Archives
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Vista RTM Installation Cannot Update Boot Configuration
If you get this error, I'll save you all the trouble I went through figuring out how to resolve this:
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WPF/E CTP Around the Corner
SWEEET!
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Zune Thinks I'm a Kid - No Explicit for Me
Everything was sailing along perfectly till I tried to download a comedy album that just happened to have an explicit label on it. If you sign up for a Zune account, do not use an old x-box Live account tag if you're x-box live subscription has expired. You might end up in customer support hell with customer support trying to figure out why marketplace thinks you are a kid.
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Zune Marketplace: First Impressions
Zune marketplace is sweet. Slight snag getting it up (had to restart the marketplace after signing up), but other than that, I'm impressed.
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Why the Zune is Better Than They Said
So, I was thinking about getting a Zune for myself today. I had shown the zune site to my girlfriend last night and she thought it was pretty neat. So, I call her and let her know I'm heading out to pick up my Zune and she tells me to get two, because that is what she wants for Christmas (mind you, I had previously offered to buy her an iPod for Christmas when she mentioned she needed an MP3 player, and she wasn't all that interested). I swing by her work for lunch and we go down to Best Buy, where we have to stand in line just to get a look at it (and they said there wasn't going to be any lines). We walk away happy customers with a Zune for each of us.
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Official Vista Download Date
"...we look forward to adding Windows Vista to our slate of offerings beginning November 17."
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Articulate: Hot Job Opening
Location Anywhere, USA
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Download Vista Tonight?
Subscriber downloads are going to go down shortly for a few hours of matinence. I wonder why... :)
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Vista RTM Today?
According to Mary Jo Foley The day has finally come: Windows Vista is going gold.
Foley mentions "the public announcement that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing is going to happen tomorrow, November 8, around 11 a.m. PST, sources close to the company are saying."
Once the RTM has been announced the build should appear on MSDN at the same time according to Microsoft's press release of yesterday. -
The Future of Search
Riya is at it again. Like.com is amazing. Google should have bought those guys... Note to Microsoft: snatch Riya before Google wises up.
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Adobe Confusion
As I pointed out earlier, Adobe has just donated their action script VM to Mozilla to be used in Firefox. This is really cool. For one, the VM is supposed to provide huge performance boosts. Secondly, it will ensure that your JS code works in both Firefox and Apollo to ease the migration path. However, I have to scratch my head and ask, "Why the hell didn't they donate it to WebKit/Safari?" After all, they are writing Apollo on top of WebKit, not the Mozilla's code. It is really quite amazing to me that they are investing so much in Mozilla when they are building their own platform on top of a completely different code base. Why not just build Apollo on top of Mozilla and reap the benefits of your Mozilla improvements?
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Mozilla + Adobe = Love
[1] http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/11/tamarin_project.cfm
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Sprint EV-DO
Right now, Sprint is offering a sweet deal. Free wireless PCMCIA cards (after $150 instant rebate and then a small mail in rebate). With unlimited access at $59 a month and a very high speed wireless network, it's worth checking out. Much better deal than Verizon, who doesn't give you a free card and charges something like $80-90 a month for "unlimited" access. Verizon's package is not really unlimited though, because you get like 5 GB of transfer before you are cut off according to the TOS and you aren't allowed to use the connection to do anything but download simple HTML pages (therefore, if you are doing more than their monthly transfer limit they immediately cut you off saying you must have been downloading music or some other activity that violates the TOS).
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Adobe Apollo: First Impressions
The first glimpse of Adobe Apollo has arrived: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 (via Mike Chambers http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/11/video_leveragin.html)