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Archive for October 23, 2007
It’s coming: Bungie is getting the Halo 3 ban-hammer ready
Bungie has posted a message to all the Halo 3 online ne’er do-wells: they know who you are, and they’re coming for you.
Apple earns $904 million on sales of $6.22 billion
Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000. The Company sold 10,200,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 17 percent growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone sales were 1,119,000, bringing cumulative fis
Microsoft Blames Hollywood for Record Sales of Halo 3
“We thought we’d get some good sales, but nothing like this,” said Microsoft executive Bob Frederickson. “But with escalating ticket prices and the crappy movies Hollywood has been putting out. People are just hungry for entertainment.”
Top 5 Reasons why Leopard will be Apple’s tipping point
I believe that Leopard will mark the tipping point of Apple’s acceleration in the PC marketplace. Here are the top five reasons why.
MinWin: the New Windows Kernel
MinWin: the New Windows Kernel
One of Microsoft s main OS designers Eric Traut had a demo of the next version of the Windows Kernel. Traut ran a stripped-down version of Windows 7 called “MinWin” that included only the core kernel. For the first time Windows NT has been seen without even a GUI. It ran only a miniature web server that would display simple HTML pages including some pages that showed the task list and other properties of MinWin itself. Thirteen tasks were running smss.exe csrss.exe and svchost.exe were all there plus the mini web server httpsrv.exe. The OS ran under Virtual PC and this allowed Traut to show the audience exactly how many resources it was consuming: about 25MB on disk and 40MB of RAM. The OS booted up in about 20 seconds inside Virtual PC. This is remarkably small for Windows. Traut said that he would “still like to see it get smaller.”
Comcast Blocking extends past Torrents.
In the wake of several reports showing that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic with forged TCP reset packets, new evidence demonstrates that Comcast is targeting Gnutella and Lotus Notes, too. Wait… Lotus Notes?
The Whole Internet on One Page
It’s a map of the entire Internet. At the moment we’re displaying the owner of each IP address (grey boxes), and which IP addresses are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (red dots), but we should be able to show other things in the future. Yes, we map all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses onto a huge image and let you zoom into it and pan around.
BioWare’s Upcoming MMO Based in KOTOR Universe
By Alex Petraglia on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 10:00 AM EST - A source close to BioWare confirmed to us today that the studio
’s upcoming untitled massively-multiplayer online RPG will be centered around the Star Wars universe, specifically that of Knights of the Old Republic.
