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Archive for October, 2005PHP 4.4.1 is now availableMonday, October 31st, 2005PHP 4.4.1 is now available for download. This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version. Here is a full list Daily Friction #30Monday, October 31st, 2005Here we are at the 30th edition of Daily Friction. That took a long while…. Check out some of the googies of today: Software On yesterday’s Daily Friction I noted VMware Player - a tool allowing you to run virtual machines. Today I come with Invirtus VM Optimizer, an application that compress and optimize both Microsoft and Daily Friction #29Saturday, October 29th, 2005After another long break Daily Friction is back. Ok, so it’s not really daily, but it’s here with a lot of goodies. Many good things today, so make sure you check it out. Software So this is almost a week late but now MySQL 5.0 is available for production use. This new version includes: Stored procedures World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade announcedSaturday, October 29th, 2005
Yesterday (October 28th) at BlizzCon, Blizzard’s first-ever fan convention, Blizzard announced World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade, the first official expansion to its popular multiplayer game World of WarCraft. Civilization IV has arrivedTuesday, October 25th, 2005
The long awaited game title, Civilization IV is now shipping to retail stores across North America. The game will ship to retail stores in Europe on November 4. 30 Gigabytes email account for freeFriday, October 21st, 2005
The amount of free email storage Gmail allows you now stands at 2.655 megabytes. But what will you think of a service promising you 30 Gigabytes of email storage? 30Gigs.com is offering 30 gigabytes of email storage for Free. The only similarity to Gmail for now is the invite requirement in order to get an Blu-ray drives available beginning next monthMonday, October 17th, 2005
I covered some of the Blu-ray technology milestones several times before, now finally we are only months close to being able to actually use this technology at home. AOpen, a Taiwanese PC and peripheral maker, plans to begin shipping Blu-ray drives for PCs in November. While AOpen has not yet revealed pricing, there is no Daily Friction #28Saturday, October 15th, 2005After a long break from the Daily Friction here is another edition. Not too many items today, but I’ll get back on track soon. Promise. Software In case you missed the review and just landed here, google reader is out. Information As requested, yes you know who you are , here’s an SSH howto. Google Purchases up, not open yetWednesday, October 12th, 2005
The rumors about Google Wallet and some other commerce related product from Google are floating around for months. Things are shaking at Google and every little change around the Google.com domain is grabbing everybody’s eyes. Google ReaderMonday, October 10th, 2005The Google Reader, a free online RSS feed reader, was released three days ago at the Web 2.0 conference and created the usual “new application from Google” buzz. I’ve decided to take a look at the new nipper. To comment or not to comment?Wednesday, October 5th, 2005I’ll go right to the point. Some people comment on various websites, may it be blogs, forums, article talkbacks, etc. but have nothing substantial to say - They just comment for the sake of commenting. Many of them probably only want to get a linkback to their own website through commenting. A new round of Google-Yahoo mail smackdownSunday, October 2nd, 2005A little more than a week ago Walt Mossberg declared Yahoo Email as the winner in the battle of email giants between Yahoo and Google. We all agree that MSN mail (which he doesn’t even mentions) is lacking in all departments, especially when it comes to user experience and innovation (beside minor interface changes and Yahoo mail downSunday, October 2nd, 2005It’s been a couple of days since I started having problems with my Yhaoo mail account. Now I just get a “The document contains no data” messege when I try to login, I guess it’s a progress from the inability to login at all which was the state a few hours ago. Reinstall Windows XP without product activationSunday, October 2nd, 2005I did a lot of Windows installations this last week. I did so many of them I’m having a brain meltdown, but more on that in the coming days. |
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