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Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public

By UnnDunn, August 29, 2006

Windows Vista

Microsoft is making a free Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista Ultimate available for public download to the first 100,000 people.

No word on any limitations, but one would assume the Microsoft-standard 180-day timeout for prereleases of its OS is in effect.


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Old School Gaming Console on eBay

By SogniX, August 22, 2006

[Update]
Bidding is over, thank you. smile
[/Update]

Apparently it seems I’ve been sitting on something people actually want and I had no idea.
I hate promoting it here, especially since it’s already over the price I wanted for it. But I want to give more people the opportunity on bidding for it now that I know that it’s worth something to others.

It’s a Vectrex Game Console with 6 games (5 carts + 1 built-in) and 2 controllers . All overlays and manuals are included. I have some trouble getting carts to play past the game screen - which leads me to believe the cart port just needs a good cleaning or maybe some re-soldering inside. It’s from the 80’s so that can’t be too hard for the experienced do-it-yourself repairman. But the built-in game, Mine Sweep, plays just fine.

But be forewarned, as of this writing, it’s up at $74.75 with 16 hours and 30 minutes left or so.
There is no reserve.

Again, I’m not advertising this for my interest altho I’ll admit the money does help immensely since I haven’t been able to work much due to my surgery and recovery. I just had no idea that I was sitting on something that is worth something to others.

Good luck! smile


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Tera Patricks of Mac360.com dead at 46

By Nick, August 20, 2006

From the “:(” desk…

Tera Patricks, writer over at Mac360.com, is dead after a battle with Cancer. She was 46.

Our hearts and sympathies go out the Tera’s friends and family as they go through this rough time.


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Mac Pro vs Dell Precision: The REAL price comparison [UPDATED x2]

By Pilky, August 18, 2006

It is very apt that he calls his post "A Price Comparison" because that's all it is. It isn't correct and it isn't a direct comparison

On my morning rounds of the blogs I frequent I came across a rather interesting read by a Mr Paul Thurrott: Mac Pro vs. Dell Precision: A price comparison. Now of course, Apple has been touting that the Mac Pro is far cheaper than a comparable Dell, but Mr Thurrott has managed to prove otherwise by getting a Dell to be $1279 cheaper than an equivalent Mac Pro. Unfortunately for Mr Thurrott he misses some important components.

Now I have already emailed him about the problems I’m going to point out to you now, but as I only receive replies to half the emails I send to him pointing out errors and hardly any of these result in changes (I’ve not seen any changes to the factual errors I pointed out to him in his Leopard preview article on winsupersite.com) I’ve decided to post this to show where he slips up. First off, let’s look at the prices he finds:

Systems
Dell Precision Workstation 490 (32-bit) = $3,670
Apple Mac Pro = $4949
Dell price advantage = $1279

That seems to destroy Apple’s entire “cheaper than Dell” theory, or does it. It is very apt that he calls his post “A Price Comparison” because that’s all it is. It isn’t correct and it isn’t a direct comparison. While he says he has matched the same ram, video card and hard drive he hasn’t matched the same processors, so let’s spec out the correct Precision to compare to the Mac Pro:

Which…
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ARG I Hate WINDOWS XP!!!!

By Jay, August 15, 2006

Ok, so i have this sweet new gaming system. 256 MSI SLI ready vid card running on a fan-less ABIT mobo with 1 gig of ram some sweet blue LED fans a SAMSUNG DVD/CD burner wiht lightscribe and a normal CD drive for my doom 3 pleashure. Well then i put windows XP PRO on it becasue well its better than home. So this sweet system works well for a week or two then yesterday all heck broke loose. So that morning before leaving for work i shut down the computer properly. 8 hours later i get home and turn it on to see this message

A KEY SYSTEM FILE IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPTED.
THE WINDOWS SYSTEM FILE
C:/windows/system/system32/system.ini (or whatever the extension is)
IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPT
PLEASE REINSTALL WINDOWS

OMG i f-ing it. So i put in my win XP PRO disk and run the repair utility. No good. Then i try uninstall and reinstall. No Good. So Then i cry as i tell it to reformat all my hard drive. Well that finally worked but now i have to re-register windows (gags) and i have to get rid of the 30 gigs of HD space thats my old windows account s documents folder. BUT IT Won’t LET ME Access THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if anyone else s windows please comment. And please if you know a program that can delete the 30 gigs tell me.


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