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Zune debuts, reactions stream in
Welcome to the social.
Zune makes its debut today and seems to be, oh, about the 1,245,172nd media player to be poised by some to be an “iPod killer.” Does it stack up? The early returns are in:
Engadget had a tough go of it:
Icing on the cake: restart after uninstall. No, sorry, the icing on the cake is the crash our computer took after we hit this, causing our RAID 5 array to crap out and spend a few hours rebuilding.!
Engadget reports that Zune worked fine on a second machine.
Gizmodo proclaims the Zune to be “competitive with the iPod.” They also had some interesting things to say about the color.
MacDailyNews? Well, they might as well rebrand themselves as ZuneDailyNews for all the Zune coverage they’ve been posting (most of it negative, of course):
Here’s one example, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another, and another. Fun.
Deep Thought has no Zune to play with, unfortunately, so we won’t be able to give you a review of it anytime zune soon. Bummer.
UPDATE: Fixed the strike through.
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Windows Vista RTM’d
From the “It’s about damn time” table:
It’s now official—Windows Vista is ready to be rolled out. After a six-year long road, the Windows Vista codebase had been frozen. The set dates of November 30 for businesses and January 30 for us mere mortals are almost guaranteed to be met. Of course that hasn’t stopped Paul Thurottfrom reviewing the thing before it even rolls out to MSDN subscribers next week.
Deep Thought’s (okay, my) take: I, for one, welcome our new clarity-bringing overlords. It’ll be the first Windows release I’ll pay attention to (I wasn’t paying attention to the internet back in good old 2k1.)
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Whats The Deal With My Firefox?
So why is the newest version of Firefox taking so long to open?
Double-click (start watch) 1...5....7.......29.......1:24 STOP! OK, so i just started Firefox on my gaming rig, which doesn’t have an internet connection. I had previously configured Firefox to open to a blank page. So why is the newest version of Firefox taking so long to open? Some might say that this is because I was using a PC. Wrong! I used my church’s G5 tower to run the same test of launching Firefox and got a final time of about one minute, and you Mac users know that that’s a LONG time. So why is Firefox so slow nowadays? On top of that the previous stable version popped up with “Unresponsive Script” warnings. so one again i wondered what was wrong with Firefox. I have used it for about six yars. So why is it letting me down now?
I decided to investigate. So i cruised over to the best search engine on the net.... GOOGLE!! Once there i searched for “Firefox issues”. Clicking on the first link, I was sent to a website named “Mozilla”. This was a good sign. Looking around the seeming familiar page layout (looks like Wikipedia), I found some useful answers as to why Firefox might…
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Did Microsoft pull Vista RC2? [UPDATED x2]
From the “The case of the Vanishing Vista!” desk…
It seems that Microsoft has pulled Windows Vista RC2; that or we’re blind or missed the memo or something. Following the widely circulated URL for the Vista RC2 download page leads us back to the Windows Vista homepage, which proudly proclaims that Windows Vista RC1 is available. What?
I found this out by trying to follow the download link in this tutorial for installing Vista RC2 on a Mac using Boot Camp. The only problem is, no RC2. Anyone know where Vista RC2 went?
UPDATE: As a comment below notes, RC2 was a more limited release. However, it stuck us as odd that it was so unceremoniously pulled without a mention that the RC2 program was over.
UPDATE 2: WindowsITPro has infromation explaining why Vista RC2 is no longer available.
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Last Chance: Final Release Candidate of Vista on Friday
Friday will mark the last Release Candidate for Windows Vista. According to DailyTech, it will be released for “...beta testers, MSDN and TechNet subscribers.” The final code of Vista will then be set by November 8 at the latest (hey, the day before my birthday!)
You know I’ll be first in line Friday to download build 5743. I’ll try and write something about it. Hopefully they get all of the icons replaced, as they are so close, but there are a couple prominent ones that need to be changed out.
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more stuff
- Zune debuts, reactions stream in
- Windows Vista RTM’d
- Whats The Deal With My Firefox?
- Did Microsoft pull Vista RC2? [UPDATED x2]
- Last Chance: Final Release Candidate of Vista on Friday
- 20 Reasons The World despises Norton Anti-Virus
- Windows Vista - the accumulation of everything ripped-off.
- Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks
- Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims
- Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public
- ARG I H@te WINDOWS XP!!!! (pardon the @ symbol but my rents have a g@y filter on the internet!)
- Ink-spirimenting in Inkscape
- Microsoft Acquires iView Multimedia
- WinFS is dead
- Photoshop is in the fonts
- Taking the Plunge: The Biggest Beta Trial I’ve Ever Done
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Help Me! Problem Solved
- Semi-Case Study: Which Windows browser is the biggest memory hog?
- Office 12 on Vista Screenies [UPDATED]
- Visual Studio 2005 Express Now Free Forever
- First on DT: Tevanian to join Vista development team
- Dell Buys Alienware and Announces Pricing on XPS 600 Renegade
- Windows Vista delayed--yet again
- XvsXP.com Relaunches
- Google Earth for Windows
- Versions in Future are Less Confusing Than They Appear
- Microsoft announces Vista editions
- Will Apple Adopt Windows? Not even when hell freezes over!
- Internet Explorer 7 beta available
- Google Earth Out of Beta
- Adobe releases beta of Aperture competitor
- A Very Vista Wishlist
- Dell issues battery recall
- RIP Macromedia
- A quick guide to cleaning out a Windows install
- My Windows User Experience
- The realism continues…
- Is Apple Prepared for Vista?
- Microsoft Codename Max
- Next eBay Purchase: Skype
- The World’s First 19” Laptop Is Here
- WinFS demo on Channel 9
- Intel Canning Lower-End Chipsets
- Microsft and Google Face Off at Golden Penguin Bowl
- Konfabulator Developer Sold to Yahoo! [UPDATED]
- A Room With a View
- Windows Vista: Possibly the dumbest name for an OS ever…
- Microsoft announces Longhorn will be called Windows Vista
- Why I Hate Musicmatch
- Microsoft issues a raft of security updates
- Microsoft to revamp Digital Music strategy
- Apple and Intel Gang up against Microsoft?
- Upgrade from XP Home to Pro, for free
- Mac site of the week: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP (XvsXP.com)
- Netscape 8 is out
- Netscape 8 Review
- Konfabulator 2.0 released
- Rant: I hate shell replacements!
- MSN Desktop Search goes final
- Speculation: will Windows go PowerPC?
- This gave me a chuckle…
- Microsoft finishes Windows Mobile 2005
- XvsXP begins posting Tiger updates, new XP info
- Thurrott declares Latest Longhorn “train wreck”
- More on Adobe and Macromedia
- Get Windows XP x64 Edition for Free
- New Longhorn Screenshots
- Email to Paul Thurrott
- Adobe Acquires Macromedia
- Microsoft fixes critical holes in Windows
- Sweet satisfaction in XP?
- New European XP version named
- Microsoft to give away Windows x64
- Why can’t skins have useful features?
- 1 millionth Tablet PC sold!
- Microsoft comissions six new fonts for Longhorn
- Intel to release 64bit Celerons
- Windows XP x64 RC2 released to General Public
- IE unaffected by major security flaw
- Windows x64 mini review
- TMO: Spotlight not WinFS wannabe
- Windows XP x64 RC1 released to General Public
- Windows x64 release date?
- Mobile Semprons go on sale
- Microsoft releases Avalon Framework
- Apple opens Irish iTunes store
- .NET and C# - hints at a possible future?
- Deep Thought PC now open
- Mozilla’s Lightning to strike Outlook
- Paint.NET
- iTMS comes to Canada--at last
- Apple retail finally coming to Canada
