Archive for December, 2008

I don’t like when companies over generalize. So, when iD CEO Todd Hollenshead made the following remarks, I got a little ticked. Basically, iD is asserting that Quake ports to iPhone must be sanctioned by iD, in order to be released: “Hollenshead informed us that ZodTTD’s port would be illegal and not sanctioned by the [...]

My Windows Home Server died just before Thanksgiving. Read more to read the saga, and learn a bit more about Windows Home Server’s robust Server Reinstallation process (and, how it works in the real world).

I hate to write these type of posts, I really do. It’s a balance of necessity and anger, anger which will undoubtedly pour down on me from those I’m targeting with the post. Who’s today’s target? No surprise, eBay. See, about a month ago, eBay decided to start temporarily banning sellers over the Detail Ratings [...]

Apple’s Support Downloads area has been completely redesigned. It now features an updated Web 2.0 look, consistent with product-page changes on apple.com in recent months. My favorite feature is the ability to now browse by product. You can quickly, say, drill down to iWork ’08 updates only. I haven’t checked how far back it goes. [...]

Last week, I noted in an article comments how my Windows Home Server blew up right before Thanksgiving… literally. With that in mind, I returned to my office this morning to back up my main workstation using Vista Complete PC backup. The backup hung. So, not giving up, I went to install Acronis True Image [...]