Monthly Archives: April 2006

World of Warcraft 1.10.2 Patch Notes

By Peter | Published: April 24, 2006

General Guild Recruitment channel functionality has been improved to be turned off for players already in guilds, and turned on for players not in guilds by default. Fixed a bug which caused players to drop from combat after destroying a totem. Fixed a soft-lock bug that occurred under certain conditions when players were near ships, [...]

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Rhode Island Set To Become First Wireless State

By Peter | Published: April 19, 2006

The smallest state in the Union is itching to go unwired in a big way. “The network will be built on a WiMAX transport core with WiFi technology at the consumer interface edge.” The first antenna goes up this week. Quite an impressive achievement, in spite of the fact that it probably won’t be free.

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Torta di Riso

By Peter | Published: April 14, 2006

Easter is one of my favorite holidays, simply becuase it focuses on whats really important…eating. Its sort of like the expensive Thanksgiving, instead of turkey, you get to feast on mint roasted lamb. Even better, forget that pumpkin pie and enjoy the real treat of Easter, Rice Pies or Torta di Riso. I was quite [...]

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World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.10.1

By Peter | Published: April 11, 2006

Small patch out today for WoW:

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Dell De-Crapifier

By Peter | Published: April 11, 2006

“Just recently, I was helping a friend set up his brand new Inspiron 1300 and it took FOREVER for it to boot up. It’s a very dissatifiying experience to pull a brand new computer out of the box and be spammed with a bunch of trial software. After removing all of the crap, (wich took [...]

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Apple Announces Official Support for Installing Windows XP

By Peter | Published: April 5, 2006

Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows. Boot Camp will burn a CD of all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to scrounge around the [...]

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Retailer fans Bluetooth iPod rumors

By Peter | Published: April 4, 2006

“Rumours of a iPod with the wireless tech built-in reached fever pitch in February 2005, but it looks like the jukebox is finally ready to appear in the Apple store, along with a deluge of accessories” the report says. It does not identify the retailer which made the comments, but it is true that Apple [...]

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LCD glasses might replace bifocals

By Peter | Published: April 4, 2006

The specs use electrodes that can alter the configuration of the LCDs, automatically refocusing based on what the wearer is looking at. There are, however, a couple of downsides. Other researchers scoff that the lenses would end up being too heavy and thick (and the prototype pictured here does look kind of goofy). The other [...]

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