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4.26.05

Black Box Will Help Microsoft Battle Crashes

NET reports that Microsoft will include ‘black box’ technology to assist the company in their efforts to improve platform stability. Microsoft wants a better log of what processes are running at the time of a meltdown but some consumers are already upset over what is perceived as un-necessary intrusions into their PCs. You can read more about the subject at CNET:
Microsoft to add 'black box' to Windows
Redmond will add the equivalent of a flight data recorder to PCs. Such detailed information could rankle privacy advocates. [CNET News.com]

Connect Your iPod Shuffle With the Greatest of Ease

MacMinute is featuring a new USB hub from Belkin that allows iPod Shuffle owners to connect their music player to the top of the hub. I use a USB extension to plug the iPod into an existing hub. Check out the details at MacMinute:
Belkin debuts USB 2.0 hub for iPod shuffle
Belkin today announced its new Hi-Speed USB 2.0 4-Port Hub, which features a top-loading port that lets you easily connect your iPod shuffle or other USB device... [MacMinute]

Steps to Ease Transition for Office X Users

If you are using Office X and will be upgrading from Panther to Tiger, you should visit Accelerate Your Mac for tips that can help you avoid being bit by either of these cats. Find out what you need to know by clicking on the following:
Tip for Office X users upgrading to Tiger/10.4 [AccelerateYourMac News Headlines]

Leo and The Boys are Back; Next Up, All Leo All the Time?

Leo Laporte and the old tech gang from the Screen Savers have released their second podcast and you can download the MP3 file at the links below. Listening to these guys talk tech is enjoyable and you almost feel like you’re eavesdropping on a party-line call, a voyeuristic pleasure no longer available and completely unfamiliar to an entire generations in today’s world of technology. I’m hoping Leo and friends take a cue from Martha Stewart and jump on the Sirius bandwagon; we could have all Leo, all the time!
ROTSS via BitTorrent
I’ve installed the BlogTorrent tracker to offer BitTorrent feeds of the ROTSS shows. You can download directly from http://leoville.tv/bt or subscribe to the RSS feed at http://www.leoville.tv/bt/rss.php (this will work with your podcast client). I’ll use that from now on to provide an additional access route to the show. I am also working with Michael Freedman at Coral to figure out what went wrong this morning. If you use do use a BitTorrent client (like Azureus) to download these files, please help your fellow fans out by leaving it open for a while after the download completes. Thanks!The Laporte Report]

Open Source Updates

Secunia announced the following open source systems are the subject of update or security bulletins: Red Hat (1, 2), Gentoo, Trustix, and Sun Solaris.

Multiple Platforms.com Tip of the Day: Helpful Web Sites Continued

The tip of the day is a link for snail mail and will help you calculate postage rates of any item you might ship through the United States Postal Service.

Multiple Platforms Word of the Day: CPU Cache

Wikipedia has the following explanation for CPU cache, “Small memories on or close to the CPU chip can be made faster than the much larger main memory. Most CPUs since the 1980s have used one or more caches, and modern general-purpose CPUs inside personal computers may have as many as half a dozen, each specialized to a different part of the problem of executing programs.”

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