The struggle between the standards community and Microsoft is ongoing. There has been significant progress, as evident with the recent news of the next version of Internet Explorer moving towards compliance. Microsoft has embraced standards like JavaScript and CSS with its development tools as well. CSS is…
Archive for February 19th, 2008
Feb19
Welcome to the Internet
The first episode of the Big Travel Project, I wander in the New York City Subways, and contemplate the internet
Author: 
iambillbowles
Tags: welcome to internet my name is bill mynameisbill travel video blog vlog travelling traveling podcast new york city subway pathway drum
Posted: 20 February 2008
Rating: 5.0
Votes: 1
Filed in: Enterprise Tech
Feb19
Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update
Following reports by users of problems resulting from new Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 installation prerequisite update — which Microsoft pushed out via Windows Update last week — Microsoft has halted availability of those prerequisites.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb19
Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?
Clues that Microsoft is ready to announce the final version of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 are starting to mount.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb19
MacBook, MacBook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0
Apple has posted MacBook, MacBook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0, which aims to address some keyboard issues some users may have been experiencing.
This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key …
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb19
‘DVD Jon’ Launches Doubletwist: Share and Sync Protected iTunes Music
Jon Lech Johansen (”DVD Jon”) launched DoubleTwist today, a venture that was originally reported back in October 2006. DVD Jon originally gained notoriety (and his nickname) for his involvement in releasing the DeCSS software that allowed the bypass…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb19
Microsoft releases February test build of SQL Server 2008
Microsoft is rolling out on February 19 a new “feature-complete” Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of SQL Server 2008 to 100,000 testers.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb19
‘Arrowhead’ updates to .Net 3.5 to speed WPF apps
While Silverlight — a k a “Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere” — seems to be where all the Microsoft rich-media buzz is these days, the Redmondians haven’t forgotten about plain-vanilla WPF, the presentation-layer piece of .Net.
Filed in: Microsoft
Feb19
Linkin Park To Participate In Upcoming New York Apple Event
Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda posted yesterday (via AppleInsider) that the band would be participating in “a special show that were doing in NYC in conjunction with apple.”
Apple has been rumored to be planning a press event to…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb19
MacBook Air Diary-Day 20: Cutting the cord
Yesterday, I blogged about traveling light and paring down my computer bag down to a MacBook Air in a simple sleeve. Today I want to ween myself off wired network connections.
For some, going 100 percent wireless borders on blasphemy (with its inherent security issues, lack of hot spots, usurious fees, etc.) but for this journalist […]
Filed in: Apple/Mac
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