This is what is wrong with the number crunchers running everything. Let\’s gather more information, so that we can sell it to other people, \”absent-mindly\”, forgetting that they are hurting people in the process…. Ars technica is reporting on the ruling from the FTC about the software shenanigans of Kmart and Sears. The marketing geniuses […]
The simple fact is that large set of data can be used to ascertain certain things. For example, using NetFlix\’s data set, the most popular movies among men over 40. But consider when that data set becomes huge… How many restrictions would be needed to find an entry that is yours? Even if it\’s made […]
Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an ‘attack’ on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!! Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue […]
With every release, John Siracusa dives in and gives us an in-depth technical review of Mac OS X…. And this time, with Snow Leopard, Ars Technica & John show us again, why they are a well respected site on the internet… Dive in to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review. Mac […]
Typically with Mac OS X you have the volume control slider in the menu bar, and then if you want to make any other changes you would have to open System Preferences -> Sound and then make your changes…. I presume this is new in Snow Leopard, since I have not seen this documented previously, and […]
Another piece of the puzzle is almost done… Raging Menance Software has released a Snow Leopard ready beta of MenuMeters. I have missed having my network throughput & process status in the menu bar. Activity monitor is a good temporary replacement, but it\’s no MenuMeter replacement…. Plus did I mention, MenuMeters is free? http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
I have scientifically studied this yet… Â After all, I haven\’t even installed Bootcamp v3 drivers yet… Â But it appears that VMWare boots my bootcamp partition significantly faster under Snow Leopard, then under Leopard… Â We\’re talking a 2-4 times speed up… It would normally take 3-7 minutes for VMWare to boot my bootcamp partition and return […]
Folks, It appears that Google Gears v5.4.2 will install under Snow Leopard (Gold Master) [In 32bit mode], but I can\’t seem to get Gears to do anything. Â So, I suspect we have a small wait for the Google team to actually confirm that Gears works under Snow Leopard…