January

Pentium 4 : A Coming Revolution

Jerry Pournelle

The Pentium 4 means another revolution is on the way. Meanwhile, for burning CD-ROMs, Jerry says that Adaptec/Roxio's CD Direct has finally gotten it right, and travellers may want to use it on Micro Solutions' Backpack device.

Disk Mapper, Visio, Books, And Games

Jerry Pournelle

Since DSL can't reach Chaos Manor, Jerry is ready to move from dial-up to T1. Also, here are some thoughts on Disk Mapper, Visio, books, movies, and games.

Chaos Manor's Annual Users' Choice Awards

Jerry Pournelle

It's time again for Chaos Manor's annual Users' Choice Awards. Jerry offers an assessment of what he's liked (Orchids) or didn't like (Onions) over the past year, along with some nominations from readers. In this installment, there are awards for works

Annual Orchid And Onion Awards, Continued

Jerry Pournelle

The annual Chaos Manor Users' Choice Awards continue, looking at laptops/portables, projectors, freeware, and the Orchid and Onion Parade. Plus, Jerry gets back to his recent tale of Why Things Died recently at Chaos Manor.

Domain Backup, Doing RAID

Jerry Pournelle

After tackling the challenge of backing up the Windows domain at Chaos Manor, Jerry looks into RAID via hardware, software, and redundant controllers for the domain.