TecH: Love is: building a PC for your BETTER Half

OK.. and wife out there, watch out! This may happen to YOU one day!!!

Jason Cross, a geek who works for Ziff-Davis (ExtremeTech) was able to

Get his Girlfriend to Build Her Own PC!

Picture of Said Girlfriend..
This is neat. This is great. And he says,

If you're hoping to find a list of pink PC components or information on how to bedazzle the crap out of a PC case, you might as well stop reading. My girlfriend of more than three years, Glenda, hates that stuff.

He goes on to explain:
She is, as I'm sure many significant others of people who read this site are, a self-professed computer geek. More than most, even.

• She doesn't need any help getting things done in Windows.
  
• She's not afraid to change a registry entry or two.
  
• She loves video games—PC or console—and wants some fairly beefy hardware.

The only problem is, she's not into hardware. She knows what all the important parts are, but she doesn't have an interest in PC components and certainly holds no romantic ideals about building her computer herself. Maybe you can relate?

I think:

• It's so so CUTE.
• It's so, so PRACTICAL.
• It's SUCH a great idea.
• It's time for him to take his girlfriend OFF the market, after three years...Can you say, MARRIAGE?? (Hint hint) [Glenda, he MUST care for you if he will let you do the work..Does he do the dishes too?]
  

IronY: Pirates angry at P2P sharing, loses money!

Over here at TorrentFreak

We're treated to the reflections of a Software pirate from the UK, reflecting on the early 90's when his business was booming:

...He started his life of piracy ... in the 1990’s working markets, (back of car... sales and pubs in the UK, selling counterfeit PC applications/games and console discs for a fraction of the retail price.
“The profit was amazing back then” he recalls “We were getting £25 ($48) for a couple of PSX games and £15 ($29) for a single CDR with the latest utilities on. We couldn’t make them fast enough.” Things were looking good for his little enterprise and before long he was clearing up to £1000 ($1,942) profit each week.

Eventually, This guy was...

very clear about why his rags to riches story has gone back to rags again. “File-sharing, P2P - call it what you like. When you asked a customer why he wasn’t buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was ‘BitTorrent this, LimeWire that’. Add that to the fact that huge numbers of PC users have burners and fast broadband and its obvious why I had to get out and earn a living another way. We had it good for a while but I don’t think those days are coming back.”

I thought this was really funny, and that's why I wanted to share this story (see the ORIGINAL for a FULL laugh...)

TecH: IE 7 Urgent BUG Report (hee hee)

OK. SO I am a FIREFOX phreak.
(go here) to be updated in future-- to learn how to get firefox and
STOP using Microsoft's IE 6 or (IE 7)...

Oh, and Microsoft LIED when they said in 2001, that windows 2000 was the preferred corporate solution and would be Supported till 2010.

They Lied because I can't RUN IE7, because I have windows 2000
They lied because they DIDN't provide FREE daylight savings time Fixes for the bug last week
They lied because EVERYTHING about IE has been a lie.

Am I angry? Nah...

the REG reports that a slimy exploit exists that will replace a local (on your pc) page, with one that says, please click to retry (originating from a foreign site)

Ah the wonders of IE7.

Bet you can't remove it from your pc, either!

TecH: Intel sez NO to VISTA till SP1

The Register Does it again!

I love the REG.

Vista on hold at ALL of Intel till service pack one (aka bug fix 1) is relaased.

Also the US Department of Transportation has forbidden VISTA for the next six months too

TecH: GoogleNet, GoogleTV, GooglePC = Google (Will) own EVERYTHING

Further update: 07-09-09: added android, Google-OS: see ###
(Updated 4-09) to update some stuff.. (see ***)


Wow a Technical Post. And a FORWARD looking Tech post at that!

Interesting note: Google has started buying and working on
getting its own network up

First: I have to credit my sources: Bob Cringely, former InfoWorld "gossip" page columnist and now innovative geek for PBS his bully Pulpit (see link)

Lets back up, and NOT start at the end.

Step one: Google back end (Google Data Center)

First Bob tells us that Google has developed a DataCenter-in-a-ShippingContainer(tm)
This is a 8ft wideX40foot longX8foot (8'X8'X40)Tractor trailer STUFFED with CPU's running linux.

*** This was sold or given to SUN, which now sells this commercially ***

OK. Now we have the Processing power Back end.
STEP 2
Next: Connect it:
Dark Fiber:
Dark fiber refers to fiber that has never been activated. This comes from the dot.com telcom boom in the mid 1990's, when MCI claimed they were making billions of dollars, but were lying through their teeth. At any rate, when a company installed fiber, they usually laid a (several) fiber cables, each with 18-50 strands of fiber in each cable), usually they were laid 3 cables, and perhaps ONE strand of fiber in each cable was activated for permanent service.
The other ends were terminated, tested, and then left dark (no data on it.)

So to review:
Google Data Center in a truck
Next, Google takes the truck, and brings one to NYC,SF,LA (and lots of other local places), and connects to the dark fiber in the TELCO Central Offices.

Thus: Google now has a Nationwide network of its own fiber, and servers CLOSE to the customers.

Next: We look at the application..., or should we do the client next?
OK: Application, then client!

Step 3:
Next Bob looks at an application
A Commercial Runs Through It
Here Cringely is at his best. He shows us how Google may wind up PERSONALIZING our TV commercials (and INTERACTiNG/transmitting both LOCAL and national commercials out of this data network! Wow!

Step 4: Customer buy-in.
This is explained by Bob HERE Before you jump read this... I feel that this "customer box, or "Google PC" will do the following:

I think that the "GOOGLE PC" will:
1. connect into your Phone line RJ11/RJ12 jack
2. Connect into your analog or Digital (HD) TV
3. Connect into your Existing or will create a new LAN in your house
4. Require a small ??$50-$75?? customer purchase/buy-in
5. offer VOIP as a side business
6. offer commercials PERSONALIZED to YOUR household on your TV both local and national

AND I think this becomes an opportunity to carry ALL of its traffic on its OWN network for MOST of the trip. Therefore, faster service guarantees, etc.

ADD this to the new
G-BUY Initiative that Greg Linden mentions, and you have a very viable version of WEB 2.0, which MOSTLY bypasses the public internet!

MarkB
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PS: ### (added 7-8-9)


Add to this Android: Google's Phone operating System, which (I feel) served as a test device for
their BRAND new announcment of a GOOGLE-Chrome OS (operating System)

It's been rumored for at least 2-3 months that several net-books will ship with Android as it's OS.
Now Google has officially made it clear. CHROME-OS (or whatever)

Will allow Google to use customers as a "BUY-in" or "opt-in" for other optional services, such as:

* Google served ads to your TV/Cable (served from your local telco Server in a truck (see above)
(This will also use Google's Dark Fiber purchases all over the country...)
*Google inserted (customized ads) to everything on your cable AND internet. (you did sign in, by putting GoogleOS on your PC, right??

and other such stuff (not even talking about the phone ad discussion.