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Battle of the LED Lawyers

XBit Labs reports that Antec has recently received a patent for LED fans, and is telling its customers not to sell anybody else’s. This ought to make some lawyers’ day. It’s unclear whether Antec wants licensing money from all those

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Not Dead Yet

The Inquirer has this little tidbit. * A LITTLE BIRD chirrups that Montvale could be Intel’s codename for the merger of IA-64 and its not-yet-released iAMD64 processors. Sheesh kebab! Read the article. Intel’s goals are pretty much laid out there.

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A Chilling Idea?

On occasion, we have had articles on decidedly low-tech cooling solutions. Here’s another. This link describes an award-winning method for Nigerian farmers to keep fruits and vegetables refrigerated without a refrigerator. Basically, you use a small and a big clay

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Spyware

Over the couple weeks, I’ve had the (mis)fortune to have to deal with a number of machines used by people I know. Their owners were quite different, ranging from middle-aged porn magnets to well, a little girl who had her

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Help!!!

Ed Note: Eric had to repair a video card and needed help identifying a part; we posted his plea and our great readers rose to the task, as Eric writes below: “Just wanted to let you know that you can

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Canadian Court Case

The Canadian version of the RIAA, the CRIA, tried to get the names of a number of P2Pers so they could sue them. The judge denied the request. There has been a great deal of nonsense written about this case,