Wednesday, January 30, 2002

If They Mated - Television And The Internet. How about the Web/TV combination follows its own separate path, becomes a new market, quite different to what's gone before, distinct from both current television and the Web as we know it? 6:46:18 PM

Fairly Unbalanced.. I haven't heard yet from Walter Issacson (CNN), Neal Shapiro (MSNBC) or Roger Ailes(FOX), but that doesn't mean the campaign... 6:45:58 PM

Microsoft Ships Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package. On Wednesday, Microsoft finally shipped its long-awaited Security Rollup Package for Windows 2000, which aggregates all of the security fixes the company has shipped since Windows 2000 Service Pack 2... 6:45:52 PM

Mailwasher.... I watched Call For Help again last night (plus caught the tail end of Screen Savers) and heard Chris Pirillo... 6:45:41 PM

Online Games Go Multicultural. International quests, blood oaths and sword play are coming to online game worlds now that the makers of EverQuest and Lineage have teamed up. 6:45:35 PM

The Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive. The tech industry's story of the incredible shrinking hard-disk drive could be entering a new chapter with Toshiba's recent introduction of 1.8-inch embedded drives sporting storage capacities of 10 GB and 20 GB. The higher capacities and smaller size could clear the way for even thinner notebook PCs, as well as handhelds that pack many more programs and features. 6:45:29 PM

Visual Connections to the Classic Trilogy. Sligty_Worride started this forum thread which has really taken off. Click on the link for piles of visual references connecting Episode II to the classic trilogy. Check it out for comparisons of symbols, characters, ships, locations and more! 6:45:18 PM

Opera for Windows. Opera 6.0 for Windows introduces the looks and the performance of an exceptional Web browser. Opera's user interface has received a major overhaul with the new start-up dialog, and new default... 6:44:40 PM

"Revolution OS" screens at the Miami Film Festival. What is the one thing that Microsoft¹s monopoly will never give you? True freedom. That¹s why a pioneering band of quirky software rebels has been fighting to create an alternative computing universe that no one controls and everyone is free to use. Taking the viewer inside this twenty-year struggle, J.T.S. Moore¹s new documentary film REVOLUTON OS, tells the personal stories of the hackers and programmers who rebelled... 6:44:10 PM

Software bug blamed in radioactive spill. A programming error at a uranium processing plant in Western Australia leads to a failure in a control system and a rupture in a pipe carrying radioactive fluid. 6:44:00 PM

WiFi Metro officially launches: WiFi Metro launches its for-fee service today with about 40 hot spots and 50 more in the works. For $19.95 per month, you get access to their network plus their JumpStart partners. I'm seeing the mesh start to get finer. [80211b News] 6:43:52 PM

WHY - Demise of content sites. It was unbeatable. The royal flush of Web content sites. 6:43:37 PM

More precise disk read / write. ST's L6671 Rotational Accelerometer is a two-part chip that senses vibrations in a spinning disk drive and sends electronic signals to the arm that moves the read/write head across the disk. Informed by real-time data, the heads stay more precisely positioned over the data track. [Geeknews] 6:43:27 PM

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States Asked to Examine Microsoft Internet Service. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general, asking them to protect consumers against what it called Microsoft's unfair and deceptive trade practices because the federal government has failed to act. [ActiveWin] 12:00:11 AM