From the archive

January 2009

87 posts

Traffic Shaping By Any Other Name is Still…Traffic Shaping

Cox Communications has announced that they are going to test a traffic shaping, er, Internet Congestion Reduction Tool, in Kansas and Arkansas over the next few months, with hopes of deploying their traffic shaping, er, Internet Congestion Reduction Tool to all users by the end of the year. It was discovered that Cox was using the same type of traffic

Got a Profile at Monster? Better Change Your Password

With so many people out of work and looking, using any online resource they have available, it is important to know that Monster.com has been hacked twice in the last six months. Users names, birthdates, contact information, and passwords amongst other information is now in the wrong hands. I have had a profile at Monster.com for many years, although I

What direction for the corporate desktop?

I have seen a number of mentions of a new thin client terminal by a company called Pano Logic. Their claim is to be the "future of desktop computing", to which they are focused more on the corporate than the home desktop. Thin client is essentially where corporate computing began, with all compute power centralised and users running from dumb

Geek News Central Podcast Job Bank

Economic times are very tough at this time and I am sure many of my Ohana of Listeners (Family of Listeners) are looking for work and I have a plan to help out.

My Congratulations to Chris McIntyre!

Back in 2004 when we figured out podcasting was going to change the world, I spent a huge amount of time on the phone and on chat with Chris McIntyre the founder and creator of Podcast Alley. 

The DTV Transition…Stumbling Factors

I have elderly parents, like most of us. My dad has cable television so I'm not worried about him making the switch to DTV next month. My mother, on the other hand, is using a DirecTV box on my DirecTV plan, which means she can't get local channels where she lives in Florida without using a second television hooked up

Techgeek on the Cheap

Todd has tasked us with helping each other save money this year on technology. I'm all for that, believe me. There was a time when I was looking for cheap tech gear, which included used items, I would head on over to eBay or my local craigslist. eBay was easy to search and I often found some pretty good deals.

GNC-2009-01-27 #446 Back into the Tech Groove

One of the funniest shows I have done in a while, great listener feedback and while I never want to hurt anyone's feeling I do my best to patch things up with some of my IT listeners at the end of the show. Support my Show Sponsors it keeps food on the table here! [Save 15% off on any order

GotoAssist Express – Digital Experience

GotoAssist is a new product from Citrix Online the perfect application for the IT Professional to deliver technical help over the Internet.

Easy Bloom – Digital Experience 2009

EasyBloom is a very cool product that will analyze the immediate area that you have a plant growing. You stick this in the ground next to the plant let it collect data for 24hr then you separate the sensor from the data collection section and plug that part into you PC

NVIDIA ION – Digital Experience 2009

NVIDIA has shaken up the PC world with the announcement of the NVIDIA ION platform which computer manufactures can utilize to bring a new class of product to market.

ClickFree – Digital Experience 2009

Clickfree is the simplest backup product out there priced from $90.00 to $220.00 dependent on drive size. It's simple you plugin the drive and it starts backing up your computer automatically. Over 400 different file types are backed up.

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