Posts from — May 2008

It had to happen I guess, I’ve had my 16Gb iPhone less than 6 months and there’s every indication that some time next month the next version will be hitting shelves.

Rumors are coming from all directions, starting with O2 UK discounting the 8Gb unit by £100 and subsequently running out of stock to AT&T telling their staff they can’t take leave in a 4 week window from mid-june and execs from several firms giving “off the record” hints of a 3G device.

As June also brings the big 2.0 software update it makes sense that there would be some 2.0 hardware - I’m guessing the features between v1 and v2 will only really differ when it comes to UMTS/HSDPA so I’m not entirely fussed, but I have a few friends who are already working out if they can bear the cost of cutting their existing contracts short…

My commute is pretty easy so the data connectivity side of things isn’t of particular interest, EDGE is fine for reading the odd blog as I travel - in fact the only positive for me is that all the 2.5G haters will hopefully suck it up and buy one and hopefully increase the draw/demand to create decent stuff for the app store

Not sure how I missed this one but CTP2 of Powershell version 2 is available for download.

Remoting is working (requiring a separate download of WinRM 2.0 (also a CTP).

From the official blog:

 

This release adds a plethora of new features. PowerShell remoting now allows a one-to-one interactive experience. Thought about partitioning and organizing PowerShell scripts? Use modules to create self-contained and reusable units. This release introduces transactions support in PowerShell engine and APIs along with an update to the Registry provider to support them. We introduced eventing support in Powershell engine for listening, forwarding and acting on management and system events. Support for multiple parameter sets in script cmdlets bring them to par with C# cmdlets. For the adventurous folks…. application developers can host PowerShell in IIS to support multiple remote PowerShell sessions in a single process. These are just a few of the new features we have packaged in this CTP2 release. Additionally this CTP2 includes some simple updates… like new parameters to several existing cmdlets. More feature descriptions and details are in the Release Notes and in the “about” topics included with the installation.

 

As with the previous release I’ve got to stress that this code isn’t even at beta stage yet and shouldn’t go ANYWHERE near a production system. Everything *should* be backwards compatible but V1 and V2 can’t coexist so this could really break things if you’re unlucky.

Download Powershell V2 CTP2

Download WinRM 2.0 CTP (needed for remoting)

Link: Official Blog

After a pretty long silence from Blizz it appears they’re finally giving out some decent info on Wrath of the Liche King.

An NDA must have ended at 12:00 PST or something as it’s not common for game sites to elect to put new content out when most folk are asleep, gamespy are the first to break silence:

Hands on
Death Knight info
Videos
5-man and raid instances 

I know a few folk are considering straying to the likes of Age of Conan and Warhammer at the moment, with AoC releasing this month I’m thinking the timing of this barrage of news isn’t a coincidence

Update: WorldofWar.net have posted their take on the preview info here and a separate piece on death knights here.

Source: WoWInsider.com