Editorial: Not Everyone Understands the Patent Situation - OSNews.com "Patent transparency on a window, or patent a music player's UI, or patent a menu list that can hold different kind of objects? That's like patenting the fact that "1+1=2" and then you go out like a jerk and ask the poor guys to "pay up or come up with your own ideas and not copy that fact". How do you compete on a system that there is so much idiocy and lack of freedom on basic things?"

Wired News: New Spin on the Music Business: "Artists would first have to register their work with the copyright office, which would track how many times that work was downloaded. Revenue generated from taxes on things like Internet access and the sale of MP3 players would then be used to pay the artists."

Microsoft's Ballmer: US workforce should be paid less

Ars Technica: Nielsen Rating System points to possible deceit in RIAA sales figures great, now RIAA is not only a bunch of money hunter salesmen, but they also lie. Looks we have a trend, haven't we Mr. Bush?

TrustedReviews.: "but even the greatest fan of Serial ATA wouldn't claim that the new interface has any performance advantage, so you're paying extra for a slim cable, rather than a clunky old ribbon cable." <<-- that's good to know. I hope I can really trust them ;)

Slyck News - eDonkey/Overnet Rapidly Approaching FastTrack: "As FastTrack sits only 800,000 users ahead of the eDonkey2000/Overnet community, its days as the reigning king of file-sharing are certainly numbered. As the developers of eDoney2000/Overnet continue to refine and improve their network by introducing new technology, FastTrack has remained virtually unchanged since its inception."

New wave of secret file sharing breaks over Web - CD Freaks.com. First was Napster, RIAA killed it and something bigger was born afterwards. Now they want to kill eMule/KaZaA/etc and something even bigger will born. A big hurray for RIAA and their clever executives with clear ideas on how to stop piracy.

TrustedReviews: replacing pc "I would not spend the amount of money you have on a PC, but would rather spend in the region of £1000 and then save the rest for next year and get another £1000 PC then. Upgrading PCs is rapidly becoming something of the past, as with cost coming down all the time, upgrades are not quite worth it any more."

X-bit labs - Articles - Mega Roundup 2: Twenty Two Hard Disk Drives with 120GB Storage Capacity

80mm vs 120mm PSU fans. I am planning to buy a new PSU and I don't know whether to buy one with a single 80mm fan on back, one 120mm on bottom or dual 80mm fans (back&bottom).

Joi Ito's Web: EU planning to pass stupid software patent law without discussion

Neowin.net - Everyone get to upgrade to XP SP2 even cracked copies... Another reason internet is not like real world, or does anybody expect Ford to fix stolen cars for free?

Ars Technica: OWC Mercury 2.5" Firewire hard drive - Page 4 (3/2004)

Abit AN7 Review compared to NF7-S

Yahoo! News - CDs and DVDs Not So Immortal After All. That's why I moved to 'burn' hard disks. ;)

Mind the Gap: A Word of Difference (5/4/2004), detailed review of Microsoft Office 2003 and OpenOffice/StarOffice. He's a writer not a generic reviewer. I got bored while reading his review though ;)

Short article about online frauds

TheTechLounge - Beyond Megapixels - Part I, short article explaining that a 8 megapixels camara might be worse than another of 6 megapixels

Three Years of Snooze Digital Snapshots <-- that really is a good idea! :)

A Silent Solution, nice experience on making silent a normal computer, testing every piece of changed material.