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Technical

Voided Warranty

How many times have you taken a product you own apart after it died. I have done this to a number of things including cameras and a variety of electronics. Taking apart a toasted hard-drive was fun and taught me a lot in the process. Usually we do this with the plan to not have to put it back together.

X-Box Mod too Easy

Just by doing a minimal amount of research on the Net you can quickly learn how to Mod you

RIAA Hacked but that isn’t the whole story

Many people have run small web sites on there personal servers out of there homes using IP-Redirect services like Dynamic IP. But it appears the big and bad RIAA web site is being hosted in some dude's house in Maryland on his Verizon connection. Which has been suffering a pro-longed Denial of Service Attack. I wonder if the guy doing

LoveGate worm carries nasty payload

If you have not updated your virus definitions in the past couple of days be sure to do so. There is a new virus on the loose that will cause you to have a bad day. [ZDNet]

Is the CD headed for the road of extinction?

Some seem to think that the CD is headed down the same road that the 8-track did a number of years ago. My personal belief is that it will take a very long time to kill the CD off. After all it is very rare that people do not have some sort of CD player. I bought my daughter a

FCC Move will hurt/help consumers

I have been holding back on commenting on the FCC decisions last week so that my brain could digest the ruling. There are both positive and negative aspects of this ruling. I had to reflect on what I witnessed during the Baby Bell break up in the early 80's the break-up allowed consumers more choices and the end result is

Post Graduate School goes Wireless

In a move I consider surprising considering weakness of 802.1b the Naval Postgraduate school is deploying a very wide based WiFi network. The referenced article has some very good information about the problems they found and what it took to wire the campus. [80211-Planet]