Josh Baugher writes " A 100 megabit ethernet card with a TCP/IP stack built in. They claim to be able to do 9 megabytes/second with only 2% CPU load (compared to 4.5 megabytes/second at 98% receiving CPU load using Windows NT TCP/IP ( read about this on "geeks" mailing list.) "

triple6 asks: "So, whatever happened to the PulseBox, that cool outboard multi-LED gizmo with the PIC processor inside?!" I'm always interested in devices with lots of flashing lights. Any news about this would make me happy!

Stephan writes "MSI recently introduced an adapter for using two normal Celerons in dual PII boards without any tricks. You can even increase fsb speed!"

wtpooh writes "Some researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that writing on PDAs like the PalmPilot can cause a special kind of paralysis, as your mind has to adjust to a new kind of writing. Check out the story "

aqua writes "Just noticed that ftp.cdrom.com, renowned for being the single biggest/fastest FTP server in history, yesterday quietly received its first hardware upgrade in two years -- the old machine was a single PPro200 / 2GB RAM; it's now a Xeon500 / 4GB. Software and disk stayed the same. Nice to see such a venerated old server get some more ponies under its hood. For the first time it also includes a credit for where they buy their hardware. The message is here. " The good news is that the max. user limit is 5000 now - I hope they have the bandwidth for it. And phil thinks he sends out a lot of data.

Ryan Jester needs assistance with the following problem: "I went out and bought a 13gb drive and now I'm kicking myself. My drive configuration is: Win 98 in the primary and NT in the first logical. And yes, I'm putting Linux before the 1024th cyl. Seems when I try and install Linux and get to the Disk Druid part I can't see any of my logical partitions in my extended partition..." There's more. Click below to read on.

An anonymous coward writes "A team at NYU has developed a new text entry system for the palmpilot. It is much different than graffiti, and takes a little getting used to, but it is much much faster than graffiti. You can download it and play with a java demo here It seems pretty cool. "

webslacker sent us linkage to a place selling translucent PC cases for those of you who are seeking something different, or are jealous of the iMac. These actually look pretty excellent.

Xunker writes "Are so such a geek that your wrists are threatening to leave you for a better job? Well, for all those that are forced to deal with RSI, this could be what you need. The techie throne we all dream of. "

Rene Pawlitzek writes " This is great news for all Linux and OS/2 lovers. Finally, after many years of pre-installed (and useless) Windows we will be able to buy laptops without any Microsoft operating system. Did the Windows refund day pay off? "

Erbo writes "No, that's not a misprint--Hewlett-Packard is now giving its most powerful hardware away. But there's a catch, of course...they'll be wanting "a piece of the action" in return. Could this be the next step after the "free PC" business model? Will it carry HP by leaps and bounds into the 21st century? ZDnet has the details. "

Brian the Wise writes "Just got email confirmation from NVidia that the new Riva TNT2 will have full X and 3D support under Linux. They should be announcing it on their web site in about 2 weeks time. All we need now are our Quake3 for Linux CDs."

softwaregadgets writes "I use a leatherman for most of my hardware work today (less then optimal!), but its going in the bin this summer to leave space in my pocket for this one." I love my leatherman too, but crikey! That thing is just crazy looking.

fluffhead wrote in to send us an article over at tech about Clip on Monitors. The real nifty thing is that this one allows you to see through it so you can super impose digital stuff over real life. Yum.

jesus writes "The crazy kiddies over at Linux Mandrake have started the Lothar Project . The goal is to make hardware detection and configuration easy. The code is in CVS and they need all sorts of different people and furry animals, so take a gander at the page, look at the pretty screenshots, and contribute to world domination. "

Darkfell writes "Check out todays HardOCP. An article was posted by a guy who cooled a dual PIII down to -59.7C. Very nice setup." This is worth a read- quite detailed for you do-it-yourselfers willing to risk destroying your computer.

ckotso writes "There's this guy who has created a hi-fi-like MP3 player using an old PC case, an LCD screen+a few keys attached to the case, a P100 and a small HD booting linux. MP3s are read from a cd-rom, which means 12 hours of continous music at home. I guess it still needs work, but it seems quite good already. Now I know what to do with that old spare midi tower."

gopher writes " IMBDEV has just started shipping a customizable MP3 decoder board that can use either your computers serial or parallel port. It also comes with complete source code and prototyping space so that it can be customized." I'm not quite sure what to make of this.

Nomikos writes " 12" LCD screen giving a 3D view - no glasses needed. "Designs created, float between the screen and the user." They don't give any specs, only mention a head/body tracker (clip-on emitter, screen receiver) which makes it only a tiny bit plausible IMO.
Anyone know of a technology which'd make this possible? "

Unknwn writes "Microsoft announced today their new optical mouse, the Intellimouse Explorer. For some reason, they think that optical mice or something new. I have some Sun 3s and Sun 4s lying around which make that a joke... =) " I happen to have an optical mouse at my feet right now. Looks nice, but is it worth $75? I have had the worst luck with MS peripherals (they were gifts!), but I have friends who swear by them...Update: 04/20 03:16 by J : A "concerned" reader wrote us to say that the mouse will not require a special pad like the older opitcal mice. He also said he had a chance to play with it, and that it was quite nice. Anyone else care to share?