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05/23/06
So I have to rant about how disappointed I am with Yahoo hosting. I signed up for a simply Web site hosting account to move one of our sites to. I paid $25 for a set-up fee, plus the first month’s fee, which was like $12 or so. After getting access to my account, I found out the for some insane reason, they don’t support htaccess files, as basic tool of Web hosting. I need this to run my sites, so I can translate URL’s like myscript.php?page=7 to URL’s like mypage.html. Very simple stuff.
As soon as I saw that htaccess didn’t work, I emailed support and began to research. I found out prety quickly that lots of people have complained about this. So I cancelled my account with them and found a new host for this site.
Seeing as how I had this account for just a few hours, and that I could not have foreseen the htaccess issue, I emailed them to ask for a refund. Even though their “terms of service” says no refunds, I thought that this was a pretty clear-cut case and that they would probably rather see me happy as a customer than to keep my $37. After all, I do buy other services from Yahoo.
I explained the situation in an email. At first at got the run-around. They sent me to a page that wasn’t relevant to my email. But then I finally got a response of “no”. What crap. I really thought that they should have cheerfully refunded my money after reviewing my case. I don’t get why they wouldn’t. I didn’t use their service. I took up no bandwidth and no storage space. I cancelled promptly.
So, because they wanted my $37, I won’t buy any more hosting from them, and probably move the site I do have hosted there away. Just stupid.
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05/16/06
Shockwave is no longer just Windows and Mac. It now runs on Windows CE too. For those of you not familiar with it, Windows CE is what runs on handheld devices and set-top boxes. It is a very different operating system than Windows, requiring new versions of applications as Windows software just isn’t compatible.
So now we can finally start to see Shockwave on devices other than PCs and Macs. The first such device is the PIC from AMD. It is a tiny computer that is meant to be a low-priced solution to getting computers into the hands of people in 3rd-world countires and such. Check out the full press release:
BSQUARE ports Macromedia Shockwave Player to AMD%u2019s Personal Internet Communicator (PIC).
This appears to be a full port of Shockwave, with Flash Xtra and 3D Xtra included [CORRECTION: No 3D], and it is version 10.1. Of course most Windows CE devices are pretty low-powered, so I’d imagine a lot of high-end Shockwave content won’t run. But that is par for the course with Windows CE devices, which struggle to run high-end media like Flash and such.
So it looks like Adobe IS spending money and energy on Director/Shockwave!
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05/12/06
I got the chance to play Warhawks on a PS3 with the new controller. It was fantastic. The controller looks almost just lik the PS2 controller, but it can sense your movment. So when you tilt the controller to one side, it knows it. This makes flying so easy. I was able to control the aircraft without pressing any buttons or moving any sticks. It was so natural that there was virtually no learning curve at all. I just flew. The buttons, of course, fire missiles, thrusters, etc.
I can’t say anything about the Wii, because unfortunately I didn’t see it. Whereas the PS3 was on display for everyone to see and test, the Wii was shown only in a large presentation. You had to wait in line, which was too long anyway, and I missed it by not getting there early enough.
Besides that, I can report that the rumors of the end of the “booth babes” were false. There were tons of attractively-dressed women (and some men) all over the place.
I hope to put together a video podcast tomorrow to share some of what I saw.
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05/02/06
What are “Popsicle Stick Hand Grenades?” Find out, and see the consequences, at today’s Th Daily Vlog.
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