Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Last year sometime, I discovered through my day-job that Qwest DSL was hijacking DNS queries for non-existent domain names, and redirecting them to a search page. For my day-job, this problem manifests itself as employees being unable to access corporate resources even when connected to VPN. After about 3 seconds ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
My coworker Peter sent me this link to computerworld. It's about a study conducted about the cost of replacing laptops after 3 years (which is usually the amortization schedule for computer equipment), or stretching their use out to 4 or even 5 years. It's an interesting article, and makes some ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I'm not a fan of Comcast, and never have been. Most people I know would rather deal with Comcast than the phone company (Qwest), but not me. I've been doing telecom long enough to know how to get what I want from Qwest, but Comcast just never can get it ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
So in the last week or two, several people at my day job have enquired about using a Mac that they purchase themselves for their company workstation. As I've said, it's no secret that I'm not a fan of Apple, and have made no effort to avoid saying so at work. I'm ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Those who have followed my blog in the past know that I tend to rant about the cellular industry (see this post from Sep-2006, and this followup post from Oct-2006). Today I ran accross this article from the AP, which says that Sprint/Nextel is planning to cut 4,000 jobs and shutter 125 ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Joel sent me this link to an article about Ford sending their legal bulldogs after a club of Ford Mustang owners. Appearently the club produces a calendar every year, featuring photos taken by the club members themselves of their own vehicles. Ford doesn't like somebody else publishing photos of their products.
It ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Slashdot linked to an article about a startup in the bay area who is building floating datacenters out of decomissioned cargo ships. The ships will be perminantly moored in various places around the world.
What a stupid idea... Here's why (offhand):
The article states that all they need in order to expand is ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Follow-up to Cellular Racket...
AT&T-BellSouth merger set for vote - MarketWatch
I had heard this was coming -- but I didn't believe it until now. Lets break it down:
Cingular is a privately held company. They bought out AT&T Wireless for cash -- previous stockholders of AT&T Wireless were issued a check, and ...
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Computerworld article: Why Microsoft's Zune scares Apple to the core
OK, it's no secret (at least around here) that I am not a fan of Apple, or the iPod. Apple just has a really clever marketing department, and they design the exterior of Apple products, and clearly have a large role ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
OK, this may seem like ranting, but... Well, hell, I'm ranting... Isn't that what bloG's are for?
First, a quick history lesson...
In the beginning, there were two cellular carriers in every market, and one of them was usually the local phone company. Cellular was very expensive, costing a regular consumer $1 ...
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