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Continue reading →: Athlon 64 vs. pentium 4
Athlon 64 3200 Review — Forgotten CPU? – Amdmb.com. The Athlon 64 3200 basically is one fast machine. In this review, it was about 15% faster than a Pentium 3.2 GHz and 20% faster than an Athlon XP 3200+ in gaming. And, 25% faster than the Athlon XP 3200+ On…
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Continue reading →: Decoding Shuttle Product line
a little ludwig goes a long way: Rich’s PC buying guide. No problem helping you figure out the Shuttle product line. I agree, it is incredibly confusing what to buy. Turns out they encode most of the important information into the product name (like most geeks), so you can figure…
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Continue reading →: PC Buying Guide for Fall 2004
Well, it had to happen, folks are asking me what to buy for this fall season. Here are recommendations by category (assuming you are building up your own box). Here’s a summary: h4. For Power Users The Athlon 64 3200+ in a Shuttle SN85G4 barebones system with ATI Radeon 9600…
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Continue reading →: BIOS Optimization
Adrian’s Rojak Pot Bios Optimization Guide. I’ve never understood all the BIOS settings. Here’s a guide to the over 200 different things you can now tune in your PC. Wow.
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Continue reading →: San Diego Fire
October Fire Scripps Ranch San Diego, CA Photos. An incredible fire. Here are some images from Scripps Ranch that I found incredible given I’ve been so close to neighborhoods like this while visiting San Diego.
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Continue reading →: Amazon Ego-Surfing
Joi Ito’s Web: Ego-surfing on Amazon search inside the book. Joi Ito points out that you can now “ego-surf” on Amazon so you can see your name in books. They have indexed 120,000 books. So, I could resist. Here are searches for “Rich Tong”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=stripbooks&field-keywords=%22rich%20tong%22&search-type=ss&bq=1/102-7967833-8380932 at Amazon. Actually came up with…
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Continue reading →: Lake Arrowhead coverage
Joi Ito’s Web: Joseph Urbaszewski’s blog coverage Lake Arrowhead fire. BTW, a hat tip to Joi Ito for keeping track. There is also a scanner feed so you can hear fireman live. Wow.
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Continue reading →: Blogs are where the news live…
Joseph Urbaszewski’s Weblog. We were talking about this at “work”:http://ignitionpartners.com today. Ib et folks that the best place to find news about the California fires would be on blogs. Joesphe is proving me right. How much more interesting than CNN!
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Continue reading →: Haiku for Windows
_Hat tip for “Zagula”:http://zagula.com on this one_ In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They’re used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan: The…
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Continue reading →: Titanium Break-Away just a concept
Five components that caught Andrew’s attention. It’s sad that one of the top five things that caught Velonews interest is just a concept. I asked Johannes over at Ritchey Logic (a great guy btw, answers email very quickly and is approachable in the extreme) and here is what he said.…




