It looks like the support you got from RedHat for release 9 is done with today. They would love for everyone to switch over to RedHat Enterprise Linux, but why pay for Linux? Jump on over and download Debian or Fedora and upgrade your lifestyle (god I sound like a bad commercial). If you have no problems with keeping RedHat 9 (like I do on my server) then you may enjoy the Fedora Legacy Project. Gotta love the OS community. Read more »

Why settle for a regular system with a noisy CPU fan when you can build one that is cooled by water? Who cares that if one of the pipes develops a small leak and gets on your active computer parts that you are basically screwed? In any case, if you like living on the edge this is a good article for you. Our goal was to run current-generation 3D games as smoothly as we could, with as much eye-candy as possible, and at high resolutions. However, we also had some sub-goals. One goal was to build a fairly quiet system. The idea of having a half-dozen case fans creating a Read more »

Google plans to earn 2.7 billion dollars through an auction style IPO. Read more »

Yet another probably useless specification from everybody’s favorite standards body. Read more »

David Coursey makes an interesting point on why many people are not interested in Office competitors WordPerfect and StarOffice (OpenOffice). Outlook makes the Office Suite invaluable to a lot of people. Neither package offers and email client. I know on Linux you have Evolution, but it does not come with OpenOffice. Why should someone who has Office, which comes bundled with an email client have to install OO and then install another program? I think the only thing saving Microsoft right now on the Office side is Exchange Server. Outlook integrates so well with it (I don’t know if I am joking or being serious) that finding a quality replacement Read more »

Eric Gradman has written an essay about the new breed of software which has formed since the early days of the net where usenet and email were the primary communication modes. He makes some interesting points about centralised, aggregate style of social software such as livejournal and friendster and how they could be changed/improved. Read more »

The title is deceiving. When I read it I thought it was another PVR solution, but all it is a storage device. The “media” comes in because it can handle 8 different types of media. Don’t know how useful that is to people, but at $250 there are cheaper solutions available for those that just need pure backup without the worry of media cards. It supports FireWire and USB 2.0 which seems to be the standard with all storage devices coming out today and the hard drive has an 8MB buffer so speed should not be an issue. HardwareZone has a review. Thanks to DarkBlue for the link. Read more »

Try to ignore the girl in the photo and focus on the cool screen. I couldn’t have one of these in my car because I would be trying to steer by looking at the screen. Seems like it would be the real-world equivalent of Grand Theft Auto. I also don’t see this system fitting in anything but a SUV. The monitor does seem a tad bit large, unless the woman has a small head. Also comes with a 30GB hard drive that kind of surprises me because looking at its size I would figure they would try to stick something larger in there. Thanks to DarkBlue for the link. Read more »

If you need a good laugh read this story. No pictures (thank goodness), but some great crayon illustrations. Read more »

Yesterday we had RSS Jobs and today we have RSS Quotes. Eventually RSS Readers will replace web browsers and the world will find out that we gained zero productivity out of the transition. This one stays free forever, but is limited to five quotes. My tech picks would be Apple, AMD, Yahoo, Novell, EMC. Read more »