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The Nine Billion Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

The Nine Billion Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

May 17, 2020 | ,

There are monks in a Tibetan lamasery working patiently to list all nine billion possible names of God, according to a 1953 story by Arthur C. Clarke. By an extraordinary coincidence, there are nine billion Windows keyboard shortcuts. Good news! You already know some...

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MORE CHEAP COMPUTERS

Apr 27, 2001 |

Look, this is getting ridiculous. Costco has a few dozen E-Machines today with these specs: Celeron 633MHz processor, 64Mb RAM, 15 Gb HD, plus a DVD drive and the usual...

SATELLITE STORY, PART 5

Apr 26, 2001 |

My purchase order is in for Pegasus Express Plus service. The price has dropped a bit in the last two weeks. Startup costs are about $600 for hardware (including installation)...

CABLE INTERNET ACCESS

Apr 26, 2001 |

AT&T now owns most of the cable system in Sonoma County. They've amusingly named the cable division "AT&T Broadband," and cable Internet service has been rolled out to...

MICROSOFT & SMALL BUSINESSES

Apr 26, 2001 | ,

Microsoft has revamped its bCentral web site, a collection of services and resources for small businesses. One interesting example is the offer to design and host a web site from...

NEW ADOBE ACROBAT & QUICKTIME

Apr 24, 2001 | ,

I don't know whether these are compelling upgrades - haven't tried them, don't know about new features - but Adobe has released Acrobat Reader 5.0 and Apple finished work on...

WEB SITE OF THE DAY

Apr 23, 2001 |

You were probably thinking to yourself, gosh, I wonder where I can see stick figures fighting Jackie Chan-style? Aren't you glad I'm around to help? (Requires Flash and a bit of...

LINKS TO PUNDITS

Apr 23, 2001 |

A new addition to the Favorites page (under News / Links): Slate links, a collection of links to hundreds of political columnists, editorial pages, movie critics, book reviewers,...

GATEWAY PULLING OUT OF OFFICEMAX

Apr 23, 2001 |

Tough year! Gateway is struggling with slumping sales and a fuzzy business plan. It's closing a bunch of its own Gateway Country stores, and it just announced that it's going to...

MICROSOFT CORDLESS MOUSE

Apr 22, 2001 |

I should have expected that Microsoft would release its own cordless mouse, to counter the recent successful releases from Logitech. Here's an early review of the Microsoft...

CHEAP COMPUTERS

Apr 22, 2001 |

Prices are nosediving again. Want a cheap computer? There's only a few left, but how about an E-Machine E-Monster 1000 - a Pentium III 1GHz processor, 20Gb hard drive, 64Mb of...

DEATH TO MP3’s

Apr 12, 2001 | ,

A fascinating article in today's Wall Street Journal discusses some of the ways that software manufacturers are going to cooperate with the recording industry and attempt to kill...

SATELLITE STORY, PART 3

Apr 12, 2001 |

More about Pegasus Communications. Pegasus turns out to be a big company, but relatively new to the broadband world. In addition to their consumer service described below, they...

SATELLITE STORY, PART 2

Apr 11, 2001 |

Pegasus Communications gave me a call this morning. They're going to start taking orders in a couple of days, and promise to have equipment delivered and installation scheduled...