So you need a typeface.

The tech section in Monday's paper had a little piece about XP being faster than Vista and getting faster. A company that tracks computer performance for financial service companies found that Vista is 50 to 100% slower than XP SP2. Said company also got its hands on early versions of the new SPs due out next year for both systems. Result: Vista ( Read more... )

This is just extremely cool: Solar flare video.

In other news ... okay, it's not really news but I have restless fingers evidently and am tired of thinking about my car. Anyhow, R's decided to let his beard and mustache get longer before we see his mom in November. I like how it looks now, not so sure about the 'longer' bit but we'll see. Says he's going to shave it off after Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

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Took a break from sorting through nearly 200 pics from the weekend and found this joy in my email:

'80 Mbytes of storage for under $12k!' and other ad favorites through the years

I remember entirely too many of these...

Computers from the '70s (And my family had a TI-99/4a -- the 4 came with a 'monitor' of sorts, the 4a was designed to be hooked up to your own TV. Cassette drive. Loved that silly thing...)

Computers from 1980-1983

Computers from 1984-1989Didn't see our NEC Multispeed on the list but that's okay. The ( Read more... )

Google, back in 1988 - go ahead, search for something!

Geeks tend to have the best costume ideas! Love the bsod!

BYTE magazine covers from the '70s: http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/byte

Okay, not geekage. Feline overload. A couple still make me lol: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/cats.htm