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A fun twist on tiered internet, or, is Microsoft paying for this?
It’s coming to light that Comcast appears to be interfering with Lotus Notes traffic, in addition to other packet types. This isn’t surprising and is perfectly in line with a company that wants a tiered internet so people “don’t get … Continue reading
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EMI to embrace digital?
I love to bash EMI because they were at the forefront of corporate attempts at stifling the interactions and subsequent creative possibilities in a networked world when they forced OLGA off the net in 1996. There’s no coincidence between Radiohead’s … Continue reading
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NW Solar
A couple weeks ago I went to the NW Solar Expo in Portland. I was really struck by how solar is a commercial reality today. The expo was all about how to get solar electric or water heating today. It … Continue reading
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AT&T Demonstrates The Value of Net-Neutrality
This weekend the geek press is all over new terms of service AT&T has rolled out which basically say they will cancel your connectivity if you use it to do anything on the net which they deem disparages their company. … Continue reading
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Multicore programming helpers
It still sticks out in my head that I had a professor in the mid-90s who was talking about programming and threading and asserted that practically nobody in the world knew how to write multithreaded code. At the time I … Continue reading
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Annoying lack of integration in Fedora 7
I upgraded my laptop from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7 quite a while back and I’m still paying for it. The most painful part was that F7′s install CD apparently doesn’t support upgrading (although maybe the DVD does). I … Continue reading
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Fair use supports the economy
Arguably from the Department of You Can Fund A Study To Prove Whatever You Want, but there is now a study claiming that fair use not just adds economic value, but actually adds more to the economy than copyright! Maybe … Continue reading
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Another new storage paradigm
My first job out of college was working in IBM’s disk business in San Jose so I’m always intrigued to hear about the latest storage innovations. Last I’d really heard they were big on a MEMS based technology called Millipede, … Continue reading
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iPodTouch as a VoIP client?
The iPodTouch’s format made me immediately wonder how much of its core was shared with the iPhone. engadget noticed that some of Apple’s press showed the iPod with a BlueTooth icon and there is a BlueTooth chip confirmed within it, … Continue reading
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