May 9, 2004
Americans vs. Germans

A small sidebar in the May edition of Xbox Nation magazine on the upcoming game "Fable" has an interesting anecdote: "I always said you can tell a lot about a person by how he plays Fable," Peter Molyneux says. When Mark MacDonald executive editor for Xbox Nation's sister publication, Electronic Gaming Monthly, opts to aid […]

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April 1, 2004
T3, T1, Cable, PEI, DSL

T3 lines enable very fast data transmission. T1 lines are slower, but still really fast. Cable modems are slower still, but plenty fast. Then there's PEI. Then there's the least broad of broadband technology, DSL. What's PEI you ask? Pigeon Enabled Internet.

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March 28, 2004
Need for Speed

This is just cool. NASA's scramjet hits more than 5,000 mph.

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March 26, 2004
Video game blurb

So I"m reading Xbox Nation magazine and I come across a brief news item regarding and upcoming game from LucasArts. A third-person action game, Mercenaries (its working title) seems to be an ultraviolent third-person explosion fest. Mercs can pick and choose sides, working for either the North Koreans, Chinese, Russian Mafia or United Nations. So, […]

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March 20, 2004
Seen on slashdot

For the past couple of months I've been checking out the goings-on over at the blog for geeks, aka slashdot.org. If having barely-informed teen-aged salesperson bugging you at an actual store isn't annonying enough, well at least one Web sitewould like for them to annoy you while surfing the Web. According to Rackspace's co-chairman, one-third […]

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February 6, 2004
Mad Mac Users

I've used Macs. I've used PCs. They're a tool, and nothing more. But there is a small group of Mac users who seem to derive their sense of self from their overpriced, software-limited machines. Case in point: The Overclockers.com website published a barely believable hoax last week detailing the gutting of a brand new and […]

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February 5, 2004
McAfee VirusScan is garbage

I got home tonight and found that I had been the honored recipient of a grand total of 161 copies of the MyDoom virus. The McAfee antivirus program, instead of just notifying me: "You've received 161 e-mails infected with the MyDoom virus," had me click a total of 322 times to acknowledge the fact. This […]

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February 4, 2004
Mydoom virus

I've got a public e-mail address over there on the left, so I expect to get more than my fair share of viruses and the like that make their way over the Internet and into my home. After years of using Norton Antivirus satisfactorily, I switched to McAfee. Why? Because it was time to renew […]

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January 12, 2004
Adobe's stupid decision

Users of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, aka Photoshop CS, have discovered a "feature" of the software that prevents them from opening files that have images of currency. Adobe and other makers of image-manipulation programs have, at the behest of a little-known group of national banks, inserted secret technology into their programs to foil […]

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December 3, 2003
The superior gaming console

Not only is the Xbox the only one to have the incredible Halo. It also stops bullets. Really.

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