Nov 19
Yes, its offical, Snow Leopard will arrive Q1 2009 according to this chart from Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard who spoke at LISA’08. I’m done.
Nov 03
My lord, its been a few months now since I had MobileMe, and I must say, it is really annoying. It honestly isn’t worth it in my opinion. There are many flaws I noticed for my Windows Vista PC.
To start off, the web site for MobileMe completely sucks. Every time I do anything, it says the server had an error or something, and I do not know if anything I did worked. I sent an email using the quick reply feature, and of course, it tells me that there was an error. I don’t know if the email was sent so I am left in the dark.
The so called push system for Outlook is horrible. I have my calendar synced with MobileMe and my mail, and contacts. So far, if I lose internet connectivity for a few min, theres an annoying pop up telling me that the connection failed. I know it failed, because I turned the computer on and the internet isn’t connected yet.
Also, I got a free 90 days of service because of the failures of Apple. However, the client for Vista doesn’t seem to realize that. I get a popup telling me that my service has expired, but the client in Control Panel tells me I have until December. Seems very off.
On my iPhone as well, I tried sending an email, and predictably, it didn’t work. The calendar syncing works very well, if you make the appointment from Outlook, otherwise, making an appointment from the website is excruciatingly painful. If you do something too fast, which I do since I’m an avid user of technology, it says there was an error. Then there’s a random 12 hour long appointment that comes from nowhere on my iPhone. That is pretty bad.
So let’s see, mail fails, push fails, my contacts actually works perfectly (besides the push/syncing problems), calendar fails, photos is a bit glitchy but is okay, and I have no use for an iDisk so I wouldn’t know too much. It’s just that, uploading my files takes too long so I just don’t.
Seems 2 out of the 6 main features seem to work. Conversely, 4 out of the 6 features don’t work. Thats 66% of MobileMe failing. Yet it costs $99.
I will continue to use it until my trial ends, and hope for a better experience.
Oct 28
Well here’s an interesting article about Windows 7 that was revealed today. There’s a new taskbar and stuff, and overall, it looks promising.
From the looks of it, everything will pretty much be the same, although there’s great updates to the UI. But would it be worth it to buy for an extravagant amount of money…probably not.
The article is MASSIVE so continue reading for the full thing
At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead. There have also been occasional screenshots of some of the new applets like Calculator and Paint. Now that the covers are finally off, the scale of the new OS becomes clear. The user interface has undergone the most radical overhaul and update since the introduction of Windows 95 thirteen years ago.
First, however, it’s important to note what Windows 7 isn’t. Windows 7 will not contain anything like the kind of far-reaching architectural modifications that Microsoft made with Windows Vista. Vista brought a new display layer and vastly improved security, but that came at a cost: a significant number of (badly-written) applications had difficulty running on Vista. Applications expecting to run with Administrator access were still widespread when Vista was released, and though many software vendors do a great job, there are still those that haven’t updated or fixed their software. Similarly, at its launch many hardware vendors did not have drivers that worked with the new sound or video subsystems, leaving many users frustrated.
Oct 27
My Digital Life has posted an interesting article on how to obtain Windows Vista SP2 via a registry hack. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend until it’s done. I believe Microsoft SHOULD WAIT TILL ALL THE BUGS ARE WORKED OUT until it releases something (in case you didn’t get it, I’m talking about the buggy release of Vista).
It looks fairly okay, but if you want to do it, I say just hit up this link
Oct 27
Fancy? Not really. It’s supposed to come out at around the same time as Windows 7 but I doubt it’ll concern us normal techy folk. What are we supposed to use it for? Run a server? Possibly play Crysis Warhead or Far Cry 2 with cloud resources, but I doubt it’ll be worth the money.
But really, come on Microsoft, fix Vista or something. Work on SP2 already…Which will lead into my next post.
Oct 26
In case you haven’t noticed, the last post was a long time ago. I’ve been real busy, so I need someone to update frequently. If you think you fit the bill, drop me an email at pranavrulz@hybridfire.net. Please, no spam.
Oct 16
This one’s actually good. I hate people that say “working hard or hardly working?”
Oct 01
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a machine like the one above. A webserver is simple and with Windows, even simpler.
My setup:
- Intel 2.4GHz Quad-Core Q6600
- 2×320GB Hardrives
- 30Mbps Download
- 5Mbps Upload
- 3GB Ram
Basic stuff (sort of, but it’ll probably work on less powerful computers). What do I have? WAMP.
WAMP is Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP, which are all open source softwares for webservers. I run them as a service along with using the computer full time as my personal PC. So far, I registered a domain name, set the CNAME host thingy as my ip address, and now no one knows my IP address from the address bar. Then I just put up a simple “Under Construction” page.
The result is perfect. Its like a real site but I am actually hosting everything.
There was a software package called vTiger that bundled all this together and made it really simple. Armed with a little bit of Apache knowledge, I made the server files an entire drive and just let it go from there.
Hope you have an easy experience like I did.
Sep 27
Well, you could, but it won’t be the best computer ever. And it definitly won’t look like the computer above, since that case is about $95 by itself.
But what can you get for less than $10? Essentially, you would go on eBay or something like that and hope for the best. I found 2 computers for about a dollar each and they aren’t that great.
Here the specs:
- 2.1 GHz Pentium 4
- 512MB RAM
- 40GB Hardrive
Not that great, but the thing to remember is, I’m paying 6 cents for it. It’s a good computer to be a server or run Linux on. I was thinking a webserver of some kind but maybe not. It could be a file server maybe for myself.
You could gift this computer to someone new to computers and it wouldn’t cost a lot. I was thinking of maybe giving it away to someone.
Or what you could do is just tear it apart and use it as parts. You could probably make a profit off the hardrive and possibly the processor.
More things can be done with it: You could start a cluster computing thing, you could start a small web host business, you just have to replace the hardrive. There are unlimited possibilities.
I might just do the whole server thing, it just sounds cool.
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