Picture this: Joe Sixpack needs to check in on his fave blogs and online news but he hasn’t got the time to wait for Windows to boot. He flips on his computer, five seconds later he’s got a browser running and is getting up to date while the guy next to him is still looking at the Windows logo, waiting for his machine to boot.
I just read a story that’s going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities… Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that’s reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia’s current networks are doing.
I’m wondering what the deal is with memory. No, I’m not asking for a price quote, I’m talking about the increase in times when I find that programs I use all the time are running into “out of memory” errors a lot more than they ever used to.
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Looks like the RIAA is going to take another loss because of it’s tactics. Recently some students at North Carolina State brought to the attention of the court the illegal nature of the investigations the [...]
Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.
AVG’s version 8 of their software has a new “feature” called Linkscanner. It sounds like a nice idea on paper but in reality it’s been a nightmare for webmasters because it’s requesting the pages that get listed in search engine results in order to scan them and warn the user in the event of a page loaded with malware. Thing is, up until a recent software update, it was doing this for every link that appeared on a search engine result page.
It makes you wonder how much privacy you really have. Is there a hidden transmitter in your television? How easy is it for your phone or email conversations to be snooped?
A while back, EBay announced that they were going to switch to a system that would ONLY accept Paypal for payment. They then started to implement this in Australia to kinda try out the idea and find out how users businesses and the government would feel about it.
Bell was recently required to release some of it’s data that was supposed to prove how torrents and P2P in general was causing so much network congestion that it was necessary to throttle P2P connections to keep it under control
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I just ran across something in the LA Times that I can’t help find a bit disturbing. It seems that some bright young genius has decided Chrysler should offer wireless Internet services … IN 2009 model cars. Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with [...]
