For entertainment porpoises, ONLY! Use grain of salt where applicable.

APRIL FOOLS! *LOL* No, apparently not.

Is this the HP CEO that brought us the entertainment of HP spying on their board members and/or sharehaolders?

PROUD Windows 7 User...and HAPPY too. ( I may be a n00b HERE but I'm not a n00b... ) Thank you DriverPacks.net, you guys have saved me HUNDREDS of times already.

Here's some OS X info for the fine-of-palate.  Since the American juggernaut is flush with more cash than some first-world countries, they will continue to have an indirect influence on the PC market.
  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/client-d … htm?pgno=1

(AutoDesk's AutoCAD WS is available for iPad)

Next gen iStuff devices may include built-in projection.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/11 … ay_patent/

Someday,  someone (hopefully MicroSoft) will realize that with ARM's being installed in MacBooks, iWhatevers, & soon iMacs, could open up the possibility that a special version of Win 8 will be compiled for Apple ARM silicon (A5, etc). (making perhaps 8 or so versions of 8 for ARM!)

Here is an expose of OS X Lion's new security features.  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security … htm?pgno=1
Enterprises are not yet amused, though.  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08 … rity_risk/ (i'm sorry, the iCloud ate my homework!)
Alas, Cupertino; it would seem possible that Auto-OS-Updates may come back to take a bite out of Apple.

Apple & MicroSoft bitch-slapped Google in their patent war recently.  http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/channel- … s-week.htm

NEC/Renesas has restored their Japanese Naka fabrication plant.  That should be good news for fans of USB 3.0, not good for ThunderBolt fans though.  http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news … --Naka-fab (You call THAT a clean-room?)  Renesas itself, is a result of a merger between Hitachi & Mitsubishi in 2003.

Beware of vendors selling 'cheap' SSD's!  http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the- … s-compared
If only they could incorporate linux's BADRAM capabilities.  I'll be sticking with a redundant array of inexpensive disks, for the forseeable future.  There are tools out there to 'repair' FLASH controllers (including USB sticks) that have 'Electronic Demetia'.  I'm looking forward to using one of these tools in a quest to take two 4GB USB sticks and making one 8GB drive that is TWICE AS FAST.  Of course this would mean that it could fail twice as fast.

Has anyone seen the Futurama episode "Attack of the Killer App"?  "Why do they call it an eyePhone?  OUCH!"  I love the part about Leela's boil (named Susan!)

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Creative Labs has been on that no-buy list for quite some time now.
Last card I owned was some SB 16 back in the 90s.
Then came AC-97, which was good enough for my purposes and now with HDA you can even output on a PA without having any of the visitors notice the sound't not coming from CD (plus, with a mis-configured setup, as found in many places, you can have it sound so much worse you won't notice any difference anyhow).

Oh, coming to think, I still have that SB Live! (that was given to me) in my system simply because the MB lacked any gameport (and there's simply nothing better than MSFT's Sidewinder Pro!)...
Too bad it won't work with Win 7 x64 (it does on 7 x86 thanks to another efford of Daniel!).
Have never used the card to output any sound though
Too bad, some 13 € cheapo card's (which I bought for this purpose only) GamePort was of such bad quality that the joystick was jittering around so much games felt as if you played them with Parkinson...

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Auzentech is on the 'list', too?  Five Months for an RMA?  Amazing.  Good thing he didn't communicate using 'snail mail'.  http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/151554- … h-warning/

On another note; America's current financial crisis was predicted in the 1978 movie, "Americathon".  https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … mericathon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV5ay-df … re=related

Tired of hearing about Greece's financial woes; America's is worse.  http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/19/opini … ?hpt=hp_t2

The decision to send White Collar FBI agents after AlQuida may have exacerbated the current series of crises.  Now no FBI agents are persuing the worst White-Collar criminals.  http://www.financialsense.com/financial … dit-crisis

If only they could afford to secure the systems of unmanned drones.  http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/10/tech/ … index.html
Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife (the late actor: Don Knotts on The Andy Griffith Show) was only allowed one bullet for his gun; 'Deputy Drones'... only a matter of time. (or else 'SkyNet' has it's first 'Terminator')

Maybe it's not too late to curl up with a "Good Book" & learn to fear not.

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... and still continue for the online Sony users http://www.h-online.com/security/news/i … 59709.html
[s]At least users will be content knowing they can always install linux and use online services they themselves chose.[/s] $%^# <expletive deleted> just imagine.

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The speculation is over; your Android, Crackberry, or Nokia phone is spying on you, for quality purposes purportedly!

Caveat Emptor indeed!

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