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This is a weird one. |
4/30/2002 |
 Seems like the cogs of the Antec Marketing Machine have been slowly turning. They have launched this AMAZING site: http://www.hansworkshop.com
Its purpose
- To provide a unreliable, biased unbiased source of retarded useful information for computer users of all backgrounds and skill levels.
- To build a vibrant and interesting on-line community for modders, tech-heads, Antec fans, non-Antec fans, The Wise, the funny, gamers, and any and all who are otherwise interested in participating
- To get your feedback and help in shaping the future of computing, or at least our corner of it
- To provide a way to offer intriguing and interesting products that might otherwise not see the light of day. Like porn mods
 Go check out how they seamlessly integrate their "Test Lab" with an online store, or the "ask Casey" section for a laugh. It's easy to be unbiased when you sell everything that you are testing ;) |
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Marvel Fan Grills |
4/30/2002 |
 Well those Marvel fan grills that we heard about a month or so back are back and finally being sold... They carry a hefty price at $34.95 (80mm), $39.95 (92mm), and $44.95 (120mm) respectively.
 As you can see from the picture they come in the Spiderman and Punisher variety both of which will be coming to a theatre near you very soon.
If you want one get them at CoolerGuys before they're gone:
http://coolerguys.com/MarvelGrills/ |
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In US/World News: |
4/30/2002 |
US Links Charity Head to Bin Laden
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/30/al.qaeda.arrest/index.html
So all that time you were donating money you were just funding terrorists, the same with drugs kids! "I killed a police officer, it was just some harmless fun." As the advertisement says.
French Judge found guilty in Olympic Scandal
http://www.cnn.com/cnnsi/olympics/news/2002/04/30/isu_tuesday_ap/
Anna Kournikova sues Penthouse over Topless Photos
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/2002/04/29/kournikova_suit/
"Topless photos of Anna Kournikova appearing in the June issue of Penthouse magazine which hits the news stands on Tuesday are fake, say representatives of the Russian tennis player."
If she weren't so busy slutting around maybe she'd actually play some tennis ;)
Americans on Science:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/30/science.understanding.ap/index.html
"Although 57 percent of those surveyed disagreed that UFOs came to Earth bearing aliens, about 30 percent believe that some reported objects in the sky are really space vehicles from other civilizations.
The scientific validity of astrology -- the belief that an alignment of the planets can affect events on Earth -- is rejected by 60 percent of Americans, as is the idea that some numbers are lucky while others are not. But 43 percent say they still read the astrology charts at least occasionally in the newspaper."
We also believe that the moon is made out of cheese, and that Pamela Anderson Lee's breasts are the United States' greatest scientific achievement.
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Note: |
4/30/2002 |
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A lot of today's news postings are meant to be humorous. There might even be some objectionable language. If that's not your cup of tea then just skip over those parts ;) |
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Coolermaster ATC-110-SX1 |
4/30/2002 |
The Brits at Hexus (i.e. the only guys site who takes the time to email their reviews to us) take a look at the Coolermaster ATC-110-SX1.
It's a beautiful case with a door to hide those unsightly beige drives. Check out the article:
"This is the best case I have ever owned, and I've owned a fair few. If you can afford this case don't hesitate its the king of cases. The only serious critasism I can come up with is its price, its not a case for all. Its more sturdy than all the other tower Coolermasters. Dual cpu motherboards will fit fine and the cooling is excellent."
http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=339 |
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Site News |
4/30/2002 |
Are you sick of shows...
with high school girls, with fake breasts, who also have super powers?
Well I'm not.
But I also have a show.
It's called the Insomniac show.
Blame Dave Attell for that one.
This one is for Rob:
"A strange foreign man just came up to me and showed me his penis and I've never felt so alive." ~Dave Attell
Sorry about this post. I just felt that it would be a great injustice to the site if these words didn't grace its pages.
If you don't get it, you should be watching:
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/insomniac/ |
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Opake.com allies with AthlonXP.com |
4/30/2002 |
Opake.com (i.e. the site that never updates its content) has been approached by AthlonXP.com to be its affiliate. You guys might remember AthlonXP.com from previous news stories. They are the site that is owned by Monarch Computers. Monarch Computers is a quite large online computer store and many of the reviews on AthlonXP.com reflect this (not to mention the Monarch Computer ads everywhere).
If you don't see a problem with this let me put it this way: if Intel bought a website (no, not THG ;) and the website did a bunch of pro Intel reviews then there would definitely be a conflict of interest.
Bottom Line: Opake's news and reviews might not be credible, reader beware. |
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[S]oft|OCP We don't even know our own names anymore. |
4/30/2002 |
 Hi this is Kile of [-S-]0ft/|\*O{C}P* today we have a breaking deal. Dell is selling their top of the line Pentium 4-M 2.0 Ghz Laptops for $199.99
We know this is real because it says that you'll save $20000000 dollars and if I could subtract it'd equal $199.99
So go out and buy these up and when there is a lawsuit against Dell you can conveniently track the on goings at our sister site FrozenAsianPornTechSe.cx
[{-=S=-}]o-------F------T O///////C//////P
In Other Tech News:
Michael Jackson is really a woman.
George W. Bush is Hitler in disguise.
Here's a 1 sentence review on the Thoroughbred! Best review yet!
[S]oft|OCP is paid by the National Enquirer to write this filth.
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es does Mikhailtech |
4/30/2002 |
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I was going to post the news today. But I didn't get to it. I barely have enough time to write this, but somehow I'll find a way to do it because I do it all for you, my fans. Well, anyway, I have a track meet it's from April to May so I'll be busy. I might do a review in time for tomorrow, but later tonight I'm going to come back on and say I'm too tired to do the review so you should just ignore me. I have to catch up on the news... this just in: Intel releases the Pentium 3 Processor. Thanks, and come back to Mikhailtech after track season. |
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3D GameMan |
4/30/2002 |
 3D Game Man does a lot of reviews most of them being of the "Video" variety. I have yet to post one of their links simply because I don't want to see "enter product title here" in front of that woman's face. Some of you may have nothing better to do then fantasize about some 30 yr old woman putting a bunch of hardware in front of her face and then plastering those pictures all over a website. Come on guys she 1) Puts on makeup to take a picture with a copper heatsink and 2) She's not even naked!
As you can see from this picture, she loves the CAK. |
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TheInquirer |
4/30/2002 |
If I could understand what the hell half of those articles are about then I would be British... and maybe that's not such a bad thing.
Check them out (or don't) at
http://www.theinquirer.net/
And don't let the Brits piss in your cheerios. |
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SuSe 8.0 Released |
4/29/2002 |
Germany's SuSE said on Friday that the new version of its Linux operating system distribution does not include the latest version of StarOffice because its proprietary, fee-based license would have increased the cost of the operating system. The shift in policy of one of several changes to SuSE Linux 8.0, which includes revamped core technology and new graphical desktop software.
SuSE included version 5.2 of StarOffice, a Microsoft Office-like package from Sun Microsystems, in previous distributions but decided against including StarOffice 6.0 after Sun began charging fees for the software. Sun also works with outside developers to provide OpenOffice, a free, open-source package that shares much of its core technology with StarOffice.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-893089.html |
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[S]oft|OCP |
4/29/2002 |
It's amazing that HardOCP can link to reviews like this:
http://www.geekextreme.com/mskeyboardreview/
Which is nothing more than a guy stealing a pic off of MS's website and talking a little bit about his "experience." I think this was what Mikhail was talking about last week, guess HardOCP posted it, but didn't actually READ it. GeekExtreme: don't over exert yourself on these reviews :P Seems like the Hard boys were too busy stirring up controversy at Circuit City to actually pay attention to this one. |
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Intel Celeron-M Pricecuts - Pave way for P4M |
4/29/2002 |
"The 1.20GHz/256, which uses .13 micron technology, fell in price from $170 to $134, a decline of 21%, the 1.13GHz/256 fell by 28% from $134 to $96, while the 1.06GHz/256 dropped by 25 per cent to $80, from a previous figure of $107.
The 1GHz mobile Celeron processor remains priced at $107, so it won't be much longer for the world.
Coming in the Celeron mobile space are 1.50GHz and 1.40GHz chips, while by the end of this year, those will be displaced by 1.70GHz and 1.60GHz mobile Celerons. We'll see at least 1.80GHz mobile Intel Celerons by Q1 of next year.
The next big price cuts on Intel's premier mobile Pentium 4M line come at the end of May, with the introduction of a 2GHz part at $637."
http://www.theinquirer.net/29040206.htm |
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Crucial to Make Vid Cards |
4/29/2002 |
"ONE OF THE more successful computer component companies to sell its products through so-called "affiliate" advertising on the Web is to extend its reach, according to sources close to the firm.
Crucial, which is a subsidiary of giant US firm Micron, sells memory modules through its affiliate programme. Many of its ads can be found on hardware sites. A small proportion of commission is paid to sites which carry its banners when modules are sold through them.
But the INQUIRER has learned that Crucial is actively investigating extending its reach on direct sales by selling video cards under the same brand too."
http://www.theinquirer.net/29040201.htm |
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Pentium 4 Heatsink Comparison |
4/28/2002 |
"We will look at several coolers for the Intel Pentium 4 processor of the 478-pin variety. Unlike AMD, which has the option of OEM processors for all models, almost all P4’s are sold in the retail box. So, there are no shortages of the stock Intel P4 cooler. The general consumers will not go out of their way to purchase an aftermarket CPU cooler. For the hardcore computer user, especially overclockers, anything “stock” just will not do. Performance and tweaking is everything to these special computer users and heat stands in the way of reaching the goal of the ultimate speed machine."
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/p4coolershootout/ |
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GotApex? Tech Support Article |
4/28/2002 |
GotApex? decided to do an article on tech support of several major online vendors. Looking at the article you can see that not only is it subjective, but also fundamentally flawed. A big graph of response time is great and all if you called each company describing the same problem. This, however, is doubtful considering that the companies chosen offered varying products and services. At best it's a generalization of what you might expect from a company, and even that's a stretch.
http://gotapex.com/reviews.php?rev=tech-support/index.html |
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AWStats 4.0 Released |
4/27/2002 |
AWStats 4.0 has been officially released after a lengthy beta.
4.0
WARNING: 4.0 is not compatible with OLD history data files. If you use 4.0
to read statistics for old month, report for "visitors" will be wrong as all
old unresolved ip processed with AWStats 3.2 will not be counted when
viewed with 4.0.
- Increased speed and reduce memory use for very large web sites.
- Unresolved ip are now processed like resolved one.
- Added icons in browsers chart.
- Personalized log format can also have tab separator (not only space).
- New ways to manage security/privacy with updated docs and new parameters:
AllowAccessFromWebToAuthenticatedUsersOnly
AllowAccessFromWebToFollowingAuthenticatedUsers
- New feature: Added mark on "grabber browsers" in browsers chart.
- New feature: Added average files size in Pages/URL report chart.
- New feature: You can put dynamic environnement variables into config file.
- New feature: Keyphrases list can be viewed entirely (not only most used).
- New parameter: WrapperScript
- New parameter: CreateDirDataIfNotExists
- New parameter: ValidHTTPCodes
- New parameter: MaxRowsInHTMLOutput
- New parameter: ShowLinksToWhoIs
- New parameter: LinksToWhoIs
- New parameter: StyleSheet
- New option: -staticlinks to build static links in report page (to use
AWStats with no web servers).
- New tool: common2combined.pl (A log format converter)
- New tool: awstats_buildstaticpages.pl
- Fixed: wrong size of bar in "average" report when average value was < 1.
- Fixed: pb of "Error: Not same number of records" when using some version
of mod_perl.
- Fixed: pb in logresolvemerge.pl
- Fixed: Security against CSSA.
- No more need to use \. to say . in config file.
- Documentation seriously updated.
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/#DOWNLOAD |
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Guard your cookies |
4/27/2002 |
"A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited.
The trick involves capturing a copy of the victim's browser cookies file. Once the perpetrator gains two key Hotmail cookies, there's no way to lock him out because at Hotmail, cookies trump even passwords.
A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited.
The trick involves capturing a copy of the victim's browser cookies file. Once the perpetrator gains two key Hotmail cookies, there's no way to lock him out because at Hotmail, cookies trump even passwords."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52115,00.html
For life? Good luck, most days I can't even log in to half of my accounts. |
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PCWorld Keyless Keyboard Review |
4/27/2002 |
If it's Keyless then shouldn't it just be a board?
"The implications for video games are obvious, and that's where Essential Reality is starting. By late summer, the company plans to begin selling the glove -- bundled with games -- for $129 to $149, depending on the package. The P5 offers more than a new way to play the same old games, though: It offers ideas for new ones. To demonstrate the potential, David Devor from Essential Reality showed me a game the company developed in which I directed a futuristic catcher's mitt to grab objects floating in space. "Can you imagine this with VR goggles?" Dave asked me. I can, now that I've used the glove."
I don't think anyone is going to pay $150 bux for something that normally costs $15 :P But, but, it's keyless!
PCWorld via CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/26/keyless.keyboards.idg/index.html |
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Helpful Tech-Support In Short Supply |
4/27/2002 |
Well, considering big companies are hiring retards to do support and most real techies couldn't stand a support job (let alone their boss) I don't see this as a surprise.
"That handheld has turned out to be quite a handful. The gadget worked great for three weeks. Then it refused to synchronize with Biria's PC. He sought answers from old-fashioned phone tech support, Palm's Web site and online chats with Palm engineers.
It still doesn't work."
See the part where it says Pam engineers, they mean those temps they hire for $6.75 an hour.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/04/27/tech.supportless.ap/index.html |
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This is a bit scary. |
4/27/2002 |
It's a good thing we have Homeland Security to keep the US Safe. What a joke.
Styling themselves "The Deceptive Duo," the hackers on Wednesday publicly defaced an FAA server used by what was the administration's Civil Aviation Security organization, which until recently was responsible for supervising passenger screening at U.S. airports. There, the intruders posted a mission statement vowing to expose America's poor state of cyber security for the good of the nation.
"Tighten the security before a foreign attack forces you to," the Duo extolled. "At a time like this, we cannot risk the possibility of compromise by a foreign enemy."
At the bottom of the page, the defacers included a screen-shot showing a portion of a Microsoft Access database, with each row displaying the three-letter code for a different U.S. airport, the name of an FAA inspector, a screener I.D. number, the number of passengers the screener handled, and the number of guns, explosives or chemicals he or she intercepted.
Full Article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25029.html |
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7 GeForce4 MX Round-UP |
4/27/2002 |
Some believe the GeForce4 MX is a waste of a card and some claim that it's not so bad. It's definitely not for gamers, especially with the Ti4200 right around the corner. If it were cheaper it would be the generic card to throw in a box that you'd use as a server, home entertainment box, or for the parents. Hopefully the Ti4200 will push the prices low on the MX's. Looking at the prices of the old GeForce3 Ti500 it is a little doubtful.
http://www.hothardware.com/hh_files/S&V/gf4_mx_roundup.shtml |
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Site News |
4/27/2002 |
The server upgrade is going along very well. We're tweaking Apache / Perl / PHP / MySQL to offer a lot more features. I would show you some screen shots, but right now all you would see is a bunch of misaligned tables defying every law of web design.
If any of you Spaniards feel like dropping me a line I need your assistance. Thanks. :) |
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HardOCP Does it Again |
4/27/2002 |
HardOCP the purveyor of all things good have decided to again bring attention to a misprint in an advertisment by Circuit City. You may remember such an event happening several weeks ago with Best Buy and GeForce 4's. This time it's all about the Radeon AIW 8500 with 128mb of RAM.
A reasonable reader had to send a derivative email for the HardOCP boys to finally get that they probably shouldn't believe deals that sound too good to be true.
Check out all the action at HardOCP |
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UK vs. US Journalism |
4/26/2002 |
Mike Magee, the self proclaimed "printer's imp" of 1746 goes on to babble in the british tongue about not revealing his sources and how often times he just makes them up. Well, not really. If you can stand a bit of incoherrent babble at the beginning (it must make sense to the brits ;) then feel free to read the rest at:
"Do people really want to show off their "thin and lights" if they're travelling on the London tube, given that the incidence of mobile phone thefts and muggings at knifepoint are at an all time high?"
I can only imagine that "thin and lights" refers to some lude british custom. ;)
http://www.theinquirer.net/26040210.htm
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IBM Stackable Drives |
4/25/2002 |
I thought IBM quit the Hard Drive biz?
"SAN JOSE, Calif. — Researchers at IBM Corp. are creating a prototype for a vast data-storage system built Lego-style with storage-array bricks that can be stacked into a cube-shaped server. Such systems would offer significant gains in data throughput and fault tolerance while significantly reducing the size, cost and power of today's data center storage systems, the company said."
They are also liquid cooled. So apparently IBM is now in the watercooling / lego business.
http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/OEG20020423S0091 |
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Site News |
4/24/2002 |
We've been pretty busy around here and haven't been as good with the news as we probably should have been. (That goes for articles as well). And the reasons are:
We're working on our first How To Guides.
Re-designing the site.
Re-configuring the server.
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