[05/17/2001]
Various
xlr8yourmac has various news on various topics as always, and also posted my report on Diablo 2 freezing if a slave drive with data corruption is present and has some reader reports on the problem. I fixed this in the mean time, see below for the whole story.

[05/17/2001]
E3 news
Shacknews has some of the latest news on events at E3 expo and also ha a short piece of an interview with a Korean Pro gamer. In fact these guys seem to have quite a scene over there, apart from flooding battle.net with their hoardes (especially in Diablo 2 Europe Realm), where they (some of the less mature ones) can get extremely on your nerves at times. Different countries, different habits.

[05/17/2001]
New rumors
the register notes that newest rumors indicate that Apple may be planning to sell rack mounted Mac OS X servers in the near future. Certainly not a bad idea, back in the 90's Apple also had made a few explicit server Macs, not just desktops with a little extra hard- and software.
MOSR has some related news on that.

[05/17/2001]
ATI Radeon 2, 3 details
the register has some leaked specs and info on ATI's upcoming video cards Radeon 2 (R200) and others. They are expected to come in time for Xmas this year.

[05/17/2001]
Apple retail stores: the full story
MacCentral and the register both have the full story on Apples new retail store plans (25 stores throughout the US to increase market share). Hopefully this is going to teach some of those dealers who barely know that "Mac" is not the name of the company.

[05/17/2001]
Mac cluster
Slashdot notes that some scientists have put together a 32 chip G4 cluster running Mac OS 9 for scientific purposes. Very nice specs, but more could be done, I'm sure:) (Hello Apple, hint, hint!)

[05/17/2001]
Gaming news
IMG has a lot of cool stuff on games and gaming and is also reporting on E3. Check it out.