I was trying to watch the Battlestar Webisodes, but it seems that they’re doing some form of IP blocking based on geographical location. Regardless of which PC I tried, the videos would not stream for me. I asked friends in the USA to try, and it worked instantly for them. So it seems the licensing for the only applies to the USA. Gotta’ love it when corporations are stuck in ’80s-think when it comes to geography. Does anyone know if there’s a way for me to watch them?

I’m still waiting for the Velocity Micro PC, and the XFX video card, so I haven’t set up my three 24″ LCD monitors yet…but today I just got sick of typing on my laptop (and having the twin hard drives heat up my hands) so I set up one monitor with the laptop. It’s…BIG. And very nice - even over VGA (which surprises me a little).

This is one of those things I’m posting for the sake of having it archived - I found it on this USA Today article about Vista.

MICROSOFT TIMELINE

Date Event Aug. 12, 1981 IBM introduces its personal computer with Microsoft’s 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0 Aug. 1, 1989 Office suite launched May 22, 1990 Windows 3.0 launched Aug. 24, 1995 Windows 95 launched June 25, 1998 Windows 98 launched Feb. 17, 2000 Windows 2000 launched May 31, 2001 Office XP launched Oct. 25, 2001 Windows XP launched Nov. 30, 2006 Windows Vista made available to businesses Jan. 30, 2007 Windows Vista made available to consumers