Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Windows vista delayed to 2007

Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007.

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Saturday, March 04, 2006

ISPs will soon back the P2P and bittorrent revolution for Television

This article explains why it is in the best interest of ISPs to actually back the TV over P2P and bittorrent revolution.
GREAT READ!!!

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

How To Troubleshoot Any Networking Problem

Tech author extraordinaire Mark Minasi shares a bit over two dozen "rules of network troubleshooting." This will be new for some, a good review for others, and a handy reference for all.

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

The End of the Internet?

"Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received."

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The End of the Internet?

"Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received."

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

They are trying to ban IM

Ever since my co-worker started talking about the upcoming ban on IM clients in the office I set out looking for away around it. Even though I am one of the IT guys here and I could just ignore the nonsense my co-worker was talking about and go on my merry way I figure I had better be nice. So being nice is to continue to use IM but just use it in a way that any eyes peering over my shoulder wouldn't know what in the world I was doing.

I ran into Meebo in its early stages but my attention span then jumped to some other new shiny tech gadget, so I forgot all about it. I can't remember how I stumbled upon it again but I'm glad that I did. If need be I can talk on Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, or GTalk all from the comfort of my tabbed browser. What it lacks in fancy icons, audibles, and animated emoticons in makes up for in the This-is-just-really-cool department...not to mention useful for those who need ways to get around the ban of IM clients wherever they are at. If you need help with that just check out their forums for some advice.

So don't just try it because I say its cool, try it because you want to stick it to the man!!!

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Play more than 10,000 Nintendo and Sega games !

NES, GameBoy, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Colecovision, PC Engine are all here ! Playable straight in your browser without any install !

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25 Reasons to Convert to Linux

25 reasons why many institutions, companies and governments are changing to Linux.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Color Photos taken 96 years ago!

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Set up Linux and OSX to login using Active Directory

The Big Nerd Ranch has posted a blog on how to setup Linux and OSX so that you can login using your AD user name and password settings.

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Friday, November 11, 2005

VOIP No Longer for the Underdog

This is a good eWeek commentary on how VOIP "telephony" has progressed and where it's running into trouble.

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Monday, November 07, 2005

Start your own GeekSquad

Put GeekSquad out of business. Here are some helpful tips on how you can set up a remote support website to make extra money fixing people's computer problems using One Click VNC servers.

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Dreamcast 2.0?

Is the Xbox 360 the second coming of the Sega Dreamcast? 1up.com lists 23 parallels between the consoles that spell doom, and 10 reasons why the 360 could succeed where the Dreamcast failed.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Could Not Parse File

I had an issue this morning when I tried to do an update with yum

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
dag 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:00
//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
Error importing repomd.xml from dag: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml


I did a search and found out that it pretty much had to do with the file "repomd.xml" that it was downloading from the DAG mirror, so I just switched mirrors in my /etc/yum.conf and everything started working as it should have.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Slashdot is losing its edge to digg.com

Digg.com is quickly reaching Slashdot when comparing daily visitors according to Alexa's Traffic Rankings (see link). Slashdot isn't as cutting edge as it used to be: stories get barely 200 replies. Maybe that CSS update was too little and too late.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005

Make Ubuntu usable in few minutes

Easy Ubuntu allows you to Add extra repositories, Activate the "audio preview" feature in Nautilus, Active the num lock at system startup, Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu's logo and Install: multimedia codecs, Firefox plugins, support for RAR and ACE, P2P software, Skype, AMSN cvs with webcam support, NVIDA or ATI driver for 3D support.

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Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger Has Been Released!!!

The Breezy Badger is available for download now! Plese use the torrents to help the server.

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Microsoft, others teach kids to code

A story about a new kids-oriented Web site by MS dedicated to teaching kids about computer programming. Includes a roundup of other kids' programming resources we've discussed in the past.

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Geek goes popular on Myspace

Looks like this guy really wanted to be popular on myspace. Actually kind of interesting when you read it, heh.

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