Perhaps they heard about someone wielding a cluebat

Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 05:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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EMI, Vivendi and BMG have recently started experimenting with the new fangled internets in a way to make money by selling customers what they want.  Drop by eCoustics to see what they are trying, and some good places to go to buy albums and songs.

Hard drive with serious theft deterrent built in

Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 02:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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In the old days, if we dropped a hard drive we didn't worry about us killing it ... we worried about it killing us ... kids these days and their 2.5" harddrives.

"What is 340MB, weighs 85lbs and cost almost $18,000 when it was new? Here's a few pictures from [H]

reader extraordinaire, JLangejans, to help you figure it out."

Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:

Smile at a Mac user

Subject: General Tech | August 2, 2006 - 12:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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On this day of the 286, CNet reports 26 Mac OS flaws have just been fixed, including remote code execution vulnerabilites.  Add to that the Macbook Pro issues [H] links to, and it's not a good day to be a Mac fanatic.

Stop laughing! It IS a real mouse

Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 04:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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In the search for a better mouse, many odd shapes and designs have been considered, in the hopes of banishing RSS and carpal back to the tennis courts and assembly lines, where they belong.  Extremetech will not give up until they find the newest mouse, in this case the "Zero Tension Mouse" which looks like ...
well ... umm....
Go look for yourself, I'm not going to say it.

Intel Announces NOR Flash Memory Products for Emerging Low-Cost Handset Segment

Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 02:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 1, 2006 —
Intel Corporation today introduced its first NOR flash memory products
aimed at the emerging low-cost cell phone segment. The new products
have a new pin sharing package to minimize pin count and are configured
to work with low-cost, single-chip baseband and RF solutions from
leading chipset suppliers.

A super way to re-encode your day

Subject: General Tech | August 1, 2006 - 12:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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To Linux users, ffmpeg is probably a program you have heard of, but not if you are a Windows user only.  That is all about to change, The Inquirer has spotted Super, a FOSS video converter able to change files from any one codec to another.  Check this out before you go nuts from re-encoding files 8 times before getting it in the format you want.

Previous Versions could save you, or catch you

Subject: General Tech | July 31, 2006 - 12:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Ars Technica looks at the new incarnation of Sahdow Copy that will likely ship with Vista.  Having 5 previous versions of files can be very handy, if you've mistakenly changed and saved a file, but it can also making getting rid of files difficult.  You will also have to be careful the backups don't bloat your hard drive to death.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X gets a little more real

Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Microsoft has partnered with Aero-News, a world wide real-time news service for aviation and aerospace.  Flight Sim X will be gorgeous already, but this partnership raises the possiblity of real time weather and other new and unique features.