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Malware attacks IE users via pop-ups | The Register might be worth sticking to firefox for now...?

tiger (10.4), the latest os from mac, is coming in 2005. This article is a kind of taster/preview... if you go to the apple website, they've got some info about it too.
Oh and apple have a huge new 30 inch display (2569pound), which requires a 450pound grafic card to use it. Available in Grey or erm gray. yup. 2500 pound for the computer. 3000 pound for a monitor. there must be some very rich people out there.
So tiger: another "new" way to find files, and an alternative way to get desk accessories (taskbar temperature style readouts) displayed.
And it sounds like they're releasing it in the new year, which I always thought was Apple's biggest problem - all the new stuff comes out after you've bought your christmas presents.

Sega Mega Drive 6-in-1 Plug 'n' Play £30 for a sega megadrive and 6 games (inc sonic the hedgehog, golden axe etc).

Gannow Baths in Burnley, to close.. Anyone heard of these?

BBC NEWS | England | London | London in grip of Tube strike: "Millions struggled into work in London on Wednesday as a rail union strike crippled the underground. "

BBC NEWS | UK | North-south split 'getting wider': "The poor are getting poorer while the north-south divide is getting wider, researchers have claimed."

myatari.net has a review of a 68060 add-on board called CT60 which runs at either 66 or 100mhz (depending on processor model) - you can fit 512meg of pc133 ram to it. It also has the exciting 'tip of the day' page.
Also we've just missed Jagfest 2004 in Rochester (12/13June), and the allegro speedhack competition entries are available to download and try out.

Slashdot | Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released firefox is only 4.7mb so why not give it a go. apparently it's right good.

morecambe bay bridge could create upto 2000 new jobs: I look forward to waving to the 167 people working on each mile as I cross it.

Cams BIG Adventure it starts...

anyone wanna buy a "mercury slim cam II / Aiptek Slim 3000F" (practially brand new, as i used a different one for the review) for £40? (plus £3.50 postage?) normally £40 + £7.50 postage from microlandtech.

Which one's most interesting: Pentax Optio 33LF Digital Camera [3MP 3xOptical] (£99), Fuji A120 3mp (no optical zoom) (about £80) ?

3GHz PowerPC G5 Eludes IBM "Even the most ingenious chip designs can be undone by manufacturing problems: Consider IBM Corp.'s struggle to raise the megahertz ante for its PowerPC processors." Steve Jobs said they'd have 3ghz by now, but they don't. (More interesting comment here)

Honoloko (background)

Die Wagenschenke - Das Partyzelt am Albanifest in Winterthur.

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why imitation is not always flattering: "Luxury handbags, DVDs, computer software - all well-known targets of counterfeiters. But the UK is being flooded with other fake goods, including teabags. It's a crime that stabs at the heart of British society and costs billions." ""The ante has been upped, big time," she says. "It's in about the last five years or so that the volume of goods flooding the market has doubled - at least doubled - in terms of quantity and also in terms of range of the goods that are being faked."" - how often are people quoted as saying "big time"?

Vote for your favourite name..., re: this, and this. (camera share project).

crap research + bbc news website = another crappie article with re-used old images! quote:
"Junk e-mails are driving computer users mad" - "Viagra offers and miracle diets crowd our inboxes" - "Six days are wasted battling with spam and three more days are lost due to viruses." right - so we spend 6 days dealing with spam and only 3 dealing with viruses. riiiight. "a third of people would be prepared to make a drastic lifestyle change, such as exercising five times a week, if it meant an end to spam." wtf!? what kind of questions were on there, "what would you be prepared to do to get rid of spam: a) excersice 5 times a week, b) have a shower on mondays c)kill your parents" - like HELLO!! what has excersice got to do with spam!!!??

bit of a mac fan article here, sorry,
Apple Xserve's to power new supercomputer for US Army
A new supercomputer comprising 1,566 dual-processor Apple Xserve servers is expected to be the second most powerful in the world, with a peak performance capability of 25 Teraflops per second.

To see the whole article go here

Ey Up, dems worst motorway service stations in Europe.

"These need to improve otherwise the UK's sites will not match the best in the rest in Europe for quality and value." ... and then?

vnunet.com - Intel kicks off new system: "Intel will next week change the face of volume computer systems by releasing its first EM64T chips, which combine full 32bit performance with 64bit capabilities, and by introducing support for a radically new platform including the PCI Express bus."

Main Menu -> Fun with Cans of compressed Air!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Climate film put to computer test: "Computer users across the world are being invited to download and run a climate model of what may happen this century. "

InformationWeek > Supercomputing > Top 500 Supercomputers List Shows IBM A Big Winner > June 21, 2004: "According to the newest edition of the semi-annual Top 500 list compiled by a group of German and American academics, two prototype IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputers rank as the world's fourth- and eighth-fastest. Japan's Earth Simulator still ranks as the world's fastest computer, but a new Intel-based system at Lawrence Livermore National Lab is now second-fastest."

InformationWeek > EBay Billing Errors > EBay Hit With Complaints > June 21, 2004: "Complaints about balky new eBay Inc. billing software that's overcharging sellers continue to flood a Web message board about the Internet's largest auction site on the eve of the company's eBay Live users conference in New Orleans. "

tom, phil, (others) what do you think of this?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Top honour for robot heroes, Honda's ASIMO robot visiting london scien museum for a week!. Matt quick - go and take some photos / videos of it!

Slashdot | Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code (in countries other than the UK and US) - maybe I won't buy that album.

Can't remember if I've mentioned this before, anyway here it is again: Cheese Racing

ireland gets their own windows - hurrah

Blair and Frost see who's finger is best at the subtle art of pointing

a game that turns into something thats a bit minterish.. speed.
just depack the zip and type "speed.exe 640 480 8" or similar.

Ironic Passengers injured in bus crash: Just when you thought your train journey couldn't get any worse, your bus crashes into a railway bridge.

Here's a pic of Heather, Susan, Me and Dave (Susan's fiance) taken last week at "Pub in the Park" (put here by bloggerbot/hello/ using the new free unlimited blogger image hosting thing) 

I have a plan: Buy a cheap 2mp digital camera (between £20 - £40 ebay/morgan computers/etc eg this) ideally small, with flash. Setup a website (perhaps a blog?) where people can post their pictures taken with said camera. Camera is posted to people around the world, they have it for a week, take X amount of pics, and upload 5 of their best pictures to website (as pic above), then post it to next person in line. This would only work if people didn't decide to steal the camera - to combat this, perhaps I could use a paypal account to collect deposit (perhaps £5/£10) which is refunded once the camera has gone to the next person? The address list (so to speak), could be centrally managed by me. So it would go like this:

1. Email me, with your address. (and put deposit in my paypal account)
2. I'll invite you to join the blogger
3. (once joined) Someone will post camera to you.
4. You use for a week, upload 5 of your favourite pictures to website
5. Let me know you're done, and I'll email you the address of the next person.
6. You post the camera to the next person (when they confirm they have it, I will refund paypal deposit)

alternatively, they don't post their pictures, but they could just email the pictures (With text) to my email account? I could also mark the camera with something like "If found, return to (web address)".

HEXUS.net Forums - Remember 98lite? Now there's a 2K/XP version here.

GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software for all Windows File Systems if you ever accidentally format your drive completely, or even format a FAT32 drive with NTFS - then use this program to get important files and documents back. It is seriously awesome - and only $69. Data recovery companies would charge you at least £1000 to do the same thing!

Amazon.co.uk: Pentax Optio 33LF Digital Camera [3MP 3xOptical] £99 quite a good deal. (it's got a swivel screen etc). Micro Direct Ltd offer an 8x DVD +/- writer for £46 inc vat! (anyone know what speed they do CDRs?)

Programming languages:
their history
microsoft's changing programming philosophies
which programming language
- the shootout (where they compare eg; boring old C with every other language under the sun) I thought was quite interesting, because although I thought C was quite difficult to write, I hadn't realised just how much more wordy it needs to be to get the job done. Looking at the different languages, you'd choose the one that makes most sense in the fewest number of lines.. maybe?? Anyway its all interesting .. I thought C++ code would have been way more readable.

HDCD 20 real bits form a 16 bit CD. Yet another technology we've never heard of.

Dogy stuff for sale on ebay. What next Josh are you going to be a virtual girlfriend?

Posh Samsung D410 Mobile Phone Boxed, Unlocked, Brand New! sliding mobile phone with VGA digital camera built in. Listing starts 9.30pm tonight. Feel free to have a go if you think you're hard enough :) plus fanless 1.4ghz epia (silent!) and remember, you can buy laptops on ebay!.

firebox.com - Terra Grass Armchair

Review: Lian Li PC-V1000 computer case (looks just like it's a rip off of the Mac G5 case, the lian li looks like they've done a decent enough job of it)

Proposed ban on photography on New York City Transit!

Weebls Stuff - Toons - kenya another daft flash dancy singy anim.

simpler file transfer with other people's computers..
One for josh and the via low power fans here, which explains the thinking behind why the eden/nehemiah processor range exists.

Thinking of travelling by tube?? check the temperature first here - could save your life.

UK personal debt hits 1 trillion pounds. what!!! staffordshire, bbc. herald, financial times
I thought they were talking rubbish. but no. If we each had 17 pound of debt, the combined debt would be 17x60million = 1020 million.
A trillion is 1000 times as much. so we each have 17,000 pound of debt.
1. Some banks are owed a heap of money by us.
2. Some of those people aren't ever going to pay it back. How do bankrupt people re-start their lives?? Just wondering?
3. the bbc article says that that's bigger than the combined debt of Africa, Asia, and other countries.
quote from somehwere else: In 1999, developing country debt (not counting the former Eastern Bloc) was placed by the World Bank at $2,060 billion, less than 6 percent of total world debt ($37,000 billion). ... the national debt of the United States is $5,000 billion, U.S. household debt is $6,000 billion, and the national debt of Japan at $ 2,000 billion. In contrast, the total debt of the 41 HIPC countries is approximately $200 billion (less than one percent of world debt). It is difficult to imagine how canceling the $200 billion owed by the HIPC would seriously affect the market that Mr. Wolfensohn is so worried about.
Wow. is the rest of the world poor or what? man..
ok what we need to do is to redistribute our personal debt onto those 'poorer' people that have lower debt. And then give them greater access to credit cards. Seriously, the rest of the world should be donating money to us.

biscuit throwing (uk) championships next sunday

B3ta link just for Phil & others

rumors suggest dual 2.5 or 2.6ghz macs will be released today. (previous fastest were dual 2.0ghz) yaay. anything to help global warming.

the bbc news site seems to be taking the oil price thing seriously... basically although the oil might last another 50 years (so within my lifetime), we will have to change over to alternate style transportation, you know, electric or bio fuel cars.. and its possible that this could happen alot sooner than you expect because the price of fuel will skyrocket now that there isn't enough to go round all the chinese to meet demand.

Slashdot | Apple Previewing New Power Mac?

best home made video ever? must watch "best album ever 2" on this page :)

Ends 10-Jun-04 21:30:00 BST - Canon Powershot A300 3MP Digital Camera (as A310) + Case anyone want to buy a canon a300?

Morgan Computers there's some surprisingly cheap digital cameras here - eg 1.3mp konica £30 inc, 2mp konica £40 inc. Fuji M603 £150 inc, F410 £130 inc, Konica KD410Z £140 inc (4mp, 3x opt)