The Downfall of TechTV

There was a time when if the preview channel was showing a week of TechTV I’d try to record as much of it as I could. When I’d visit my brother in South Dakota it was the only thing I’d want to watch on TV. I was one month away from buying digital cable so I could have this amazing network on my TV whenever I wanted it. Thats right, I was going to spend money to see this network. In fact, I bet I would have bought things shown on there and been swayed by the advertising that was wedged between the good bits. It was literally the only thing good on TV.
Then things broke down. Comcast bought TechTV and merged it with their G4 video gamming network. Overnight it went from being a network for geeks and technical people to a network for gamers and geek posers. Once again, the all knowing suits of Hollywood have taken what was once near perfect and castrated it. The golden goose has been killed. Read it from a man that went from a lowly intern to an associate producer, and then just another victim of the G4/TechTV layoff.

Dan Huard: Life as a TechTV/G4 Employee

How to Fix XP (without buying a Mac!)

Windozs XP
I found a few sites that will help out anyone that is having problems with Windows XP.

Answeres to a gob of problems that XP can have. You should bookmark this ASAP!
Repair XP

Here is a source for boot images for a load of systems. You can even learn how to make an XP boot floppy! You want to talk about handy? This will let you boot a machine that has lost it’s ability to boot into XP. Should save you having to reload the OS at least.
Bootdisk.com

Small Homes in the Future

I think that in the future more and more people will want to have homes like this. The size is right for a single person or a small family. Having a house with thousands of square feet may sound great on paper, until you think of how much it will cost to heat, cool, and maintain it. I have a dream of one day owning a small plot of land somewhat close to where I work and building one of these pre-fabricated buildings on it. No, not a mobil home, but something that could be thought of as a work of art.
fabzone

-John

An Affordable Mac?

Ok, when was the last time you saw ‘affordable’ and ‘Apple Macintosh’ in the same place? Yeah, I can’t remember either… If the rumors are true, then Apple will be offering:

  • G4 based 1.25 GHz slim line box
  • 256MB of RAM
  • USB 2.0
  • FireWire 400
  • 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet
  • 56K V.92 modem
  • AirPort Extreme support

Sounds like the perfect entry level Mac! I have a Mac compatable DVD burner in a Firewire enclosure so I’m all set.
Apple to offer a $500 Mac?

-John