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Posted by petty

June 30, 2009

How Bandwidth Caps Hurt Your Mac & What Apple Can Do About It

"Apple should lead the way and come out against bandwidth caps. Given that many of the offerings on the iTunes store actually compete with cable TV, Apple should be vigilant that cable companies do not use bandwidth metering as a way to stifle alternative ways of viewing content. Additionally, Apple should add a bandwidth meter to the Airport routers; that way the bandwidth use of entire households can be tracked. If bandwidth caps are inevitable, Apple can arm the consumer with data to monitor their usage and dispute discrepancies with their ISP." Awesome article & is applicable to any OS — not just Apple's …

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Twitter / Peter-Paul Koch: @jeresig When this happens …">Twitter / Peter-Paul Koch: @jeresig When this happens …

Posted by petty

June 30, 2009

http://twitter.com/ppk/status/2394507078 John Resig’s twitter status 6:23 PM Jun 29th from web

@jeresig: “Anyone else having issues with IE8 randomly switching into IE7 mode without warning or in a reproducible manner? Pulling my hair out.” And a few minutes later, this response from Peter-Paul Koch (a web developer from Amsterdam): @ppk: “@jeresig When this happens the IE8 engine has crashed, and IE automatically switches to IE7 mode.” … if that’s true Internet Explorer 8 promises to be even more exciting than its predecessors. I’m thinking about writing a Grease Monkey-ish IE-based addon that works sort of like StumbleUpon, where the sites you’re viewing just randomly have compatibility modes turned on & off (as well as other features you might expect from your browser).