Posted 09/09/2009 at 07:39:12am

I would actually look forward to this. I bought Prey once it moved to the second-tier (i.e. cheap) rack and liked it. At the time it had some really neat features like the walkways that defied gravity and the Spirit World - which has been reborn as the Veil in id's latest Wolfenstein installment.

But the absolute best part was the snippets of an Art Bell broadcast depicting the events of the story as seen from afar. I used to cheer when I ran across a radio in the spaceship.

It would be interesting to see where they went with the series. Would they bring back Tommy (I hope not, he was a little too emo for me) or would they let someone else go after the aliens?

Posted 05/01/2009 at 10:30:41am

When I first installed IE8, it would take 5-10 seconds to start, and then 5-10 additional seconds for each new tab. Page rendering was hella fast, but the startup delay made me mad.

Finally figured it out after much Googling. If you have let SpyBot (or similar) "immunize" IE, it adds 10,000+ sites to IE's restricted site list. IE7 was cool with that, but IE8 ... not so much. After I undid SpyBots immunization and then redid it with everything but IE's domain and resitricted domain boxes checked, IE8 worked like a champ.

I don't like having to undo SpyBot's protection, but hopefully IE's built-in SmartScreen filter (or WOT) will mitigate this risk.

Posted 03/22/2009 at 06:53:56am

Ugh.

 Downloaded it last night. It does render pages wicked fast, but that's AFTER it takes 5-10 seconds to start up & sit at "connecting" forever. And opening a new tab takes at least 5 seconds. Totally unacceptable.

Posted 05/08/2008 at 08:04:18pm

I hope at least Comcast will provide a tool to let you track how much bandwidth you've consumed in your neverending quest to get every possible episode of .. I mean distro of Linux.