Xbox 360 Dashboard Update – Finally, after what seemed an interminable wait, Microsoft was ready to let us in on the big picture. Joystiq spoke with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg about the Fall update and what was still in store — DivX and Xvid support, reduced prices on XBLA “Hits” and more.
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: “You’ll have it next year”
Of course the 3G iPhone is coming, that’s clearly in the evolution plan. As Jobs said himself, it’s only a matter of time until improved batteries allow for it. Still, when AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson says, “You’ll have it next year,”
Evidence that Mac OS X could run Windows apps soon
Don’t trash your Boot Camp drive just yet, but Leopard could contain the early signs of running Windows apps in Mac OS X after all. While the evidence is telling, we encourage you not to hold your breath just yet.
Nothing Much
Nothing much new. Acquired a 7800GS which is a small upgrade from my 6800 Ultra, has helped playing HL2 Episode One and Two. Bought the Orange Box primarily for the HL saga but was pleasantly surprised by Portal, best summed up by Yahtzee from TheEscapist.
Also keen to try out Call of Duty 4, looks like the first quality game in a long time (HL series excluded). Crysis is also supposed to be pretty good, although I’m scared of what it might do to my PC. Gaming seems to be picking up at the moment, after a long stretch of the same old stale gaming stereotypes. Almost enough to make me want a new PC, almost. I still think I would be content with replacing my desktop with a MacBook Pro, the 8600M GT certainly has the performance to keep up with the average desktops. Financially this is not really viable for me at the moment, and I’m not sure I have the time to be playing games anyway. Especially since I’m running the local electronic slaughterhouse at the moment while the boss and other staff are on holidays.
Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard
Leopard
’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.