Tuesday’s Twitterings

Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 7:49 pm
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All the news that's fit to rant aboutN ewslicious.

Finally, I know how to get where I’m going, thanks to the new Google Maps.

Friedleib F. Runge, father of paper chromatography, was born on this day in 1795. Science fiction author Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France, 1828.

  1. Watch out Intel and AMD. Forget the G5. IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled details yesterday of a new microprocessor that contains the equivalent of eight CPU cores around a central coordinating core based on PowerPC. The Cell processor, in development since 2001, starts at over 4 gigahertz, has nearly twice the transistors of the Pentium 4 and can deliver 10 times the performance. Look for it in the new Sony Playstation 3, TVs from Toshiba, and IBM high-end workstation computers coming later this year. Apparently there are several operating systems already running on the Cell in the labs, including Linux. With its PowerPC heritage, it shouldn’t be hard to port OS X to it – now that would be a killer product.
  2. The FCC released a list of web sites that send cell phone spam on Monday. The sites have 30 days to stop or face fines of $11,000 per violation.
  3. The Superbowl spurred the sales of 1.4 million TVs according to the TV Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, many of them high-end flat screens.
  4. Microsoft will release 13 patches for Windows XP today, including nine critical updates. Make sure to run Windows Update.
  5. But don’t believe an email claiming to be from Microsoft with an attached “security” program. It’s spyware from Romania, one of many scams circulating the net right now taking advantage of Microsoft’s announced “Windows Genuine Advantage” program. Microsoft says it never sends out updates via email.
  6. The record industry has hit a new low. They’re suing a dead woman. According to her daughter, the 83-year-old West Virginia woman hated computers. According to the RIAA, she traded 700 pop, rap, and rock songs online under the screen name smittenedkitten. The RIAA says they’ll drop the case.
  7. University of Calgary students will be learning how to create spam and spyware. The university already has a course on virus creation. Now why didn’t they teach that kind of stuff when I was in school. Oh, yeah. Because you can’t create spam with a slide rule.

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  1. Anonymous on February 8th, 2005 8:17 pm

    What doesn’t Google do now? They’re really on a roll. :coolsmile:

  2. Anonymous on February 8th, 2005 9:45 pm

    Wow! Never have been able to search Maps like that. Amazing

  3. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 12:02 am

    I wonder how many of those big-screen television sets will be returned now that the SuperBowl is history?

    :red:

    Ken
    Las Vegas, Nevada

    P.S. Leo, any info on EyeTV 200 for the Mac?????

  4. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 2:48 am

    Google maps is awesome! I spend hours on there playing with it! I am almost convinced not to buy Streets & Trips! As I always say to everyone I know “Google is your friend”.

  5. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 2:24 pm

    I tried google maps, and entered the same trip into yahoo. The google maps route was over twice as long as the yahoo route. So much for that. :long:

  6. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 7:01 pm

    Looks like Google forgot to include Safari in the lineup for Google Maps. They say there working on it but I’ll keep using yahoo until they fix it. At least it works with Safari. :-S

  7. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 8:19 pm

    Do you have the debug menu enabled? If you do, you can change it to IE 6 and it will fool the site you’re going to.
    In my post, I should have said, “What [i]hasn’t[/i] Google done?” I read over it after it was posted and realized it sounds pretty stupid.

  8. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 8:37 pm

    “The record industry… the case. ”

    This case has actualy already been dropped, the REALLY funny thing about this is that the woman in question never owned a computer nore had one in her home. Her daughter said she hated to ever touch one, and she was afraid of them. sounds like she needed to watch Leo on CFH. ;)
    .

  9. Anonymous on February 9th, 2005 8:40 pm

    “The University… create spam with a slide rule. ”

    Yes leo but you can CUT spam with a slide rule… and BTW, I thought you studied history in school anyways

  10. Anonymous on February 12th, 2005 5:40 am

    When I left Romania about 13 years ago, the most advanced piece of technology I could see anywhere was a typewriter with an audio casette slot that could record everything you typed and then play it back to you, basically retyping the whole document. No computers and not even CD’s yet. I am stunned sometimes when I hear about some of the spam and viruses coming out of Eastern Europe because I just can’t figure out who’s trainig these people?

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