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Stuff that rocks

• Firefox 3.5 came out today! It's harder, better, faster, andstronger.
• PHP 5.3 also came out today!

Stuff that sucks

• Over the last week and a half, some tool in Florida has accumulated $800 worth of purchases at gas stations using one of my credit cards. Fortunately, I got everything squared away, I'm not liable for any of it, and ( Read more... )

I was reading this history of consumer 3D graphics cards a minute ago ( Read more... )

The Commodore 64 turned 25 this week!

I was 10 when my brother Ryan gave me his (this would be winter '91-'92). His C64 had a Warp Speed cartridge and a 1200 baud modem! It was hooked up to my black-and-white GoldStar 13" TV (the same one I used to play his Atari 2600).

At 10, I was using the C64 to (among other things):

• visit my first BBS
• program ( Read more... )

In A.D. 2007 iPhone was beginning ( Read more... )

Holy Crap!

Dell has decided to sell consumer PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed!

"Today, we are excited to tell you that Dell will begin offering Canonical's latest version, Ubuntu 7.04, as an option on select Dell consumer models in the U.S. in the coming weeks," the company said in its announcement.

So my weekend came and went... 2 days were never shorter. I played like 2 hours of Paper Mario and did a ton of cleaning/throwing-away-shit of the old apartment, and the rest of the weekend disappeared.

I did, however, get to enjoy my newfound FiOS speeds when downloading copies of Ubuntu Linux at ~1950KB/s.

( ... but there were some problems with FiOS and other techy stuff... )

Do you think you can shut down your computer this Saturday and leave it off all day ( Read more... )

To my computer hardware nerd friends...

Which do you prefer: ATI or nVIDIA, and why?

On the topic of a possible handheld console from Microsoft, a Slashdot user had a very good comment. (Particularly the last paragraph!)

I mean, both Nintendo and Sony have a handheld game platform, why not Microsoft?

Microsoft both has a Mobile version of Windows AND partnerships with mobile platform makers. To make a mobile Xbox platform simply ( Read more... )