Now, ZDNet has been testing the OS for the one thing that matters: Real world performance. While benchmarks are usually frowned upon by Microsoft on their beta OSes, this time it actually looks very fast, and it makes you wonder if the release version could be even better, considering that even though it’s a beta version, it already outperforms XP and Vista even in install times, which is rare in the beta stage.

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Supposedly this issue also affects the Toshiba Gigabeat, since they are supposedly based off of the same software.

Volvo states that up until now, they have only focused on protecting the driver from crashing into other vehicles, however they are now focusing on protecting unprotected pedestrians. They also said that it is their first car to use full auto break, a big jump from the previous 50%, thanks to new sensor technology.

The new car utilizes cameras and radars, and if a collision is imminent, the car first warns the driver, and if no action is taken, it automatically does a full auto break.

It appears that Volvo is now marketing it as the first accident proof car.

“Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the data was lost, their undoing appears to have been that they treated drive mirroring as a backup and have now paid the ultimate price for not having point-in-time backups of the data that was their business.”

I’m not an expert in this field, however by the looks of it, it seems the mirror just duplicated the wiped database. As comments on Slashdot stated, you need to do regular backups to tape. It may be expensive, but it is definitely worth it. Quantcast claims that they had 14,000 visitors a month (not as much as Maddox, mind you!) and an Alexa ranking of 106,881.

According to the owner of JournalSpace, the server had two drives, where the data was mirrored between them, however what happened, is one drive had the database wiped, and the other drive just copied the wiped database. According to a data recovery company, the information is lost for good, and so they are shutting down. If anyone’s interested, the server is Mac OS X Server. Supposedly one of the staff sabotaged the server after he left, and they believe that it is quite possible that they did additional damage at a later date.

If your internet isn’t working, yet you know your connection is fine (often can be confirmed by seeing if you can get online using a different computer on the same network) then it is likely either a problem with your network card, the drivers or again, TCP/IP settings.

“So how do I check?”, you ask. Simple. Just right click on the networking icon on the taskbar, click properties, then advanced, and click TCP/IP then configure.

Generally the settings should be something along the lines of:

(where x is any number, usually 0 or 1)

IP address: 192.168.X.X
Gateway (same as the router): 192.168.x.1
DNS server: 192.168.x.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Then maybe try a reboot. If not, it’s a hardware problem, or in some cases, a bad driver or connection.

I know this stuff likely seems basic, but seriously. More often or not when someone has internet issues, it’s due to bad settings.

Let me know in the comments if you have any problems otherwise.

“There are multiple reports springing up all over the internet of a mass suicide of Microsoft 30GB Zune players globally. Check Zune forums, Gizmodo, or other such sites; the reports are spreading rapidly, except apparently to the Microsoft official Zune site.”

Mike writes:

“Microsoft’s market share in the browser dropped below 70% for the first time in eight years, while Mozilla broke the 20% barrier for the first time in its history. It’s too early to tell for sure, but if Net Applications’ numbers are correct, then Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will end 2008 with a historic market share loss in a software segment Microsoft believes is key to its business.”

“… Linux companies also need to start paying attention to the open source gaming community. Why? It’s lacking. However, gamers can get excited about free games. They just have to be up to par with commercial games. The problem is, commercial companies pay hundreds of employees to build a game for several years, while many competing gaming projects only last several years before the developer moves on. It’s time for open source developers to start getting paid for their jobs. Who better to pay them than the companies that benefit most?”

I actually read some of the comments, and I actually fully agree. If game companies would port their games to Linux, they’d quite happily switch, being more adventurous than the average computer user, and as a result, other people would switch, trusting their advice.

Of course, there is Wine, but it’s still a bit unreliable for gaming. I previously used it, but ended up just dual booting. Though in my opinion, Linux needs a better software management solution. Sure, there’s Apt-Get and stuff, but really I think Linux needs a proper install routine (like in Windows or Mac OS) and have it set to install dependancies automatically, and make it completely transparent to the user.

Who else agrees?

So bye bye to the shows. Not that we won’t work on any videos, but here is not really where you would be seeing them. At least for now. So, what am I doing now?

Well basically now I’m turning Stunich into a nerdy/geeky technology blog, with tutorials and such. I may sound like I’m betraying our loyal viewers or whatever, but seriously, my intentions with starting Stunich was for nerdy videos with tutorials and stuff.

I might move this blog over to StuzzIT.com or something, but for now, this blog isn’t going anywhere, since making the shows stopped being fun a long time ago.

Of course, you will be able to view the old episodes (and hopefully realize what was so bad about them) at mindwedge.blip.tv.