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Star Wars Prequels

When Did Star Wars Jump the Shark? 640

Posted by Zonk from the meesa-think-it-was-jar-jar dept.
stm2 writes "As a long time fan of the stories, I watched as Star Wars transformed from one of the better sci-fi stories told to 'Whedon is my master now.' An article at the TechRepublic blog explores the weakness of the sequel trilogy and states that the Midi-chlorians are the culprit. Was it the Midi-chlorians, Jar Jar Binks, the actors? When did Star Wars jump the shark?. A bonus question: Did George Lucas redeem himself in Episode III?"
Data Storage

Best Home Network NAS 802

Posted by CmdrTaco from the everyone-wants-one dept.
jammerjam writes "My WD 120GB drive got its MBR scrambled so it no longer mounts in my W*ndoze box (I can recover the data so I know that's intact). But now that's made me realize I need to implement my data backup plan. Scouring the Internet I can't find a reliable resource for home NAS solutions. For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it. My first choice from what I found starts at $1200...I've got $500. Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability."

Comment Re:what might be done? (Score 1) 390

by ez76 (#19186921) Attached to: What's the Matter with HDMI?
Not to mention, if you've got a disk array that can keep up with 10.2Gbps/seconds of uncompressed video write (or a CPU array that can compress such a stream on the fly), you're probably not sweating the cost of a legitimate copy of Casino Royale.

Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista 307

Posted by Zonk from the many-patches-makes-os-work dept.
Cheesy Balogna writes "Microsoft has just released seven advisories — all rated critical — with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista. 'There are patches for 7 different vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Excel and Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange are also urged to pay attention to one of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different flaws. A cumulative IE update addresses six potentially dangerous bugs. There are the six that apply to IE 7 on Windows Vista. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system hijack attacks.'"

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