Posted 06/27/2009 at 04:29:36am

My friend, where have you been these last 4 years? Bell has capped all their internet services, save for dial-up, and upped the prices. Also, if you had the $44.95 'Unlimited' for many years like I did, check your bill. I noticed that they shifted us over to the 'Total Internet Performance' package a few months back and automatically renewed our contract for a year without my permission and that only has a 60gb cap... I'm already planning on disputing the auto-renewal and switching over Acanac for their cheaper DSL rates, no throttling and NO CAPS.

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/27/2009 at 04:07:34am

Now nVidia decides to jump on the bandwagon, 3 years later...

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/19/2009 at 04:53:34pm

The funny thing is that you can get the new firmware free on the Touch legitimately. All you have to is just run a restore, but make sure to nuke the old firmware packages in updates folder, and backup your stuff first, you can find it in (winXP):

- mike_ar03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/19/2009 at 04:30:12pm

@Nekolx

Video ram is completely separate from system ram. The OS cannot even load apps into V-RAM. Video ram is used for texture storage and other graphic processes.

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/19/2009 at 04:24:52pm

Geez, this has 'for the kiddies' written all over it...

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/16/2009 at 05:37:59pm

Geez guys, settle down already. We're all aware of Apple's fondness of charging more for products that are behind the curve (iPhone in this case). Don't forget that this is corporate North America (we Canucks aren't any better) and companies will try and get away with anything to pad their pockets. The only way we're going to stop this is to start doing something about it. Look at our European cousins, they have some of the cheapest plans around next to Asia. I know that Canada is ranked amongst the top 5 countries for most expensive cell phone rate plans in the world.

A friend of mine in Japan has a plan from Docomo (I think) that costs him about $35 US and it's pretty much unlimited everything, save for long distance. So it's not really all the Telco's fault, it's also ours for just accepting what the companies offer without actually making a fuss until we're hit with the bill and locked in for the next few years... I wouldn't be surprised to see 5 year terms...

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 06/16/2009 at 04:34:48pm

FB might be the same old boring interface, but I don't have to worry some crap ass music blowing my ears out or some surprise script that some teenager thought it'd be funny to include in their page. Don't get me started about page designs... I've only seen a FEW that are good, the rest are god awful!

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 05/01/2009 at 05:12:09am

Well, it's another clash of the titans. No offence to Activision, but maybe it's time for them to ship out. Over the last few years, their titles have gone so far down the drain to the point where every game from them as of late is a remake or rehash of its predecessor.

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 04/04/2009 at 02:55:39am

Regardless of DRM or not, since EA implemented SecuROM, I've avoided their games like the plague save for Need for Speed Undercover. Not that I pirate games very often (only older out of circualtion ones when nostalgia hits), seeing as I own most of mine. it's just the fact that SecuROM crippled my machine and fried my optical drive...

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada

Posted 04/03/2009 at 01:21:13am

Holy smokes, something's starting to sizzle and it ain't Canadian Back Bacon... Anyway, everyone's entitled to their respective opinions, but I will agree that one must try something before hammering it.

Kinda like the Mac vs. PC debate. I learnt that the hard way... I used to be a guy who would push PC's more than Macs, but having toyed with them a bit, they aren't all that bad if you need a basic e-mail and web system for Granny or aunt Mildred. Albeit at a steeper price... but not so bad as I got a Mac mini.

I know that most of you would say that I should get her a PC, but considering what my younger cousins did to her last system (RIP my old Athlon TBird baby), it was time that I got something that she could use for her e-mail and online card games (that is, once I locked out most of the control panel settings to prevent those twits from fucking it up) and I don't have to run across the city twice a week to fix the darn thing. I may have a new fuel sipping 4 banger, but at about 20km/~12mi each way, it adds up. So may as well drop a few extra c-notes and get a system that I may only have to check up on once a month and save me about $80 in gas every month.

- mike_art03a
IT Technician
Gov't of Canada