Those of us using Firefox may have noticed that a rather quick update came in over the weekend. That is because the newest Firefox has a feature that helps keep plugins from crashing your Firefox instance. Well the issue people were noticing with Farmville is that the game would cause a timeout waiting for the plugin check to happen. So Mozilla scrambled over the weekend and enabled a temporary fix, which is just basically decreasing the time for the timeout. A more permanent fix will happen in the future.
It just goes to show you how popular Farmville is, I personally have never even seen it in action besides being demoed on stage at WWDC 2010 and I never plan on changing that. Granted it affected other webapps and plugins as well, but Farmville was the one everyone really noticed.
Well as anyone knows I am a big Halo fan. I even bought the premium Halo 3 with the big ass Master Chief helmet. Trevor and I used to have almost weekly Halo matches at my old apartment. We used to have a custom game that we played on blood gultch. Just sniper rifles, pumas (warthogs) and Sheila (tanks). We would literally hunt each other, and fire off sniper shots from across the board. Many good times were had back then.
So when I found a deal on buy.com to pre-order the collectors edition for only $69.99 I jumped on the opportunity.
Well here it is 9 years after the introduction of the Dreamcast, and it’s still one great system. I remember it well, it was just before my 21st birthday. I wasn’t like the usual young adult looking forward to their 21st birthday, no I was looking forward to that day two weeks before my birthday so I can run to the Steamtown mall to pick up my console and copy of Soul Calibur. This system was exciting to me, especially back then as a young geek. I kept thinking to myself that this bad boy is going to run Windows CE and play games. It’s going to be fantastic, and surprisingly it was. The only downfall of the system, was that they thought that using the special GD-ROM would stop people from being able to pirate games, since they were on 1GB discs instead of the usual 700MB. Well it didn’t take long for people to crack the setup, and remove some data from games and distribute them on CD. With the addition of the Dreamcast boot CD you could play all the games you wanted, as well as emulators of Mame, SNES, NES, Genesis, Game Boy. Oh, those were the good ole’ days. I still have a Dreamcast, but mostly for nostalgia, it doesn’t get played as often as I would like, but then again neither do most of my video game systems.
