Sounds very useful actually, seeing as its perfectly legal!  "Tom’s Hardware has a review of the Bart PE Builder software utility takes Windows XP and shrinks the OS to your USB flash drive. Besides converting your mini-drive into an emergency boot disk, you can use the utility to load a Web browser, media burning software and more – to have handy anywhere you go. And by the way, it doesn’t violate the Windows XP EULA." From the article: "If your PC has a relatively new motherboard, its BIOS will already include the functions necessary to support USB-attached...

10 Whole years. I can’t believe it. Oh, by the way, i’m talking about the anniversary of the first Playstation – Yesterday was its 10th! It makes me feel a whole lot older, how did ten years pass by like that! I remember the release of the PS1 which was a revolution in the console gaming world. I’m not gonna lie, I never owned one – but so many of my friends and relatives did that I might’swell have. I never was much of a console guy (pc all the way) but the Playstation certainly had its place in the worlds advancing video games market, and for that I pay my...

I have no idea how long it’s already been up there, but today when I wanted to download an English copy of FireFox (I really hate the Dutch version) I noticed an interesting link beneath th "Download now button": "Try Firefox 1.5 Beta 1: Download Here". Apparently the first bèta of FF1.5 has gone public! Here’s what’s new: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Faster browser navigation. Drag and drop for browser tabs. Improvements to popup blocking. Clear Private Data feature. Answers.com added to search engine list. Descriptive error...

  Apple are releasing things left right and centre. They really have caught both the media – and the general publics attention with their range of MP3 players – starting with the 1st generation of iPods. Well today I got an email when I got home from Tibault, apologising that he couldn’t write any articles today but that I should write about this:  Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that EBay is in talks to buy the Luxembourg-based Skype, whose software allows Internet users to speak to each other for free. The acquisition would cost $2 billion to $3 billion, the paper said, citing people familiar with the talks. Skype has held discussions with other potential purchasers including News Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the Journal said. The talks with EBay are at a sensitive stage and may still collapse, the newspaper said. Interesting, I heard there had been discussions, but I didn’t know Microsoft had been one of the potential...

Shock horror: After almost 8 years, Slashdot’s HTML is finally getting an overhaul. For now the changes are almost entirely under the hood, as we migrate the current skin to CSS. Slashdot itself will migrate in the next few weeks, but for now, we’d appreciate it if people who understand CSS could take a look at Slashcode. If you use a browser that lets you select a stylesheet, you can take a look at that site with the Slashdot CSS Skin. Keep in mind that Slashcode doesn’t look exactly like Slashdot, so there will be some differences between that site, and the final version that...

I had my ipaq in the cradle, working fine. Pocketed it, took it out of my pocket upstairs and dang screens busted. Image: Thank God for my Warranty! Anyways called HP today and told them this would be the 5th time they would be taking in my iPaq, I wanted more then another repair which produced more problems. The technical guy transferred me over to some other department, the woman looked @ my case referenece I told her my problem she said she’d issue me with: New iPaq from their stock, and 3 months extended warrantly. I am so far happy with that, i hope that this doesn’t dissapoint....

Ok so i’m browsing around my daily emails and theres one with a strange title. To be specific: Beware the "poop walker" So I followed the link and yep, if you want to have a very amusing read thats where you’ll go. I don’t want to ruin the story so I’ll just link straight to it. Have fun! Poop Walker If you don’t find it funny don’t blame me!