From the archive

September 2004

94 posts

T-Mobile about to loose a customer

My wife and I have been using T-mobile quite happily for the last 3 years. We have had the same phones and I have been thinking of a upgrade to the service as we are peaking our minutes and some new phones. I have been working with these idiots for the last 2 weeks trying to get a deal on

New Worm installs Network Sniffer

I am surprised that we have not seen this before. I am going to have to some research as I cannot imagine a virus writer not having put in a Network Sniffer before. But the results are no less ominous in that worms now are tracking keystrokes, collecting network stream data etc. I wonder if this is an attempt to

Do you have a 64 bit Processor?

Seems Microsoft has available a x64 test version of Windows XP that will utilize all of the power you have under the hood. It is a test release so not to be installed for the faint of heart. [Kevin Rose]

Yahoo buys Musicmatch

Yahoo's could not do it on their own so they had to buy one of my most favored music vendors. I have always been a big fan of Musicmatch and now that Yahoo has just bought them out I am sure they will ruin it. I stopped using Yahoo and brands they own when they went to a pay model

Diverse bunch of Geeks

During the last round of Gmail giveaways many of you sent me your favorite links. First of all thanks for the inputs and I wish I would have had enough for everyone but as I get them I will fill the request. Meanwhile I have been looking over your links and I must say it is curious to see what

A look at Wardriving and the legalities and statistics of WiFi Home Networks

I have my WiFi device sitting in a second floor office with MAC filtering and WEP enabled at the highest encryption level. I live in a residential area and from my second floor vantage point their are 11 active WiFi connections. Considering how far WiFi signal can travel everyone around on this block must have a WiFi device. What is

The process of converting older films to DVD

I always find video and data restoration stories very interesting. I have been converting a significant number of home movies to digital media. A process that is time consuming. Never the less once they are all converted I will be able to burn DVD's and also keep a hard-drive with all photo's, video's etc in the safety deposit box and

My Feedster

Those of you that use Feedster aggreator from time to time be sure to add Geek News Central to your list on their site. [Geek News Central Feedster ID]

Firefox 1.0 release candidate

The official 1.0 release of Firefox is getting very close they have a release candidate available for download. Links to the version you need be it Windows, Mac or Linux can be found [weblogs.mozillazine.org]

Rate of U.S. Broadband Adoption Increasing, Says FCC

In a report just issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the number of U.S. broadband users has nearly tripled between June 2001 and December 2003. As of the survey, 28 million lines of high-speed access to the Internet, defined as at least 200 Kbps bandwidth in at least one direction, are in use in the United States.

Mars Rovers still in action

In one of the most successful science missions yet the Mars Rovers are still performing task being sent to them by the folks at JPL. They have a couple of weeks down time due to the solar conjunction but have pre-planned task that will keep them busy until Mars has good line of site to Earth again. [Mars Rovers]

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