its vulnerability �and opportunity - to attack.

After that the analysis goes into reasons why its a good idea for microsoft to stop supporting old software..
And then says that about 30% of machines are running win 95/98 with more 95 machines than 98.
So if you were a systems administrator with 100 pcs and you needed to upgrade them all to windows 2000 or XP..
1. Why would your company pay for all those licences when their machines 'already work', and pay you to spend the next 3 - 6 months updating machines applying patches ...
2. Wouldn't you have to reinstall all the software too after doing the os upgrade.. how long would it take per machine?

the meatrix interesting stuff.

GORILLAZ - this is awesome

Mobile phone with integrated camera - you've got till monday to bid for it.

Nelson train departure board

JenniCam to close. :( Its a sign of the internet times eh?

"Coke + Computer = Funny:
Ever wonder what would happen if you spilled diet coke in your PC while it was running? Check out this video and you�ll see. Here is �quote of the day�:

�when everything goes black in the vid, that's when the power to my house tripped."

-me quoting hardocp.com, who are quoting me ;)

Kittens lots of kittens.

eBay UK Seller List: www.josh.org.uk cheap stuff on ebay, not long left. :)

Apple price fixing? questions. apple denies it in 1999. here's the original /. article. sign this petition to get apple to reduce european prices. more apple stuff: apple watches you when you're in their stores not that there's any stores in the UK...

BlogShares - NelsonColne kommune i.t. don't ask me what this is about. i just found it. and according to this, nobody likes us. this looks clever

and anyone know why this was the google results for 'nelsoncolne': (cache of nelsoncolne.blogspot.com as Fester's place!?!?! - here's the real "fester's place": link). more on google weirdness here (called Google NACK).

Fester's Place
Fester's Place. This is a political blog, primarily coming from the center
left perspective. I also plan on talking a bit about economics ...
nelsoncolne.blogspot.com/ - 65k - Cached - Similar pages

Here's a pic (thanks uploadit.org):

and here's a screengrab of the cache to look at.

Lindows.com Defends Netherlands Resellers against Microsoft :: osViews :: Tech Opinions for the People, by the People "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, is systematically threatening small Dutch computer companies with lawsuits for offering an alternative product to Microsoft. Their threats are intended to intimidate these small companies, who cannot afford attorneys, into dropping alternative products and leaving Dutch computer users with only the option of purchasing expensive Microsoft software." Microsoft are nasty! Grrr!

Dennis publishing - I officially hate your guts :)

Last time I subscribed to MacUser, then cancelled the subscribtion, I made sure I ticked all of the boxes to say I did not want any mail from any other companies, yet as soon as I had cancelled my subscription, I started recieving junk mail from other companies. I phoned them, and they said the list was from Dennis publishing, I phoned Dennis publishing, and they removed me from the list ! Hoorah!

More recently I subscribed to MacUser (again) for 3 months, making sure I ticked all the boxes that said I didn't want mail from other companies, after 3 months I cancelled the subscription, then about a month or 2 later I got some junk mail from Sky, and some today from MacWarehouse... So I phoned sky, they didn't know where the address came from (!!?!), I phoned MacWarehouse, they said they've recently bought a few lists... So I phoned Dennis publishing and spoke to Jackie (who I spoke to last time this happened) and she said she'd remove me from the lists... I should have asked why I was on the lists, but from these 2 experiences I assume they automatically add you to the lists when you stop subscribing to them...

Muffinale and another one (The Muffin Tree). AMD right, they should get 'and' changed to 'amd' that way whenever people put "cheese amd ham" it will be an advertisment for 'amd'. read evhead's blog, he founded pyra/blogger. Check out these lego creations if the servers can take the /. ing. the top 10 computers of all time apparently, with rather a lot of mention of commodore/amiga - no mention of spectrum. Large BSOD here on a subway, and what we all really want but can't afford, a quad 2.2ghz opteron system reviewed by aceshardware, shame they don't compare it to a high spec athlon / p4 spec pc to show us how much faster it is compared to them....

Check this dude out! site dedicated to take the mike out of the nokia n-gage! awesome! there's some quality games consoles on their, it even features an atari portfolio, and an apple newton. sweet!
Intel and AMD face nastiest competitor of all apparently Microsoft may be the next big CPU maker?

I'm selling a load of cheap PC bits on ebay look here, USB2 PCI Card, 3 working AGP cards, 1 Faulty, 2 sticks of 64mb RAM, 1 stick of 128mb funny ram, a 3gb Fujitsu hard drive, and a slot 1 motherboard with a Celeron 500. Get in there my son! :)

Celeron (p4) vs Tbred Duron apparently the duron whips ASS! woo!
PC World �49.99 inc vat for samsung laser printer! wow!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Brazil bets on Linux cybercafes rock on tommy!
Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs who IS the BEST?!?!??? (another quality advertisement, er, i mean article from bbc news website)
MS to charge for FAT file system. What they want more money?
booty licous mp3 playin ghetobox using a via epia.
samsung laer printer �66 inc vat crikey, can you believe it? a laser printer for �66 inc vat!
digitalbackpack presents... DRIVER'S ED see if you can pass this driving test! :)

Intel accelerates its Celeron shift | CNET News.com So Intel have the P3, the P-M, and the P4 (as well as the P4-M), and now they are releasing another Celeron, so there's the Celeron (based on the P4) and the Celeron (based on the P-M). Why not come up with a better/different name?

EPIACENTER.com 1u home made case very very nice looking 1U epia system here :)

AC Computer Warehouse - Product Listings if you're up north this christmas, then why not get yourself a 21" B-Grade monitor for �29 inc vat. no really �29 inc vat.

Trail Rider if it could find the server when you click the link you may be pleasantly surprised to find you're able to play a java remake of the C64 game trailblazer! Woo - I remember playing a PC version of this in Burnley College :)

you can try the new beta of "seti", called "Boinc" - it's quite neat, it's got a little built in benchmark. this is kinda funny, players spent over 3 hours defeating the undefeatable in everquest.

The new look hotmail, yes its a new look but it looks kind of old to. What do you think? I like it maybe.

firebox.com - Monkey Picked Tea no i didn't make this up! :)

Updated If you had �150 to spend on a digital camera, what would you get? Must have macro mode, and 3MP, 3X Optical would be good. Image quality is the most important thing though. (sound would be nice, but in this price range i don't think you'll find it... eg SONY P-72 is about �175 minimum)

Thinking the Olympus C-350 / D-560 Review (to americans) would be a good one, only �152 from amazon (with free delivery). Other alternate's are Fuji A303 (�159). Dunno what else for that price... found this new camera, 3mp, 4x optical, video and sound, 1.8" tft, macro Kodak DX6340 �159 inc postage amazon what do you think?

mini film recommendations / reviews: hot chick comedy, with "rob schnieder" - the guy that's always in adam sandler filums. he get's swapped into a girls body, and a girl gets swapped into his body. it also stars a girl that's in scary movie 3. it had me LAUGHING A LOT, very very very funny. RECOMMENDED.

dumb and dumberer comedy "prequil" to the original dumb and dumber. does not star the original actors. it's VERY funny, about them at school and has loads of cool stuff (like a mini school bus). RECOMMENDED!

Elf christmas comedy romantic thing. a human lives with elves then goes to find his real parents. quite a good film, bits of it are funny, and it's quite a nice film. Santa's in it.

Wired News: Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod

Yahoo! News - Woman Knocked Unconscious While Shopping: "Paramedics called to the store found VanLester unconscious on top of a DVD player, surrounded by shoppers seemingly oblivious to her, said Mark O'Keefe, a spokesman for EVAC Ambulance. "

sundissential got a pretty cool "rave" tune going on. do they still call stuff like that rave? or is it called something else now?

Well, incase anyone's interested, i've setup php on my webserver. php.php is the info page if you wanna have a look. havva look if you want there's nothing to see yet, as i haven't got "gallery" working / configured yet as i'm having problems... but if you've got any bright ideas, please let me know :) UPDATE! AHA! I've got it working check it out! - If you wanna know what it does, you basically upload your pics, it automatically resizes them and creates all the web pages for it, you just add comments, and click rotate where necessary, it is SOOO good!! PS - You can not beat a bit of Messiah, "Thunderdome", and "There is no law" :) And if you can beat it, I'd like to know how, yes perhaps with some stakker humanoid remixes, but really, now you're just getting pedantic :)

Release all EPIA motherboards into Distribution Petition In more crazy news, there's a petition for VIA to release the EPIA boards that normally only get released to big companies. There's a project here where the guy uses a peltier, and water cooling, to cool an epia800. This things can be passively cooled with just a normal big heatsink, so I really wonder why they did this? this guy want's more innovation in the pc sector.

num1000remix wooo some crazy ass japanese rave flash funked up thing. 4mb roughly and needs sound, well doesn't need sound but is better with sound. oh and here's a big spam map [845k]. this place has nice background wallpapers if you want em. "master" and "slave" names for "primary" and "secondary" drives etc deemed unnaceptable!!!

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades - but is still in perfect health.

Free Driving Game - Cookie Barz Armored Car - heliATTACK 2 - todays exciting activity was spilling a ful mug of black coffee all over myself! sbemail techno you can download the tune at the end!.

while randomly searching for work related stuff, i found this here. Here is just one image that made me laugh out loud when I finally got it.

mini racing game, remember duckhunt? this used to come with the light gun that you could get for the sega master system. war on terror a bit like that helicoptor game, but crapper (harder too) and slightly comical. atomic badger racing (use space bar for nitro and mouse button for bombs)

Slashdot | MP3.com's Content to Be Destroyed "WCityMike writes "Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to CNet. However, they're not selling the approximately one million songs on the archive. (recorded by over 250,000 artists) Instead, they're simply destroying it as of December 3. MP3.com's founder and former CEO, Michael Robertson, is pleading with Vivendi to allow the Internet Archive to preserve the songs."

sweet ass g4 cube aquarium

00Apple - iMac New 20" iMAC!! �1749. (imac 15" from �999!!!) They still haven't realised the way to shift millions of iMacs is to get rid of the screen and sell them for less than the emac (�649), eg �499 would be a very good price for an entry level basic mac. they've released a dual 1.8GHz G5 as well (�1899)

Kazaa ads tell P2P users to speak up | CNET News.com "Imagine that, for the first time ever Kazaa has taken out print ads in popular magazines asking that you respect P2P users and quit treating them like pirates. There is a concept�NOT suing your fans."

pretty stupid flash thing, needs sound, and is better than other stupid flash things. (it's quite funny)

For those weirdo people out there who like to own rare apple stuff (namely matt) there's a rare 20th anniversary mac on ebay currently lots of money (�361) - more info. (personally i'd prefer one of these for much cheaper, or one of these MUCH cheaper.)

Updated my "IPEA Project" - mounted the switch and blue hard drive LED! It's also become my webserver! as it's small :) check it out at http://joshwaller.tk - it seems slightly faster - what do you reckon?

Chucking out some old computers the other day, we found a 386! with this "FPU chip" (Cyrix Fasmath Cx83D87-40GP from Nov 91/or 93 more info, better info?) add-on!! Looks like it was originally a bog-standard intel 386 40mhz computer, without the FPU, then later they may have added this chip to it... but what I want to know is: How could people have used computers so slow?!? I just don't get how it could be possible!

Wired News: Mac Supercomputer Joins Elite - Mac Supercomputer officially the 3rd fastest supercomputer, with 1,100 Dual 2GHz G5s. AMD at 6th place, with 1,408 Dual 2GHz Opterons.
UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD "The UK, as of October 31, 2003, became the sixth nation to implement the laws required to comply with the European Union Copyright Directive with its Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 legislation." Does this effect us in anyway?
Brazil moves to open source, "Citing economic as well as social reasons, Brazil's government is opting to move away from Windows, opting instead for Open Source (read: Linux) solutions. Interestingly, Microsoft's representative in Brazil decries this as a movement away from freedom and choice..." Hmmm Microsoft are weirdos! IBM also moving away from Windows.
HP to release Athlon64 machines today apparently. Tech Report reviews the Opteron 248 (2.2GHz) chip here.

clmbine upd8 (chainmail version): Darrell Scott, a parent of one of the teens shot in the columbine killings..
There is a spiritual awakening-taking place that will not be squelched! We do not need more religion. We do not need more million dollar church buildings built while people with basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgment that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God! reference columbine info from salon

There's been this ongoing argument about whether you can have a monument of the 10 commandments in a court building: Alabama Supreme Court's chief justice, Roy Moore Moore said "It's about whether or not you can acknowledge God as a source of our law and our liberty. That's all I've done."



The tenth commandment, they still have room to put 'thy neighbour's house, servant, ass or property'

strange news from japan: Japanese Jails funded by furniture sales

Project gigaQube | s h o n . o r g this dude upgrades an old computer with more ram and hard drive. pretty cool if ya ask me :) (they use one of those cobalt qubes)

more info on the qube made by "cobalt" who were bought by sun. specs and more info of the qube 2 (and 3) can be found here. (pretty cool site, webcam page is cool too - what's interesting is that he's hosting his own site with a 768/768k up/down connection)

Old skool hifi equipment used for a PC at EPIACENTER.com - worth just checking out to look at some old skool silver hifi like what dad kept buying for a while...

BBC NEWS | England | Gloucestershire | Father tells of motorway horror - what I don't understand, is why she wasn't locked inside the ambulance? Can any patient just open up the back doors of an ambulance and jump out if they feel like it?

Slashdot | Why Personal Websites Matter might be worth a read. Anyone else notice any interesting news stuff happening on the wibblewinterwebblewonderland?

Dell Ultra Sharp 18" TFT Flat Screen Monitor In Black - 3 Year Swap Out Warranty : DCS-1800FP : DCS 1800FP Wow, ultra sweet 18" TFT screen �316 inc vat. We got some of these at work, and they REALLY are Very nice! (cheapest alternative is the almost identical LG 18" TFT (silver) for �391 inc vat)

Its Thursday.. is it windy in Nelson?

Homestore Runner! anyone wanna get me a strong bad tee for christmas - strong bad rocks!

Slashdot | Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked Ha - remember the talk of stupid disposable digital cameras, well they've been hacked so you can get the images off! :)

UK employers get tough on Net abuse.

Josh have you read that ;) ?

- 21" monitor �40 !!!! AC Computer Warehouse (from Stockport)
- Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage get your latest ms patches. (from windowsupdate if you don't have autoupdates enabled)

- I don't know why you'd want this, but you can get MS Windows Media Player 9 for the MAC - what happened to all the other versions of Windows Media Player for the Mac, like 1, or 2, or X? Why don't they just start with a different number? Or is that too logical?

Cups of Tea and keyboards DO NOT MIX, so recommend me a keyboard: Rubber, waterproof keyboard, �18 (ebuyer clear �14 inc - this would be useful, just in case i spilt tea again!), keytronic (like IBM?) black �18, apple pro, white �49, coolermaster aluminium �27 I'd like one with some USB ports built in really, my keyboard was a microsoft natural pro thing (but they don't do it anymore), with 2 usb ports and ergonomic... alternate ergonomic keyboards: �29 belkin (inc 2 usb), cheap ergo �5, MS multi ergo �34 - does it have USB ports? (it has weird key layout though) alternatively - I could just getta free one from work...

- OS4 on tour south west you amiga people should go see the "new amiga, and os".
- tea review updated
- channel4.com - Games woohoo, new fun game found.
- Slashdot | Building a Budget Storage Server article at firingsquad, which involves $3500 and a 128mb 3D graphics card. (And the firingsquad site is blocked as it comes under "games")
- oooh ebuyer have the 1800mhz / 1.8GHz / 266MHz FSB Duron for �36 inc vat!! That sounds like a complete bargain to me!

Santa's bringing you spam for Christmas Christmas is coming and spammers want to fill your inbox with more messages than ever.

The Tech Report - UK bans PowerMac G5 ads ha ha ha!

'ear thez summat worng with me monitor, all me colourz are like faded and that, and sort of a yellowy greeny sort of colour when they should be orange, and therez not much contrast, and it only happens sometimes, like now on this page....

The Matrix III, Cons, boring predictable, could have written better dialogue myself, some lines were so obvious as to be funny, actually I laughed quite alot, sometimes on the inside, some times not. Oh was it not supposed to be a comedy, ahhh ok si-fi. Pros some good effects, better than The Matrix II more sifi.

Get out and see it.

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther - Page 3 - (11/2003): "Panther comes on four CDs: three discs for installing the OS and one disc containing the developer tools." crikey, that's a big install package.

Mac OS X 10.3 Panther - Page 5 - (11/2003): "But 'perceived performance' is where Mac OS X has always suffered. As far as the user experience is concerned, if it 'feels slow,' it is slow. Panther has improved here as well. I am hard-pressed to find any part of the user interface that does not feel noticeably faster in Panther than it does in Jaguar."

AppleInsider - Panther videos holy cow, check out the 3rd video on this page. WOW!

still on my never-ending quest to cure my dandruff and eyebrow dandruff, i've bought some "selsun" from the local asda pharmacy. i've figured that (in my opinion) t-gel, head & shoulders, vosene, and even nizoral does not work. the only problem with the selsun stuff, is that apparently selsun blue does work, but i don't have selsun blue, i've got just "selsun" and it's sort of creamy beige coloured, and it smells nice and washes my hair well, but i need to blue smelly stuff that doesn't wash hair well. and a new thing i've discovered, if i leave my beard / stuble to grow into a proper beard for too long, i end up with beard dandruff!! man! it just gets worse and worse!

tried to make site more "washed-out" / old faulty monitor (amber) ish looking. it's still too bright and contrasty :) and could probably do with some kind of background image that looks like those faulty lines you sometimes get on faulty monitors. edit ooh - found a really cool colour scheme website.

Mini Film Reviews: (available from your local blockbuster on dvd/vid)

"igby goes down" tragic "comedy". about a rich teenage american with a messed up family and his sucky life. fairly dull, not much empathy, or character sympathy, not hilariously funny, a bit sad. it's sort of like a "black comedy" but nowhere near as good as other films.

"hope springs" romantic comedy. british chap goes to america to get away from his fiance who's just dumped him for another man. quite funny, entertaining, quite good overall.

"a guy thing" comedy romance. guy has a bachelor party (stag do), sleeps with another woman (not his fiance). very funny film, with quite a lot of LOLs. Yes some bits are slightly predictable (aren't all films) but it's funny, and nice. recommended. (ps - some / well one of the deleted scenes is absolutely hilarious!!)

Popular Science | The Worst Jobs in Science read it :)

Did anyone see the lunar eclipse last night? here's some pics. man i regret not seeing it. doh!

there's a new version of winamp out, called winamp 5. someone obviously forgot how to count. but someone said it was winamp 2 + 3, dunno, anyway, why do they run 2 versions of winamp simultaneously? (it's proper messed up i tell ya, winamp 2.91 is newer than winamp 3!) get winamp5 here. winamp 2 is better than winamp 3, so i wonder whether winamp5 fixes that.

Pifast Challenge 2.9GHz Athlon 64, beats a 4.8GHz P4. what does this mean? well it means, if we round the figures, the Athlon 64 beats the P4, even when the P4 is 2GHz faster than the Athlon 64! It also tells us that some people out there have some REDICULOUSLY fast PCS!!

dual p3-500 machine: have a look here.

Wilkinson Sword | Get Ready...for the WORLD's FIRST 4 BLADE RAZOR! do we really need 4 blades? i'd rather have gillette's 3 blades that actually let the hair go through the other side, rather than get clogged up in a wilkinson sword razor...

Google Deskbar like the google toolbar, but it sits on your taskbar instead. Ever wondered what an Excelstor CT210 looks like? have a look at one here.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Games at work may be good for you woohoo! just wish bosses would start realising, the happier the worker, the more productive the worker. so things like banning games, banning hotmail and restricting internet access, is actually counter-productive.

orange concorde seats, 2
"black" box flight recorder, as used in the paris crash and accompanying manuals,
"Indicator M6001A" all I know abou this is that it has an orange screen and has no reserve, so could be a bargain.

AnandTech: Voodoo Envy M:855 Part 1 - Athlon 64 DTR and Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro surprisingly a Pentium-M 1.7GHz is as fast as a P4 3GHz chip! and the P-M is in a laptop! (Anandtech review the 64-bit Athlon laptop)

free advertising for gamers "super fast" P4 when AMD is quicker.

whatever you do, don't read the review of the 3rd matrix at news.bbc.co.uk - it's got major spoilers in, including the end of the film!! GRRR!!

Apple 'disappointing and dishonest' says developer er, isn't this just the same as alt-tabbing in windows?

haloscan are letting people sign up for their comments system if you fancy changing it matt? on the subject of dead websites, i've updated tea review with a comments system from haloscan and a post! wahey! i always prefered haloscan to be honest :) also jillajang was updated last night.

The Tech Report - Web sites neglected with reckless abandon "could become a huge problem." hmmm... how? the actual cnn article is more interesting. in a dramatic voice they proclaim:

Her site remains frozen in time.

man that is so old skool, i remember doing a hard drive window mod about a year ago, and even then it was so last year, anyway if you can't be bothered coz you're way too hip to do your own, you can watch a vid of someone elses hd in action.

ExcelStor Technology on the warranty page say "Warranty is typically voided on defective drives under the following conditions:" one of them being "8. Normal wear and tear" HUH!?! Am I interpreting this the wrong way, or are they saying: By using your hard drive, under normal use, you are voiding your warranty? If it goes faulty, under normal use, then your warranty is voided?

I'm surprised the wheels can take so much weight! Check it out, each video clip is about 500k.

More local (local-ish to me anyway) shootings: BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Girl, 6, hurt in shooting Not as local as previously though.

"I feel as happy as a pig in mud" more freaky people over here (pics seem slightly out of date)

I believe american copyright law has been changed to permit "computer programs and video games distributed in formats now obsolete" to be copied. Which means romcarts and tape can be copied. maybe... maybe not

Update your anti-virus software : nasty new virus. IF you do not have some anti-virus software, then get some NOW from grisoft.com for FREE! If you decide, "no I don't need anti-virus software on my pc" then YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

Has anyone else got a weird email from yahoo recently?

It says:
Click the link below to verify your email address and activate your account. Email verification helps protect your identity and allows you to participate safely on all of Yahoo!'s properties.

Important! Click here to activate your new account.

Your Yahoo! ID: goshwa_goshwa
Your email address: goshwa@hotmail.com
I haven't signed up with a goshwa_goshwa yahoo id, and why would i register my hotmail address with them - it seems weird?

anglicans and methodists agree to a truce over a 200 year dispute about the wearing of beards.

quite exciting development in transplantation drug development. here
Monkeys have the right to healthy transplants too.

Cool lights in the sky:
The magnetic storms have forced air traffic controllers to alter some transatlantic flight plans. The US Federal Aviation Administration has also warned air passengers about increased radiation, according to the New York Times. People flying above 25,000 feet will be exposed to the equivalent of two days of ground radiation for every hour they travel above 35� North, the FAA said.

Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop P2-300 6.1GB 192MB 13.1TFT on ebay.co.uk

- win some graphics cards from hypothermia.
- mac os x has 3 security issues with no patch available. report by @stake - the company that fired the guy who said microsoft were bad at security. are @stake funded my MS? (just wondering, as I don't want to end up sued for comments on this blog)
- but this guy likes it because he thinks it's cool - "it's style for people without the time to do it themselves." he says. so if you're not cool, then you need a mac apparently.
- Mac OS 10.3 vs Linux?
- one of the fastest supercomputers in the world made of macs "rolling around at 9.555 TFlops in LINPACK"
- Gator renames itself and sues you if you call them spyware.
- Apple to only offer security patches for Panther?
- gosh sorry, i've turned it into an apple day panther wipes your external firewire drive.

why bother putting a hard drive in your pc? when you can boot knoppix and run it from a cd, it included WINE and Openoffice, and can see your current hard drive so you should be able to use your windows apps in it too. you may be pleased to know that they're developing a free frontpage and dreamweaver replacement for linux. wahey!

Fox nearly sued itself story here!

dan's data thinks selling free review items has dodgy moral implications involved. what are your thoughts? is it okay to sell brand new item that you've got free to review, if not, is it okay to upgrade your pc with the review item and then sell the old item that you've replaced with the free review item? how is getting a free review item different to getting a gift from your aunt that you don't want or need and then selling that, to make some money, to buy something that you do want or need?

Selling some dodgy graphics cards wonder whether the working one will sell for more than the falty ones or vice versa.

Microsoft employee appears to have been fired because he took photos of Apple G5's being delivery to Microsoft. odd.

right. woke up this mornin. some words popped into me 'ed and waddaya know, here's a website. Try not to be too offended if you're easily offended by tasteless humor.

dont you hate it when one of the worlds biggest computing companies decides to use your password as the name of one of their latest technologies. Well at least I've got 2 years to think up a new one.. and no it's not longhorn.

flying cat : catfan.wmv [372k] OH MY!!!

someone else thinks apple should release a small "shuttle" like cheap consumer mac without the screen. i'm sure i've said this before myself, but i don't know where. what they fail to mention in that article is the price difference of the iMac and iBook - when the iBook is cheaper than an iMac - why would people buy an iMac?

Got this in an email (requires shockwave, requires sound).

does this mean i'm finally famous? when people use my pictures in their ebay auctions? (the board with cuppa tea at bottom).

fun with 5Kb.

do the bbc ever proof read the stuff they put on their website? "This is intended to provide four billion times four billion times four billion as many as currently exist." in this article, and the introduction text for that article was "A shortage of internet addresses has prompted researchers to come up way of generating billions more." depending on how you do "billions" but, if you currently have 4 billion ip addresses, and you're going to have 64 billion with IPv6, then that's 16 times as many as 4 billion. It's just simple maths, it's not exactly rocket science! And since when has IPv6 been something new! I learnt about it 2 or 3 years ago!

And while we're on the subject, I'm sick of seeing this image:

They use it EVERY single time they write an article about spam, such as this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, and on, and on, and ariston, etc, etc, ETC!!! (none of these articles are repeats! yet they all have the same chuffin image!!!) admittedly, for a bit of variety, they did use a twisted image of email here and some other previous one's have used other images, but man alive what is with them using the same image ALL THE TIME!!!?!!

Apple say 8.5 million users of macos X: google would be able to give you a reasonable estimate (3% of surfers use winNT, 3% use macs, most surfers use ie6.)

i don't know how cheap this is, seems very cheap to me: a 15" centrino 1.3ghz laptop, with DVD-writer/CD-writer combo thing from Dixons for �998 ! Sounds pretty much like a bargain to me. considering that a dvd-writer on it's own (eg a slot loading one that you can get from hoojum.com) cost's �200 itself, it does seem like a good deal.

famous for a day: Seems that on august 15th we (probably josh :-)) chose some key stories and linked to the right sites and chose the right keyword for the story. See #15 "here" (last entry), #20 "Microsoft page, msblast removal" (first entry) #26 "W32.Blaster.Worm Removal Tool".

Well, since the motherboard I bought off ebay was most likely an LX board (meaning the fastest cpus would be 333mhz) - I bought an Asus P2B-D which is BX, and even does 133mhz FSB! The one I got was �35, including 2 socket 370 to slot 1 adapters! woohoo!!

lamb korma in Stoke-on-Trent. Those giants are getting hungry again. First beer, then potatoes..

Gay Debate pro and anti-gay statements analysed by the bbc, good read. (although I did get bored and stop reading after a while).

apple getting way too much press. On google news they've got the top 3 headlines in sci/tech. one for destroying the market for custom built supercomputers (by letting anyone buy a bunch of standard machines), one for having some white g4 laptops. and one more for itunes having bugs that need fixing.
Apple seem to have produced a complete "web to playback-device" delivery mechanism that the record companies think is secure enough that it won't damage sales. relevant business model discussion here

don't mess with water pistols - you could end up in hot water. If they can prosecute him, there goes my fun.

Well, I won an auction for a dual slot 1 motherboard here - woohoo! - anyone heard of it? I want to know if it'll take 100mhz slot 1 CPUs, some old dual slot 1 boards are 66mhz only! (such as this good looking one with dual p2-300s here, and this one which also looks very good (p2-300 x 2 + 192mb ram), although this one is 100mhz inc p2-400)

a href=http:// "Officials from the Big Issue in Liverpool have lodged an official complaint about the police operation in which a number of the magazine sellers were arrested for alleged drugs dealing." news.bbc.co.uk "The magazine - which is sold by homeless people - is also thinking about taking legal action against Liverpool City Council which has temporarily banned sales in the city centre." /1/hi/england/merseyside/3211704.stm

Google adds a Frech court and trade marks, "Advertising is a form of free speech" - yep an expensive one.

Basic sysnopsis fo those who want to know, French court rules if you search for a trade marked term Google adds should only return adds from the trade mark holder.

Cest la monopley.

Sooner than we think, if the current leaders in the industry are to survive, we will need to move away from �OS vs. OS�, and we need to make �convergence� real. All software needs to run on ANY OS
macnet2 has some interesting stuff to say about apple, including his thoughts that Apple are developing OS X on x86 side by side with developing it on the G5...

Hard Drives more boring web pages by me: WD800AB, and a Samsung SP0802N which is Very fast and VERY quiet.

Fujitsu hard drive class action close to settlement.

Hornet is apparently a "SFF" (small form factor) pc - but it looks fairly big to me, well i suppose not that big compared to full towers, but it's not exactly small either.

Tunnock's Caramel apparently they're addictive and delicious. With many a supportive cult-like society dedicated to them, and there's more details here.

iTunes on the PC sells music quicker than on the MAC which makes sense as there's more PC people.

the vulcan mini pc looks much like the Atari portfolio but it runs Windows XP / Office and has a colour screen etc. the tiqit looks more like a "supervision" / palm thing. and here's a pic of a very dusty PC. oh, and apparently hell froze over, so I don't know what that means for everybody down there, or how it effects us when we're going round saying people have to choose between hell and heaven, especially now that hell's a giant ice rink. perhaps i should get a hot dog stand license and sell them down there to all the olympic skaters?

is anybody out there? reply if you are still alive. ps - there's a pic here of a dual VIA C3 board using those tiny new CPU's they've made!.

more laptops etc available on ebay.

i thought this was funny cartoon song video thing made me laugh out loud at bits.

awesome strongbad's deleted, and duck pond which you can play at the end - there's also an atari 2600 version if you feed the ducks enough. in fact there's a cool site here with details about all the strongbads and the hidden stuff in them.

Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line. Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.
John: Tim, how could you miss that? It was going like 1 m.p.h.
very funny 11 and 12 year old kids reaction to old games from the past over here. above they're talking about pong :) weird - they don't get tetris - tetris is awesome even now - did they never have a gameboy with tetris!?!
Tim: This is nothing compared to Grand Theft Auto III, because you can't steal a taxi cab, pick up somebody, then drive into the ocean with him.

Cheap ebay stuff anyone? anyone? other ebay cheap stuff: pentium pro 200 / motherboard / 128mb ram currently �3, dual p2-300, 192mb, agp - currently �1 *, dual p2-266, 256mb currently �1 *, dual slot 1 board, �10 *, or dual slot 1 �5 *, another one slot 1 �5 with p2-400 * oddest of all a dual slot 1 dell board that takes RDRAM �1. all tempting, especially as you should still be able to put 1ghz slot 1 p3 100mhz chips in them if you can find them... and they should be much cheaper than the dual socket370 boards due to percieved demand / value. (and there's an article here about getting p3-1.4ghz cpus' to work in slot 1 boards.)

This CPU seems cheap: 800mhz P3 slot 1 100mhz fsb around �1 could be dead though. slot 1 933mhz VERY expensive �56!. so there's still people out there with slot1 systems that want to upgrade! �56 would nearly buy you a new ATX motherboard (�24) and a duron 1.6ghz (�33) - total: �57 from ebuyer.com!! another p3-933 slot 1 could be dead very cheap. (in fact this guy's got a huge number of potentially dead cpus wonder where he gets them from!.)

phew paul bielatowicz has been cleared of trying to bring one of the US's biggest ports to a standstill by hacking into its computer systems.

Thirty people including a number of Big Issue sellers, have been charged with drugs offences after a year-long investigation into a suspected drugs ring in Liverpool city centre.. super.

itunes 4.1 is now available for windows 2000 and XP. Requires 128 MB RAM minimum. Requires quicktime 6.4. A 19.1meg download. Yes it is just winamp with aac encode decode, direct to cd burning.. and direct purchase and download of mp3s for people living in the states.. but I'm sure you've seen that sort of thing before.
Oh and panther will be out soon. With so many swooshy features, if it doesn't make you sea-sick, nothing will..
It might also be a 15% faster operating system. (at doing stuff like database queries), which is nice.

looking at dual cpu motherboards on ebay dual slot 1 inc 2x 350mhz P2 looks the cheapest, then there's 5 socket 370 (auction) motherboards (buy now �62), another dual socket 370 with celeron 400 (auction), intel (auction), auction (nearly finished) and the weirdest of all is this dual 386 motherboard! - my question though is - can you use socket 370 chips in slot 1 motherboards if you use adapter(s)? and why can't people spell "dual"? why do people spell it as "duel"? Dual AMD motherboards seem more expensive, especially as I may be able to get P3 socket 370 chips for free...

o Western Digital lower retail warranty to 1year - OEM Special Edition are still 3yr warranty. Samsung however, have 3year warranty on all of their drives, and they are Very quiet, and Very fast.
o 8-way Power 5 thing with 144mb cache shown here.
o PC Sales up 15% but mainly laptop sales.

seven new security holes patched by microsoft. I'm glad that MS are finding and fixing these 'undocumented features'.

Microsoft thanks the following for working with us to protect customers:
Greg Jones of KPMG UK and Cesar Cerrudo for reporting the issue described in MS03-042, The Last Stage of Delirium Research Group for reporting the issue in MS03-043, David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software Ltd. for reporting the issue in MS03-044, Brett Moore of Security-Assessment.com for reporting the issue in MS03-045.

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And for apple users we have macos 10.2.8 which fixes some bugs discovered in unix..

council worker runs down protestor real media footage captured by amatuer film person!!

imaginary things to put on the bottom of application forms, when applying for a job:
Your company is gr8 i want to work 4 u.
I have a normal sized bottom, so special chair requirements are not necessary.
I am also married to a scary wife so would like to get out of the house more.

dissapointed with the g5, macnet is here, so is this thread. ha ha ha, it will never end. (the mac vs pc thing, which makes life a bit more interesting, especially since apple aren't the fastest) Update there's further comments here about it in the usual mac / pc style ;) and there's some more rabid zealots over here.

transmeta introduce a 7watt 1mb cache 1ghz (or 1.1ghz?) cpu more details and links, and VIA make the worlds smallest, lowest power x86 CPU more details here. in other processor news add-on pci card turns your computer into a super computer (no not an apple "super computer", as per what apple thought of their G4, but a real super computer that could enter the top-500 list).

ha the gospel according to the simpsons in a real church story here, and Fijians apologise for eating english missionary over here

"Apple touts its new 64-bit Power Mac G5 as the world's fastest personal computer, but our initial tests indicate bragging rights may belong to PCs using AMD's Athlon 64 FX-51 chip." PC World reviews 64-bit computers

• [H]ard|OCP are miffed that the film they went to see had big brown dots in it flashing at random.


• 10 ten most dangerous american jobs.


• martial arts robots! with pic(s).


• the nanoBGA (VIA CPU) uses only 7 watts at 1ghz! (which is less than some motherboard chipsets!)


• microsoft patches, of patches, need patching again - they also say that if you miss out the / in the url at the end, then you're stupid - but does it really matter? first i've heard about it!


• a bit of retro here, (someone's pictures) and they ask here what's the oldest hardware you're currently using. mine's a p2-350 which is running smoothwall.

* monkey brains move robotic arms pictures here.
* dude takes an apple to work, and tries using it in a PC environment at OSnews.
* something about apple and x86 here a bit dull - about how apple could have switched to x86, but didn't, and what might have happened.
* 66% of people dissatisfied with MS Software - 41% thinking of leaving MS here "I read that Linux has issued 25 patches so far this year, so what is to be gained by switching?" (this colour is apparently amber!)