X800-series ATI cards FINALLY get an AGP compatible card!

The Register (one of my favorite daily tech news sites) is reporting that an AGP versions of some of their top of the line GPU are now available. The X800XL uses a PCI-E to AGP bridge chip while the X850 XT is an AGP-native card.

I'll probably wait to see performance numbers of these cards before making any decision on whether it will be worth upgrading from my Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9700 Pro (which still performs more than admirably). Besides I'm curious about how these cards will stack up against the Nvidia 6600GT AGP.

Google Maps

Google Maps is a new feature from Google that's in beta testing. It's insanely awesome. I know this is old news by now. But, it's an excuse for me to update this blog.

G4 PowerBook speed bumps and Bluetooth update

The Register reports that Apple has updated its G4 Powerbook line of notebooks. A nice change from previous base system configs is the base RAM included, 512MB. It's about friggin' time! While 256MB might be serviceable, 512MB of RAM makes the system useable for heavy users.

Nooooo!

The GR Boards are down!

Plugging myself, sort of...

InfoWorld: HyperIP boosts data-replication efficiency is a review of the new product that the company I work for has been putting out into the wild. Review is very favorable. Hey, if you can see your way to buying a few pair, please do.

Merry Merry and Happy Happy!

Not much new here. Just watching the clock until 5pm CST6CDT rolls around. Then, I'm off until after the new year!

Please note that I have added a new link for my site. You can now peruse what's currently in my CD library. Sort of (I'll explain that in a bit).

I'm using a program called Music Collector from Collectorz.com. It's probably the best software of this sort that I've come across thus far. I paid money for it so I could get access to the HTML export feature.

The other feature that helped clinched it for me was Gracenote/CDDB support. FreeDB is not a bad alternative. My ripper of choice, audiograbber, uses it. But, I've found the entries on Gracenote to be a bit more ... reliable. Plus, I usually don't have the problem of finding multiple entries in CDDB like I do occasionally in FreeDB.

So, anyway, you can see what I've at least loaded into the software version of my library. The physical library is hovering somewhere near the 1000 range. You'll notice the online catalog is only in the 200 title realm. Sooner or later, I'll get them all in there. And then you can see how much money I've wasted on music.

Welcome home, again!

Well, if you're reading this post you will notice that it's been over one month since my last update and that it now resides at a new home, jskang.org.

After my wife had problems with her e-mail forwarding service through her provider, she suggested that maybe it was time to get that server for home.

So, here it is... sort of. It's not fully here yet. In fact, you may see my blog in particular get moved elsewhere on this server. Not sure yet. I'll need the wife's input on that.

Anyway, other than that, it's just been work and my daughter. Oh, and I just brewed my first batch of homebrew, a nut brown ale. Here's hoping it turns out OK!

This is some serious bidness...

SCROTAL SAFETY COMMISSION.

Know your facts about this horrendous condition known as "Testicular Torsion".

Will someone PLEASE think about the children?!?

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DS is on the way!

IGN.com's article on the Nintendo DS launch.

New ATI Catalyst UI look

Thanks to AnandTech for this news that ATI has changed their Catalyst driver control panel. It is now based on .NET as the backbone.

I guess it's time for another Catalyst update for me!

GmailFS for file storage that's out there on the Internet.

GmailFS allows you to access your GMail storage space as if it were another network mounted filesystem. Linux-only as far as I can tell. Nonetheless, that's pretty neat that someone's gone ahead and done this.

"Fable" Reviw

IGN.com has posted a review of the hotly anticipated RPG for Xbox. I can't wait to get this game!

Sexy paper!

Origami Underground is a site featuring origami with a more "adult" theme. Everthing is available on the Internet!

joetron2030

joetron2030 is my LiveJournal thingy. Although I can't blame anyone but myself for getting roped into this, I'll blame the almighty "sugarrooster" for enticing me with stuff about Alton Brown updates and whatnot.

Eh. Just add it to that pile of other stuff I shouldn't be playing with because I've got a bazillion other things that HAVE to be done instead.

Preview of "Fight Club" the video game for Xbox

GameSpy has a preview of the upcoming game based on the movie "Fight Club".

The mother of all CPU codename cheatsheets!

AnandTech has an updated cheatsheet of AMD and Intel CPU codenames to actual chips. Handy as all getout!

Cheaper P4s on the way.

The Register reports that Intel has cut prices on a pile of P4s. With the release of Doom3, the impending release of Half-Life 2, and having seen in performance tests that with the latest top of the line graphics cards that the CPU is now becoming the bottleneck, don't you deserve a CPU upgrade?

Cheap HDD!

CompUSA has a 160GB Seagate HDD (7200 RPM, 8 MB, ATA/100) for $60 after rebates. Yeah, I know. Rebates suck. But, it's still $60!!! $60!!!

New game mirrors US political race

The Political Machine is a new PC game that allows you to act as the campaign manager for the office of President of the United States! No demo available yet.

Yup, you'll need to fix that...

A list of programs that may get broken by the Windows XP SP2 upgrade.

You knew it had to happen!