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SourceForge: Project Info – PopUp Killer. Probably the best opoup killer out there. It has been a little buggy but worth living through because it is smart about which popups to kill.

bn.com Music – Stankonia. This from Outkast

bn.com Music – Acoustic Soul. This from India.Arie

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Trying out this album from Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams at Lone Star Webstation: 2002 From a Newsweek piece, I’m tracking down some more interesting music from O’Brother Where Art Thou to Outkast rappers to india.arie for soul to Lucinda Williams for country. Wish me luck!

Metacritic. Ana interesting idea, Metacritic aggregates different site reviews into its own score across films, video, music and games

ExtremeTech File Server Benchmarks. Popular site for getting netbench and other file server benchmarks

DVD Review – The Fifth Element: Superbit. This dvdreview is a great review site and the Superbit edition of the Fifth Element looks like the new reference standard. Sign me up. I’m looking now on www.dvdpricesearch.com and www.half.com to get mine!

AddALL book search and price comparison. A quick note on the best way to find lost cost books. This seems like the best engine I’ve found so far.

Sharing an Internet Connection To use the command net use t: \somehost\someshare The client must be able to resolve, using standard NetBIOS name resolution techniques, \somehost into an IP address. This means that either \somehost is on the same subnet as the client, or that \somehost is resolveable from a WINS server, or that \somehost…

VPN Networking Over the Internet with DSL Connections Oftentimes, once a VPN connection is successfully made, there are problems browsing or addressing resources on the remote network using NetBIOS name resolution. One mechanism for debugging name resolution problems is to use IP address directly to skip the name resolution issue: for example, in the above…

VPN Networking Over the Internet with DSL Connections. Just changed to using a PPTP connection at work, but now network browsing doesn’t work. Added the WINS server name directly into the VPN connectoid and also the .ignitionpartners.com into the DNS browsing list, so net use \ignit2 for instance works, but still can’t browse Ignition machines.

Camcorderinfo.com – camcorder reviews, digital video, video production Looking for a digital camcorder. This spot seems to have the best reviews and most complete.

Google Time Bomb – Will Weblogs blow up the world’s favorite search engine? This is a great piece about how weblogs can affect what google is producing. Good to know. Also Corante seems like a great site for trensd like this.

Daypop – a current events/weblog/news search engine. This seems to be the most popular site for finding other weblog information.

PROVANTAGE.COM has Avery Afterburner. This seems like the best CD label and jewel case label kit.

cd covers search engine megasearch (psx audio pc vcd psx2 dvd dreamcast) Mega-Search.net the number 1 search engine for CD covers on the Internet. We have a database of more than 450 cover sites on the web allowing you to search through over 500,000 CD covers in one convenient search tool. This is how I’m…

Power Adapters – 2CoolTek. The folks at the other store failed me, so here is another place with 3 pin fan connectors.

Tom’s Hardware Guide Mainboard Guide: DDR333 For Athlon: VIA KT333 vs. KT266A – Conclusion: Many New Features With KT333, DDR333 Performs To Full Potential Only With CL2 – Fastest Chipset For AMD CPUs Asus A7V333, MSI KT3 Ultra, Gigabyte GA-7VRXP and the VIA reference board VT5615A are the ones to try for KT333

VIA KT333 Chipset is best. A total of 26 various benchmark tests clearly shows that the VIA KT333 chipset the best and most capable chipset for AMD CPUs. With only a few exceptions, not even the Nvidia nForce with its expensive dual-channel technology (DDR266) can put up a real fight against the newcomer KT333. With…

Amdmb.com – The #1 Source for AMD Reviews and Information. This looks like the place to figure out what the best Athlon hardware is.

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Athlon XP 2100 : AMD Turns Up The Heat – Conclusion: The Athlon XP 2100 Outclasses the Pentium 4/2200 The unveiling of the Athlon XP 2100 propels the Palomino core to its penultimate level – according to unofficial comments, AMD will present the Athlon XP 2200 in a matter of…

HDTV-Digital Television News ForumA great way to find out about HDTV

DBSForums Discussion Forums. On my list is to get a high definition satellite system. I can’t get HDTV over the air here nor does the cable system support it

Earthweb Hardware and Systems: Computers: Weekly Platform Trends: Intel Redesigns the Desktop Again The Tidewater platform is the big news in the form factor area, not only because it fills a market vacuum, but because it will reach the market soon: Intel estimates Tidewater reference designs will be made available in April, with systems in…

Earthweb Hardware and Systems: Peripherals: NEC MultiSync LCD1850E Review. A great review of an 18 inch LCD. I have a 17 inch and it is amazing. Never heard of Hardware Central, but seem slike a pretty good site.

AMD processor roadmap.. Trying to buy a new processor for Grace’s new machine is hard. This is a useful site that covers the AMD processor roadmap. Best news is that you can buy a 266 or a 333 motherboard and put the new processor in it since they all use Slot A. That is great!

Building a CD Server Now that I’ve got the basic server running, the next step is to make it a virtual Cd-ROM server. virtual cd is the one I’ve tried. There are a couple of others. I normally look at www.download.com and see who is doing the most downloads from the last week and then…

Google Directory – Games > Developers and Publishers > Online Games. Looking for online games for alex and calvin. Here is the Google directory. Compare with the Yahoo one.

Audiotron BBS. Audiotron is a great MP3 receiver. Just integrated into my living room hi-fi system and it is just great. Can see all my MP3s on our home server and the user interface is actually usable. Here is a discussion board for those who want to learn more. I got mine via www.buy.com for…