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Things are getting kicked up a notch in Digital TV recording. Competition companies are combining DVD players with DVR (Digital Video Recording) functionality. As the writer of the article does not fully comprehend why DVR has not taken off I wonder that myself. I currently do not own one of the models myself as it is indeed a luxury item
I have been doing a lot of reading up on WiFi after setting it up here. Most of the articles spell doom or gloom. But there is a lot of good information out there. Don't assume you can just whip that wireless access point (WAP) out of the cardboard and styrofoam, plug it in, and start networking. It'll probably work,
A huge new hole that allows remote code execution takeovers of DNS servers is out there and if you have not updated Bind your entire network may have been compromised. [ZDNet]
Apparently people's porn surfing and chat rooms are causing rifts that are not easily mended and is becoming the leading cause of Divorce. My wife gets on me from time to time. I know that 4-5 years ago it was a real problem and I put myself on a mandatory restriction from the net and it saved my marriage so
As you all know I have been following the controversy surrounding the Copyright office rules put in place earlier this year that virtually assured that webcasters were going to be forced off the Net. Yesterday Congress resolved the issue in a resounding way and small webcasters are jumping for joy. Basically small webcasters will pay a flat annual fee or
This will be the software pick of the month. You say hey ICQ has been around a long time and I already use it. What makes it so special this month. Seriously folks have you seen the monster ICQ has become it sits there and sucks up alot of resources. Well they have figured out bigger is not always better
Techies are getting serious when it comes to fighting spam and as it appears a great deal of it is coming from overseas I am going to try the same exact thing the editor of this report. [www.faden.com]
As you know if you need from Microsoft you better get your credit card out and get ready to plunk out $245.00 per incident. Well there is a service that allows geeks like me to offer up tech advice on subjects that I am a expert in. I also set the price for such tech support calls that can be
If you have wireless in your house like I do you better damn well make sure it is locked down. I sat on my patio the other night and no more than 10 local WiFi networks within a block of me were responding. How many had WEP or were using a SSID that was something different than default. This site
Well I am a bit apprehensive I have 2 Fujitsu drives in one of our main servers. Big bad boys 75 gig drives. Well It turns out Fujitsu has a major problem on there hands in that drives of a certain class are failing faster than the leaves dropping off the tree's. With expectations that failures could reach 4.9 million
Wired has a story that says 31% of Americans change there e-mail address at least every year. I am a little shocked as I have had one of my primary e-mail address's for over 6 years. Does that e-mail address get spammed? Yep about a 100 a day but my spam filter software on the server and on outlook only
I ordered the software immediately upon it's release. For 2 reasons I want a integrated professional package to backup my DVD's to CDR and I wanted to support this company. They are going to be in a legal fight from hell over the next few months. I encourage you to support this company any way you can. [Silicon Valley]
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