Just had my cable modem service upgraded from 3Mbps / 256Kbps to 4Mbps / 384Kbps for an extra ten bucks. Running some bandwidth tests I’m not quite seeing the full speed, but it is close. I suspect that for this service level they’re capping the modem at the stated speed instead of their usual +10%. […]
Archive for September, 2004
Mo’ Speed
09Sep04Friends
08Sep04So one of my oldest friends IM’s this morning with: I was wondering if you would be interested in going to Germany for Oktoberfest?
I’ve been itching to get back for a while, was thinking I’d hold out until May / June for the Maidult and Rock-im-Park. Take off 3-4 weeks, make my home base with […]
Switchers
08Sep04Walt Mossberg on Spyware:
So how can you get rid of spyware and how can you avoid it in the first place? One nearly surefire cure is to dump your Windows machine and buy an Apple Macintosh. Almost all spyware is written to run on Windows, and it simply doesn’t work on a Mac, even if […]
Danger
08Sep04Techdirt’s Mike Masnick takes Engadget’s JD Lasica to task over his interview with Danger CEO Hank Nothhaft:
I’m a bit disappointed that he doesn’t dig a little deeper. The biggest complaint about the Sidekick (and the main reason I have little interest in upgrading my original Sidekick to the new one, rather than a different option) […]
More Gmail Invites
07Sep04I have six five nine eight seven six five four two one Gmail invites. Leave a comment on this post and be sure to fill in your correct e-mail address. First-come, first-served. I also have a few more invites that I’m reserving for real-life friends, if any go unused I will pass them on to […]
Selected
07Sep04I’ve been chosen to partipate in the Tivo / Nielsen Media Research study, the release form arrived today. Time to fire up the Guide and Thumbs-Down every stupid-ass so-called Reality Television show. And everything on MTv that doesn’t involve Music. And The Rick Sanchez Show — who let that worthless sumbitch back into Miami?!
Almost Cool
07Sep04Macintouch points out some new support articles from Apple, including one on the iMac G5 Diagnostic LEDs. I immediately thought of certain IBM servers at work that have something called Lightpath, which uses LEDs to identify a number of fault scenarios and often will identify the specific component that failed (ie: Memory Bank 0). The […]
Asterisk for Windows
07Sep04Digium and N2Net have released AstWind — Asterisk for Windows. It’s a bit of a cheat using CoLinux to do all of the heavy lifting:
“The creation of AstWind was remarkably easy, thanks to the amazing work of the coLinux project which allowed us to setup a Debian GNU Linux environment on Windows with minimal overhead. […]
