Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
As you may know, I've been interested in solar energy for a long time. Going Green isn't what does it for me, although in this day and age, thats as good a reason as any. Since we moved to a new house, there are a few reasons to ...
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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, February 6th, 2009
OK, so even though the economy does seem to be bottoming out (the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed its first positive week of the year today), I've recently been on a kick to reduce household expenses. So far, this includes:
Shutting down and winterizing the hot tub -- should save at ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
As a follow up to my previous post about Comcast, in which I jumped on the blogger bandwagon, Comcast seems to have had a change of heart. According to this press release, Comcast has agreed treat peer-to-peer file sharing protocols with the same priority as any other packets. ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
WIRED is running an article entitled "GoDaddy Silences Police Watch-dog Site"... On many occasions in my hosting business, people flock to Godaddy to buy their domains, against my advice. Yes, they're cheap, and cheap is always good (their cost of $10 per year is below my cost through a reputable wholeseller). ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
After being out sick since Saturday, and coming back today to find 687 unread items in my RSS feed integrator, I found an interesting post on Slashdot, entitled "Why is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?". Within the first sentance, the original poster mentiones five-nine's (99.999% instead of the three-nine's (99.9%) ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Once again we turn to CNET's news.com for this article, which says that Qwest (the phone company) is in touch with Verizon (the wireless company). For a number of years, Qwest has sold bundled wireless service that they resell from Sprint along with their home phone and broadband services. According ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Ran accross this article, entitled "Democratic bill could force Apple, AT&T to unlock iPhone"... The title is somewhat misleading, only because an article about apple and the iphone is likely to score higher viewership.
The bill, proposed by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) does a number of things, but most notably it ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
If you've read my bloG in the past, you might know some of the history of old cellular networks... To recap, there were originally two analog cellular networks in each major market, one (usually) owned by the phone company. In the Denver area, if you trace back the roots, those ...
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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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