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In a move that is going to piss a lot of people off it seems that the Hollywood studios are going to be telling your Cable Providers, Satellite Service and Internet Service Providers to flip a switch that is in your Digital Cable Box. What is this switch going to do. Well it is going to prevent you from recording
My regular Job has me abroad 6-8 months a year and my phone bill would cause most of you to faint. I have not used Internet Telephony in quite a long time as the quality really sucked. With broadband being available in many places worldwide and with connectivity improvements the New York Times is predicting it may be the right
Some of you may be considering putting in a wireless network in your home. I have more grand plans in putting in a wireless network in my neighborhood. Time to get rid of my ISP well I have been doing a lot of reading on wireless networks and found a great tutorial on Understanding Wireless LAN Bridges. This article is
A very informative site with links to 175 Tech related Website added us to there Daily Rotation. We will be adding a permanent recip link on the page shortly. Check there site out. [Daily Rotation]
Google gets millions of searches a day. We know from our own server logs that people get to our site via Google via a variety of search phrases. An Article in the The Age has a great article on Google and the trends they see. [The Age]
Over the past months I have informed the readership of this site when the FCC has allowed comments to be posted on upcoming policy changes. Starting in Feb we will see if your comments made a difference as they are set to announce the results of those policy changes. The changes could be broad and will in all likelihood benefit
Everyone was aware of our down time last month and also of the downtime last week. Both outages hit us at critical times when we had major advertising campaign's going on to drive new users to the site. I can tell you that our webhost could improve there service if they followed the following Seven Rs. [Ziff Davis]
The Neo Project a not so well publicized distributed computing project may get some attention now as they have added algorithm's to there clients to crack the X-Box Public Key. They have a $100,000 challenge. I guess for a 100 grand they ought to get some participation. [The Neo Project] I would rather people donate spare computer cycles to SETI.
British phone company Sendo filed a lawsuit against Microsoft it contains some very heavy language that will keep the lawyers in Redmond on the payroll. It seems Sendo is not very happy with having had shared trade secrets with Microsoft. I do know as a independent software alpha/beta tester that I have had to sign some very serious Non Disclosure
Wow I sure wish this tracking technology would have been available about 10 years ago. As I may have been compelled to put one of these devices on one of my cars. It was one of those points in my life when I would have probably paid anything for accurate information on where that vehicle was going from time to
In a surprising article an article on BusinessWeek On-line they have concluded that Hollywood's attempts to have TV sets with anti piracy functions built or some sort of broadcast flag will only benefit Hollywood. [BusinessWeek]
The Third Annual Weblog Awards are underway. "The 2003 Bloggies" are taking submissions for your favorite weblogs. If you feel our site is worthy feel free to submit our site. [2003.bloggies.com]
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