Then there’s the other side of the coin, support bots and phone droids that are good for little more than wasting your time and raising your temper to the boiling point. I’ve spent a serious amount of time over recent days dealing with a collection of them gathered at the Centurytel Internet support desk.
I recently wrote about the VM Ware Player and some problems I was having getting the right network settings on it so that the virtual machine could access the real world internet. I’ve finally come up with the solution.
I’m sitting here with an XP machine and just as anyone who has read my stuff before would figure, I’m very interested in checking out Linux with the idea of eventually migrating most, if not all, of my computing activities to the free OS.
Contrary to what a lot of people will say, life out here in the sticks is actually pretty good. Everything is on a slower pace and there isn’t nearly as much traffic and pollution as you have in just about any larger city.
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.
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.
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
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail has a critical flaw in it’s system that allows spammers to use a Man In The Middle attack that allows them to use Gmail’s SMTP servers to send spam while remaining [...]
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Powered by Max Banner Ads In today’s age of all too frequently justified paranoia there’s an issue that is coming up more and more often. There are a lot more publicly accessible computers these days. They’re in Internet Cafe’s and all I’ve even seen one in a hospital lobby that allowed people to surf [...]
