At least on Portal Forums.net, Internet Explorer 7 this month took the lead from IE6. Internet Explorer 7: 117373 hits which makes up 36.6% Internet Explorer 6: 111058 hits which makes up 34.7% Firefox 2: 21953 hits which makes up 6.8% Firefox 1.5: 34848 hits which makes up 10.8% I don't know what happened with Firefox 2, last month it was 10% exactly. Firefox 1 last month was 7.4% so it looks like we saw a shift backwards within the Firefox camp....
As regular readers know I've been caught in a battle between Windows Vista and my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC. The root cause? nVidia's Vista drivers not turning the screen back on when resuming from sleep. In the whole beta program and up until now with the final version I had been using the Windows XP drivers Toshiba had posted on their website, largely without a hitch, but they are dated 2004, don't support Aero Glass and all the other nice things that WDDM drivers do support....
You may have already seen this on the news: While searching for this video one newscaster on a US news channel referred to it as a meteor shower, despite the fact it was obviously a single object. Who lets these kinds of people on TV? This was actually part of the rocket which launched the French COROT space telescope on the 27th of December. It was carried into orbit by a Soyuz-2-1b launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome....
As you've probably noticed I've moved my blog to the new address of www.dasmirnov.net/blog. Please update bookmarks, links etc. Thanks.
The European Union now stands at 27 member states, with a total population of half a billion people. Bulgaria and Romania, welcome to the European Union.
There's a lot of nonsense spreading across the internet over the DRM support in Windows Vista, I won't link to the article itself as most of it is inaccurate and those posting it everywhere are in even less accurate in how they interpret it. I've seen it posted several time on Microsoft's newgroups and of course it's all over Slashdot and the like. The article basically claims that your media playback will be crippled in Windows Vista because of the new protected content pathways....
According to PC World magazine it is. When you think about it, it isn't that surprising is it? Toolbars and menus are so old and completely can't handle the hundreds of features that Office has. Innovation? Microsoft? Yes, we were surprised, too, but the Redmond giant's latest upgrade of the world's most popular productivity suite introduces several new features that revolutionize how people work with documents. The most striking change is a "...
Well not quite, a pterosaur "aircraft" for Flight Simulator.
This is a headline from the Irish Times, they go on to say: David Moore of Astronomy Ireland said both craft [the Space Shuttle and the Space Station] could be seen as extremely bright star-like objects blazing across the sky. "I have seen International Space Station being chased by a shuttle in the past and it is one of the most incredible sights I have ever seen - so we want everyone in Ireland to witness this rare and spectacular event,"...
Ten years ago today, Carl Sagan, one of the greatest humans of the 20th century died. What he did for humanity is too vast to cover in this post, he was awarded the Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal of the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, the Public Welfare Medal and NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement award among many many others. What he gave back to human society is incalculable. Although he was less well known in Britain then other countries, Patrick Moore has always been our "...