Looks like Abit's parent company, Universal Scientific Industrial (I love that name!), is shutting Abit's doors on December 31 due to a reorginazation of the company. At first they were just going to get out of the mobo business and focus on consumer electronics, but the decision was made to give the company the axe altogether.

If you've followed our advice, particularly mine, you already listen to Scott Sigler. When I was working on my Sigmas Episode helper post, I realized that I have forgotten one critical item.

This is not an April Fools post.

The other day I was installing a Java Update, and I found it a little strange to see this ad for the MSN Toolbar, with the option to install it.

Aren't Microsoft and Sun mortal enemies? Much like He-Man and Skelator, Gi-Joe and Cobra, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? What sort of alternate dimension am I in when these two team up?

On one of the earlier episodes of our terrific podcast, Art and I were talking about a wonderful time that’s coming up, the 12 days of Sigmas. What’s the 12 days of Sigmas you ask?

I ran into an issue where Windows Defender couldn't download updates, when I would try, I would receive the error:

"The Program can't download definition updates. Error Found 0x80240022"