AMD Athlon™ 64/FX Processor Utilities & Updates

Upon installing Company of Heroes, I was told to download the dual core optimizer on this page. The message didn’t give the link so I have to do some searching to find it.

PBS | I, Cringely . September 14, 2006 – Swimming With Sharks

But Blu-ray and HD-DVD are both deploying slowly and there’s a risk that they’ll destroy each other with market confusion, so then what? Then the iPod, that’s what. Apple can present to its studio buddies the idea that iPods are perfectly good movie containers. Remember the same H.264 movie plays on your iPod or your TV, meaning the iPod carries the same code, making it a viable HD-DVD or Blu-Ray equivalent. Why else would you need an 80-gig iPod?

The iPod as your movie container – not only for your iPod but also for your TV. That would be great for Apple’s continuing sales of iPods with increasingly larger hard drive space – giving users more of a reason to upgrade. It will be interesting how this will all be rolled out in terms of pricing and delivery of the movies to the iPod and to your TV.

Synchronize! Pro X Intro

Native on Intel Macs – Synchronize! Pro X runs natively on Intel Macs. Bootable backups can be made to both FireWire and USB 2.0 external hard drives. Intel Macs will boot from backups on either type of drive, while PPC Macs will not boot from USB drives.

This is great news since USB external drives and enclosures are a lot cheaper and easier to find. I’ve always had to look for FireWire drives to use as backup drives for my PowerPC Macs, but that’s not the case anymore with Intel Macs.

server reached –max-clients setting | SpamAssassin | users

Based off this thread, I’ve decided to round robin my Spamassassin children. I’m giving them a max connection setting of 20 so they’re killed before any one of the children starts eating up too much memory.

Slashdot | Mold-a-Rama Machines Still Alive and Kicking

Ah, this brings back childhood memories of the smell of Mold-a-Rama machines when I was a child in the Chicago area. It was always a treat to watch those machines work when I visited a zoo or a museum. I don’t believe they’re still working.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Spammers manipulate stock markets

I’ve noticed a lot of pump and dump spam over the past few months. I’m simply amazed people would speculate based on stock spam reccomendations.

Spamassassin with the fuzzy ocr and imageinfo plug-ins have been catching most of the image spam hitting our mailservers. Then I noticed a flood of image spam getting through over the past few days. I noticed the images changed a little as I opened them, and when I examined them more closely, I saw that they were animated gifs. Since the first frame was blank, the fuzzy ocr had nothing to read. Luckily, with the imageinfo plug-in, I can filter by a spam’s pixel ratios, and I’m starting to filter the animated gifs in that manner.

Apple – Get a Mac

The Mac Guy looks better groomed in the new ads.

Ars System Guide: August 2006 edition

The Core 2 Duo E6400 system that Apple should make into a Mac that would be between the iMac/mini and the Mac Pro. I think they could make this Mac without cannibalizing too much of the sales of the Mac Pro, and they could definitely get a lot more people to switch over – especially gamers who really don’t need the quad core, but who want a nice graphics card.