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Archive for September, 2007


26
Sep

iTunes 7.4 not properly installed

Somewhere along the upgrade trail from 7.3 to 7.4.2, I started getting the annoying message “iTunes was not properly installed. If you wish to import or burn CDs, you need to reinstall iTunes” whenever I start iTunes. After following this advice, and restarting iTunes, I got the message “iTunes was not properly installed. If…” - [...]


25
Sep

The terrorists have won

Last Friday an MIT student was arrested for wearing a piece of homemade jewelry (for lack of a better term - it’s NOT a fake bomb) in an airport. The spokesman for the State Police was congratulating her for surviving the incident.
Wow.
Oh, I forgot to mention this happened at Logan Airport in Boston. You might [...]


18
Sep

Vista network performance while playing music

Yeah, I just got bit by that Vista “feature”… the one where your network slows down when you play music. That one, yeah.
I just added an index to our database, unfortunately from the client side. While I was chastising myself for doing it client-server instead of host-based, I was watching the number of records being [...]


12
Sep

IvanAnywhere: how a telecommuter is still in the office every day

The Record has an article describing how Ivan Bowman is spending his days working from home, but still being able to attend meetings, exchanges notes with other developers, and hang out in the kitchen or lounge over coffee and snacks with his co-workers.
He is able to do this 1,350 kilometers from the Waterloo office by [...]


12
Sep

Spore available as pre-order item from Amazon

This morning I received an email from Amazon, informing me that Spore is available for pre-order!

The price is $49.99, and the expected release date is March 31st, 2008. Hopefully this will bring an end to the long wait for this game.

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