Computer News

It was one degree at my house this morning with 3 inches of snow on the ground.
As a former Michigander I ought to be able to deal with this.
But this is Central Virginia and I’m over it.

The [H]ardOCP boys are fawning over the ASRock Z87 KILLER FATAL1TY mobo.
I’m digging the color scheme too 😉

Speaking of [H]ardOCP. Steve over there is collecting old computer parts for the underprivileged:
“I know that a lot of upgrades took place over the holidays and that means there is going to be a lot of “old” PC parts lying around collecting dust. Since the parts you and I consider “old” are 100x better than what most people are using now, I figured this would be a great way to put those “old” parts to good use!”
Help him out if you can. Announcement here. Forum post here.

LibreOffice has been updated to version 4.2. Download.

Yes, I’ve ditched all the social media associated with this site. I wasn’t getting anything out of it.

Carrie Fisher makes a Big Bang. She tells us filming for Star Wars: Episode VII begins soon.

Microsoft has a PDF entitled Windows 8.1 Power User Guide for Business. IMHO, worth a download.

Backblaze has an interesting report on hard drive failure rates in their environment.

Apparently this years CES is over. I barely noticed it started.

As I opined nearly a year ago. Microsoft Security Essentials support for XP ends on April 8th too.

Seems that Microsoft finally got the message. We want our desktops and laptops to run like desktops and laptops (a REAL start menu???). Not like phones and tablets.
They ought to announce this on a Jet Airliner.

There are no critical updates scheduled for this months Patch Tuesday. Oracle is also gonna patch a bunch of stuff that day.

The guys over at MajorGeeks have some Geeked out T-shirts on sale.
I just Picked up the Geek Lightning Bolt (AC/DC-ish) shirt.
MajorGeeks Black T-Shirt Sale! Save 30% on all designs until 12/7.

NASA has sent MAVEN on it’s way to Mars. The mission is to “determine the role that loss of atmospheric gas to space played in changing the Martian climate through time. Where did the atmosphere – and the water – go?” I’m putting my money on the blame going to Marvin Martian.

System cleaners System Ninja and Bleachbit have been updated.

In Linux news, openSUSE 13.1 will be released tomorrow and a Canonical (Ubuntu) developer disses Linux Mint.

[H]ardOCP has a Battlefield 4 Video Card Performance and IQ Review. Good info from those folks as always.

Microsoft announced a new logo for Bing along with some supposed improvements to the search engine. [Read more…] about Bing

Microsoft really wants you to buy Windows 8. Like now:
“Since a security update will never become available for Windows XP to address these vulnerabilities, Windows XP will essentially have a “zero day” vulnerability forever.” Source
“Windows XP is 21 times more likely to be infected with malware than Windows 8.”
and
“Windows 7 is 6 times more likely to be infected with malware than Windows 8.”
and
“Protection against threats begins with modern software and hardware with the latest operating system.”
Source download infographic here.

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hehe….   HaHaHaHa… If Windows Were Houses (credit to a WW-TwiTV watcher) :rotfl:

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$410 motherboard anyone? No? Me either.

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Jobs the movie is getting absolutely pummeled on Rotten Tomatoes. My favorite quotes from critics.
“When a movie presents its subject as a messiah of intuitive design who insisted that corners never be cut and compromises never struck, it should at least attempt to emulate such exacting standards.” Susan Wloszczyna
“Two movies seem to be wrestling for control [here]. One is a poor man’s Social Network that depicts Jobs as a brilliant, antisocial jerk; the other is an embarrassing piece of hagiography that treats Jobs like a messiah.” Ben Sachs
“You either already know all this about Jobs – because you were a true believer in him as The One True Tech God – or you don’t because you don’t care.” Marshall Fine

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So I was going through some very old backups and came across this:
The final version of the first logo I made for this site June 06, 2002

 

Hope you all have a safe and happy weekend!