Recent Comments:
TUAW Labs: VirtualBox {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 21st 2008 9:48AM Last time I tried VirtualBox (version 1.6), I couldn't get it to change resolution in Windows no matter what I did. Anyone know what I might have missed?
First Look: Mocha VNC Lite {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 21st 2008 9:45AM "I remember back when I used a Palm device to do this sort of thing and it was very kludgy, but this seems to work rather smoothly."
Yeah, except the "kludgy" Palm one (micro-VNC) a) works, b) is free for all features, and c) supports tunneling through SSH. Also supports tight compression and server-side-scaling to save bandwidth and speed things up.
Wake me when any iPhone client catches up... Especially on the security - VNC is all plaintext, all the time.
Wrath Beta patch notes: Warlock part I {WOW Insider}
Jul 19th 2008 7:05PM Yup, this absolutely kills off the 0/21/40 build (which I had converted to a few months ago). No more 5K shadowbolt crits from me. Raid-buffed I could get as high as 7k. Average DPS was 1100-1400.
And yet hunters still out-DPS me... Sigh...
Wrath of the Lich King maps {WOW Insider}
Jul 19th 2008 3:35AM I don't know, I think it fits quite well. If it was designed before patch 2.4, then Quel'Danas would not be shown. The extension on the Eastern Kingdoms is for Stormwind Harbor - something that I don't think had been announced when that map came out, but has since been revealed. As for that chunk of Silithus, good riddance - I don't *want* to see more silithid content...
Overall, not too unlikely. Of course, we can fairly easily confirm that now, right?
Apple rectifies App Store sorting {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 17th 2008 4:20PM Hopefully what they're doing is manually verifying the application names before approving them, and fixing blatantly misleading ones. Given that they only have a few hundred apps right now, I'm not surprised (but still quite pleased) that they managed to fix it quickly.
Had they waited until it was the equivalent of MacUpdate or VersionTracker...
iSuppli sez iPhone 3G is running Apple $53 less than original {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 2:47AM Yes, and R&D, developers, packaging, and oh - those "Source Unidentifiable" items are all free. As are the marketing folks, store personnel, etc...
There is a lot of so-called "overhead" in any product. The physical materials or parts are usually a tiny fraction of the overall cost of doing business.
Data Robotics announces second-gen Drobo with FireWire 800 {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2008 10:50AM On the one hand, I'm happy they've survived to make their second-gen product. On the other hand, I'm deeply, deeply disappointed the NAS functionality is not built-in (along with their nascent applications platform). I thought the market had spoken pretty loudly (via reviews and sales) that Drobo technology was great and what everyone wanted, but NOT when it means adding on a $200 NAS attachment to a $500 chassis.
Put a gigabit ethernet jack in it or GTFO...
Sonnet's Fusion F2 portable RAID solution hits 1TB {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2008 2:40AM Wait a second... to get performance like that you're talking RAID-0. In a portable enclosure. With high-speed disks... and no fans. Is this the ultimate reliability nightmare?
Vizio VP322 32-inch plasma eyes-on {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2008 7:23PM Wait a second... According to their specifications page the panel has a native resolution of 1024x720. It supports PC input... of up to 1366x768. And its supported resolutions are 1266x768, 1024x768, and 800x600. The only one that will actually *fit* is 800x600! If I could have even used it at native 1024x720 it would have made a great mini theater. As it stands... pass.
Blizzard Authenticator to be introduced at the Worldwide Invitational {WOW Insider}
Jun 26th 2008 3:55PM "Even the most conscientious of players has fallen prey to it."
Bullshit.
