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“Extremetech”:http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1419529,00.asp. A comprehensive review that helps plans buys for this upcoming year AMD “X-bit Labs”:http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20031203151532.html has all the details on the Prescott launch including pricing. The net is the launch is February 2. Main points are that we can expect in 1H04 the new “Prescott” to be marketed as SSE3…

Four years ago, I bought two 15″ monitors for $1,000. Then, two years ago, we got a great LCD monitor for $900. Now, 19″ monitors that are very good can be had for $6-700. Amazing. Given I’m spending so much more time at home, it would be great to have…

OK, we’ve got a server running an old Pentium III 550MHz with 256MB of memory. It does have lots of disk though (2x120GB, 18MB system and 60GB backup with Promise Raid and removable drives). This is the only machine long term that won’t become a Shuttle box at some point…

Tom’s Hardware Guide Mass Storage: Affordable and Reliable 80 and 160 GB Hard Drives – Solidly Middle Class And Affordable. If you don’t have $150 to spend on a hard drive, Tom’s Hardware likes the Samsung 160GB drive. It performed OK and is much cheaper at “$116”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1224163/blsrt=1/ut=0ce6e8ac87113673 according to pricegrabber.…

Kazaa Lite K : Resources and Information. Kazaa Lite has gotten harder to find now that the folks behind Kazaa have been cracking down (how ironic that is!). In any case, these folks still seem to have a copy. “#KLChat”:http://kppdata.twizt3d.com/kl/index.htm. Some folks think this is the better non-spyware version of…

RareWares. A great place to get codec binaries. “Hydrogen Audio”:http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/. Seems like the best forums for those with digital music technology questions.

Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 – NTFSDOS. Another darn useful tool if you corrupt your Windows NT/2000/XP installation. Let’s you read an NTFS partition from plain old DOS. When used with the network boot floppy, it should get you home no problem.

Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks. Amazing someone is still maintaining this. Darn useful though if your machine doesn’t have a CD-ROM

Also know as how to get one big fat Windows partition into something manageable. I have a big partition and lots of data. So, how do you get to the right configuration and make everything boot correctly? * “Mandrake Linux”:http://mandrake.com. This Linux has a dynamic repartitioner for NTFS partitions. You…