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Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks
AppleInsider is reporting that Korean Air, in fear from batteries blowing up has banned certain notebooks (Dell, Powerbooks and iBooks) from their flights.
“Due to the risk of onboard fire, we are not allowing passengers to use certain brands of laptops on the plane.
Altho it seems they’re ok to transport if the batteries are separated them into checked baggage.
It may seem a bit extreme, but then again there is this unsolved issue:
NTSB investigating laptop batteries as the cause of UPS cargo plane fire
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Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims
From the “right on time, sort of” desk…
It looks like Windows Vista might just ship in January as Microsoft promised--barely. According to Amazon.com, Windows Vista is set to ship on January 30, 2007. Amazon is also now expecting preorders for Vista. As of this writing, Windows Vista Ultimate is already the 65th most popular software title on Amazon. For what it’s worth, Norton Utilities, Norton Antivirus, and Norton Internet Security are Amazon’s top three bestselling software products as of this writing.
Amusingly enough, Amazon also lists Vista as being “discontinued by the manufacturer.” Great. Contradictions.
Other events that have taken place on January 30 include the beginning of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War (1968), the beheading of King Charles I of England (1649), and the renaming of the town of Yerba Buena, California to San Francisco (1847). Exciting!
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Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public
Microsoft is making a free Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista Ultimate available for public download to the first 100,000 people.
No word on any limitations, but one would assume the Microsoft-standard 180-day timeout for prereleases of its OS is in effect.
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ARG I Hate WINDOWS XP!!!!
Ok, so i have this sweet new gaming system. 256 MSI SLI ready vid card running on a fan-less ABIT mobo with 1 gig of ram some sweet blue LED fans a SAMSUNG DVD/CD burner wiht lightscribe and a normal CD drive for my doom 3 pleashure. Well then i put windows XP PRO on it becasue well its better than home. So this sweet system works well for a week or two then yesterday all heck broke loose. So that morning before leaving for work i shut down the computer properly. 8 hours later i get home and turn it on to see this message
A KEY SYSTEM FILE IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPTED.
THE WINDOWS SYSTEM FILE
C:/windows/system/system32/system.ini (or whatever the extension is)
IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPT
PLEASE REINSTALL WINDOWS
OMG i f-ing it. So i put in my win XP PRO disk and run the repair utility. No good. Then i try uninstall and reinstall. No Good. So Then i cry as i tell it to reformat all my hard drive. Well that finally worked but now i have to re-register windows (gags) and i have to get rid of the 30 gigs of HD space thats my old windows account s documents folder. BUT IT Won’t LET ME Access THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if anyone else s windows please comment. And please if you know a program that can delete the 30 gigs tell me.
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Ink-spirimenting in Inkscape
If there’s one thing I envy in a large amount of the members here is their ability to create marvelous images seemingly on demand and in inhuman times; meanwhile I’m stuck searching the internet for two images that I can somehow put together with a little bit of alpha channel thrown in for good measure. Since I wanted to take a stab at teaching myself a complex application just by experimenting and learn to create web-worthy images in the process.
Since I don’t have access to the vast fortunes required to purchase Illustrator, I naturally went for Inkscape, which I had heard someone mention on the Ubuntu forums once. Something about icons. Hmm.
Anyways, after a bit of tinkering, I present to you my take on the Deep Thought logo. Yes, the font I used is Cambria. No, it’s not going to actually be used on DT. No, nothing is aligned properly. No, it isn’t anywhere near the quality of the current logo. No, I have no idea where you could get a free .svg viewer. Yes, it is part of my plan for world domination:
1. Learn Inkscape
2. ???
3. TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!
Ahem. You can download the SVG from here.
O YA! In order to give myself some incentive to write blog entries, I’m going to keep most of them short, with the occasional log rant to mix things up (like the rant I am this close ( || ) to typing up in all caps about my…
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more stuff
- 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 Hate WINDOWS XP!!!!
- 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
- 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
