I'm happy to announce that power was restored to my house at about 9pm on Saturday. Yesterday was spent getting the computers all happy once again and preparing for the arrival (today) of the PowerMac G5. More news as it happens.

The race is on! Apple has just sent me an email indicating that they shipped my G5 on Friday for delivery on Monday. But, the real question is: will there by power when the PowerPC arrives?

A recent review of Apple's new G5 by PC Magazinegives the G5 4 out of 5 stars (although I can't find an explanation of why it wasn't 5). They liked the overall look, feel, and sound of the machine and after performing "real world" tests, claim that it is …

Virginia Tech has updated their Terascale Cluster site on their web pages with more information, links, and pictures.

Although the proposal is just in the early stages, an article from CNet reports that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is planning to start charging for the use of its character set and country code naming standards. People in the software and Internet industry are up in arms over …

Well, it's 4:40am, so I'm not sure what the damages are outside, but we've been without line power for about 6 hours and the batteries claim that I have about 6 hours to go -- hopefully they are right this time. So far, the reports on the power situation are …

A report in the New York Times indicates that the Senate and House have now jointly removed most of the funding for the TIA (Terrorist Information Awareness -- previously Total Information Awareness) program of the Department of Defense. Questions were raised when the program sprung up after 9/11 that an …

An article from CircleID alerts the internet to the kinds of information that Verisign is gathering from you each time you mistype a URL. They are using services and software from Omniture to collect data about your browser, screen size, etc. And, just so they are able to track you …

Earlier this week, CNN posted an article that finally focussed some national attention on the use of the USA Patriot Act by the government against "common criminals." The article contained a number of good examples of why such broad-reaching authority needs to be meted out in an even-handed way with …

Not the usual fare for this site, but I found interesting this article from the Washington Post about a meeting between President Bush and Bono (of the band U2). Bono used a good combination of praise for Bush's long commitment and concern over the issue of AIDS, but complained at …

A thread on ArsTechnica places the Dual 2.0GHz G5 in the number one spot of tested machines running Adobe PhotoShop with a combined score of 547. This beats out its nearest competitor, the Dual Xeon 3GHz with a score of 488 and an 3.2GHz (800Mhz bus) Pentium 4 …

They have seen Apple's PowerBooks and they are good. According to benchmarks from barefeats, the new PowerBooks are beating the old ones in performance, despite the removal of the Level 3 cache. I won't go into everything, but the new video chip (ATI Radeon 9600) makes a huge difference in …

Although we have yet to see an OS X worm appear in the wild, and the operating system itself is pretty well guarded by virtue of it not having many network services turned on by default, the risk to Macintosh users has just gone up. Making the rounds recently is …

SCO yesterday released their 10-Q (provided courtesy of Yahoo Finance), which provides investors with an understanding of their performance for the preceding three months and their official outlook on the future. Besides mentioning the $15.5M made from their SCOSource licensing program over the past two quarters and giving specifics …

According to an article from the New York Times, SBC (a regional Bell derivative serving mostly the western states) continues to hold out against subpoenas from the RIAA. With the Federal District Court in Washington expected to hear oral arguments today in Verizon's continuing effort to get the subpoenas struck …

An interesting article from Tech Central Station describes an interesting interpretation of Canadian copyright law that may well make it completely legal to copy CDs that you don't own and to swap music via the Internet. At issue is the 1998 revision of the Canadian Copyright Act which, according to …

Here's an extremely well written article on copyright in general and on the book, movie, and music industries in particular. The article was written by Orson Scott Card, award-winning author of Ender's Game and books for Rhino Times of Greensboro, NC. It is an excellent description of the issues surrounding …

An article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution contains a variety of quotes from musicians as diverse as the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, David Draiman of Disturbed, and rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy indicating that the efforts being made "on their behalf" by the RIAA are not being appreciated by …

An article from the New York Times is reporting that a recent study by AT&T shows that almost 80% of the 285 high-quality pirated copies of movies that have been found on the internet actually came from Hollywood insiders, and not the "little guy," as the MPAA and their …

According to a survey published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, reported by BBC News, girls in the developed countries surveyed (UK, US, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia) are more likely to go on to college than their male counterparts. More interesting is that girls are universally certain …