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2002

518 posts

Wi-fi “We are about to be saved by Corp America”

Well I am all for companies offering services and I am on the Wifi bandwagon and started working today on my network here at home. But it appears that a consortium of companies Intel, IBM, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Communications and Cingular Wireless are all in bed together to come up with something that will be nationwide. While they are still

Stuck on Dial-up and need a speed increase!

I know we have all heard the story about someone having a miracle program that speeds up surfing speeds for dial-up users. Well I think a company called Propel may have something going for them. It will be a pay service in which you will utilize their proxy. They will cache your pages and work with your browser to only

Malicious Hackers could get Life

Well add hacking to the list of things that can get you sent to prison for life. I do not know how one defines Malicious Hacking but apparently the House of Representatives has it all figured out [Source Internet News]

PeerCast P2P

I have been all over the net today and this caught my eye. I am sure you die hard streaming audio types will already know about this software package. I found this bit of info over at Adam Curry's weblog and his comments about sum up what I think about the package. "This will be a revolution in distributing streaming

Codewalkers.com has posted their latest PHP Coding Contest.

A reader submitted the following contest. I like to see these types of things in my in-box and if you have a unique link or a site that has something special happening drop me a line and I will see what I can do about posting a article. Anyway the contest: The challenge is to create a crossword puzzle from

Nerd Test

Well I could not resist and we all need something fun to do once in a while. I am saddened that my score was 85.99% as I did not think I was that big of a nerd. Anyway try it yourself. [Nerd Test]

Ready to be a Space Tourist

If 20 Million fell into your lap and not a penny more would you give the entire sum to the Russian Federation for a trip to the International Space station? I would do so in a heart beat. This is one of the reasons that within a reasonable amount of time someone is going to cash in and get us

802.11 security will be beefed up with XP SP1

Man I am on the 802.11 bandwagon and will be getting busy with my own Tin Can Network here shortly but Microsoft has confirmed they are going to beef up Security of 802.11 but lets hope they don't muck with the standard to much. [Source The Register]

What your Doctor doesn’t know could Kill You

Any respectable geek visits slashdot every couple of days and see what they have posted. I found a link to this article on Slashdot and wanted to give credit where credit is due. For any of you that have a family member or are personally afflicted with some illness that your Doctor is baffled about this article could possible help

Amazon Offering some Free Software

Well my wife looks forward to the CompUSA Flyer every week she tries and score all the kids software with those freebie offers were you mail-in the rebate and the software is free. It looks Like Amazon.com is offering a pretty nice selection of Freebies 75 Items total.

Nice Rebate on External Cable Modem

Computers4Sure has the 3Com U.S. Robotics External Cable Modem $29.95 shipped free after $40 rebate. [Computers4Sure]

ISP’s asked not to be StoolPigeons

With the way I rant and rave sometimes I am sure I will be the subject at some point for some company asking me to cease and desist. My real identity takes about 3 minutes of looking around on this site so the article that I just read really does not apply to me. But it did get me to

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