To the person who found my blog my searching for “where is the power button on ibm x3400″:
Behind the front cover (you have to remove it – it pops off on the left-hand-side), in the top-left, immediately beside the power light, as below:
It's the white button beside the green power light
A new post on the Windows Team Blog, followed by an announcement on the private Microsoft Connect newsgroups for TBT’s, confirms that Technical Beta Testers will indeed be getting a free copy of Windows 7 – there are even a limited number of boxed copies that testers can fight each other for opt in to try to get, as opposed to the strict download-only policy that Vista testers were presented with.
While some people still aren’t happy with the ‘new’ beta process, this will go a long way with a lot of testers. Cheers, Microsoft!
[Credit goes to Mary-Jo Foley for alerting the blogosphere to this]
Apparently the 1970′s hit arcade game Asteroids is going to be turned in to a movie. I really hope this is a massive troll by Universal Studios, because how can you possibly make a movie based on a triangle that shoots vector-style blobs?
What’s next? Is someone going to take Minesweeper to the next level?
According to an interview with Rob Pardo, VP of Game Design on the Starcraft 2 Project (as reported by Ars Technica),
“We don’t have any plans to support LAN [in Starcraft 2]…we will not support it.”
Wait, what? My first exposure to the original Starcraft was at a LAN party. Hell, that’s primarily how I’ve played it since.
Blizzard? Can you reconsider?
Update: Blizzard has posted a response to the flood of complaints regarding the lack of LAN-play. Coverage here. Summary? No good reason. My concern is that years down the road, Blizzard will shutdown Battle.Net for some reason or other, and suddenly there will be no multiplayer support for Starcraft 2 what-so-ever. Damn.
