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Archive for June, 2008


30
Jun

Dvorak’s metered bandwidth, and why he’s wrong (again)

Finally I’m getting around to posting a rebuttal of John C. Dvorak’s Eight Reasons Your Web Connection Should Be Metered. He claims the current all-you-can-eat model can’t continue much longer, and is stupid. I assume Dvorak is talking about measuring every bit and byte that is sent across your connection, when he talks about metering [...]


17
Jun

Spore creature creator - Spore demo program

Spore is making progress! The Creature Creator that was announced for June 17th (yeah, good timing with Firefox Download Day!), is now available! Check out the demo here!
The Creature Creator will be used to have people design different creatures, which will be used to populate the game universe for the full Spore game when it [...]


17
Jun

Firefox 3 download day starts at 10AM PDT

The Spread Firefox website has a forum post announcing the official start of the Firefox 3 download day as 10 a.m. PDT on June 17th. The local times are listed here.
This means I can’t start downloading Firefox 3.0 until 1PM… the tension is unbearable!


12
Jun

Firefox 3 scheduled for release on Tuesday June 17th

The Mozilla developer center announced yesterday that Firefox 3 is expected to release on Tuesday June 17th. It is accompanied by a large amount of compatible Add-Ons, and is expected to break a record of number of downloads in one day.


06
Jun

Top 5 articles for May 2008

(1) Kensington Bluetooth 2.0 under Windows Vista 64 bit
(5) Blackberry Desktop crashes when reading Outlook calendar
(3) Wow64: How to get the Progress Debugger to run in Vista 64 bit
(4) Setting up MXP to run under Linux
(2) My first visit to the Apple store

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