Next Windows Home Server to Bundle Live Mesh
At PDC, Microsoft let drop the announcement that I pushed for. The Windows Home Server Team has announced that the next version of the product will indeed feature Live Mesh technology integration. Live Mesh will be a big help for solving one of the inconsistencies in the Windows Home Server offering. As I’ve noted in [...]
Vista Service Pack 2 Lacks Media Center TV Pack 2008 (Updated)
As it stands right now, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 still won’t include TV Pack 2008. I haven’t heard official word from Microsoft, but I can confirm that TV Pack 2008 is absent from SP2. It’s not clear why the Media Center team didn’t add this. Microsoft has confirmed to me that TV Pack 2008 will [...]
Chevy Volt’s Battery, its Moral Hazard, and My Solution
Unless you’ve had your eyes glued to the Chevy Volt’s development, you probably aren’t aware of a new controversy which has come up over it. The Volt’s battery is designed to last for the life of the car (10 years or 100,000 miles). As such, it stays constantly charged. In fact, when only about 20% of the [...]
Apple Leaves Older MacBook Pro out of the PureVideo Fun
If you own a MacBook Pro (Early 2008), the model that was just discontinued, it looks like you’ve got a bit of a reason to be ticked off. See, Apple never enabled the older MacBook Pro’s onboard H.264 decoding abilities. That means when you watch an H.264 movie, your CPU spikes to (or near) the [...]
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