If my frequent readers haven’t noticed yet, I’ve been making the titles of some of my “segments” about classic songs.  Last week, the Heat was on. (Beverly Hills Cop)  This week, the timeless rock anthem from Top Gun, The Danger Zone.  “What does Danger have to do with computers?” you might ask.  Well, there are [...]

The Race to 1GHz at room temperature with an x86 CPU is in the home stretch.  Intel and AMD are the only ones in the race, being Cyrix isn’t even making CPUs close to 1/2 GHz (500MHz.)  In the latest happenings, AMD actually has a 800MHz part on the shelf, while Intel has only announced [...]

I was going to write something useful about this, but I have no clue what I meant to write here last week, so I’m just going to talk about Bill Gates.  By the way, this was planned…yeah…that’s it…planned ::wink wink:: Is he jumping ship?  Is he sick and tired?  Is he getting back to his [...]

As predicted by many logical people, the world did not end on January 1st.  To many other cultures in the world, that date had no significance.  In most Asian counties, it wasn’t even a holiday.  What really gets to me now is noticing the amount of money we spent on Y2K compared to other countries.  [...]

It’s New Years Eve, and the year 2000 is just around the corner.  It’s 11:21 -0600 where I am, and both Japan and China have already turned over to the millennium.  Neither have reported any major problems.  Do I worry about Y2K.  Well, yes I do.  My worries, are vested in Russia, and how their [...]

With Christmas being only an eve away, I find myself recovering from a total bombardment of advertisement on the TV, radio, and internet.  It seems to me, that not only the number of commercials increased per TV show, but the number of junk e-mails in my Inbox also increased.  Not only that, but the number [...]

It’s about time Asus and ABIT decided to make motherboards support the AMD Athlon processor.  I believe, the reason they haven’t done so earlier is because of the pressure from everyone’s favorite Big Brother (besides M$), Intel.  Believe me, we’ll get to Intel later in this Episode.  Now, as I was saying, Asus, my favorite [...]

As y’all know (or at least you do now) I’m not much of a 3D Gaming person.  That’s why I’m not that much involved in Max3D aside from my usual administrative work. (hitting the “upload” button can be hard sometimes.)  But, for the first time, I’m going to dedicate all of this week’s Transistorized and [...]

This is the 10th episode in the series, so I’d just thought I’d mention I’m pretty excited about it. Hey now, hey now, Cyrix is Back! Cyrix is back, and I’m officially happy.  After VIA’s acquisition of Cyrix, from National Semiconductor, Cyrix is finally producing a new chip.  Want to know all about it?  Well, [...]

COMDEX ’99 – Everything new, everything expensive.  Some of you might have went there, but most of you probably didn’t.  If you did go, you probably noticed something similar to the playboy mansions in some areas.  Companies decided to use very attractive woman, in tight blouses and mini-skirts to attract of all of you nerds [...]