ramblings of a hikikomori - Rails, Firefox, Anime, Mac
PHP 5 released!July 14th, 2004
Freshly-baked newsbit: PHP 5.0.0 has just been released not too long ago. How long will it take for PHP 5 to become mainstream in webservers around the world? It’s anybody’s guess.
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Comments and TrackBacks (3) | Category: Web development Google-like search engine for BitTorrent filesJuly 13th, 2004
bitoogle - the BitTorrent file search engine.
It even allows you to see the torrent statistics like the number of seeds and leeches. And it works!
Hmm… I wonder how it works.
Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (5) | Category: Neat Stuff Seen elsewhere: New features since Firefox 0.9July 13th, 2004
Once again, Neil Turner has the low-down on the new features in the next incarnation of Mozilla Firefox.
Read More on new Firefox features at his weblog.
Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (0) | Category: Mozilla Better UI for blocked popups in FirefoxJuly 13th, 2004
Another new feature (available in nightly builds from today): a XP SP2-like yellow bar appears at the top of your Firefox window’s viewport notifying you of blocked popups. Click on it and it gives you similar options on whether to allow the popup(s).
Here’s how it looks in Firefox:
And this is how it looks like in IE with XP SP2 (Release Candidate 2) installed:
Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (10) | Category: Mozilla Half Life 2 system requirements revealed!July 13th, 2004
Via Eurogamer via Neowin.net:
But for those who want to see the game running in all its glory, be prepared to spec up to around a 2.4 GHz machine, with 512MB RAM, Windows 2000/XP and a DirectX 9 capable graphics card.
2.4 GHz machine - check
512MB RAM - check
Windows 2000/XP - Duh!
DirectX 9 capable graphics card - check
Looks like I don’t have to upgrade (again) for Half Life 2.
Man, could you believe I actually posted a blog entry on the specifications of a computer game? But then again, we’re talking about Half Life 2 here guys.
