March 2006

Hostel. It isn’t very good.

March 27, 2006

You’ve probably heard of the movie “Hostel”. According to some IMDB users, it’s the most gory and the most scary film in the world, ever. Apparently, in some theatres, members of the audience were so scared and shocked they left the theatre and hid in the toilets and had to be coaxed out by sweet-natured [...]

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IPB, IPC and IPD

March 22, 2006

So far this week I’ve managed a little bit of everything. The biggest achievement being adding the IP.Converge installer. Rikki designed and Josh wrote a fairly generic IPS installer framework which I’ve tweaked for IP.Converge. It’s a really nice system that will be used for IPB and IPD to give a familiar look and feel [...]

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IPB 2.2 Development Green Light

March 20, 2006

Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.2 has been in spec form for a few months. We paused IPB 2.2 when we worked on IP.Converge. This wasn’t done for lack of manpower – quite contrary, we have four full time developers and two part time developers – it was done so that we could see how much [...]

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xbox360

March 14, 2006

Now, this is going to be a very short and contentious entry: The Microsoft xbox 360 is amazing. What’s more amazing is xbox live. Games which you’ve completed still get a spin in the drive thanks to online gaming. Call of Duty II is a brilliant single player game – but it’s even better when [...]

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It’s out.

March 9, 2006

We revealed the project that I’ve been working on with Josh today. We’ve been working on this for the past three weeks or so which is why I’ve been fairly quiet with regards to development news. Rather than repeat myself – here’s the announcement. If you’re curious what the ACP looks like – check out [...]

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Universal Binaries

March 8, 2006

I’m on a mission. My mission is to find universal binaries for all my day-to-day applications. The new Intel powered macs require some re-plumbing of PowerPC software to make them Intel native. PowerPC applications can run on the new Intel chipset, but they require software emulation (Apple call this rosetta). This means that PowerPC apps [...]

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Intel Inside!

March 7, 2006

I’ve finally done it. I finally own a dual monitor Intel powered machine. It’s still a Mac though. After nearly three years of faithful service, it was time to retire the old G4 / 1ghz / 768mb iMac (of the iLamp style). It’s definitely served me well but recently it’s struggled to cope with the [...]

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Dr. Evil Has Retired

March 6, 2006

I thought it was time for a bit of a make-over and retire Dr. Evil. I originally added Dr. Evil as my blog header a few years ago when we (IPS) removed the free trial version of IPB. I had a lot of “fan” mail accusing me of being mean and evil. I figured the [...]

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