Monday, March 10th, 2008
The Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee has removed a game from its official website after complaints that it was substantially copied from an independent US developer’s work.
Other games which also appear similar to existing products remain on the site, however.
New York-based games developer Cadin Batrack claimed in a blog posting that “the Olympics stole my game”.
Batrack highlighted what he claims are strong similarities between his Snow Day game, and a game on the Olympics website titled Fuwa Fight the Winter Clouds.
Looks like copyright infringement can infiltrate even the oldest of establishments. The Olympics Website has been hosting ‘pirated’ games in the form of one of their flash games being substantially similar to a game created by Ferry Halim. Apparently even the code used some of the same variable names. I assume their web development team won’t be winning any gold medals.
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This is some great news for virtualization fans. Parallels has made the beta 2 version of their server software public.
Parallels announced today that it was going to open up its Beta 2 program for its Parallels Server product to the general public. Parallels Server is the first server virtualization platform to come out of Parallels, now famous for their desktop virtualization software on the Mac. The company announced the first round of beta testing only 2 months ago. And I knew back then that it wouldn’t be long until the beta reached the general public.
Looks like it has some great new features too:
- A Full Bare-metal Hypervisor that allows users to run multiple virtual machines directly on the host physical machine’s hardware. The company has been promising a bare-metal platform for some time now, and they are finally about to deliver on that promise.
- An Integrated Toolset that enhances and simplifies the user experience. The toolset includes: Parallels Tools, a set of helpful add-ons that make working with virtual servers easier and more productive: Parallels Transporter, a built-in, wizard driven migration tool that can move the entire contents of a real machine to a virtual machine: and an integrated, single-click backup utility. Tools like this will be important to help further adoption of the platform.
- Virtual Support for 4-way Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP), which lets users assign up to 4 virtual cores to a virtual machine for exceptional performance under heavy workloads. Long ago seems the day when we only had support for a single virtual processor in a virtual machine.
- Experimental Support for Intel VT-d, enabling users to leverage full hardware-acceleration technologies for faster, more stable virtual machines and better resource management. Using VT-d, users can also directly assign hardware resources such as graphics and network cards to virtual machines, giving them native access to that hardware for optimal service levels.
Worth taking a look at. More information and a download link can be found on their Parallels Server product page.
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Looks like iPower Inc. had to seriously rethink their approach to customer service.
The changes have come as the company finds itself the focus of Internet blogs slamming its service and customers threatening to cancel their accounts.
Customer service is an intricate part of any web hosting business. Keep your customers happy and they will reward you with increased business and referrals.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Congratulations! After much thought and consideration, you finally took the plunge and decided it was time to have your own web site. That’s a great accomplishment in itself. However, now you’re left with another daunting task — selecting a quality web host.Selecting a good web host is of the utmost importance. However, with all of the technical mumbo jumbo, knowing what to look for can be very intimidating to say the least.For this reason, I have devised a list of the most frequently asked web hosting questions.
Here is a great set of questions and answers written by Shelley Lowery. The entire article can be found here: Frequently Asked Web Hosting Question.
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