No, this is for real and I might try it when I have the time:
http://www.techzone.5gigs.com/guides/computers/macosx86/main.html
Enough said.
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That’s the theme mod that powers my website. Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis have released K2 Beta One after what I can imagine hours and hours of bug squashing, Coke drinking and coding. Thank you guys so much, this is a great theme.
But even being the great theme that it is, some problems still persist with it in Internet Explorer, but that’s expected. The Comments and Latest content will be moved to the right of the sidebar and gives the page a rather strange look. Something similar happened back in Alpha Four and I messed around with the stylesheet code a bit and made it looks OK in IE. This morning I downloaded K2 Beta One and had a problem. Since I didn’t have the time or the motivation to fix the code myself I just went over to Binary Bonsai and saw a comment by
cavemonkey50 (sorry for calling you codemonkey56 on Binary Bonsai Flickr Forums) where he listed some code to fix the way IE shows K2 Beta One. I messed around with the code a bit to make it suit my site.
My site now works fine in Internet Explorer and perfectly in Firefox after putting this code into k2scheme.css. The reason I want to make my site look nice in IE is because a lot of people still use IE, and we gotta face it. It is a below-par browser but about 90 percent of people use it so shucks.
Ahh WinZip, probably one of the biggest household names in both the general computer software industry and especially the shareware industry. Shareware is the sometimes-flawed idea that you can give away a “full-featured trial” version and expect people to actually pay for it. Well, as any sane person can tell you, that is about as likely as Caesar switching from TiVo to ReplayTV.
Let’s keep the aforementioned facts in mind when we consider this: WinZip Computing, Inc has made a business out of selling shareware. The problem? Their business isn’t profitable because their shareware model doesn’t work. Let’s be completely honest, how many of us have actually paid for WinZip? See the shortage of raised hands? Unfortunately, WinZip Computing sees those same raised hands and are beginning to realize that they aren’t going to be able to sell enough copies of WinZip to pay the rent.
Enter Vector Capital. Vector Capital is a turnaround investor company that attempts to take companies that are struggling to survive and make them profitable. They have been able to succesfully do this in the past with a couple of other companies that are fairly commonplace: Corel and Jasc (the creators of Paint Shop). Amusingly enough, Corel eventually purchased Jasc. Talk about keeping everything in the family.
“Corel is making money now. It is very, very profitable,” said Chris Nicholson, a partner at Vector.
WinZip has more than 140 million downloads with nearly 500,000 free downloads each week. The problem with the shareware scheme is that it relies on the honor system, something that very few people have in this day and age. WinZip is very generous, in that it will let you continue to run it forever as long as you are willing to deal with a simple nag screen everytime you start it. The nag screen is a little too simple and that is something that Vector Computing is looking to change. They are also planning on making certain features available only to paying customers, rather than providing a fully featured product for trial customers.
Google has also joined the project by providing a marketing and distribution agreement to Vector. Don’t think that all of these changes are going to make WinZip completely unusable as a trial. They do still want potential customers to actually evaluate the software.
The above article is not written by me and I give credit to:
Source of Article: “Pay for WinZip? That’ll be the day…” on Arstechnica
Author of Article: Josh Meier
Today I went to school to enrol, get my school ID, textbooks, notebooks, pay a bunch of money, schedule and some other school things. I also got my locker number (5226, I remember it!) but I forgot to bring my lock to put it on. I came there at around 9 and there was almost nobody there, everyone came late. OK it was raining but that’s no excuse. I spent about 2 hours at school, saw some of the people I know from last year and before that and a bunch of new kids, mostly Koreans.
When I went home at 11:15 or something I had to wait for the bus for like 20 minutes in the hot and humid weather of Hong Kong’s summer. I started going to the MTR (subway) when I saw 3C (my bus) far in the distance so I had to walk back to the bus stop. Got on the bus and went home. Some guy sitting next to me kept burping for like 10 minutes (!). Got home and turned on the TV, missed One Tree Hill and had to listen to Angel and all those demons quacking about something. Now they’re showing Oprah and some guy is singing about Oprah. And that’s it for this post. Lame, I know.
A lot of photos were taken last week because my stepsister was here and we were going to many places in Hong Kong. I only now have found the time to upload some photos and write a short article on things we did. This is the boat that took us to Sharp Island, a small, quite remote island near Sai Kung.
OK, it’s not exactly a yacht but it comes quite close. It was a 20 or so minute ride from Sai Kung to the island and it was quite fun over there. We went to different beaches earlier in that week and the one on Sharp Island was the best. It had waves, somewhat cleaner water and there were less people. I got wiped out by the waves a couple of times but it was fine. I built a nice sandcastle using nothing but my bare hands and some rocks. I then created a valley from the sandcastle all the way to the water. The cropped picture is of me working on that valley with the sandcastle on the right.
We then took the same boat back to Sai Kung and went back home. I have a few more pictures over at Flickr if you would like to see them. Now I gotta go to the photo shop and get a photo of myself for my school ID.
