If you haven’t heard the story - “Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the most important root domain name servers in the United States yesterday, in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.”. Here is the graph of the traffic levels on the DNS servers.
Over 150 screenshots documenting how apple.com has changed from 1996 to the present.
With the launch of the PS3 and Wii just now over 3 months behind us, this guy takes a look back at those launches along with the launch of the 360 and works out a set of new rules for the next major console launch in 2009 or 2010. “#1. Thou shall not force us to kill for your system, thou shall have at least 600,000 units at launch….”
Google’s sprawling, cheerfully dystopian campus at Mountain View may intimidate the first-time visitor. But there’s no need to fear. Enjoy our annotated map of 25 sights to take in across the entire Google campus before you die, and/or are killed by Google’s very understanding but nevertheless lethal security forces.
Title says it all.
Version 0.74 of Joost is available to download for beta testers. Improvements include: better coping with certain
local configurations, better fonts, interface tweaks, added channel numbers in the EPG that are selectable from the keyboard & enabled dual monitor support. If you want a beta invite leave a comment on the blog & I’ll see what I can do
Amazon and TiVo just made me wet my pants with what could be a killer app in the digital video distribution arms race: TiVo Series 3 and 2 set top boxes will be living room conduits for Amazon’s Unbox IP video on demand service. This is the first single box solution that intermingles downloadable broadband video and traditional TV in one place.
Run Windows XP apps on Ubuntu without having and have them appear on your normal Gnome or KDE desktop. The tutorial starts with uses KQemu (now Open Source as of today) but the latter section on coherence can easily be adapted to VMWare Player or Xen.
A conspiracy theory on how Microsoft and Apple continue to sling pot shots at each other in an attempt to tip the industry scales.
“Are NVIDIA’s Vista drivers ready for prime time? A vocal group of gamers doesn’t think so, going so far as to launch a web site devoted to the possibility of initiating a class-action lawsuit against NVIDIA.”
Getting real, the book by 37signals is now available online for free. 97 Essays on building a Web 2.0 startup from the creators of Ruby on Rails.
“.. specifically noting that the Xbox 360 version will support 1080p resolution, a first for the console, as well as a Xbox Live spectator mode. Online support will be specific to the Xbox 360, while the PlayStation 3 version will include added support for the PS3 controller’s tilt functionality in lieu of being able to play online.”
