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No Ubuntu Today
24.Apr.07 | 3 Comments
I noticed that the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release of Ubuntu was recently announced. My work laptop has been giving me some grief lately so on a whim I grabbed the ISO, booted from it and installed Ubuntu.
The laptop is a two year old Toshiba Tecra, running the 1.60GHz Pentium M and Centrino chipset. [...]
Fun with vLANS
23.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment
One of the wrinkles of all my data center time recently was a network issue. Our colo (co-location) provider forces all their drops at 10mbit / full-duplex. Our Symantec firewall was not properly auto-negotiating the full-duplex, thus we’re generating a lot of network errors and generally not seeing the performance boosts that the new server should [...]
Seen Anything like MaxiVista?
05.Apr.07 | 7 Comments
Have you seen MaxiVista yet? I guess I’ve been under a rock and missed it, but boy it sure is slick. A guy at the office turned me onto it the other day and I’m pretty impressed:
MaxiVista turns any spare PC into a second monitor for your main computer. No extra hardware required. [...]
Google’s Project TiSP
01.Apr.07 | 3 Comments
Have you seen Google TiSP yet? This is truly an innovative broadband method.
Why should I switch to Google TiSP?
It’s fast. In our testing, TiSP delivers a 10x higher flow rate than basic DSL.
It’s FREE. No more paying hundreds of dollars a year for Internet service [...]
Fon Router Arrived
20.Feb.07 | 7 Comments
Less than two weeks ago I mentioned the Fon offer and today my free La Fonera wifi router arrived. Not just free, but fast and tiny too.
As a reminder:
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. Our members share their wireless Internet access at home and, in return, enjoy free WiFi wherever they find [...]
Haven’t tried it with SP3 here. My...