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Well, the used Apple eMac that I purchased last year November went kaput. The power supplied on it died. My wife and I were on vacation in California for 2 weeks and when we got back and I tried to power up the eMac I just heard a clicking sound from within the eMac case, it didn’t even power up the screen or hard drive.

Recently I have re-installed Metastock 10 stock charting program on one of my computers running Ubuntu linux. In case you are thinking “Metastock 10 does not run on Linux”, let me clarify…I am running the stock charting program in a VMWare image of Windows XP. The funny thing is a message comes up when I start Metastock that says something like “This program does not run in virtual machines” however, everything seems to work fine.

The Magellan Roadmate 1212 GPS was the first GPS Unit I ever owned. My wife and I went to Best Buy to pick it up, they had it on sale for $149.99 CAD. The goal with this first time car GPS unit purchase was to start with a basic one without all the bells and whistles.

This news is a few months old but here goes. The last time the Russians offered Apple clones was back in the days of the Soviet Union.

Despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs complaints, RUSSIANS have started churning out cloned Mac PCs.  Apple has failed to gain any ground in Russia because the operating system and hardware are just too expensive for everyday Russians to afford.  They don’t see the point of not eating for a year just to buy computer, when they have figured out how to clone them for 50% less or more.

The Apple eMac computer at home running Mac OS x Tiger 10.4.11 is one of computer in our household that is used extensively.  We use it to surf the internet (safely), peer to peer downloading, watch DVDs and online movies as well as listen to music.

To get rid off Microsoft Windows operating system / platform in my household, I bought a used Apple eMac computer about 5 months ago to get my feet wet in the world of Apple Mac OS X operating system, and to of course not have to
deal with any more viruses, spyware and all that crap associated with Microsoft Windows.

How much did I pay for the Apple eMac?

I had a really old pc sitting downstairs in the basement, and was thinking about chucking it in the garbage, but then I thought I could revive or breath new life into it somehow, and use it as strictly a downloading machine (Bit Torrent) and Secure (SSH) file server.

The old pc specification is as follows:

CPU / Processor: Intel 433Mhz
RAM / Memory: 320MB
Video: Onboard video
Hard Drive: 8GB
Network Card: 10Mbps (connected by wire to router)

The Confiker virus is an event that hits the technology / computer realm once in a few years, security experts are hurrying against time to minimize the impact of this malware which is ready to wreak havoc on a hard-coded date of April 1st or April fools day.

Malware / virus programmers love to target April Fool’s Day with their creation, and the latest worm, called Conficker C, could be one of the most destructive attacks we have seen in years.

Microsoft surprised investors by reporting its fiscal second-quarter earnings early — and the news was not good. The software giant posted an 11 percent drop in profits and said it will slash 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.

The company said deteriorating global economic conditions and lower revenue from PC software forced it to cut back. The company also said it is unable to provide any profit and revenue guidance for the rest of the year due to market volatility.

Recently there was an article that wrote about a computer virus / worm called “Conficker” or “Downadup” that has infected over 9 million computers and was spreading at an extremely fast rate of 1 million computers a day.

One thing to note is that this Confiker or Downadup virus / worm only infects Microsoft Windows computers, it targets the Windows service RPC Server.