All the WoW realms are down for maintenance, which coincides neatly (and unexpectedly) with the arrival of some new networking kit I ordered yesterday night from Eyo. For no obvious reason, my Wireless network suddenly got flakey, about a week ago, and broke entirely while I was fiddling around, trying to fix it. The problems [...]

It’s the bugs. The bugs are driving me nuts. Six out of ten times I complete a given quest, the game won’t register it properly, and I’ll be disconnected from the server (Proudmoore). This is starting to really shit me. It’s been how long since the game shipped? Six months? Nine? And still, it seems [...]

A friend finally talked me into World of Warcraft. The entry cost was nil, so the pricing was too good to pass up. I’m now playing in Proudmoore as an undead mage, modeled closely on Christopher Lloyd. Apart from some possibly-Bigpond-induced lag/clicking-does-nothing-and-eventually-disconnects problems, seems pretty good so far. I can’t see myself replacing my crack [...]

The Server still hasn’t shaken the “Longhorn” moniker, but let’s call it Windows Vista Server to keep you kids happy. The interesting news here: Itanium servers will be supported only for big-iron tasks. So rather than announce that they’re gutting most of Longhorn Server on Itanium, Microsoft announce that it’s enhanced for certain workloads. The [...]

Anandtech buy themselves a Google Mini search appliance, then take it apart to see what makes it tick. Then they put it back together, and let it index their site. With a few tweaks. And stuff. tags: Software

Scott from MSN (the SiteExperts space) is running a fascinating series on the technology behind the AJAX-y MSN Spaces, with interesting and compelling insights into bringing software engineering back into web-enabled design. But that’s only half the story – the comments in each post to /siteexperts/ seems to bring out the crazies like no other! [...]