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2002

518 posts

Cable Companies Cap on Bandwidth in the News

This pisses me off more than anything. You know I and 10's of thousands others pay nearly $50.00 a month for a broadband Internet connection. I am definitely a Power User but I do not make it a practice to go download MP3's every day. I have no idea how much bandwidth I utilize but it probably is 2-3 gigs

Techies Political Voice

I belonged to a organization in the past that supported my views in Washington this organization was aligned with Internet Service Providers. Being I am no longer on the front-lines of that effort I let my membership lapse. In one of my daily newsletters I read a article from ZDNet.Com caught my eye. The opening comment was of enough impact

Geek Gift’s for Geek’s

Yesterday I gave you a link to some cool kids toys, but today I am providing you a link to great Geek Gift ideas. Now if your wife, husband, significant other, family or friend are like mine they know that you love Geek stuff. Well I looked thru the list of items they have and I have found 2-3 things

Moon Landing Conspiracy to be Checked Out

I had to laugh today as I read this story. Seems that some European Scientist are going to train the world's most powerful telescope at the moon to see if they can see the landing sites. I wonder if Old Glory is still flying :) [SMH.COM]

Top 15 Tech Newsletters

PC World has published a Top 15 list of Tech type newsletters. As I peruse this list many of these newsletters are delivered to my inbox. There are a few that I don't get which I will be adding to my daily intake. [PC World]

Top Toys

Some of you are going to say what the heck is a toy link doing on your site. Well some of us Geeks are Dad's and we like to buy cool stuff for our kids. I don't spoil mine, but when I buy something hopefully it is something they are going to utilize. So many times we buy stuff and

RIAA and the US Naval Academy

At least one reader to this website is going to smile over this article. I apologize to the other thousands of readers but Steve when you read this you will know I'm thinking about ya. :) Seems the letter that the RIAA sent out in October to Universities throughout the United States has some US Naval Academy Midshipmen in deep

Spam Faxes and the South Africa Scam

Today I spent the afternoon out my son had a birthday party and it was a regular afternoon of being a dad. Well I get home tonight get them some dinner put one in the tub and another in the shower and read a nice bedtime story get the picture nice relaxing evening ahead. There all tucked in and asleep

Endeavour has cleared the pad

I get all excited when the space shuttle launches as the local Public Access channel brings us Nasa TV so I usually get a tape ready and have it cocked an loaded so when they point the camera towards earth I can hit the old record button. I just wish my local cable operator has Tech TV then I would

Microsoft leaves documents on Open FTP Server

I think this story is in the running for the Darwin award this year as the fallout is not yet fully being felt but it seems Microsoft had a large number of documents including customer e-mail address and internal company documents on a unsecured FTP Server. Many of the documents have been posted over at www.securityoffice.net which is off-line this

Privacy and the Homeland Security Act

I understand the need for the US Govt to protect this great nation but I get the shivers when I think of the Government monitoring my every credit-card purchase. We are a free Nation and as a free Nation protected by a bill or rights and a constitution which we automatically receive upon being born in the great country or

Multi-Purpose Portable Power Supply Upgrade

IJuice is one of the best hardware upgrades to come along in a long time for the road warrior. I must admit I get tired of hauling around 2-3 different power supplies. This is a partial solution to that problem. [IJuice]

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