From the archive

April 2009

42 posts

GNC-2009-04-17 #469 Time Warner Smack Down

Time Warner did not have the guts to do the Interview, they are all scared of you folks but I have a lot of fun with the questions in the show. Should be good for a laugh for all, maybe not Time Warner. Actually I am surprised they have not shut off my Internet. Show Sponsors keep the lights on

GNC-2009-04-14 #468 Back in Oahu for the Podcast

Listen to win a PogoPlug you only have a short time to react to this contest due to time constraints I have set in the show. Have a bit of Jet Lag tonight as I am working to get my body back on Honolulu time. Show Sponsors keep the lights on Please Support the Show Sponsors! [Save 10% off any

When Plugins UnPlug – An Open Source Nightmare.

I have been working on some upgrades. My own sites are basically going to get a face lift. In the last week I reset up my Sandbox - basically a place I can install and test programs without messing up my websites. In doing that, I went to update my plugins. I go down the list, update each one, find

The Scourge of External Power Supplies

I accept that for portable devices that run off battery, having a completely seperate power supply makes a lot of sense, especially for small devices like phones and MP3 players. Why though, do appliances which will rarely if ever, move from the place they are installed need to have their power supply seperate from the appliance? I performed a quick

The 3 Laptop Hunters – Let’s Review!

(cheezy austrailian voice) - AWRIGHT! We're lookin for that ever elusive $1000 PC. We are in the deepest depths of the store and have pushed through the phones, software and CD's to get here. But here it is - the $1000 machines. OH NO MATE! Watch out for that.... OOOF! ...ethernet cable... you ok....? Microsoft has an ad that people

GNC-2009-04-09 #467 Last show in Texas back to Hawaii

Meet-up in Dallas at the Dallas Embassy Suites South at 6pm lots of content in this episode that will get you fired up. Show will be back in Honolulu next week join me on the live stream. Show Sponsors keep the lights on Please Support the Show Sponsors! [Save 10% off any order at >GoDaddy.com!] use Code Todd Save Money

Legacy Locker

Todd brings up this subject often. What happens to all our electronic lives when we leave this earth? We can save things to CD, on portable hard drives, lock them away in vaults and safety deposit boxes. But there's so much more to "us" than just what we can put on CD's. What about all those pictures and posts and

TMI

In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent of three million times the information contained in all the books ever written. This tidbit is from the Columbia Journalism Review. Are we all suffering from TMI, aka, Too Much Information? I listen to podcasts regularly, and then there's NPR programmed into my car stereo, and all

Australia to get Fibre to the Premesis

The Australian Government has announced that they have scrapped the tender process for a company to build an FTTN network, and will instead build its own new network that will put fibre out to 90% of all Australian homes. This is a FTTP which means that apartments will be sharing access to the fibre rather than getting one each. Home

PDF for Everyone

There was a time, back in the technological dark ages, just a scant two or three years ago, that PDF's could only be created by Adobe Professional. It was so fancy, so rare, and so expensive that it didn't even need a real name, just "Adobe Professional." To differentiate from other Adobe products, we often called it Adobe Acrobat Professional,

What Hubble Brings Us or, Patience is a Virtue

The Hubble space telescope, now active for nearly 20 years, continues to send back images that amaze and astound scientists. And it's not only the newest pictures being sent that are providing all of the "ooh" moments these days. Scientists studying land-based telescope views discovered a gassy planet orbiting a nearby star (HR 8799), and then went back to images

Defining “Broadband” and “Underserved”

$7.2 billion in stimulus money has been earmarked by Congress for spending on broadband service and underserved areas. Thus is born a conundrum that is becoming virtually unsolvable. What exactly does "broadband" mean? According to ATT, it's anything not dialup. To others, like the Communications Workers of America, it is anything over 3 mb. And since our median "broadband" speed

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