Macworld 2008 & windows seven.
So I tuned into macworld the other day, when i say I tuned in, i mean i just kept the macrumours live page open to watch the updates lol. pictures were cool too, ars had some too, but that crashed out quite often, probably because of the huge amount of users online. so i wont bore you with all the talk that jobs likes to do :p there was supposed to be a stream somewhere but i couldnt get it to work/load.
so heres a 60 second overview 
http://www.mahalo.com/The_Steve_Jobs_90_Minute_Keynote_in_60_Seconds
I think the new macbook is the sexiest thing EVER. (except for maybe the cute girl next door) but the price and limitations on it are so crappy that I can see only mac fanboys buying one.
for $3000 (yes thats £1500) you get a fixed non replacable battery, non upgradable 2GB of ram, a most-likely short lived HDD since its solid state, and the lack of an optical drive.
the pros being, its very fast, very small, and very good looking.
Its a shame this thing has more cons than pro’s.
I think the new airport thing with the hard drive is just an over priced NAS & combined router/switch type thing.
I have recently been thinking such a device would be useful. but i think id get more use out of a home built WHS. (which this just seems to be an expensive copy of).
I think the online movie rental thing is quite good, the only limiting thing with that is the download time, i guess the watch times are reasonable, you get around 30 days to watch it after you’ve downloaded it.
probably not very useful for people on dial-up as it would take longer than 30 days to download lol.
I lol’d at the fact that itouch users will have to pay $20 to upgrade too.
Ive always wanted to play with an apple TV simply because i wanted to find out how it works, it doesnt seem to have taken off very well.
There was no “one more thing” either, also i have no idea who randy newman is, but im betting he has a lot more results on google now lol. so that was pretty much it from macworld.
Apparently there is a build of windows 7 (a.k.a Vienna) floating around somewhere.
more info about windows 7: (for the uninformed) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
a copy of M1 has been shipped to microsoft partners:
[quote]The current M1 drop is available to Microsoft partners in English only and has shipped in x86 and x64 versions. An interesting feature that has been highlighted by Microsoft is the ability of the M1 software to handle a heterogeneous graphics system consisting of multiple graphics cards from different vendors. A new version of the Media center is already integrated in this software, but supports PC speakers only at this time.[/quote]
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35641/118/
When i manage to get some screens of this, i may post them in teh gallery >.>
CES also happened this week but for some reason i didnt pay much attention to it, the only real big thing that came out in the news about it was when gizmodo managed to piss off 90% of the community by playing pranks and turning off TV’s etc. personally i’d agree that it did seem a bit childish tbh.
in unrelated news, the downloads section is still empty, mostly because i dont really have anything to put in it. I dont really make things lol. I guess i could use it to mirror popular file but usually those files require lots of space and bandwidth, which i dont have a lot of. lol. nevermind :p
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Tags: 2008, ads, ce, drive, hard drive, job, microsoft, mirror, ms, pe, post, software, space, support, tv, update, updates, upgrade, windows
Carry on using MSN 7.5 after a forced upgrade
Sep 16, 2007 Tech
So the other day I went to login to msn (using version 7.5) and it asked me to upgrade before i could login. So either I upgrade or dont login, nice.
Ive never really liked the WLM Versions really. mostly because MsgPlus! has removed a much used feature from the newer version of the app which is compatible with the newer versions of WLM. I would use WLM if Plus! added this feature back in. although I believe it was removed because WLM aoffered the function in itself anyway. (which isnt exactly true but still)
Anyways, on to the good stuff…
To carry on using MSN 7.5 or any other version that requires you to upgrade before logging in.
Close MSN down from the tray so its not running at all.
Open Reshacker and open msnmsgr.exe from the MSN Folder in program files.
Click the + next to “Version info”, then click the + next to “1″ and finally click “1033″.
On the left hand side you will see version information for the file.
replace the line that says
VALUE “FileVersion”, “[your file version]“
with
VALUE “FileVersion”, “8.5.0324″
[your file version] will be the version of msn your currently have and want to carry on using.
also replace this line
VALUE “ProductVersion”, “[your file version]“
with
VALUE “ProductVersion”, “8.5.0324″
again, [your file version] will be whatever your msn version is.
Once you’ve done that click “compile script” and then click “file” > “Save as” and save it over the original msn executable.
This will fool the msn servers into thinking that your version of msn is the “latest and greatest” WLM version.
Start MSN again and login as normal, and you should have no problems.
Mess.be suggests you could use a HEX editor to do this too, but I think this way is easier myself.
Just make sure you dont accept any webcam requests from people you dont know, as this is why the upgrade was forced, there was an explit while allowed remote code execution and injection. Since your still using the same version the exploit is not patched, but if your smart enough to reshack your own msn executable I think it would be safe to say you would do this by default anyway.
An alternative method would be to download the newly released MSN version 7.0 (which includes the webcam exploit patched) and run it in win2000 compatibility mode, while this is a lot easier than hacking your current version with reshacker, it is a step down from MSN 7.5.
Enjoy! 
Tags: forced upgrade, msn, upgrade, wlm