Ballmer's insulting Apple, just as I've been contemplating the same thing. Since the iMac I want is delayed for another month, I've been looking at building a "hackintosh" with commodity PC parts.

It turns out, I can't do it. Apples are actually a good deal even from a hardware perspective. You just have to take size and efficiency into account. My ( Read more... )

I tried. Apparently the iMacs with the really good video cards are backordered until the middle of next month. Guess I'll try again later.

In the meantime, yet another reason to buy a Mac.

When analysts at Sterling, Va., based security intelligence firm iDefense first spotted the trojan they call "Tigger.A" in November 2008, none of the 37 anti- ( Read more... )

Who knew?

"Data storm" blamed for nuclear-plant shutdown

The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant.

In a letter dated May 14 but released to the public on Friday ( Read more... )

Virus-infected Microsoft Windows systems around the world might become a national security issue? Who knew?!

Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia

A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western ( Read more... )

From Time circa 1978. The Computer Society: Pushbutton Power. It's interesting to see what they got right, and what they got wrong. And when they got it wrong, how.

The computer revolution may make us wiser, healthier and even happier.

It is 7:30 a.m. As the alarm clock burrs, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up ( Read more... )

phanatic linked to a bulletin board post about the system requirements for a new online game that makes me want to hug my Xbox 360. I've had it over a year now, and while I did have to send it back to Microsoft for a replacement, spending 15 minutes on the phone, unplugging it, and slapping it down on the desk at the UPS store with $20 was far cheaper and ( Read more... )