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War Against Internet Users, P2P Traffic and Piracy Begins
Was browsing through Slashdot today and saw two interesting articles. It looks like nations, naturally under the guidence of the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups, are beginning to move ‘anti-piracy’ legislation forward. The first part of the problem is to give ISPs complete amnesty from pirated material, which will protect them from litigation and give them an [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Plays Dirty Politics to Avoid Trouble
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Jens Eckels just sent me a heads up that Save the Internet.com caught Comcast stuffing their FCC hearing with paid “filler” people to avoid letting any unpaid members from the public get in. Check it out: Par for the course as far as Washington shenanigans goes, and bravo to all those douche bag fuckers that enjoyed [...]
Continue reading...Google Helping Build Trans-Pacific Internet Cable to Japan
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
If you remember our article from a few months back about Google taking the last decade to build, link and prepare to offer infrastructure services to the world’s ISPs, then this comes as no surprise: Google has entered into a 6-company consortium to build their own trans-pacific cable between the US and Japan. The cable will [...]
Continue reading...The True Cost of SMS Messaging
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
(Congratulations, that just cost you $0.20) The gthing science blog put together a rather eye-opening analysis of just exactly how much SMS costs you and/or how goddamn rich it’s making the phone companies. Even more offensive than the $8000 per gallon that HP and other vendors charge for black ink, gthing deduces that if you compare the [...]
Continue reading...Google Poised to be the Infrastructure for ISPs
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Todd Swarthout sent me one of the more interesting reads I’ve gotten a chance to take a look at recently. This is a piece by Robert Cringely over at PBS.org and is exactly 1 year old today, but just as fascinating today as it was a year ago… and IMO, surprisingly insightful. The premise of the article [...]
Continue reading...Guides
Friday, November 16, 2007
General Choosing a Toilet General - Technology Choosing a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Laptop Choosing a Hard Drive & Should You Use RAID? Apple How to Install iPhone 2.0 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone How to Install iPhone 2.1 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone Recording a Podcast on your Mac using Skype and Audio Hijack Pro Removing iTunes DRM Home Theater [...]
Continue reading...The Super Internet (Wall of Ethernet Cable)
Thursday, November 15, 2007
I’m not sure what causes this as I’ve never admin’ed a data center or ISP before… but for those of you out there that have or have been in a server-farm-room, do they honestly get like this some times? How is this shit even manageable?
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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