Latest pet peeve department: I know many of you have heard me gripe about this problem. I have finally decided to begin my drive to ask Microsoft^® to remove a "feature" from all of its currently supported operating systems. Everyone knows that the time estimates for file copying in Microsoft Windows^® can only be counted on for one thing... that it is WRONG. Estimating that a copy of files will take 300,000+ minutes (yes I said minutes -- do the math) and it turns out that the copy takes less than 10 minutes is not only irritating -- IT IS USELESS. In addition to that, this USELESS "feature" uses system resources. As systems and disk drives have gotten faster and faster, this time estimate has gotten worse and worse and worse. If you would like to see this feature removed, let me know. I don't even want to suggest that they fix it, since it has been broken for SO long, I doubt it can be done without negative affects on the rest of the operating system.

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From Slashdot: "Here's the announcement that many have been waiting for all week. Yesterday, the ReplayTV and Rio product lines of now-defunct SonicBlue were auctioned off in a bankruptcy court. Despite earlier negotiations failing to result in a deal, the Japanese holding company D&M, makers of high-end Denon and Marantz stereo gear, bought the product lines for $36.2 million. The big question is what about all of the "lifetime subscriptions" that people bought? No answers as of yet, but we can all be hopeful."

Proving two things, 1) any site can be SLAMMED, this post from Slashdot seems to have led to the site mentioned here being overrun; 2) There are always a lot of sci-fi fans lurking about. Try it in a day or two, it sounds lik fun: "It looks like someone has very lovingly created something that sci-fi fans everywhere will likely want to see; if not out of curiosity, then at least to revitalize the burning, seething, grudges between fanatics of rival science-fiction universes. Starship Dimensions places images of various starships from science fiction settings such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, ID4, Macross/Robotech, Lexx, Freespace, and Battlestar Galactica side-by-side, in scale! The author has also conveniently included football fields, humans, King Kong, and buildings for comparison. You can even drag them around the page and stage your own interstellar battle royale."

From the Opera press release, dated 12Apr2003, Opera Software today released Opera 7.10 for Windows and Opera 7.10 for Linux Beta with features that are not only new to Opera, but also completely new to the world of browsing. Right from the beginning, users can see the two new buttons FastForward and Rewind in the toolbar, accelerating Opera users' Web navigation. Users can also speed up researching with the completely new Notes features or view photo files with SlideShow.'

Okay, so it's true. I have been trying to use OpenOffice for more and more of my office productivity needs. They have recently released v1.0.3 and it is pretty solid. I run it on both Linux and Windows and it is great to be able to have that flexibility on a cross platform application.

Okay, so it's true. I have been trying to use