We picked up a new Motorola cable-modem lastnight, and it changed everything. It’s a SURFboard model, but not the common 5-series, this one’s their new DOCSIS 3.0 standard-compliant beast, the SB6120. Using the old, hand-me-down pile of crap that Comcast originally gave us, we were lucky to attain downspeeds of 10 Mbps, while upload speeds [...]
Google recently (within the last couple of days) went wide with selective testing of their experimental new redesign — meaning only one in thousands of users would see the new interface at all. Some of those users have been good enough to rifle through their cookies afterwards. Notice Anything? It’s not a huge difference, but [...]
I’ve been periodically installing and stress-testing builds of Chrome and Chromium over the last few months, waiting for the day when I could comfortably say “it’s ready.” Today was that day. I couldn’t be happier, save for maybe a little bit smoother window-resizing, but that’s trivial since I keep it the same size after the [...]