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Don’t you just hate that?
So I went to see if I could start a download of Knoppix this morning and discovered that I was getting a whopping 1.9KB/second download speed on the CD image. Gee at that rate I’d be ready to burn the thing sometime next week! A quick switch of mirrors has me at a much better…

Another new toy
Not that I don’t still like Amphetadesk, but I felt the need to try something new. So I downloaded NewsDesk this morning and it works pretty well. I really like it! Yeah I have a slow day and I go home and look for new freeware to play with, isn’t that always the way? BTW,…
Amen!
I was reading an interesting article from InfoWorld this afternoon about the coming Office 12 version. I’m going to remain uneasy about backwards compatibility until I have the chance to see Office 12 in action, despite what others might say about it, but just seeing that other people are aware that most end users don’t…
Random Stuff…
Jeffrey Randow was kind enough to leave a comment pointing to a little bit of extra info on the firewall settings since the firewall in XP SP2 will be enabled by default. I’ll have to take a close look at the firewall before I deploy this thing out to the few machines that have XP…
Trillian Pro
Trillian has released Pro version 1.0. For a paltry $25 you get Trillian, but you also get added plugin capabilities, like an RSS aggregator, a POP3 mail-checker, a Winamp playlist builder, Stock checker, weather, etc. All of this right in your IM environment. It sounds pretty neat, I may just have to fork out the…