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Feeling Spyteful

Feeling Spyteful The Inquirer reports that more and more computers are being infected by more and more spyware and adware. Well, that’s all I’ve been doing lately, cleaning this &$@#* out of people’s machines. If you have a bunch of

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Francisco Franco Is Still Dead

A Missing Unwanted Person The Inquirer reports that it’s going to be rough getting LGA 775 chips, especially the fast ones. Maybe it’s because they can’t make fast Prescotts. Maybe it’s because they can’t make even slow ones that can

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The Intel Poll: Fat and Happy

About a month ago, we asked Intel users some questions. Here’s the answers we got: 1) Please list the type and default speed of the Intel processor you use (i.e. Celeron 566, PIII 866MHz, PIV Willamette 1.8, PIV Northwood 2.4C,

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An Overlooked Bargain?

The words “bargain” and “Microsoft Office” are usually allergic to each other. You may be aware that MS is offering a version called “Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003,” which includes Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint for as little

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His Name Is Sam, Not Santa

There’s a business league for computing manufacturers called the Semiconductor Industry Association, or SIA for short. They have a website, and their membership list is here. AMD and IBM and Intel are all members. Recently, they put out a press