I would like to take a moment to personally say "Thank you"
to every person who has served their country and all of those who
have given so much.
To the veterans, please understand that there are millions of Americans
who will always truly appreciate your sacrifice and the sacrifice
of those who did not return home.
Tweak Central turns three source: home-grown
05/25 - 01:54
Tweak
Central celebrates our 3rd anniversary on Monday. So I figure we should
start the festivities early and make a weekend of it.
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to making this site
better: by submitting a link or file, or just saying how something on
the site has helped you fix a problem.
I plan to continue to post news I think is relevant, links to stuff I
think you might enjoy or find useful, and articles to do stuff that I
think other sites overlook.
Anyway, if you're out celebrating this weekend, do us all a favor and
toss back a long island iced tea for Tweak Central.
ps - I'm just now realizing that I spent two days making the image of
the cake in 3ds max, when I could've baked a cake in half-an-hour. Then
I could have had my cake and eaten it too!
pps - I probably shouldn't be drinking when I make these posts...
Again, your comments, suggestions, mindless ramblings are always welcome.
Just be warned, I don't have a job, I don't have any friends, so if you
send me an email, you will probably get about 20 emails a day from me
asking you what you're doing and if you want to "chat".
Steven
Shrek the
movie is good - go see it source: personal experience
05/19 - 00:37
That
dude is Shrek. He's an ogre. Mike Meyers
plays the voice of Shrek. Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow
play the voices of the major characters. It was pretty funny and the CG
(computer generated) animation is amazing (in my opinion).
It's a good flick, I recommend you check it out.
Tech TV ran a show called "The
tech behind Shrek" on Friday 05/18. It had commentary from a
number of the people who worked on Shrek. I'm sure they'll broadcast the
show again.
If you haven't been checking out The
Inquirer, well, don't make me kick your ass...
Mike Magee who started the Reg
runs it, and he brings you more news than anyone else out there. Some
call it content, some call it scoop, I just call it stuff to link to so
I don't have to write news .
(this was already in the links, but I upgraded it to "strong buy"
huh?)
Another great new? site is Electic Tech,
yeah, they may no know how to spell, but what are you complaining about?
There are fewer letters for you to type. Electic Tech is a great site that
offers links to all the news and reviews that are going on that day, and
since CNEWS went away, there's one more reason to make this your first
stop on the web.
I also added PC Power Zone.
I think they're about hardware and "modding" - which is like
tweaking, in that no one knows what it means. I mean... Anyway, I'm down
with scotch, er, scottish, irish, whatever... .
"They all look the same." (heh heh)
Oh, look what Steve at HardOCP sumbled
across: "Last Thursday, Microsoft
admitted its engineers planted a secret password in its software that
could be used to gain illegitimate access to hundreds of thousands of
Internet sites worldwide..." Get the Yahoo
news story here. I guess people are just paranoid and Microsoft doesn't
do that sort of thing, my bad...
CNet news
is reporting that Microsoft will
introduce a new program named "Software Assurance" with the
introduction of Office XP
on May 31. Many corporate customers are satisfied with their current office
suites (MS Office 95, 97 or 2000) and have no plans to adopt Office XP
the minute it's released. Microsoft disagrees. Here's how Software Assurance
works:
But to participate in the program--to take advantage
of discounted upgrade prices--businesses must be running what Microsoft
terms the "current" version of its software [Office XP]. If customers
upgrade to Office XP, they are eligible to receive future versions of
the software at a reduced price.
However, if customers don't upgrade all of their machines to Office
XP before an Oct. 1 deadline, they in essence have to buy Office licenses
at full price, as if they were new customers.
"You're being forced to do an upgrade to get into (Software Assurance)--or
you can just wait, and at some point in the future you can rebuy the
license at full price," said Gartner analyst Alvin Park.
Microsoft Office accounts for up
to 96% of retail office suite sales: most companies would be envious
of that kind of market share.
If you think about it, having a monopoly is cool: you can charge what
you want, raise prices whenever you want more money and you don't have
to worry about things like losing market share: it's a no lose situation!
Mike Magee of the Inquirer does it again. This time he's got the skinny
on AMD's much anticipated (if you're a nerd)
AMD's Palomino iteration of it's Athlon processor and 760MP multiprocessor
chipset. 760MP and Palomino are scheduled for release June 4th,
and the dual motherboards aren't going to be cheap so you might want to
up your take of pilfering from work .
Earlier this week, Ace's Hardware
revealed that the Palomino Athlon processors will be called "Athlon
4". Ahhh, marketing...
Related
links: Inquirer story about
the upcoming June 4th release date.
In unrelated news, check out PanQuake
and FishEyeQuake
(thnx Slashdot for linkages): If
you get dizzy easily, this may not be for you...
And in more unrelated news, a few days ago a
judge threw out all charges in the RAMBUS vs Infineon lawsuit marking
a great victory "for world justice!" The judge also awarded
infineon $350,000 US in damages, to which a RAMBUS official remarked,
"350G's? Psh! How much do you think it costs us to retain 100 attorneys?"
The law-firm you love to hate is back
in the news again. This time CNet
news is reporting on the licensing fees RAMBUS tries to charge companies
to produce memory and related controller chips. You see, RAMBUS owns patents
on Direct RAMBUS Dynamic RAM (DRDRAM) and claims to own patents on DDR
SDRAM and SDR (plain-old) SDRAM. RAMBUS would like it if people would
manufacturer the former, but not the latter, so their licensing fees show
this. This isn't news, we've always known that the folks at RAMBUS were
a bunch of weasels, now we just know how much they charge.
So now you know. The nex time a nerdy guy threatens to "go RAMBUS
on your ass," you can expect a call from his attorney on Monday .
And as if you needed a reason, but if you aren't already running a smokin-fast
AMD system, they've
cutting prices again, so sneak onto the net during work and order
yourself up some 1.33GHz+ lovin'.
Happy day... Here, I'll save you the energy required to click the link.
The US Court has chucked out 54 of Rambus'
patent infringement claims against Infineon,
leaving the chip maker to answer just three allegations.
Trial judge Robert E Payne ruled that Rambus had failed to prove that
its single-rate and double data-rate SDRAM patents had been ripped off
by Infineon. Rambus, he said, could not show exactly how Infineon's
products infringed its patents.
For the Siemens spin-off the ruling got better: Payne said he would
not find it guilty of wilfully infringing any of the remaining three
allegations, even it was conclusively proved that violation of that
intellectual property had taken place.
Experts are touting this as a triumph of "good against evil,"
ok, maybe that's just me saying that. And maybe there's plenty of other
evil in the world, but getting rid of RAMBUS would be like getting dog
poop off your shoe: other things may go wrong that day, but at leaset
you got the dog poop off your shoe .
Not really news, but copy-pasting from the Reg is so easy...
Strong words from the official voice of Redmond
today, urging admins to patch a recently-discovered buffer overflow
vulnerability in servers running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Server...
Microsoft strongly urges all IIS 5.0 server administrators to install
the patch immediately," a company security
bulletin says.
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